Baby elephant sindrum comes from an old story about a big, powerful elephant who is chained to this tiny, little rope. As they grow up, they stop pulling, they stop trying, because they learned that, ok, this rope is unbreakable. So even as they grow up and they change that rope to a thinner rope, or sometimes maybe not even a rope at all, the elephant doesn't keep trying. And when we experience baby elephant sindrums, it's oftentimes that an when we were growing up, our parents, or our environment, our teachers, our friends, may have told us something about selves that we took deep to heart. We never come to