Identity-Level Therapy

Periodic tile graphic with the phrase “I’m a Disappointment” labeled as “Lb” — part of ShiftGrit’s Core Belief Pattern Library.
Limiting Belief Library

“I’m a Disappointment” — A Core Limiting Belief

ByByShiftGritMay 18, 2025
Belief Unpairing
Glossary

Belief Unpairing

ByByShiftGritMay 16, 2025
Periodic-style graphic tile labeled “Lb” with the belief “I Always Fall Short” — part of the ShiftGrit Core Belief Pattern Library.
Limiting Belief Library

“I Always Fall Short” — A Core Limiting Belief

ByByShiftGritMay 14, 2025
Core Belief: I’ll Never Be Enough — ShiftGrit Pattern Library
Limiting Belief Library

“I’ll Never Be Enough” — A Core Limiting Belief

ByByShiftGritMay 14, 2025
Reconditioning Therapy: Transforming Emotional Reactions at the Identity Level.
Pattern ReconditioningIdentity Reconditioning

Reconditioning: How Lasting Change Happens at the Identity Level

ByByShiftGritApr 26, 2025
Reconditioning Protocol
Glossary

Reconditioning Protocol

ByByShiftGritMay 10, 2025
Minimalist pressure cooker illustration representing emotional pressure buildup and sabotage response
Glossary

The Pressure Cooker – When Coping Strategies Build Until You Break

ByByShiftGritMay 10, 2025
Pattern Loops — The Repeating Cycle That Reinforces Itself
Glossary

Pattern Loops — The Repeating Cycle That Reinforces Itself

ByByShiftGritMay 10, 2025
The Walnut Brain — Why We React Before We Think
Glossary

The Walnut Brain — Why We React Before We Think

ByByShiftGritMay 10, 2025
Emotional reactivity illustrated as a ripple of fire erupting from a small spark, symbolizing anger triggered by deeper unresolved patterns.
Anger & ReactivityEmotional Dysregulation

Anger Therapy That Rewires the Pattern — Not Just the Outburst

ByByShiftGritMay 8, 2025
Illustration of a man visibly overwhelmed by a swirl of abstract shapes representing emotional reactivity and inner chaos.
Emotional DysregulationIdentity-Level Therapy

What Emotional Dysregulation Actually Is — And Why It’s Not About…

ByByShiftGritMay 7, 2025
A semi-abstract digital painting showing a blurred silhouette dissolving into loops of light and fog, symbolising executive function shutdown and mental overload.
Executive DysfunctionADHD Therapy

Why To-Do Lists Don’t Work When You’re in Threat Brain

ByByShiftGritMay 7, 2025
Digital illustration of an overwhelmed Asian adult surrounded by disorganised tasks and glowing distractions, symbolising executive dysfunction and cognitive overload.
Executive DysfunctionADHD Therapy

What Executive Dysfunction Really Feels Like — And Why It’s Not…

ByByShiftGritMay 7, 2025
A person stands frozen on a glowing countdown platform, about to be launched into action by emotional urgency, symbolizing ADHD procrastination loops.
ProcrastinationADHD Therapy

Can’t Start, Can’t Stop — The ADHD–Procrastination Loop

ByByShiftGritMay 6, 2025
A person shackled to a heavy weight labeled “EMOTIONAL LOAD” reaches toward a small task on a desk, while a glowing, overflowing cabinet behind them symbolizes cognitive overload and burnout.
ProcrastinationBurnout & Identity Conflict

The Link Between Procrastination and Emotional Exhaustion

ByByShiftGritMay 6, 2025
Periodic-style belief tile labeled “Lb” with the phrase “I Am Invisible” — part of the ShiftGrit Core Belief Series.
Limiting Belief Library

“I Am Invisible” — A Core Limiting Belief

“I Am Invisible” is a belief that forms when your presence goes unacknowledged for long enough that the…

ByByShiftGritMay 18, 2025
Periodic belief tile labeled “Lb” with the phrase “I Am Under Constant Threat” — part of the ShiftGrit Core Belief Series.
Limiting Belief Library

“I Am Under Constant Threat” — A Core Limiting Belief

The belief “I Am Under Constant Threat” creates a reactive, hypervigilant nervous system that’s always on alert. Even…

ByByShiftGritMay 18, 2025
Periodic-style belief tile labeled “Lb” with the phrase “I’m Unsafe in Stillness” — part of the ShiftGrit Core Belief Pattern Archive.
Limiting Belief Library

“I’m Unsafe in Stillness” — A Core Limiting Belief

Stillness can feel threatening when your nervous system links calm with danger. Learn how this belief fuels burnout…

ByByShiftGritMay 18, 2025
Periodic belief tile labeled “Lb” with the phrase “I Can’t Relax or Something Bad Will Happen” — part of the ShiftGrit Core Belief Pattern series.
Limiting Belief Library

“I Can’t Relax or Something Bad Will Happen” — A Core Limiting Belief

This core belief makes rest feel risky — and vigilance feel necessary. At ShiftGrit, we help recondition the…

ByByShiftGritMay 18, 2025
“I Am Not in Control” belief tile from the Anger & Reactivity collection, highlighting fear-driven control patterns and reactive frustration.
Limiting Belief Library

“I Am Not in Control”(Anger) — A Core Limiting Belief

When leadership meant punishment, your nervous system learned that control was something you either seize—or lose. “I Am…

ByByShiftGritMay 19, 2025
Periodic-style belief tile labeled “Lb” with the phrase “I Don’t Exist” — part of the ShiftGrit Core Belief Series.
Limiting Belief Library

“I Don’t Exist” — A Core Limiting Belief

When your presence was treated as irrelevant—or your selfhood too dangerous to keep—the nervous system shuts down. The…

ByByShiftGritMay 19, 2025

Patterns

Gallery

A person shackled to a heavy weight labeled “EMOTIONAL LOAD” reaches toward a small task on a desk, while a glowing, overflowing cabinet behind them symbolizes cognitive overload and burnout.
Black and white abstract illustration symbolizing distorted perception and hypervigilant mental loops—anxiety patterns visualized.
Understanding the Basic Link Between Gut Health and Depression
An abstract representation of imposter syndrome, featuring fragmented pieces of a figure in mid-air, symbolizing emotional dysregulation and internal conflict caused by perfectionism.
A lone figure stands frozen while blurred figures rush around him — a visual metaphor for the burnout freeze response.
A surreal digital painting shows a calm person in a peaceful room being subtly restrained by vines labeled with words like “should” and “must,” symbolizing the internal pressure to stay productive even during rest.
Burnout therapy concept showing a face dissolving into root-like strands, symbolizing identity unraveling
Illustration of a person measuring the first step of a staircase made of task labels like “Plan,” “Research,” and “Revise,” symbolizing the perfectionism–procrastination loop.
What To Do If You Have Both Anxiety & Depression