You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 159.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brook Castillo.

Well hello my friends. How are you today?

Today?

I am anxious. I have been anxious. I'm going to say ongoing for the past three weeks, which I work through my anxiety for sure every single day.

But some days I just want to wake up and have a few rambos and daisies. You guys know what I'm talking about?

I don't want to have to work through anxiety. And here's the deal. This is what's so crazy.

About three years ago, I had my mastermind group, my coaches study the idea of the upper limit and how busting through our upper limits cause us to freak out.

Basically, that's my summary of what's happened to me over the past three weeks.

I set some crazy goals. I hit those crazy goals and then I proceeded to have an internal panic attack.

So I think it's so interesting because so many of us think that all of our issues come from lack of success, not getting what we want.

And it's just not true. Like a lot of times we hit our goals and meet our goals and surpass our goals.

And then we have to deal with the identity shattering prospect that is. And here's what I think it is because I've watched this happen with so many of my clients that have lost weight.

So many of my clients that have stopped drinking so many of my clients that build successful life coaching businesses. They didn't know they were going to be able to do and bust through those limits in terms of how much money they thought they would be able to make.

And what happens afterwards is usually not like just a huge celebration. What happens afterwards is like an identity shift, which is like giving birth to a new version of yourself.

So even though it's a joyous, wonderful experience, it's also challenging to recognize that you were wrong about yourself.

And it's also challenging to kind of step into the new version of yourself.

So I'm really going through that transition right now. And I feel like sometimes like I just want to crawl out of my own skin.

I have all my old issues, quote unquote old issues.

And I old I say like brain neural pathways want to come alive again like hey, maybe this solution is eating everything in the house or maybe you should start drinking chardonnay again or maybe you should just lay on the couch all day.

And what I've been doing is just literally doing the work that I'm assigning my students and self coaching scholars that is literally the work that I've been doing on myself.

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