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It’s Not Your Subconscious That’s Broken - It’s the System You’ve Been Sold
- Sarah Malone
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
You’ve likely been told that healing starts in your subconscious.
Change your thoughts.
Say the affirmations.
Rewire your beliefs
And boom, you’re free...
But here’s the thing no one’s telling you…
Your subconscious isn’t where the root of the problem lives.
It’s just the middleman. What’s really running the show - the patterns, the sabotage, the shutdowns - is happening deeper, in your unconscious.
Let’s get clear: what’s the difference?
Your subconscious is like the operating system of your day-to-day patterns:
Habits.
Learned responses.
Emotional memory.
But your unconscious? That’s the underworld. That’s where the real drivers sit:
Primal fears
Identity-level wounds
Repressed memories
Ancestral beliefs
Archetypes you didn’t even know you were playing out
It’s the part of you that doesn’t respond to logic or journaling prompts, because it’s older than language.
It’s energetic.
It’s emotional.
It’s instinctual.
This is why the same wound keeps showing up, even though you’ve done “the work.”
Because the work you’ve been taught? Barely touches the roots.
The myth of subconscious healing
We’ve been sold a simplified model:
“Your subconscious runs 95% of your life - just rewire it and you'll be healed.”
But here’s the truth, backed by Jungian psychology and modern neuroscience:
Up to 10 seconds before you make a conscious decision, your brain has already made it unconsciously.
That means…You’re reacting before your thoughts even catch up.
Carl Jung didn’t just talk about the subconscious. He mapped the psyche into:
The ego (what you think you are)
The personal unconscious (repressed emotions, wounded identities)
The collective unconscious (archetypes, inherited patterns)
And he made it crystal clear:
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Sound familiar?
Why you keep looping
You say the affirmations.
You understand your patterns.
You journal your ass off.
And still, you find yourself back in the same spiral.
Because the subconscious doesn’t hold the original imprint. It holds the repeated version of the story.
The unconscious holds the root cause.
That inner child fear.
That generational script.
That trauma you couldn’t name, so you buried it in your bones.
What actually heals?
This is where my work begins - at the unconscious level. We don’t just reframe thoughts. We decode the energetic blueprint that created the thought in the first place.
That’s the Core Belief Decoding® method.
We track the feeling, the frequency, and the identity loop.
We shift the nervous system response.
We reclaim power from the parts of you that learned to survive by splitting off or playing small.
Because affirmations don’t land when your body is bracing.
And journaling doesn’t heal what you’ve been trained to avoid.
Try this instead
Start here:
Feel, don’t fix. Drop out of your head and into your body.
Ask: “What am I protecting myself from right now?”
Notice the energy pattern: Is it collapse? Rage? Disconnection?
Name the role: Is it the Good Girl? The Rebel? The Rescuer?
Hold space. Not to fix it — but to feel it safely.
This is what real rewiring looks like: Bringing presence and power to the parts of you that have never had either.
If you’ve felt like you’re doing everything “right” and still feel stuck, you’re not broken. You’re not behind. You’re just being called into deeper work.
Healing doesn’t happen at the level of thought. It happens when you stop outsourcing your power to the subconscious…and start reclaiming it from the unconscious.
This is where your transformation lives.
Want to experience this for yourself? I created a free guide called “The 4-Layer Healing Map” that shows you how to shift from surface-level tools to deep unconscious decoding.
DM me “UNLEASH” and I’ll send it straight to your inbox.
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