Martha 's Key Ideas from The Mountain Is You
by Brianna Wiest

"Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends. It’s going to cost you being liked and understood. It doesn’t matter. The people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward. Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of being understood, you’re going to be seen. All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are."

Brianna Wiest

"Some of the emotions that are most strongly connected with self-sabotaging behaviors are actually important for us to better understand. It is not about simply ‘getting over’ them; it is about listening to what they are trying to tell us about our experience."

Brianna Wiest

"Our internal guidance systems whisper until they scream."

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"To trust your gut is not to treat it as an oracle."

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"Your feelings are not intended to guide you throughout life; that is what your mind is for."

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"Healing is going to be hard at first. It is going to mean looking at yourself honestly, maybe for the first time ever. It is going to mean stepping out of your comfort zone so you can leap toward the person you want to be. It is not what makes you more comfortable and idle. It is what conditions you to be more motivated by discomfort than scared of it, and inspired by your still moments more than you use them to forge the chains of worry. Healing is going to change everything, but it has to start with you being willing to feel what you are afraid to feel."

Brianna Wiest

"You don’t change in breakthroughs; you change in microshifts."

"Being mentally strong is a process, and it is a practice. This is where you can begin."

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"One day, the mountain that was in front of you will be so far behind you, it will barely be visible in the distance. But who you become in learning to climb it? That will stay with you forever. That is the point of the mountain."

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"You start to let go on the day you take one step toward building a new life and then let yourself lie in bed and stare at the ceiling and cry for as many hours as you need."

"It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t."

Brianna Wiest