The Mountain Is You

That was a quick read! I picked up this book at a time when I was questioning whether I was capable or qualified enough. It gave me a fresh perspective, and I feel a bit calmer and more composed after reading it. While I couldn't relate to every situation or circumstance mentioned, many of them felt familiar in some way. I made plenty of notes to refer back to during moments of self-doubt. I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone, no matter what they're going through, as I believe it covers a wide range of struggles.

I am not the biggest enjoyer of self help book. (Even tho this year I already read two of them).

With this one it was slightly different, I still felt plenty of the self helpy aspect of accountability, encountering yourself, building yourself and envisioning. Yet there was one aspect about it that garned itself two stars, the understanding. There is plenty of understanding that coming out of trauma, self destructive behaviours or whatever is not easy, it will never be easy and the path going forward or the end goal is uncertain, foggy and nearly impossible to imagine.


Yet the solutions offered were once more based on a reading of psychology and psychological tools that I doubt their methodology.

targeted at people who are closer to the beginning of their “self discovery”. Plus she uses the distinction “self sabotage” as a catch-all for all forms of getting in our own way, which includes a significantly broader repertoire of behaviour than she accounts for.

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Holy Guacamole! This book was incredible. So good on self-sabotage, how your limiting beliefs are holding you back. It was coinci-Godly that I read this after returning from my Liminol Retreat! So many correlations, and continuous healing! Highly recommend!!!

The mountain was this book. Lights on no ones home vibes. Said so little in so many words.

I really wanted to love it. Saw a tiktok that said “this book would have changed my life had I read it in my twenties.” It was too all over the place - money troubles, grief, anxiety, depression... too many disjointed topics for such a short book, and it didn't even really keep up with the mountain analogy.

I think I just happened to read this at the right time in my life, but this book was incredible.

Right book at the right time. The ending gets repetitive but there are really good nuggets in here.