You can’t change what you can’t see.
Inner Alchemy is a self-guided way to look underneath the things you keep doing, avoiding, overthinking or repeating.
We’ve mapped 162 common limiting beliefs across eight areas of life to help you recognise the beliefs that may be shaping how you think, feel and respond, and identify which ones are having the biggest impact on your life.
Through our self-guided workbooks, you can explore where those beliefs came from, question whether they still hold true for you now, and begin building new ones.
Free - 17 Questions - about 5 mins
A limiting belief is a conclusion you have come to about yourself, other people, or how life works.
It becomes part of the way you make sense of what is happening around you: what you think something means, what you expect from other people, what you believe will happen if you do or don’t do something, and what feels possible, safe or available to you.
Over time, these conclusions can start to feel like the reality of the situation rather than one possible way of interpreting it.
They can sound like:
Saying no makes people leave.
Rest has to be earned.
If they’re not messaging me, I must have done something wrong.
I’m just not someone who succeeds at things like this.
You may not consciously think these sentences every time something happens. But the belief can still shape what you notice, what you expect, and how you respond.
What is a limiting belief?
Knowing the pattern isn’t always enough to
change it.
You probably already know some of your patterns. The harder part is working out what keeps them running.
You can:
Know you’re a people-pleaser and still hear yourself saying yes before you’ve even worked out whether you want to.
Understand that rest is important and still feel guilty the second you stop doing something useful.
Know somebody is inconsistent, have an impressive amount of evidence that they’re inconsistent, and still check your phone hoping they’ve messaged.
This is the part we target. Not just, “What am I doing?” but, “What led to this becoming my first reaction?”
The answer won’t always be one moment in time that created the belief. Human beings are more complicated than that. But when you start looking underneath the behaviour instead of only judging yourself for it, you can begin to understand why the reaction is there, and give yourself the chance to respond differently.
The Inner Alchemy MethodNAME IT
Notice the pattern and find the area where it’s showing up.
TRACE IT
Explore the beliefs, fears and old rules underneath it.
ANSWER IT
Use practices and reflection to start responding differently.
Where is it showing up?
Inner Alchemy maps limiting beliefs across eight areas of life to give you a starting point for working out where they may be showing up most strongly, and what might be sitting underneath them.
These areas aren’t rigid categories. The same belief can show up in your relationships, your work, your finances, the way you see yourself, or several areas at once.
The point is not to fit every belief neatly into one box. It is to help you narrow down where to look first, so you can start getting closer to the beliefs that may be shaping your patterns.
You don’t need to work on everything at once.
There are 162 limiting beliefs mapped inside Inner Alchemy across eight areas of life. That’s useful for understanding the bigger picture. It’s probably less useful when you’re sitting there wondering where the hell you’re supposed to begin.
That’s what the quiz is for.
Your answers help narrow things down to the area of life where these beliefs seem to be showing up most strongly for you right now.
The quiz isn’t a psychological assessment. It won’t diagnose you, and it isn’t going to uncover the one secret belief responsible for everything that has ever gone wrong in your life. Instead, it gives you a direction and you can start exploring the limiting beliefs commonly connected to that area, notice which ones feel familiar, and begin looking at what may be sitting underneath the patterns you already know are there.
Free · 17 Questions · About 5 mins
The point isn’t just to find the belief.
Recognising a limiting belief is the starting point. The work is in understanding what keeps it believable.
Inner Alchemy guides you through looking at how a belief shows up in your life, where you may have learned it, what experiences have reinforced it, and whether it still makes sense for the life you’re living now.
From there, you can start questioning the old conclusion and practising a different way of responding.
Step 1: Notice the pattern
What keeps happening, and when?
Step 2: Find the belief underneath it
What would you have to believe for that reaction to make sense?
Step 3: Understand where it came from
What taught you to expect this?
Step 4: Question what still holds true
Does the belief fit your life now, or is it an old conclusion still doing its job?
Step 5: Practise something different
New beliefs become more useful when you have somewhere to actually use them
Self-guided doesn’t mean doing everything alone.
Inner Alchemy is reflective and educational work. It draws from psychological science alongside journaling, reflective practices and spirituality, while being clear about the difference between them.
A workbook can help you notice something, question something and practise responding differently. It cannot diagnose you, keep you safe in a dangerous situation or replace professional support when something needs more than self-guided work.
If doing the work becomes too heavy, make sure you talk to a support person or a mental health professional.
You don’t have to figure out all of your beliefs.
You just need somewhere to start.
Take the Inner Alchemy quiz to find the area of life where your limiting beliefs may be showing up most strongly right now, or explore the eight areas yourself if you already know where you want to begin.