GWiB’s Book Club
In May we're going to be talking about self-sabotage and how the unconscious mind wins over the conscious mind every time when the two's priorities are in conflict.
As ever, you don't need to have read the book to attend, just be interested in discussing its themes.
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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
by Brianna West
Here is the central idea of this book, stated plainly: you are not sabotaging yourself because something is wrong with you. You are sabotaging yourself because two parts of you want different things, and the part you're not listening to is winning. Your conscious mind has goals. Your unconscious mind has needs.
When those two are in conflict, the unconscious wins — every time. The result looks like procrastination, self-defeat, chronic anxiety, relationships that keep failing, goals you keep almost reaching. But those patterns are not evidence of brokenness. They are messages. This book teaches you to read them.
Along the way, the book covers the psychology of emotional avoidance, the neuroscience of trauma stored in the body, the mechanics of the shadow self, how core needs generate unconscious commitments, and the crucial distinction between circumstances that are chronic versus those that are situational. It is intellectually grounded without being clinical, and practical without being reductive.
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