April 23, 2025 • 32 mins
In this episode of Celeste, a therapist podcast, host Celeste, a Boston-based therapist, delves into the topic of challenging limiting beliefs. She discusses how pervasive these beliefs can be and how they often hinder personal growth and self-recognition. Celeste emphasizes the importance of changing one's inner dialogue to see the greatness within oneself. She also encourages listeners to actively engage with the podcast content by taking notes and revisiting them to reinforce learning and growth.
Additionally, Celeste announces an exciting event at her Wellness Center in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month on May 3rd. This event will provide opportunities for attendees to work on various aspects of their mental health and healing. Join Celeste as she provides valuable insights and practical advice to help you overcome limiting beliefs and enhance your mental well-being.
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Hey, thank you all so much for joining another episode of Celeste, a therapist
podcast. My name is Celeste. I'm a therapist from Boston. If
you've never been here before, thank you so much for giving me a try. What
I do on this podcast is I talk about things that we all go through and
I help come up with things and ways that you can work on it. So if
you are new here, try to use this podcast as a way
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that you can learn new things. And in order
to do that, you got to write it down and make it plain. So grab a notebook, grab
a pen, Press pause things that stick
out for you write them down and guess what don't let it be the last time
you go to that notebook go back to the notebook and Revisit that content
because what's gonna happen is the more you engage with this content the
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more your mind starts to Look for evidence to
make it Real right in today's episode. We're talking about
challenging limiting beliefs And I know for
a fact so many people have them because of what I do for a living I
talk to people every day And I can see the greatness
in people and people Struggle with seeing that within themselves
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because that's their self-dialogue. That's how they have
been operating and so no matter It
doesn't matter that I see them. I'm working on helping them see
themselves and changing that inner dialogue voice. Before
we get started, I just have a couple of announcements. So
May 3rd, I am having a mental health awareness
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month here at my wellness center. So I'm
so excited about that. This is going
to be a time where we can come together and
we will be able to work on, we'll
be able to work on different things that the
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Wellness Center is providing. So that is
really exciting because Want people to learn
how to heal and I feel like a lot of times people only
know psychiatry or therapy So I want people to
know like there's so many other ways that they can work on healing So
May 3rd if you are in the Stoughton area Come
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through it's a free event and all you got to do is go to
either event bright or go to my website stwit.com to
sign up that is happening May 3rd and And these are some
monthly events that I have at the center. So once
a month, we have a mindful yin class.
And then we also have a rest and restore class.
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And then the last Friday of every month, we have restorative yoga
class. So these are somatic practices. One
of the things that people don't recognize is that They store
pain in their body, right? So people talk about
oh, let's talk about it Let's talk to people but a lot of people aren't talking
about how do I get rid of how? Stuck I
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feel right like I get that this is the case and I get I
went through this I'm making those connections, but my body I'm still
feeling stuck a lot of these somatic practices can
help you start the process of getting
unstuck So, those are things that are happening. If
you go to my website, stwit.com, you
can find the link to everything that's going on. So,
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make sure if you are in the Stoughton area, you check it out. If
you have any questions, all you got to do is email us, info at stwit.com.
That's info at stwit.com. All right,
let's jump into the topic. Let's talk about limiting
beliefs. Limiting beliefs will keep you limited,
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literally. And a lot of times people don't even recognize
what their voice is saying, because why? We're constantly doing
so many things. We're constantly distracted. We're
on the go all the time. And then if we feel a little bit of uncomfortability, we
find a way to mitigate that. That could be anywhere from
drinking and smoking to getting more degrees or picking
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up over time, right? Anything to keep us distracted. We
will find ourselves doing it so that we won't have
to feel the pain. So let's jump into the
first slide Again, if you're listening to me on the audio, you
can find these episodes streaming on YouTube. I
am a very visual person So being able to like
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watch things and read them is very helpful to me I know
some people are audio people and they're good like that. I know I need the
visual and So I'm going to talk about some common
limiting beliefs that people have. And one of
the ones that I hear a lot is I'm not good enough. And
so if you are somebody that feels you're not good enough, you're
probably avoiding taking on new challenges and opportunities because
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you feel you're going to fail and not meet expectations. You're
probably leading things to perfectionism
where you feel that only flawless performance is acceptable,
which causes you stress and burnout. And when you feel like
you've got to lead with perfectionism, a lot of times you stop. You
procrastinate on a project because it has to be a certain way. And
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then the last thing is that it may also result in negative self-talk where
you constantly criticize yourself or downplay your
achievements, right? So if you find yourself
saying you're not good enough, right? These are some of the ways
that you're going to find yourself struggling around life. where
if your mind is telling you you're not good enough, then when the
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opportunities come, you're not gonna go for it. You're not gonna say nothing. You're
gonna find yourself feeling stuck, right, with negative self-talk. Another
limiting belief that I hear people say is, I don't deserve success, right?
A lot of times I see this a lot in the black community. We
feel we don't deserve success We don't say it but our
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actions show it. We won't go for that promotion. We will like
Minimize ourselves and our achievements a lot of
times because we haven't seen it, right? so if you're somebody that you
find yourself not feeling deserving of success or maybe you don't realize
this is what you're thinking. You may sabotage your own efforts
such as procrastinating on an important task or not fully committing
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to projects believing you don't deserve it. This belief
can lead to feelings of guilt when experiencing success
causing you to downplay your accomplishments or attribute
them to luck rather than your own efforts. I see this a
lot in the black community. You know, we live in a society, if you're in
America, you live in a society that wasn't ever designed for you. And
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unfortunately, there are systems at play that
will make you feel like you don't deserve it by the comments
that they make, by the lack of acknowledgement about what
you've done at that job, how you've allowed that job to excel.
Right. I've been in that position, so I know what that feels
like. that with people who have allowed
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companies to grow and have not getting the Acknowledgement
that they deserved And so you may not realize consciously
that you're finding yourself feeling like you don't deserve success
But if these things make sense where you find yourself doing these
things that's probably what's happening in your mindset without
you realizing it's happening and I'll never
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be able to change. I hear this a lot from people, and
I like to tell people we are people
that are able to change our algorithm. We can change the
way we're operating. Just because things were one way for
a certain amount of time doesn't mean it has to stay that way. Right
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a lot of people don't realize that you could come from a long line of people that
have struggled And you may be the person that's breaking that
generational struggle And being the first person to break
that generational struggle is so hard. Nobody talks about how
hard that is to do Because you're doing it in
a way where if you're living in a system and it's dysfunctional and you're
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trying to work on being functional, they'll make you feel like you're dysfunctional.
