📚 Book of the Month Recap: The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest 🧠⛰️

Transforming self-sabotage into self-mastery

Throughout this month, we took a courageous journey inward through the pages of The Mountain Is You — a powerful and practical guide for anyone ready to stop standing in their own way.

🌋 The Core Message:

The mountain isn’t something outside of you. It’s the internal barrier you must overcome.Whether it’s fear, limiting beliefs, unhealthy habits, unresolved trauma, or emotional suppression, you are both the problem and the solution. Wiest makes the bold — yet freeing — statement that self-sabotage is not a sign of failure, but a survival mechanism rooted in outdated beliefs.

🔍 Key Insights from the Book:

1. Self-Sabotage Is Misdirected Self-Protection

Wiest explains that we often block our own growth not because we’re lazy or unworthy — but because our subconscious minds are trying to protect us from discomfort, uncertainty, or the unknown.

“When you are not getting what you want, it is because you are subconsciously resisting it.”

2. Your Triggers Are Your Teachers

Instead of avoiding or reacting to emotional triggers, the book teaches us to lean in and examine what those reactions reveal about our deeper wounds.

Growth begins when we see our triggers as signs of what still needs healing.

3. Rewiring Your Beliefs Is Essential for Growth

If you believe you’re unworthy of love, success, or happiness — your actions will reflect that. Wiest emphasizes the importance of reprogramming your beliefs through awareness, repetition, and aligned behavior.

4. Emotional Intelligence Is the New Self-Discipline

Learning to feel and process our emotions (instead of avoiding them) is foundational. Emotional suppression creates blocks. Emotional honesty sets us free.

5. Rock Bottom Is a Starting Point

The book reframes breakdowns and burnout as the body's way of forcing you to change. The moment you feel stuck or defeated is the perfect moment to rebuild — from the inside out.

🧠 Why This Book Matters for Us:

In the Poetry Business Network — where we are literally becoming the business — this book hits home. Every poet, entrepreneur, artist, and visionary faces the internal mountain of self-doubt, procrastination, fear of failure (or success), and perfectionism.

This book gives us the tools to name it, face it, and rise above it.

💬 Your Turn:

What chapter shook you the most?

What line is still echoing in your mind?

Drop your biggest insight or “aha” moment in the comments. Let’s learn from each other.

And stay tuned — we’ll be announcing July’s Book of the Month very soon! 📖🔥

Let’s keep climbing.

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