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Habits Without Shame: Celebrating Progress || H&K with Sandra Chuma

About Progress

Cloud10

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever fallen off a habit and spent more energy beating yourself up than getting back on track, this one's for you. Sandra Chuma breaks down why shame is one of the biggest blockers to real personal growth and development and why the path to lasting daily habits actually starts with self-compassion, not self-criticism. She makes a distinction that hit hard: there's a difference between being a failure and experiencing a failure. One crushes you. The other teaches you. If you're working on self improvement and wondering why you can't seem to stick with anything, the answer might not be discipline, it might be the way you're talking to yourself.  Listen to the full episode here: https://www.aboutprogress.com/blog/keys-to-creating-big-routines-by-starting-with-small-habits ⁠Preorder Sticky Habits ⁠book today! ⁠Leave a rating and review⁠ Get the free DSL Training. Follow About Progress on ⁠YOUTUBE⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is a hug and a kick, a series where I share a short excerpt from my extensive podcast archives, one carefully selected to give you the validation and or motivation you need for the weekend.

1:16.5

Okay. and or motivation you need for the weekend. The worst thing that you can do when it comes to habits, like you said, is habit shame,

1:22.1

that, oh, I'm trying to do this thing and I failed.

1:25.5

It's natural.

1:26.7

Failure is a part of creating the habits,

1:30.0

it's a part of helping it to become habit. Because our minds are, especially if you've

1:36.5

been doing things a certain way for a long time, our minds are creatures of habit. So they want to

1:43.0

go and keep doing the thing they've always done.

1:46.5

And also, as well, there's a thing that happens to us where when we start to be successful

1:51.6

with our habits, it's almost like this thing that says, but is that really you? But is that,

1:57.6

like, no, no, that can't be you. And we almost second second guess ourselves and so we almost self-sabotage

2:04.3

because we can't believe that we're actually being successful and so those are the things that

2:09.3

I really think that people need to be aware of is there is no point in beating yourself up it

2:15.7

really serves no purpose and I think one of the wonderful

2:18.8

things that I learned in habits coaching is the fact that we change from a place of feeling good

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