What are you doing? Why are you going to school? Why are you doing what those white people are doing? Like
making comments like those things. And it's not because
They're trying to put you down, it's just they don't really get it, right? And
so sometimes you have to understand that when you
are the first person to do something in your family system, it'll
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be hard for people to accept as well, like seeing you grow.
And so you also have a hard time seeing yourself grow as well without
even realizing that that is happening. So if you're
finding yourself feeling like you're never able to change you
may resist trying new strategies or approaches believing that
your habits Or personality traits are fixed and
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unchangeable. This is just how I am. Is it how you are? One of
the things that people say to me is that they
procrastinate, right? This is just how I am. I'm just a procrastinator. Are
you a procrastinator? Were you born a procrastinator? Right? Unfortunately,
we start to adapt to
our dysfunction and make it part of who we are. When that's not who we
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are, that's who we adapted to, not realizing that that's what's
happening. So this belief can lead to a sense of hopelessness
where you feel stuck in your current situation And
do not seek help or resources for improvement and you just stay where
you are Right. It's it's a choice to want to change
But change requires action change requires you
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to be uncomfortable There's no way to be comfortable
if you're trying to change and there's no other way to put it You know
what I mean? Like if your system has been living a certain way for so
long, right? If your system has been living away for
so long and you call yourself trying to change the system, of
course your system is gonna be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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Celeste, Celeste, like, what is we doing? Like,
what are we doing? We don't go and go for this
walk in the morning. We don't get up in the morning to try to start our
day with us. Like, are you kidding me? There will be a
lot of resistance There's a quote talks about the real battle happens
in your mind because it's true the real battle is happening in your mind Because your
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system is like not knowing what's going on. And
so if you can work on being uncomfortable in that transactionals in
that um transitional state that you're in because
you're gonna go through a transition where there's this like Do I want to do
it? Do I not one foot in one foot out? You're fighting your
system. Keep fighting Because what's gonna happen is
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your mind and body will have no other choice but to fall in line
with the direction that you're taking it. I'll say that one more time. When
you start working on creating change and doing the
things that you know you're capable of deep down inside, that
anxiety that you're feeling, that struggle that you're feeling, is because
you are not living to your fullest potential. When you start living
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to your fullest potential, it's gonna feel very uncomfortable, but I
promise you, your mind and your system and everything within
you has no other choice but to fall in line with the direction that you're taking
it. Right now, the direction you're taking it is just letting it flow anyway,
you know? Imagine, you know, you've never been somewhere before, you
need directions. Back in the day, there was a map
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quest. I used to print out, gosh, I'm old. I
can't imagine having to do this now, but I used to print out
freaking, um, the paper directions. I used to print out the directions and,
um, to get where I need to go. I didn't just hope and pray
I got there. You know what I'm saying? I had to print out the directions. Now, obviously we could
pop the directions in our phone. It tells us where to go. When
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you're operating in life, I feel like most people are just hoping they
get to where they need to be. Like, yeah, I wanna be successful. Where
is it written at? You know what I'm trying to say? Like, what are you doing to be
successful? Are you setting an alarm to write in your journal in
the morning or when you get off work, right? Because everybody can't do a
morning thing. Some people work overnights, right? So, you know, I
never want you to give yourself an excuse. I know people be like, get up at six in the morning, wake
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up, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's not what I'm telling you because I know my audience is
different. Everybody's I was a difference. Everybody's lifestyle is different All
I'm asking you to do at what point are you making time to write
down what you want to do? If you're not writing down what you
want to do if you're not creating a plan and where you want to go Then you
you're literally like the example I'm using hoping you get
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there get to your destination You
know and it's gonna take a long time if you do it that way So
working on being intentional, if you find yourself saying you can't change
and this is just how you are, but then you're not, if you happy with how you
are, I love that for you. But if you're telling me you can't change it, you don't
like where you are, I need you to work on looking at things in a
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different way, right? Shifting the way you think. That's exactly why
I call my practice shifting the way you think, because I recognize if
we can just shift a little bit, just a little bit, then
we'll start heading into the direction we need to head. Sometimes
when it comes to limiting beliefs, you must please everyone how
many people can attest that that's them, right? So you may
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find yourself over committing to task or responsibilities Often
at the expense of your own needs and well-being leading to
burn out, baby. I gotta take a whole pause right there
Right? So many times that,
you know, this, this Pete, this, I got to please everybody. You're
doing that because it feels like, Oh, this is what I'm supposed to do. You've
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made your identity off of pleasing. Some
of this stuff could have stemmed from childhood experiences where it's
not like somebody said to you, hey, Celeste, you're supposed to please everybody. But
based off of the way things were going, trying to make
sure mom was okay, make sure dad was okay, or
whoever was in your house, the responsibilities that were put
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on you, where you felt like a burden, you found yourself
feeling like you had to please everybody. And guess what happens? You become
a whole adult feeling the same exact way. Until
you realize that, right, that you deserve the
best and that you have to start saying no and putting up boundaries, you're
gonna find yourself always in that state of mind. It's hard
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for you to work on the goals and do the things you need to do if you're
constantly drained and burned out from trying to please everybody. This
belief can result in difficulty saying no because you're too you
feel too overwhelmed and stressed as you try to meet
everyone's Expectations, right? So, you know if
this is speaking to you, I really want you to think about this pause this
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video write it down This is part of my limiting beliefs
me thinking that I have to please everybody says who
says where? Right? Regardless of
what religion you are a part of, I
don't think there's a religion that says, don't worry about
you, just worry about everybody else, burn yourself out. Right?
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Nowhere it says that. And the crazy thing is,
is that if you find yourself trying to change that
trajectory, and saying no or
putting up boundaries, what's going to happen is your system
will try to reject it. It's going to be like, Celeste, like, what do you do?
You're supposed to say, yeah, I know you're not driving in that direction. I
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know you're tired. I know you got a meal prep for the next day.
