Brianna Wiest’s The Mountain Is You is a deeply introspective guide to emotional transformation — a book about confronting the inner barriers that prevent growth. Through poetic reflection and psychological insight, Wiest reframes self-sabotage not as failure, but as a signal: a message from the parts of ourselves that still need understanding and compassion. The “mountain” becomes a metaphor for personal resistance — the struggles, fears, and habits that quietly hold us back