Welcome to About Progress, I'm Monica Packer, a regular mom and recovering perfectionist

who uncovered the truest model to dramatic, belasting personal growth.

Its progress made practical. Join us to leave the extremes behind and instead learn how to do

something to grow in ways that stick. My primary mission with this podcast is to change the world

by changing women. And really that's helping women change in the ways they want to,

habit formation included. But I often see that women are set up to fail with habit formation

methods we've been given and taught and modeled our whole lives. If you want to learn the number

one reason why women must do habits differently, sign up for my free class of the same name at

about progress.com slash habit class. I have this really clear picture in my mind of a client

that I was working with very early on in my coaching career. And I can't remember the specifics

exactly of what we were talking about, but I do remember her face and her whole body really

expressing this deep sadness and disappointment over something she was chalking up to her own

ineptness. And I also remember her saying, I think I'm just broken.

This moment is so clear for me because it was the first of many I've had with women over the years

who are similarly convinced that they are not just broken, but especially broken, meaning

unusually irrepably broken. This moment is so clear also because I too for years

thought that I was especially broken. And I have felt that way with recovering with

eating disorders with when honestly there was no recovering happening. I have felt that way

with major issues within my marriage and parenting. And even to some regular small issues,

I have and hopefully you do too, like maybe being the world's worst texture.

Now my answer to this first client has been the same for the many that have followed

who have expressed similar sentiment. And it's been just as true for them as it has been for me

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