But saying no is gonna feel like I'm doing something wrong. So if
I say yes, I'm gonna take you in a direction I'm not going it's
gonna take me an hour out of the way. I'm going I'm
gonna drive home feeling tired feeling so beat down
I don't know prep for the next day my my my day starting off
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really hard because now I'm so tired because I got to
bed late It's not
bad to think about yourself. It's not bad because
guess what? When me starting with myself first
allows me to be a better partner, allows me to be a better mom, allows
me to be a better therapist, it allows me to be a better boss. I'm
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able to navigate all of these things that I operate day
to day because I'm starting my day with me. Did
I grow up thinking that way? No. Was I taught that way? No.
But I had to relearn it and best believe that
I was able to relearn how to do that. Best
decision I've made was choosing me. Was it
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hard as I was making that transition? Abso-freaking-lutely, it
was very hard. It was very hard to make that transition.
It felt like I was doing something wrong. And
I want to tell you that's part of the process of change. We stop the process
of change because nobody's telling us like, oh, well, hold on. Wait a
minute now. Like nobody told me it wasn't going to feel good. People
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just say, oh, just say no. Oh, just put up boundaries. They forget
to tell you about the part of how hard it feels like you're doing something wrong so
you can feel like you're doing something wrong. But
logically, you know, you're not doing anything wrong, right? And
feeling like something's wrong and something being wrong are
two different things. Try not to make your decisions based off of
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your feeling because you'll never do what needs to be done, right?
Because if you're trying to change, yes, you're going to feel like you're doing something
wrong. It's just part of the process. So
let's identify limiting beliefs. Like how do we do that?
Right. Because I just went over some common limiting beliefs that
we have. And I want to help you identify and
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like, is this me? Is this something that I struggle with? In
order to do that, it's important to think about self-reflection, so
try journaling or meditation to uncover thought
patterns. It doesn't have to be complicated. I
have a guided journal called 365 Days
of Intentional Living that I always forget to promote, but I do have
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one. And it's on my website and every
day I ask a different question actually how you're feeling, right? I created that
because when I would go online and talk to people and talk to them about ways
to Work on understanding themselves, but I would talk about journaling people
say I don't know how to journal So I have a journal there's
a thousands and thousands of journals you can buy on Amazon You
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don't have to buy a journal to start this process. You can literally grab a
notebook and a pen. You can literally go to the notes section of your phone. And
you can ask yourself certain questions every day. You
can just write and free flow. How am I feeling? What went well? Let
me tell you the four questions I ask my kids at night, right?
These are four questions we talk about in a group every
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single night. How am I feeling? What
am I grateful for? What went well today? And what do
I need to do to prepare for tomorrow? Right? You
can just start with those four questions. When the feeling piece, grab
a feelings chart and actually point to the feeling to identify
the actual feeling that you're feeling. Right the
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reason why if you want to work on identifying some of these limiting beliefs
you got to start with taking a pause and reflecting on what's going on
and meditation start with two minutes of just pausing
If your next statement to me is Celeste, but when I pause I
have all these thoughts i'm gonna say well Hey, guess what? The thoughts
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are there whether you're gonna pause or not. So why not pause? and
pay attention to what's going on. Imagine just allowing people to
throw trash on you every freaking day. And
so, like, throw trash in your room every day, every day, and
you're not pausing. You're just walking around the trash. You don't realize,
like, the room starts smelling. You don't even realize it's smelling because you're getting
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used to the smell. You're getting used to people throwing trash all over you
in your room, in your space. You would never allow that to
happen. Somebody just come walking through your door, open up your freaking
door, and just throw trash in there. Literally,
when it comes to your mind and the thoughts that you have, we're
surrounded by trash, with people that doubt us, stuff
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on social media, the freaking news, the freaking news, the
freaking news. So many hard things are happening. Experiences
from the past so let me just make it clear on
what's happening if you're gonna choose not to take a pause Meditate journal
check in with yourself about how you feeling if you're gonna choose not to do that.
Let me be clear on what's happening You're saying hey everybody. It's
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okay to throw trash on me. Hey, I'm here. Yep. Open my
door throw trash in here That's what you're saying So
we can't help the trash that we're exposed to
especially if we're in freaking America and We
can't help the trash, but what we can do is
work on disposing it, right? When I was gonna start
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a podcast, oh, you really think you could start a podcast? Everybody
has a podcast. That was in 2018. What we in? We in 2025. And
if I let somebody say, and don't get me wrong, when the
person said that my stomach turned a little bit, I was like, dang, can I do this? Absolutely,
you can, right? When I was opening my private practice
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in 2016, really think you can open, that's overhead,
that's money, that's, I can do that, mm-hmm, I can
do that. The person that was talking wasn't an entrepreneur. The
person that was talking wasn't going in the same direction I was going, right?
So you gotta understand, some of the people that you're talking to about your
goals and your vision, they're not going in the same direction that they're going.
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They have limiting beliefs of themselves, right? So why not
make your goals and the things that you wanna do clear for yourself? So
be mindful on how you're framing things because I
promise you, you're listening. And so when you're working on trying
to identify the ways in which you're holding yourself back,
self-reflection is a great thing to do. Another
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way you can do to work on understanding yourself is just asking yourself
questions. What do I believe about myself? What is holding me back? Challenge
yourself. I've gotten as far as I've gotten because I asked
myself questions. Pay it when I'm feeling a
certain thing when my stomach's turning like just because I have this information
and I'm talking about it and teaching it on the podcast and
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in life when I'm speaking just Because I have this knowledge doesn't
mean I don't struggle with the same struggles that you have the struggles
are there I'm asking myself the questions. I'm just not allowing
the fear to stop me. I'm not letting these these
limiting beliefs to stop me from going back and So
asking yourself questions will help you understand yourself better Feedback
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from others others. I know I just said don't be telling everybody
But some people have some good people in their lives mentors maybe
Obviously therapists right if you have a good therapist, um, you may
have a good friend, right? I have a couple of really close friends that
will tell me how it is, right? So there's value in
seeking feedback from trusted friends and mentors. It
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can't just be anybody People that you trust that will like
that know you well that want the best for you That
want to see you win, right everybody That's around us
isn't bad, right? But then I know some people may not
have a lot of great people in their life So if that's the case x
that out, right? You can find that community online, right?
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You can look for a community online if you don't have somebody in person.
And if you can't find it online, if you say, like, start with the book, start
with the podcast. If you listen to this podcast, this is a great tool
to help you work on challenging the limiting beliefs that you
have about yourself. Now let's
talk about the challenging, right? How can I
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challenge my limiting beliefs? This is the last part where we just talked about
some of the limiting beliefs that we have, right? When
then next thing we talked about is how do I identify those limiting beliefs?
