"The Mountain is You" Book Review
Daniel Crosby • September 25, 2024
“The Mountain is You” by Brianna Wiest is a solid self-help book. Its premise is that the biggest problem you have is YOU.
Underline the word SELF in self-help.
There’s a lot of truth to this. I find our culture to be increasingly victim oriented. You know…It’s “the man” keeping me down. It’s my childhood and bad parents that hold me back. It’s old trauma that keeps me from being free.
While these things may be true, the greater truth is that YOU are the one who must overcome them. No one else (on this side of heaven) is going to come rescue you from your hurt. No one else can make you heal.
Unfortunately, that means we often end up in a cycle that keeps us frozen and we make the same self-sabotaging mistakes over and over. We choose the same toxic relationships. We stay in a miserable job with an abusive boss. We get angry instead of getting active.
If you want to discover where the problems lie in your life, create a plan of action, and take that first step, check out “The Mountain is You” by Brianna Wiest.
(As a final shameless plug, I could see how this book could be incredibly valuable as resource to use alongside talking with a therapist. Read a chapter, ponder it, journal on it, then go discuss with your therapist. Rinse and Repeat.)
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