Why We Love It:

Favorite Quotes:

“It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t.” – Brianna Wiest

“Either way, mental strength is not just hoping that nothing ever goes wrong. It is believing that we have the capacity to handle it if it does.” – Brianna Wiest

“Many people say that you have to love yourself first before you can love others, but really, if you learn to love others, you will learn to love yourself.” – Brianna Wiest

“The real glow up isn’t proving the people from your past wrong. It is finally feeling so content and hopeful about your future that you stop thinking about them entirely.” – Brianna Wiest

Book Jacket Summary:

“If you’ve ever resisted good changes, you’ll find out why with Wiest’s assistance.”– Forbes

“Wiest is realistic. The Mountain Is You is best approached as an exercise in harm reduction rather than a recipe for perfection. Even if you never reach the top of your mountain, you’ll gain grace, resilience, and introspection that define modern leadership as you climb.”– Inc.

This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.