How to Break Away from the Limiting Beliefs Holding You Back with Janese Recolan
By Miri Lenoff
·June 15, 2026
You have a belief that you are not good with money. Or that relationships always end badly for you. Or that people like you do not achieve things like that. These beliefs feel like facts. They are not.
Janese Recolan has built her coaching practice around helping people identify, examine, and replace the limiting beliefs that are quietly shaping every area of their lives.
Where Limiting Beliefs Actually Come From
Most limiting beliefs were not chosen. They were absorbed. From families, from culture, from early experiences, from things that were said to you or about you before you had the tools to evaluate them.
A child who hears that money is the root of all evil grows up with a complicated relationship with financial success. A person who watched their parents struggle in relationships learns that love is difficult. Someone told repeatedly that they are not smart enough eventually stops trying.
The belief gets installed without consent. It runs in the background, shaping behavior and outcomes in ways you might never consciously connect back to the original source.
The Four Core Areas Where Limitations Show Up
Janese maps limiting beliefs across four areas of life that they tend to affect most consistently: relationships, career, money, and health.
In relationships, limiting beliefs might look like believing you are not lovable, that conflict always means the end, or that you have to earn love through performance.
In career, they show up as believing your ceiling is lower than it is, that you do not deserve more, or that success is for other kinds of people.
Around money, they often involve deep beliefs about scarcity, about whether you deserve abundance, or about what having money says about who you are.
In health, they connect to self-worth, to whether you believe your body deserves care, and to whether you see yourself as someone capable of change.
Recognizing which area is most affected is the beginning of targeted work.
The Process of Breaking Free
Janese outlines a four-step process. First, stop and breathe. When you encounter a situation that triggers the limiting belief, interrupt the automatic response before it runs to completion.
Second, commit to change. Make a deliberate decision to move past this limitation. Not a vague wish but an actual choice.
Third, envision your desired reality. What does life look and feel like once this belief is no longer running the show? Specificity matters here. The more vivid the alternative, the more compelling it is.
Fourth, act with intention. Begin moving in the direction of the envisioned reality, even in small ways. The action changes the experience, which changes the belief.
Watch the full conversation with Janese Recolan on the Known Success Coaches Spotlight.