Common Limiting Beliefs of Women of Faith
Clear examples will help you begin to understand limiting beliefs.
Below I have listed 32 limiting beliefs that I've encountered in myself, or other women during my time as a coach. This is in no way an exhaustive list.
- I am not enough to make a good man "happy" (He will leave me someday, I'm not good enough to attract or marry one)
- I can't trust myself.
- I can't trust God.
- I don’t know what I want.
- I'm a bad mom.
- I'm not smart enough to chase my dream or calling.
- If it hasn’t happened yet, it never will.
- Being embarrassed in public is the worst thing that could ever happen and I would never recover from that.
- If I let my emotions flow/show, they will overwhelm people.
- I have to trade the feeling of being "alive" to be a "good" Christian.
- “Dying to self” means that I can’t say "no" to anyone.
- I can’t make more money, a lot of money, or more than a man.
- It’s prideful to be successful or confident.
- If people saw the real me, they wouldn't love me.
- I have to protect myself always, nobody else will.
- I'm too young (or too old) to lead.
- Feeling bad motivates me to change things.
- If I do not give people what they want, I will end up all alone.
- I should have worked this out by now.
- Money makes other people better than me. (Conversely, if I have money I am better than other people.)
- My sins are worse than everyone else's.
- If I fail, I should feel bad for a very long time and then be really scared to try again.
- It's best to hide and hate the things I don't like about myself.
- I have to be a wife & mother to be fully a woman.
- People's actions are always about me.
- I have to be better than everyone else.
- God is holding out on me.
- I have to have sex to be "normal" or "an adult" or even "a woman"
- Life starts when...
- I'm not worthy.
- I'm too shy to...
- I'm too strong to...