How you internalize and process relapse will be a vital component for sustainable change.

New beginnings need reminders–a mantra, a bracelet, a sign, a song, something.

A release of people, habits, or things, is an intentional rerouting of your attention.

Traversing toward new habits is most difficult when you have to live through the voids your old habits left behind. Your old habits need a successor. Without a successor, relapse is both easy to understand and functional problem solving.

While new might be a move towards health and increased stability, newness carries less predictability than boarded up habits.

Experiencing a pattern of harm is a signal. It is your signal to consider change. It is looking for you attention. It is a persuader of change.

Less muscle memory and more thoughtful movement comes from considering your associations–what you group together.

This is why change is difficult. After a certain amount of practice, our thoughts are less connected to our actions. Our body finds and remains on autopilot.

Change requires anticipating the vigorous rapids of your current habits. There is an athletic force that keeps you doing what you are doing now, even if it is unhelpful.