Glossary
At ShiftGrit, we believe that lasting change requires clear understanding.
This glossary defines key proprietary and emerging therapeutic concepts associated with the ShiftGrit Core Method™.
It explains how identity-level patterns form, how limiting beliefs shape behaviour, and how reconditioning techniques work at the level where emotional loops begin.
Whether you’re a client, clinician, or simply curious, this is where you’ll find the language that underpins our model of change.
Avoiding Conflict to Preserve the Family Myth
Avoiding Conflict to Preserve the Family Myth can show up when family-business conversations stay polite but unresolved because…
Curating Yourself for Approval
Curating Yourself for Approval is a chronic pattern of self-editing, proving, and impression management driven by conditional self-worth…
Craving Intimacy, Guarding Against It
Craving Intimacy, Guarding Against It describes a chronic relationship pattern where closeness is deeply wanted but starts to…
Romanticizing Escape, Resenting Routine
Romanticizing Escape, Resenting Routine describes a chronic split where everyday structure feels loaded and escape feels full of…
Confirmation Bias — When Your Brain Filters Reality to Match the Pattern
Confirmation bias keeps limiting beliefs alive by scanning the world for evidence that they’re still true. Until the…
Limiting Beliefs — The Quiet Loops That Shape Everything
Limiting beliefs form early — usually from emotional experiences that felt unsafe or rejecting. They shape how we…














