
What you avoid, you live with.Kate O'Mahony
Effort isn't the problem. What you tell yourself about it is.Kate O'Mahony
You were born worthy. That part's settled.Kate O'Mahony
Pull up a chair. You're in good company here.Kate O'Mahony
You already know what you need to do.
People tell me their stories everywhere I go. At the bar, at parties, standing around the cornhole board. Blame the Irish in me. Talking was never going to be the problem.
The marriage that's gone quiet, the business they keep meaning to start, the job they hate, the conversation they've been dodging for three years.
And almost every time, they already know what they need to do. They're not missing information. They're missing the belief that they can handle it, that they're allowed to want it, or that it's worth the effort.
That's what I help people change. Not the to-do list, but the belief underneath it. Once that belief changes, the effort stops feeling impossible, and you finally start doing the thing you've been putting off.
You were born worthy. Putting in the effort for yourself is how you act like it.
I'm Kate O'Mahony. Pull up a chair.
KateCertificate trainings at the Albert Ellis Institute. 20 years in practice as a therapist, helping people change how they think so they can change what they do.
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