![]() This internal journey or mountain is formed through an individual’s lifetime as he or she has collected traumas and notions about his or her self-concept. Your mountain requires you to reconcile two parts of you: the conscious and the unconscious, the part of you which is aware of what you want and the part of you that is not aware of why you are still holding yourself back.” She argues that a breakdown precedes a breakthrough and that an individual’s mountain is not an external obstacle that presents itself, but rather an internal journey the individual must go through. ![]() She writes that, like in nature, “our minds also go through periodic episodes of positive disintegration, or a cleansing, through which we release and renew our self-concept.” She explains, “Just as a mountain is formed when two sections of the ground are forced against one another, your mountain will arise out of coexisting but conflicting needs. In the introduction of The Mountain is You, author Brianna West begins by discussing the metaphor of the mountain that she names the title of the book about.
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