When Limiting Beliefs Around Guilt Get Out of the Way, Miracles Can Happen

For many people, the journey towards their goals can feel like a constant uphill battle. They take the courses. Follow the strategies. Put in the effort. But still feel like something invisible is holding them back.

Often, that "something" is a limiting belief rooted in past trauma — the kind that quietly shapes our self-worth, our relationships, and our expectations of what we believe is possible.

This was true for one of my clients.

She came to me feeling stuck. She was ambitious, capable, and had big dreams, but something inside her kept sabotaging her success. In our sessions, we'd been exploring the limiting beliefs around success but during one particular session, it became clear that buried deep, were profound feelings of guilt and shame.

In that session we uncovered that this guilt was tied to a traumatic childhood, her time in the foster care system, and a deeply painful part of her story: having a child in her early teens, then becoming estranged from her daughter for over a decade.

As we continued to work together, she allowed herself to go there — to the places she'd avoided for years. To finally bring compassion and love to the young girl she once was, and to begin softening the armour she’d built around her heart.

One night after one of our sessions, she had a vivid dream of speaking to her daughter. The imagery and emotion were so powerful, it felt completely real. When she shared this dream with me in our next session, it was clear that something had shifted in her.

A few weeks later, while travelling in Europe, she found herself wandering into a small souvenir shop tucked down an unfamiliar street. As she browsed the trinkets, something made her look up and glance out the window.

And there, outside the shop, was a young woman who looked uncannily like her daughter.

She stepped outside, nervous, with her heart pounding, and called out her daughter’s name. The young woman turned — confusion on her face — until recognition dawned.

It really was her daughter!

In that moment, years of distance and pain collapsed. They embraced, both in tears. No contact for over a decade — and now, somehow, miraculously, standing face to face in a random corner of Europe.

Synchronicity? Maybe. But I believe it was something more.

When we heal the limiting beliefs that keep us stuck in the past — when we stop carrying shame and guilt as if it’s part of our identity — we clear the way for life to meet us with the unimaginable. With grace. With reconciliation. With magic.

This story isn’t just about a mother and daughter. It’s about what becomes possible when we look at what’s really blocking us. And choose to heal.

Because transformation isn’t always linear.

But when the inner work is honoured and committed to, our outer world often responds in ways we could never have imagined.

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Why not book a Limiting Belief Buster Session with me to begin to explore what might be holding YOU back in your life?