And now I just want to go into how do I challenge the limiting beliefs
that I have? So there's this thing called cognitive restructuring.
I do this very well in my session. So basically replacing negative thoughts
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with positive affirmations. Right. My
my it's so funny because my clients are like, yeah, you know, well,
when they first start working with me, they'll be like, yeah, you know, I don't know if I
can do that. Oh, yeah. You can't. I said,
what makes you think you can't? Like, I literally check them on the spot. And
so I said when they first start working with me, because if they, you know, long term,
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they may start it. They'd be like, I already know what you're going to say, Celeste, because, you know,
I feel like I'm the I'm the negative belief slayer. Call
me the negative belief slayer because I'm slaying it like pow. So
cognitive restructuring, so basically, dang,
can I really do this, right? So basically, if you're not processing what's
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going on, your mind is like, dang, can I really do this? If
I don't stop and tell my mind, yes, I can do this, my
mind's just gonna keep trying to, can I really do this? Can I really do this? So that
thing I wanna start, the vision I have, it's never gonna start. because
i'm not challenging it absolutely i can do this like that's
the like you got to be real like gully with yourself like yeah
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i could do this like you know give the negative thoughts a name you
know what i'm saying like let's just give it karen You
know what I'm saying? Karen comes in your head, like, can you really do this? Yes,
I can do this, Karen. You know what I'm saying? Like, you
know, just do it. You gotta start, like, speaking over that
thought. It's a thought. It doesn't have power, but
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then you give it power when you don't allow yourself to challenge
it. That's how it gets the power. All right, the next way we're
gonna challenge limiting beliefs is evidence gathering. So we're gonna collect
evidence that contradicts my limiting beliefs. So
let's just stick with, can I really do this? Yes, I
can. Now I start to look for ways in which I've been able
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to accomplish things, right? Oh yeah, I was able to finish school.
Oh yeah, I did this play or I learned this. Oh,
I'm really good at learning new things. Whatever it
is that you're trying to do, work on collecting evidence. and
reminding yourself that you have what you need. And worst
case scenario, if what is it that you're trying to do doesn't work out,
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I can go back to the drawing board. The thing that I started with,
the vision I originally had, it didn't go
that way. But I would have never known.
So originally, I wanted to work with parents who had kids with autism
because I had just adopted my five-year-old cousin.
He's almost 21 now. I
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just adopted him and I struggled. I was so young and
I didn't have any friends with kids or people
I knew who had children with autism. So I was like, oh, I want to work with autism,
parents of kids with autism. And, you know,
as I began to work with him, he got better. I didn't have the same behavioral
issues. And then I started to feel like, oh, I want to do something. So I
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started this Uniting Autism, right? I started this thing.
And then after that, I said,
you know, I want to work with other people, you know? So then I started the
Uniting Center, right? It was like, oh, I want people to come
together and unite, right? And then from the
unite in a way of like different ways of healing, you know
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I didn't know what that was gonna look like then from there I started the podcast
had the books and One of the things I always talked
about is like it's important to shift the way you think and then started
I got an LLC in 2022 called shifting the way
you think and And on my paperwork it says teaching
classes and doing X, Y, and Z. I honestly had
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no idea two years later in 2024 I was going to open up my
wellness center. No idea. But what happened is
I kept putting one foot in front of the other. And
so if I didn't start to Start
the process, right? So it's like if I say can you really do this? Yes,
I can I've been able to do XY DC and I start the process
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the worst thing that can happen is it doesn't work out and if that doesn't work out Let
me go back to the drawing board The problem is when something doesn't go
work out if we hit a speed bump We feel like life is
over life isn't over if you're still breathing is freaking room for change that
life isn't over Like you can keep going And
so you got to gather evidence that you got this and the last thing I
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want to say about challenging your limiting beliefs is visualization techniques
so the power of visualizing success and the steps needed
to achieve it there's so much power and Visualizing
where you're headed in order for that vision to come in
gotta write it down If your vision isn't written anywhere and
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not just in the corner where there's dust and you haven't even opened it up
again I'm talking about written where you're seeing it every day. It's
on your mirror. It's on your phone Right if you're it's in
your calendar every wednesday morning i'm gonna blah blah
blah whatever it is If you don't have no system in place for
your vision then tell me do you really want to change? Do you really want
to go to different levels? This isn't just professionally i'm talking about
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literally too I literally wanted to drink more water. I
had a sticky note on my computer So when I opened this up that I was on
this computer every day every time I opened it up It says don't forget
to drink water Wanted to curb the way I was eating
I can eat emotionally when I'm struggling give me a cheeseburger Give
me a chocolate cake if you've been in this podcast before you know you girl
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be like give me the cheeseburger Give me the chocolate cake and I said
Celeste. Are you really hungry? Well Do you want broccoli?
