3 Ways Self-Sabotage Is Holding You Back

Hope Alcocer
4 min readAug 2, 2018

This article was first written for the Talkspace Blog.

“Are you afraid of success?” My therapist asked me, intently.

I let out a put-out sigh, and my defense immediately went up. “How dare she ask me that?” I thought.

I sat back in my chair, quickly allowing a movie reel of life events that could potentially cause her to ask me such a thing. I quickly realized her pointed question was entirely valid.

I was straddling a thin line between breaking through in my career and remaining…

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Hope Alcocer

New York City. Midwest Export. Lover of Pilates 🍑, Prosecco 🍾 , and Politics 🗳