We unpack how childhood emotional survival maps become adult paradigms that shape choices, risk tolerance, and self-worth. We share CBT tools, new agreements, and practical steps to shift identity, reduce rejection sensitivity, and build lasting change through repetition and compassion.

• defining paradigms as learned lenses and habit loops
• emotional survival maps from childhood shaping adult behavior
• CBT’s think–feel–do model applied to stuck goals
• rejection as difficult not dangerous and why emotions lack time
• shame, self-talk, and compassionate inner parenting
• scarcity mindset, clutter, and money habits
• don’t take it personally and don’t make assumptions agreements
• why chains to trace behaviors to root beliefs
• moving from autopilot to intention with tiny reps
• EMDR’s role in reframing responsibility and worth

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