Obsessed with Self Help and Personal Development?

Do you find yourself becoming obsessed with self help and personal development?

Exploring The Three Principles with Sarie Taylor

I am not saying there is anything wrong with reading books or doing courses if you enjoy them and its a hobby that you love. I am going to be talking here about those of us (I have been here - for years I was here!) who are looking for the next big thing to fix ourselves, desperately looking to feel different, love ourselves more, feel less anxious and so on?

This can actually be exhausting and can feed into the idea of us being a failure or worse than everyone else as ‘it doesn’t seem to work for me!’.

Would you believe that we can actually try so hard to fix ourselves that it can feed the negative cycle and we end up feeling worse for it. I remember so often telling myself…

"What is it with me that traditional therapy doesn't work for me like it does others?"

"Why does this keep happening when I am working so hard and want so badly to feel better?"

"Maybe there is something fundamentally wrong with me that I haven’t got to the bottom of?"

"I will just have to accept that life is a struggle in some way or other, but I don’t want to!"

And many more things to this effect.

I was trying too hard too often.

I went above and beyond to better myself including training as a psychotherapist and in other therapeutic disciplines, and yet I still suffered with severe anxiety and overwhelm. Even at the times I felt ‘OK’ I was waiting to not feel ‘OK’ and that was still exhausting. I wasn’t allowing myself to freely live and enjoy my life.

I was in the vicious cycle of working so hard to better myself that I was missing a huge point, that I was already OK and good enough as it was.

I was taking myself away form my innate wellbeing through my overthinking and self sabotage, but underneath I was as resilient and as ‘enough’ as the day I was born.

As most of you know it was exploring the 3 principles talked about by Syd Banks that changed everything for me and continues to do so and hopefully always will until I leave this life for the next. Find out more about What The Three Principles Are Here in this article

My external circumstances are not always perfect, in fact sometimes they can be awful and yet I know I am OK, and that I will manage regardless.

This was something I never believed for many years, and as a result I was often so scared of losing it or getting too overwhelmed with life.

I could talk about this forever, but my main reason for sharing this is to let you know that if you find yourself relentlessly looking to fix yourself, that I invite you to go within and see who you really are. A phenomenal human being.

Come and join me on my free three day mini course, starting 13th February 2024: Understanding ME - Click Here for more information and to register.

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