Your brain is chatting absolute bollo*ks.
It feeds you fear, dresses it up as truth and keeps you stuck while convincing you it’s keeping you safe.
That voice in your head, the one repeating “I’m not ready,” “I’ll fail,” or “I’m not enough”, isn’t telling you the truth. It’s the primitive part of your brain, the limbic system, what Professor Steve Peters calls the “chimp”, chatting absolutely boll*cks to you.
The chimp was designed for survival, not success. Thousands of years ago, it kept you alive by scanning for threats, exaggerating danger and forcing you into fight, flight or freeze mode. But in today’s world, it can’t tell the difference between a sabre-toothed tiger and sending an email, between a predator in the wild and speaking up in a meeting. So it fires off false alarms and you believe them.
It’s all a trap. Every time you obey those thoughts, you reinforce them. Neuroscience explains this phenomenon through a process called Hebbian learning, where neurons that fire together wire together. The more you repeat the cycle of hesitation and self-doubt, the deeper those beliefs get carved into your brain. It’s a vicious cycle.
But those beliefs aren’t permanent; brains are elastic. Neuroplasticity means you can rewire them; you can throw a banana at your chimp and calm them down, challenge the lies and build new patterns that default to clarity, confidence, and action.
Now picture the future you: the version who doesn’t waste energy overthinking every move. Who speaks up without apology. Who takes opportunities without choking on fear. Who trusts themselves fully. That person isn’t imaginary; they already exist, they’re just buried under the lies your brain keeps telling.
This is exactly the work I do with clients. Together, we strip out the false alarms, rewire the patterns and build the future you, who leads with intent instead of fear.
If you’re done being lied to by your own brain, DM me. Let’s start building the version of you that’s been waiting underneath the noise.