That was my screensaver for six months Now it's
worked. So well, i'd be like checking myself like oh, do you really want that
because i've seen that for so long There's water all the
time by me. Look if you're watching me on youtube Your
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girl got water. I don't play when it comes to water. Why because I started a
system So when I talk about writing it down to make it play
i'm talking about the simplest goals when you start accomplishing the
simplest goals Like making up your bed in the morning getting up
on time Preparing your clothes the night before so you're not
rushing in the morning when you start working on the simplest goals
you start telling your mind that you are so capable of change and
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The more that you can get your mind in check and on board for
the change that you're trying to create man Anyways,
I hope that was helpful y'all I hope that makes sense Remember,
we just discussed the limiting beliefs, identifying it,
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changing the limiting beliefs. If this episode
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are happening I'm big to watch those at
night and and then in the mornings, I like to watch my little motivational videos
Not mines, but other people's I like to watch motivational
videos So, you know if anything I ever say resonates
for you I always tell people understand you have the power to make the change but
guess what you got to start to have faith to believe in yourself if
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you have faith and if you start believing in yourself and No
one can ever take that away from you. I don't ever want you to forget that when you
start having faith, when you start believing in yourself, I
promise you, no one can ever take that away from you. So until
Hey, thank you all so much for joining another episode of Celeste, a therapist
podcast. My name is Celeste. I'm a therapist from Boston. If
you've never been here before, thank you so much for giving me a try. What
I do on this podcast is I talk about things that we all go through and
I help come up with things and ways that you can work on it. So if
you are new here, try to use this podcast as a way
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that you can learn new things. And in order
to do that, you got to write it down and make it plain. So grab a notebook, grab
a pen, Press pause things that stick
out for you write them down and guess what don't let it be the last time
you go to that notebook go back to the notebook and Revisit that content
because what's gonna happen is the more you engage with this content the
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more your mind starts to Look for evidence to
make it Real right in today's episode. We're talking about
challenging limiting beliefs And I know for
a fact so many people have them because of what I do for a living I
talk to people every day And I can see the greatness
in people and people Struggle with seeing that within themselves
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because that's their self-dialogue. That's how they have
been operating and so no matter It
doesn't matter that I see them. I'm working on helping them see
themselves and changing that inner dialogue voice. Before
we get started, I just have a couple of announcements. So
May 3rd, I am having a mental health awareness
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month here at my wellness center. So I'm
so excited about that. This is going
to be a time where we can come together and
we will be able to work on, we'll
be able to work on different things that the
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Wellness Center is providing. So that is
really exciting because Want people to learn
how to heal and I feel like a lot of times people only
know psychiatry or therapy So I want people to
know like there's so many other ways that they can work on healing So
May 3rd if you are in the Stoughton area Come
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through it's a free event and all you got to do is go to
either event bright or go to my website stwit.com to
sign up that is happening May 3rd and And these are some
monthly events that I have at the center. So once
a month, we have a mindful yin class.
And then we also have a rest and restore class.
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And then the last Friday of every month, we have restorative yoga
class. So these are somatic practices. One
of the things that people don't recognize is that They store
pain in their body, right? So people talk about
oh, let's talk about it Let's talk to people but a lot of people aren't talking
about how do I get rid of how? Stuck I
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feel right like I get that this is the case and I get I
went through this I'm making those connections, but my body I'm still
feeling stuck a lot of these somatic practices can
help you start the process of getting
unstuck So, those are things that are happening. If
you go to my website, stwit.com, you
can find the link to everything that's going on. So,
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make sure if you are in the Stoughton area, you check it out. If
you have any questions, all you got to do is email us, info at stwit.com.
That's info at stwit.com. All right,
let's jump into the topic. Let's talk about limiting
beliefs. Limiting beliefs will keep you limited,
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literally. And a lot of times people don't even recognize
what their voice is saying, because why? We're constantly doing
so many things. We're constantly distracted. We're
on the go all the time. And then if we feel a little bit of uncomfortability, we
find a way to mitigate that. That could be anywhere from
drinking and smoking to getting more degrees or picking
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up over time, right? Anything to keep us distracted. We
will find ourselves doing it so that we won't have
to feel the pain. So let's jump into the
first slide Again, if you're listening to me on the audio, you
can find these episodes streaming on YouTube. I
am a very visual person So being able to like
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watch things and read them is very helpful to me I know
some people are audio people and they're good like that. I know I need the
visual and So I'm going to talk about some common
limiting beliefs that people have. And one of
the ones that I hear a lot is I'm not good enough. And
so if you are somebody that feels you're not good enough, you're
probably avoiding taking on new challenges and opportunities because
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you feel you're going to fail and not meet expectations. You're
probably leading things to perfectionism
where you feel that only flawless performance is acceptable,
which causes you stress and burnout. And when you feel like
you've got to lead with perfectionism, a lot of times you stop. You
procrastinate on a project because it has to be a certain way. And
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then the last thing is that it may also result in negative self-talk where
you constantly criticize yourself or downplay your
achievements, right? So if you find yourself
saying you're not good enough, right? These are some of the ways
that you're going to find yourself struggling around life. where
if your mind is telling you you're not good enough, then when the
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opportunities come, you're not gonna go for it. You're not gonna say nothing. You're
gonna find yourself feeling stuck, right, with negative self-talk. Another
limiting belief that I hear people say is, I don't deserve success, right?
A lot of times I see this a lot in the black community. We
feel we don't deserve success We don't say it but our
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actions show it. We won't go for that promotion. We will like
Minimize ourselves and our achievements a lot of
times because we haven't seen it, right? so if you're somebody that you
find yourself not feeling deserving of success or maybe you don't realize
this is what you're thinking. You may sabotage your own efforts
such as procrastinating on an important task or not fully committing
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to projects believing you don't deserve it. This belief
can lead to feelings of guilt when experiencing success
causing you to downplay your accomplishments or attribute
them to luck rather than your own efforts. I see this a
lot in the black community. You know, we live in a society, if you're in
America, you live in a society that wasn't ever designed for you. And
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unfortunately, there are systems at play that
will make you feel like you don't deserve it by the comments
that they make, by the lack of acknowledgement about what
you've done at that job, how you've allowed that job to excel.
Right. I've been in that position, so I know what that feels
like. that with people who have allowed
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companies to grow and have not getting the Acknowledgement
that they deserved And so you may not realize consciously
that you're finding yourself feeling like you don't deserve success
But if these things make sense where you find yourself doing these
things that's probably what's happening in your mindset without
you realizing it's happening and I'll never
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be able to change. I hear this a lot from people, and
I like to tell people we are people
that are able to change our algorithm. We can change the
way we're operating. Just because things were one way for
a certain amount of time doesn't mean it has to stay that way. Right
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a lot of people don't realize that you could come from a long line of people that
have struggled And you may be the person that's breaking that
generational struggle And being the first person to break
that generational struggle is so hard. Nobody talks about how
hard that is to do Because you're doing it in
a way where if you're living in a system and it's dysfunctional and you're
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trying to work on being functional, they'll make you feel like you're dysfunctional.
What are you doing? Why are you going to school? Why are you doing what those white people are doing? Like
making comments like those things. And it's not because
They're trying to put you down, it's just they don't really get it, right? And
so sometimes you have to understand that when you
are the first person to do something in your family system, it'll
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be hard for people to accept as well, like seeing you grow.
