How To Survive & Thrive In Challenging Times: 101 Ways To Cultivate Resilience, Well-being and Inner Peace In All Areas of Your Life

To register for the webinar: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-smart-leaders-still-self-sabotage-identify-and-break-hidden-patterns-tickets-1988408152310

Why do we sabotage the very things we say we want?

In this episode, Piers Cross explores self-sabotage through the lens of boarding school survival patterns, trauma, leadership and nervous system regulation.

Drawing on Gay Hendricks’ concept of the “Upper Limit Problem,” Piers explains how many ex-boarders unconsciously return themselves to familiar emotional states whenever success, intimacy, joy or uncertainty begin to increase.

Topics include:

  • Boarding school conditioning and emotional suppression
  • Fight, flight, freeze and dissociation
  • Why success can feel unsafe
  • Relationship sabotage
  • Leadership and emotional regulation
  • The nervous system and uncertainty
  • EFT, Havening and mindfulness
  • Expanding the window of tolerance
  • Compassionate leadership and healing trauma

Piers also shares details about the upcoming free workshop:
Why Smart Leaders Still Self-Sabotage

A reflective and experiential leadership workshop exploring unconscious patterns shaping relationships, work and performance.


Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/