Overcoming Self-Sabotage: How to Become More Productive and Follow Through with Your Actions

By Roslyn Postlewaite

In Overcoming Self-Sabotage, an audio course from Scribd Coach, clinical social worker and Therapy as a Christian podcast host Roslyn Postlewaite dives into the subject of self-sabotage, and how to resist and overcome it. Setting the goal of helping readers flip the script and become their own best cheerleader, Postlewaite discusses how self-sabotage can impact productivity and rest; how to identify if your behaviors are self-sabotaging; and why most of us don’t “follow through” with our actions. She also shares exercises along the way so you can begin putting what you’ve learned into practice immediately.

Backed by evidence and spirituality and remarkably empathetic, Postlewaite’s course is an excellent overview of the strange phenomenon that is self-sabotage — and how to rise above it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Dec 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094448640

Roslyn Postlewaite

Roslyn Postlewaite is a clinical social worker and the host of the Therapy as a Christian podcast. To learn more about Postlewaite and her work, check out the Therapy as a Christian podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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Overcoming Self-Sabotage

OVERCOMING SELF-SABOTAGE

How to Become More Productive and Follow Through with Your Actions

ROSLYN POSTLEWAITE

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2022 by Roslyn Postlewaite

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ISBN: 9781094448640

First e-book edition: December 2022

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Introduction

Hello everyone! I’m Roslyn Postlewaite, and this is Overcoming self-sabotage: How to Become More Productive and Follow Through, a course from Scribd. Thank you for joining me.

Self-sabotage.

We’ve all been there. It’s something that almost everyone experiences. When, despite the best of intentions, we actually stand in the way of what we really want to achieve. As much as we hate to admit it, we are actually the cause of our own misfortunes. We’d like to blame it on someone else or call ourselves victims of unlucky circumstances. However, when we really dig deep and confront the truth, we realize that it was us all along - our own actions, our own fear, and our own subconscious limiting beliefs - that kept us from achieving our desires.

But we’ll only see that if we turn inward and stop blaming others. We need to have the strength to take responsibility for our actions, and that’s not always easy. It’s much easier to blame someone else or to say the timing just wasn’t right. Maybe we put it up to a higher power and say that it wasn’t God’s will. We do what we can to avoid taking the blame because, for too many people, self-sabotage is a completely natural state. It’s the baseline that drives many of their behaviors.

Sure, we may say we want something, but to get it, we have to step out of our comfort zone. We have to take risks and open ourselves up to failure - and that can be scary! The unknown is filled with so many uncertainties, but your perspective can really shape how it impacts you.

For example, you can let the unknown root you in place out of fear, holding you in your comfort zone. You’re not moving backward, but you aren’t making any progress, either. You’re just stuck in the moment. Or, you can let the uncertainty do the opposite. It can energize you to keep moving forward because it’s filled with limitless possibilities. You can achieve so much more