Let me tell you a story, whenever I was younger I used to self sabotage all the time, I would go against my goals, skip working out, eat junk on a diet and etc.
And it really made me feel bad, as of course nobody likes lying to themself.
And the worst part was it would be on a downward spiral, as I would feel so guilty after messing up.
This is no way to live.
Because of how hard it was for me, I want to make this full guide to overcome self sabotage.
Part 1: What is Self Sabotage really?
All self sabotage really is, is just were your purposefully “sabotage” yourself and your goals like, if you say to yourself you will go to the gym at the new year, but then you just procrastinate and never do it, instead just playing video games, yet deep down you don’t want to do this really, but you still do.
That is a good example of it.
And it is by no means a nice thing, we all should look to eliminate it.
Part 2: What is Self Sabotage caused by really?
It can be caused by a variety of different things, but quite honestly usually it is due to poor mental health, unhealed trauma, anxiety, depression and things of that nature.
Doing the self destructive habits are not good for your goals but it is how you cope with dealing with the poor mental health.
Part 3: How Trauma Ties Into it All
As mentioned before most of not all of self sabotage is caused by poor mental health.
And I would argue out of all the mental health problems like depression, anxiety and etc.
Trauma comes out on top as the most common reason for this, as being in survival mode will undeniably make you self sabotage.
Part 4: The Solution
The solution is honestly quite simple, heal your trauma.
I mentioned anxiety, depression and etc can cause it too.
But trauma healing also heals those too.
So if you just follow the trauma healing method I tell you to do, you stay consistent, as a result you will beat self sabotage.
Another final thing I’ll say is an excellent book on this is: “The Mountain Is You” by Brianna Wiest.
Trauma healing method:
To heal your trauma, first of all bring up the past unprocessed emotion then act on what your brain tells you even of it says cry or whatever but do not do anything harmful to yourself or others, do it but maybe make sure you are alone for this, and sometimes people do not know what to do in that case do a generic method like shaking, breath work, cold exposure or whatever and that will work, do that for legit like a couple mins just until when you put your focus back to the past trauma it no longer angers you, that is it.
Thanks for reading.