And so you also have a hard time seeing yourself grow as well without
even realizing that that is happening. So if you're
finding yourself feeling like you're never able to change you
may resist trying new strategies or approaches believing that
your habits Or personality traits are fixed and
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unchangeable. This is just how I am. Is it how you are? One of
the things that people say to me is that they
procrastinate, right? This is just how I am. I'm just a procrastinator. Are
you a procrastinator? Were you born a procrastinator? Right? Unfortunately,
we start to adapt to
our dysfunction and make it part of who we are. When that's not who we
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are, that's who we adapted to, not realizing that that's what's
happening. So this belief can lead to a sense of hopelessness
where you feel stuck in your current situation And
do not seek help or resources for improvement and you just stay where
you are Right. It's it's a choice to want to change
But change requires action change requires you
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to be uncomfortable There's no way to be comfortable
if you're trying to change and there's no other way to put it You know
what I mean? Like if your system has been living a certain way for so
long, right? If your system has been living away for
so long and you call yourself trying to change the system, of
course your system is gonna be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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Celeste, Celeste, like, what is we doing? Like,
what are we doing? We don't go and go for this
walk in the morning. We don't get up in the morning to try to start our
day with us. Like, are you kidding me? There will be a
lot of resistance There's a quote talks about the real battle happens
in your mind because it's true the real battle is happening in your mind Because your
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system is like not knowing what's going on. And
so if you can work on being uncomfortable in that transactionals in
that um transitional state that you're in because
you're gonna go through a transition where there's this like Do I want to do
it? Do I not one foot in one foot out? You're fighting your
system. Keep fighting Because what's gonna happen is
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your mind and body will have no other choice but to fall in line
with the direction that you're taking it. I'll say that one more time. When
you start working on creating change and doing the
things that you know you're capable of deep down inside, that
anxiety that you're feeling, that struggle that you're feeling, is because
you are not living to your fullest potential. When you start living
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to your fullest potential, it's gonna feel very uncomfortable, but I
promise you, your mind and your system and everything within
you has no other choice but to fall in line with the direction that you're taking
it. Right now, the direction you're taking it is just letting it flow anyway,
you know? Imagine, you know, you've never been somewhere before, you
need directions. Back in the day, there was a map
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quest. I used to print out, gosh, I'm old. I
can't imagine having to do this now, but I used to print out
freaking, um, the paper directions. I used to print out the directions and,
um, to get where I need to go. I didn't just hope and pray
I got there. You know what I'm saying? I had to print out the directions. Now, obviously we could
pop the directions in our phone. It tells us where to go. When
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you're operating in life, I feel like most people are just hoping they
get to where they need to be. Like, yeah, I wanna be successful. Where
is it written at? You know what I'm trying to say? Like, what are you doing to be
successful? Are you setting an alarm to write in your journal in
the morning or when you get off work, right? Because everybody can't do a
morning thing. Some people work overnights, right? So, you know, I
never want you to give yourself an excuse. I know people be like, get up at six in the morning, wake
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up, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's not what I'm telling you because I know my audience is
different. Everybody's I was a difference. Everybody's lifestyle is different All
I'm asking you to do at what point are you making time to write
down what you want to do? If you're not writing down what you
want to do if you're not creating a plan and where you want to go Then you
you're literally like the example I'm using hoping you get
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there get to your destination You
know and it's gonna take a long time if you do it that way So
working on being intentional, if you find yourself saying you can't change
and this is just how you are, but then you're not, if you happy with how you
are, I love that for you. But if you're telling me you can't change it, you don't
like where you are, I need you to work on looking at things in a
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different way, right? Shifting the way you think. That's exactly why
I call my practice shifting the way you think, because I recognize if
we can just shift a little bit, just a little bit, then
we'll start heading into the direction we need to head. Sometimes
when it comes to limiting beliefs, you must please everyone how
many people can attest that that's them, right? So you may
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find yourself over committing to task or responsibilities Often
at the expense of your own needs and well-being leading to
burn out, baby. I gotta take a whole pause right there
Right? So many times that,
you know, this, this Pete, this, I got to please everybody. You're
doing that because it feels like, Oh, this is what I'm supposed to do. You've
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made your identity off of pleasing. Some
of this stuff could have stemmed from childhood experiences where it's
not like somebody said to you, hey, Celeste, you're supposed to please everybody. But
based off of the way things were going, trying to make
sure mom was okay, make sure dad was okay, or
whoever was in your house, the responsibilities that were put
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on you, where you felt like a burden, you found yourself
feeling like you had to please everybody. And guess what happens? You become
a whole adult feeling the same exact way. Until
you realize that, right, that you deserve the
best and that you have to start saying no and putting up boundaries, you're
gonna find yourself always in that state of mind. It's hard
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for you to work on the goals and do the things you need to do if you're
constantly drained and burned out from trying to please everybody. This
belief can result in difficulty saying no because you're too you
feel too overwhelmed and stressed as you try to meet
everyone's Expectations, right? So, you know if
this is speaking to you, I really want you to think about this pause this
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video write it down This is part of my limiting beliefs
me thinking that I have to please everybody says who
says where? Right? Regardless of
what religion you are a part of, I
don't think there's a religion that says, don't worry about
you, just worry about everybody else, burn yourself out. Right?
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Nowhere it says that. And the crazy thing is,
is that if you find yourself trying to change that
trajectory, and saying no or
putting up boundaries, what's going to happen is your system
will try to reject it. It's going to be like, Celeste, like, what do you do?
You're supposed to say, yeah, I know you're not driving in that direction. I
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know you're tired. I know you got a meal prep for the next day.
But saying no is gonna feel like I'm doing something wrong. So if
I say yes, I'm gonna take you in a direction I'm not going it's
gonna take me an hour out of the way. I'm going I'm
gonna drive home feeling tired feeling so beat down
I don't know prep for the next day my my my day starting off
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really hard because now I'm so tired because I got to
bed late It's not
bad to think about yourself. It's not bad because
guess what? When me starting with myself first
allows me to be a better partner, allows me to be a better mom, allows
me to be a better therapist, it allows me to be a better boss. I'm
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able to navigate all of these things that I operate day
to day because I'm starting my day with me. Did
I grow up thinking that way? No. Was I taught that way? No.
But I had to relearn it and best believe that
I was able to relearn how to do that. Best
decision I've made was choosing me. Was it
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hard as I was making that transition? Abso-freaking-lutely, it
was very hard. It was very hard to make that transition.
