Radio Headspace How to Stop Believing the Stories That Hold You Back
Nov 13, 2025
This insightful conversation explores how we often cling to limiting narratives about ourselves. Dora shares personal experiences, encouraging you to question these perceived truths and identify their origins. Through mindfulness, she guides listeners in rewriting their stories, embracing imperfection and authenticity. Discover how loosening your grip on these identities can reveal the next chapter of who you’re becoming. Get curious about your internal narrator and realize that your story is always evolving.
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Childhood Role Became Adult Burden
- Dora describes becoming the 'responsible one' as a child when her family struggled.
- That role helped her survive but later became a limiting, exhausting identity.
Stories Feel Like Facts But Are Changeable
- Dora notes we carry internal narrators that feel factual but are often just repeated stories.
- If a narrative is just a story, you can choose to change it or stop telling it.
Suffering Comes From Story Attachment
- Buddhism frames suffering as attachment to the stories we create around events rather than events themselves.
- Letting go of those attachments creates space to be present to who you actually are now.