"I Could Never Do That": Untangling Nature, Story, and Belief Post-Mormonism

"I'm just not creative." "I could never do that." "I'm not the kind of person who finishes things." You've said one of these — or something close to it — so many times it stopped sounding like an opinion. It started sounding like a fact. It isn't one.

In this episode, Kristin breaks down the difference between a circumstance (provable, measurable, true regardless of who's looking) and a limiting belief (a thought you've repeated until it felt like biology). She explains why your brain keeps finding evidence to confirm what you already believe about yourself, why this pattern runs especially deep for anyone raised in a high-control religious structure, and exactly how to start testing the beliefs that are quietly running your life.

In this episode: What separates a fact from a belief — and why your brain can't tell the difference on its own

Why growing up in a high-demand religious system trains you to accept assigned identities instead of testing them

Four questions to figure out whether a belief is truly yours, or something you inherited

A real coaching example: how one client dismantled "I never finish anything" by finding the evidence she'd been ignoring The one-word shift ("yet") that gets you out of black-and-white thinking

Why separating the belief from your identity — "I've been telling myself I'm not creative" vs. "I'm not creative" — changes what's possible One small experiment to try this week that gives your brain new evidence to work with