Why Healing Your Past Won't Change Your Life
The School of Greatness
Lewis Howes
4.8 • 22K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The thing about the I'm not good enough, and that is the most pervasive one, although the second runner-up is I'm alone. |
| 0:06.3 | Everything that is not working, if I'm not getting fed properly, people are ignoring my needs. |
| 0:12.1 | If I'm aware that my mother didn't want to be pregnant with me, I might form a self-sense of I'm not wanted. |
| 0:19.4 | Wow. Whether she said it or not. Absolutely. And it happens in the |
| 0:23.4 | womb. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a New York Times bestselling author, and an |
| 0:28.6 | internationally recognized teacher of personal transformation. Catherine Woodward Thomas. |
| 0:34.2 | You actually cannot progress in your life when you are making home a victimization. |
| 0:40.3 | What if all these bad things happen to us? |
| 0:42.7 | We were traumatized, someone hurt us, they abused us, they abandoned us. |
| 0:46.3 | Shouldn't we feel victimized? |
| 0:48.0 | So you want to look at how is I the source of it. |
| 0:50.1 | Who was I being that allowed that to happen? |
| 0:52.2 | Now, you have to kind of put your big girl, big boy panties on and really show up for yourself. |
| 0:56.9 | It's hard to create from a victimhood is what we're hearing. |
| 0:59.0 | You can't create from victimhood. The first entry to creativity is giving up victim. |
| 1:07.3 | Welcome back, everyone, at the School of Greatness. I'm very excited about our guests. We have |
| 1:11.2 | the inspiring Catherine Woodward Thomas in the house. She is a licensed marriage and family |
| 1:16.0 | therapist, a New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized teacher |
| 1:20.1 | of personal transformation. She spent decades helping people clear emotional blocks, align their |
| 1:26.3 | inner world, and consciously create the life |
| 1:28.6 | and relationships they desire. And I'm excited that you're here because the last time you're on |
| 1:33.6 | was over a decade ago. And it was such a powerful conversation to help people heal. And you |
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