S4-Episode 9: How to Identify and Shift your Limiting Beliefs

In this episode, I’m diving into one of my favourite topics — limiting beliefs: what they are, where they come from, how they quietly run your life from the shadows, and most importantly, how to shift them so you can stop playing small and start moving forward with clarity and confidence.

We all have subconscious belief systems shaped by childhood experiences, family modelling, and social conditioning. These old narratives — “I’m not good enough,” “money is hard to make,” “I have to earn love” — become invisible scripts that shape our choices, relationships, and self-worth.

But the good news is, they’re not permanent. You can rewrite them.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• What limiting beliefs actually are and how they form through childhood, attachment patterns, and social conditioning.
• How to spot your own limiting beliefs by paying attention to triggers, recurring thoughts, and inner chatter.
• How your brain reinforces old stories through pattern recognition and the “reticular activating system.”
• Powerful ways to shift your beliefs – from reframing and evidence-building to using tools like Byron Katie’s The Work.
• How shamanic and energetic work can help release deeper, intergenerational or subconscious patterns.
• Why integration is the key to making lasting change — and how to practice new ways of being in daily life.

Journal Prompts

If you want to take this episode deeper, grab your journal and reflect on these:

1. What recurring thoughts or phrases do you catch yourself saying that might be limiting you?
2. When do you feel triggered — and what belief might be hiding underneath that reaction?
3. What’s one piece of evidence that challenges your biggest self-doubt?
4. How would you act differently this week if you fully believed you were good enough?

Work With Me

If you’re ready to uncover and release the core belief that’s been keeping you stuck, book a 75-Minute Breakthrough Coaching Session with me.
Together, we’ll identify and shift the root block that’s limiting your progress so you can move forward with self-trust and confidence.

👉 Book your Breakthrough Session here

Connect with me on Instagram @EmmaOBrienCoach

You can also book a free Connection Call to explore how coaching can help you change the patterns that no longer serve you.

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

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or book a free connection call HERE.