Lots of people I support each week struggle, in one way or another, with difficult thoughts.
They don’t often describe the problem that way. They call it perfectionism, self-judgement, spiralling anxiety or imposter syndrome.
But each of those is built on a particular set of thoughts, a narrative around what should or shouldn’t be happening.
We fuel these thoughts in two ways1:
We obey. When we obey, we are fused and identified with the thought, taking it as truth.