Episode #22: "Why Not Me?" and Our Limiting Beliefs

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Got something you really want to achieve? I am guessing that you most certainly do. What is holding you back from taking on this thing you want achieve? Why can't you reach this goal? This is the big question that I am toying with right now. Why can't I? Why not Me? Why not you? It is a really tough subject, because we have to face ourselves and our possibilities, and this can be SUPER scary. Sometimes, at least for me, when we look at our big goals, we are forces to tackle our deepest limiting beliefs. "I am not enough." "I am not strong enough." "No one cares about me anyway." "What's the point. I will only ruin everything anyway." These are all limiting beliefs that stop us from reaching realistic goals. Think about it. I am guessing at least one person (or maybe millions of people) have achieved your goal, or a goal like it, already. WHY NOT YOU? "It's not special if someone else has already done it." LIMITING BELIEF!!! "I don't have what it takes!" How do you know? Thomas Edison failed 1000's of times to make the light bulb. That is one piece of proof that you probably can! Persistence people! Let's really get to know our limiting beliefs and then be SUPER mindful about them. Listen to hear more about how. :)

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Kimberley-Quinlan and this is Your Anxiety Toolkit podcast.
0:14.0	Well, welcome. It is just the beginning of November and I just really was, for some reason, drawn to the microphone today. I wanted to share
0:24.4	with you something that I just cannot stop thinking about. It was an event that happened to me in
0:30.4	the most recent week and it was where I was meeting with some wonderful women friends who I meet with once a month
0:40.1	really to talk about, you know, what our goals are and sort of stay on track.
0:45.7	And one of the participants was so clear and had such clarity in what she wanted this one week
0:53.2	and she had set a huge goal for herself and what blew me
0:58.4	away was her way of expressing this. She was saying, you know, I know it's a big goal, you know,
1:05.6	and even I felt like it was a big goal that she was setting, but she owned it.
1:12.4	And the thing that really stuck with me is she said, you know, I've been thinking about this
1:16.1	and thinking about this.
1:17.1	This is really just what I want.
1:19.9	And I started to think, why not me?
1:22.8	Right?
1:23.6	Right?
1:23.8	And this kind of shifted some things for me because I think what we do is when we have a goal or we have a dream, we immediately remind ourselves of why we shouldn't or why we can't.
1:36.9	And I was just blown away with her strong message of why not me?
1:50.6	And it got me thinking about my clients and even myself in terms of, you know, why not me?
1:57.5	If we have something we really want and we know in our heart that we could achieve,
2:04.0	why wouldn't we give ourselves permission just to try, right? And so often when we're talking about mental illness, we are bombarded by the thoughts of why you shouldn't, right? And this is what
2:11.0	I thought was so fascinating, right? So, you know, if you, let's say, had the goal to recover from
2:17.0	OCD or an eating disorder,
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