Michael Rosenbaum

That's actually quite comforting.

Right, the big dramatic events.

Yes.

And that distinction it makes is crucial between circumstantial problems, you know, dealing with life's curveballs, and chronic problems, which are often about facing the reality of ourselves.

Often those feelings, the anxiety, the fear, the self-doubt, those are the real mountain.

It's like an unstable foundation inside us that affects, well, pretty much everything.

Maybe not as obviously dramatic as losing a job, but potentially much more pervasive.

Right.

Exactly right.

They rarely just appear overnight.

They're usually the result of just living, accumulating experiences, big and small, and developing ways to cope that might have worked back then, but now not so much.

Maybe they're even holding us back.

Precisely.

It's that cumulative effect.

And all those little adaptations, those old strategies, they form the block, as the text calls it, between who we are now in the life or the self we really aspire to.

That seems to be the core message.

It's presented as the necessary path to, well, freedom, to becoming who you're meant to be.

It definitely frames it as a significant journey.

The trigger is often that moment things come to a head, right?

When some event or feeling makes you acutely aware of a deeper issue of the wound.