Turning Pain into Power: How to Harness Limiting Beliefs for Your Benefit

You wouldn’t build your dream home without a solid foundation.

Why would your life be any different?

When I started rebuilding my life in prison (I hadn’t yet connected with the concept of reinvention), one word kept whispering to me as I journaled.

Foundation.

I knew I needed to create a solid inner foundation on which I would then build the rest of my life.

What I’ve come to realize:

A solid inner foundation is the antithesis of my limiting beliefs and deepest wounds.

I struggle to remember when I didn’t feel unworthy or enough, to the point of planning how I’d kill myself.

So, two pillars of my foundation are:

I am worthy.
I am enough.

I lived in what Nietzsche calls the “torture of self-mistrust”; simple decisions were excruciating, and I was paralyzed by the fear of making another bad decision.

So, a pillar of my foundation is:

I trust myself.

I escaped into the bottom of a bottle for years because I desperately wanted out of my skin.