It felt like I was doing something wrong. And
I want to tell you that's part of the process of change. We stop the process
of change because nobody's telling us like, oh, well, hold on. Wait a
minute now. Like nobody told me it wasn't going to feel good. People
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just say, oh, just say no. Oh, just put up boundaries. They forget
to tell you about the part of how hard it feels like you're doing something wrong so
you can feel like you're doing something wrong. But
logically, you know, you're not doing anything wrong, right? And
feeling like something's wrong and something being wrong are
two different things. Try not to make your decisions based off of
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your feeling because you'll never do what needs to be done, right?
Because if you're trying to change, yes, you're going to feel like you're doing something
wrong. It's just part of the process. So
let's identify limiting beliefs. Like how do we do that?
Right. Because I just went over some common limiting beliefs that
we have. And I want to help you identify and
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like, is this me? Is this something that I struggle with? In
order to do that, it's important to think about self-reflection, so
try journaling or meditation to uncover thought
patterns. It doesn't have to be complicated. I
have a guided journal called 365 Days
of Intentional Living that I always forget to promote, but I do have
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one. And it's on my website and every
day I ask a different question actually how you're feeling, right? I created that
because when I would go online and talk to people and talk to them about ways
to Work on understanding themselves, but I would talk about journaling people
say I don't know how to journal So I have a journal there's
a thousands and thousands of journals you can buy on Amazon You
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don't have to buy a journal to start this process. You can literally grab a
notebook and a pen. You can literally go to the notes section of your phone. And
you can ask yourself certain questions every day. You
can just write and free flow. How am I feeling? What went well? Let
me tell you the four questions I ask my kids at night, right?
These are four questions we talk about in a group every
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single night. How am I feeling? What
am I grateful for? What went well today? And what do
I need to do to prepare for tomorrow? Right? You
can just start with those four questions. When the feeling piece, grab
a feelings chart and actually point to the feeling to identify
the actual feeling that you're feeling. Right the
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reason why if you want to work on identifying some of these limiting beliefs
you got to start with taking a pause and reflecting on what's going on
and meditation start with two minutes of just pausing
If your next statement to me is Celeste, but when I pause I
have all these thoughts i'm gonna say well Hey, guess what? The thoughts
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are there whether you're gonna pause or not. So why not pause? and
pay attention to what's going on. Imagine just allowing people to
throw trash on you every freaking day. And
so, like, throw trash in your room every day, every day, and
you're not pausing. You're just walking around the trash. You don't realize,
like, the room starts smelling. You don't even realize it's smelling because you're getting
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used to the smell. You're getting used to people throwing trash all over you
in your room, in your space. You would never allow that to
happen. Somebody just come walking through your door, open up your freaking
door, and just throw trash in there. Literally,
when it comes to your mind and the thoughts that you have, we're
surrounded by trash, with people that doubt us, stuff
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on social media, the freaking news, the freaking news, the
freaking news. So many hard things are happening. Experiences
from the past so let me just make it clear on
what's happening if you're gonna choose not to take a pause Meditate journal
check in with yourself about how you feeling if you're gonna choose not to do that.
Let me be clear on what's happening You're saying hey everybody. It's
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okay to throw trash on me. Hey, I'm here. Yep. Open my
door throw trash in here That's what you're saying So
we can't help the trash that we're exposed to
especially if we're in freaking America and We
can't help the trash, but what we can do is
work on disposing it, right? When I was gonna start
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a podcast, oh, you really think you could start a podcast? Everybody
has a podcast. That was in 2018. What we in? We in 2025. And
if I let somebody say, and don't get me wrong, when the
person said that my stomach turned a little bit, I was like, dang, can I do this? Absolutely,
you can, right? When I was opening my private practice
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in 2016, really think you can open, that's overhead,
that's money, that's, I can do that, mm-hmm, I can
do that. The person that was talking wasn't an entrepreneur. The
person that was talking wasn't going in the same direction I was going, right?
So you gotta understand, some of the people that you're talking to about your
goals and your vision, they're not going in the same direction that they're going.
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They have limiting beliefs of themselves, right? So why not
make your goals and the things that you wanna do clear for yourself? So
be mindful on how you're framing things because I
promise you, you're listening. And so when you're working on trying
to identify the ways in which you're holding yourself back,
self-reflection is a great thing to do. Another
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way you can do to work on understanding yourself is just asking yourself
questions. What do I believe about myself? What is holding me back? Challenge
yourself. I've gotten as far as I've gotten because I asked
myself questions. Pay it when I'm feeling a
certain thing when my stomach's turning like just because I have this information
and I'm talking about it and teaching it on the podcast and
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in life when I'm speaking just Because I have this knowledge doesn't
mean I don't struggle with the same struggles that you have the struggles
are there I'm asking myself the questions. I'm just not allowing
the fear to stop me. I'm not letting these these
limiting beliefs to stop me from going back and So
asking yourself questions will help you understand yourself better Feedback
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from others others. I know I just said don't be telling everybody
But some people have some good people in their lives mentors maybe
Obviously therapists right if you have a good therapist, um, you may
have a good friend, right? I have a couple of really close friends that
will tell me how it is, right? So there's value in
seeking feedback from trusted friends and mentors. It
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can't just be anybody People that you trust that will like
that know you well that want the best for you That
want to see you win, right everybody That's around us
isn't bad, right? But then I know some people may not
have a lot of great people in their life So if that's the case x
that out, right? You can find that community online, right?
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You can look for a community online if you don't have somebody in person.
And if you can't find it online, if you say, like, start with the book, start
with the podcast. If you listen to this podcast, this is a great tool
to help you work on challenging the limiting beliefs that you
have about yourself. Now let's
talk about the challenging, right? How can I
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challenge my limiting beliefs? This is the last part where we just talked about
some of the limiting beliefs that we have, right? When
then next thing we talked about is how do I identify those limiting beliefs?
And now I just want to go into how do I challenge the limiting beliefs
that I have? So there's this thing called cognitive restructuring.
