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The way you are working with self-sabotage patterns could be maintaining or intensifying the pattern rather than reducing it. This isn’t a character failure.…
There is one distinction that, when genuinely internalized, changes the quality of the work more than any other framework or technique. It is not…
The most important truths about self-sabotage patterns contradict the most common assumptions. These counterintuitive elements are worth addressing directly because the common assumptions, when…
The research on self-sabotage, identity, nervous system function, and behavior change is more useful for working with patterns than most of the popular frameworks…
Most people working with self-sabotage patterns have a working understanding of their surface pattern. They know the territory where it activates, the behavior it…
Self-sabotage patterns feel deeply personal — not in the way that a business problem feels personal, but in the way that something fundamental about…
The standard account of self-sabotage pattern origins focuses on limiting beliefs, childhood conditioning, and traumatic experiences. These accounts are accurate as far as they…
Self-sabotage patterns are more reliably described as prediction systems than as behavior problems. This description points toward the mechanism that is actually doing the…
What most people identify as their self-sabotage pattern — the behavior that disrupts earnings, visibility, or progress — is a surface expression. Beneath the…
There are things about working with self-sabotage patterns that don’t appear in the frameworks — the things that only become visible after sufficient time…
There is a single reframe that reorganizes almost everything about how to work with self-sabotage patterns effectively. It is not new knowledge for most…
Life transitions — becoming a parent, ending a long-term relationship, changing careers, moving to a new country, recovering from illness, losing a primary support…