The Two Seed Stories Beneath Every Story

🌀 Discover the root beliefs that shape all human narratives — and begin to choose a new one.

So Many Stories, Only Two Roots

I started coaching in 2016 when I arrived in Los Angeles, after a decade of teaching yoga, it seemed like a natural evolution. Since then I’ve worked with hundreds of people — maybe thousands by now. And though each person comes with a different story, a different surface problem to solve — money, love, health, purpose, family —I’ve come to see something else beneath it all: the seed stories that repeat themselves in everyone I meet.

“Beneath every struggle I’ve witnessed, lie only two root stories:
I don’t feel safe. I don’t feel worthy.”

Strip everything else away, and these are the roots of all difficulties, the two “seed stories”.

© Philippe Lopez

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From Seeing Traits to Seeing Truth

In my early years of coaching, I made it a point to remember every client’s name, faces and life story. I thought that’s what connection meant. But as time passed, and the number of client increased, it became impossible. The stories blurred. The names faded. At first, I felt guilty, like I was losing touch. But in truth, something else was happening, something magical:

“When the personal dissolved, the universal appeared — I stopped seeing the differences and started seeing the essence.”

I was no longer seeing the many — I was beginning to see the One, the divine essence behind each person.