I do this very well in my session. So basically replacing negative thoughts
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with positive affirmations. Right. My
my it's so funny because my clients are like, yeah, you know, well,
when they first start working with me, they'll be like, yeah, you know, I don't know if I
can do that. Oh, yeah. You can't. I said,
what makes you think you can't? Like, I literally check them on the spot. And
so I said when they first start working with me, because if they, you know, long term,
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they may start it. They'd be like, I already know what you're going to say, Celeste, because, you know,
I feel like I'm the I'm the negative belief slayer. Call
me the negative belief slayer because I'm slaying it like pow. So
cognitive restructuring, so basically, dang,
can I really do this, right? So basically, if you're not processing what's
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going on, your mind is like, dang, can I really do this? If
I don't stop and tell my mind, yes, I can do this, my
mind's just gonna keep trying to, can I really do this? Can I really do this? So that
thing I wanna start, the vision I have, it's never gonna start. because
i'm not challenging it absolutely i can do this like that's
the like you got to be real like gully with yourself like yeah
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i could do this like you know give the negative thoughts a name you
know what i'm saying like let's just give it karen You
know what I'm saying? Karen comes in your head, like, can you really do this? Yes,
I can do this, Karen. You know what I'm saying? Like, you
know, just do it. You gotta start, like, speaking over that
thought. It's a thought. It doesn't have power, but
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then you give it power when you don't allow yourself to challenge
it. That's how it gets the power. All right, the next way we're
gonna challenge limiting beliefs is evidence gathering. So we're gonna collect
evidence that contradicts my limiting beliefs. So
let's just stick with, can I really do this? Yes, I
can. Now I start to look for ways in which I've been able
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to accomplish things, right? Oh yeah, I was able to finish school.
Oh yeah, I did this play or I learned this. Oh,
I'm really good at learning new things. Whatever it
is that you're trying to do, work on collecting evidence. and
reminding yourself that you have what you need. And worst
case scenario, if what is it that you're trying to do doesn't work out,
(26:01):
I can go back to the drawing board. The thing that I started with,
the vision I originally had, it didn't go
that way. But I would have never known.
So originally, I wanted to work with parents who had kids with autism
because I had just adopted my five-year-old cousin.
He's almost 21 now. I
(26:24):
just adopted him and I struggled. I was so young and
I didn't have any friends with kids or people
I knew who had children with autism. So I was like, oh, I want to work with autism,
parents of kids with autism. And, you know,
as I began to work with him, he got better. I didn't have the same behavioral
issues. And then I started to feel like, oh, I want to do something. So I
(26:44):
started this Uniting Autism, right? I started this thing.
And then after that, I said,
you know, I want to work with other people, you know? So then I started the
Uniting Center, right? It was like, oh, I want people to come
together and unite, right? And then from the
unite in a way of like different ways of healing, you know
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I didn't know what that was gonna look like then from there I started the podcast
had the books and One of the things I always talked
about is like it's important to shift the way you think and then started
I got an LLC in 2022 called shifting the way
you think and And on my paperwork it says teaching
classes and doing X, Y, and Z. I honestly had
(27:28):
no idea two years later in 2024 I was going to open up my
wellness center. No idea. But what happened is
I kept putting one foot in front of the other. And
so if I didn't start to Start
the process, right? So it's like if I say can you really do this? Yes,
I can I've been able to do XY DC and I start the process
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the worst thing that can happen is it doesn't work out and if that doesn't work out Let
me go back to the drawing board The problem is when something doesn't go
work out if we hit a speed bump We feel like life is
over life isn't over if you're still breathing is freaking room for change that
life isn't over Like you can keep going And
so you got to gather evidence that you got this and the last thing I
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want to say about challenging your limiting beliefs is visualization techniques
so the power of visualizing success and the steps needed
to achieve it there's so much power and Visualizing
where you're headed in order for that vision to come in
gotta write it down If your vision isn't written anywhere and
(28:28):
not just in the corner where there's dust and you haven't even opened it up
again I'm talking about written where you're seeing it every day. It's
on your mirror. It's on your phone Right if you're it's in
your calendar every wednesday morning i'm gonna blah blah
blah whatever it is If you don't have no system in place for
your vision then tell me do you really want to change? Do you really want
to go to different levels? This isn't just professionally i'm talking about
(28:52):
literally too I literally wanted to drink more water. I
had a sticky note on my computer So when I opened this up that I was on
this computer every day every time I opened it up It says don't forget
to drink water Wanted to curb the way I was eating
I can eat emotionally when I'm struggling give me a cheeseburger Give
me a chocolate cake if you've been in this podcast before you know you girl
(29:12):
be like give me the cheeseburger Give me the chocolate cake and I said
Celeste. Are you really hungry? Well Do you want broccoli?
That was my screensaver for six months Now it's
worked. So well, i'd be like checking myself like oh, do you really want that
because i've seen that for so long There's water all the
time by me. Look if you're watching me on youtube Your
(29:33):
girl got water. I don't play when it comes to water. Why because I started a
system So when I talk about writing it down to make it play
i'm talking about the simplest goals when you start accomplishing the
simplest goals Like making up your bed in the morning getting up
on time Preparing your clothes the night before so you're not
rushing in the morning when you start working on the simplest goals
you start telling your mind that you are so capable of change and
(29:57):
The more that you can get your mind in check and on board for
the change that you're trying to create man Anyways,
I hope that was helpful y'all I hope that makes sense Remember,
we just discussed the limiting beliefs, identifying it,
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changing the limiting beliefs. If this episode
spoke to you, do me a favor, send it to somebody that you love, right?
You never know how much a podcast, the
things that people hear, how it can change them. So go ahead
and send it to somebody like, hey, I heard this podcast, you know, my girl Celeste
should be on it, you know what I'm saying? Send it to somebody that you love. Definitely
(30:40):
hit me up, I'm on all social media platforms. Celeste the therapist
is my personal social media that I'm on I try to
share I haven't been sharing as much in my stories lately because I've
been so busy And then stwy T
is my business what business
Instagram and Facebook you could find me there and And
(31:01):
if you're not already following me on YouTube, you can find me on YouTube. I
like the podcast I listen to I come quick like give me the visual. Let
me find you Yo, we're podcasting on YouTube. I love
watching it on YouTube. It's like my little show that I watch at night I
like my track my react not reality shows. I haven't watched reality shows
in a long time, but I The bloggers that talk about different things that
(31:22):
are happening I'm big to watch those at
night and and then in the mornings, I like to watch my little motivational videos
Not mines, but other people's I like to watch motivational
videos So, you know if anything I ever say resonates
for you I always tell people understand you have the power to make the change but
guess what you got to start to have faith to believe in yourself if
(31:45):
you have faith and if you start believing in yourself and No
one can ever take that away from you. I don't ever want you to forget that when you
start having faith, when you start believing in yourself, I
promise you, no one can ever take that away from you. So until
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