Kati Morton, WHY DO I KEEP DOING THIS?: Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Leading health advocate and licensed marriage and family therapist Kati Morton joins Zibby to discuss her powerful new guide, WHY DO I KEEP DOING THIS?: Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy. Kati talks about people-pleasing, toxic empathy, the illusion of control, the emotional roots of our self-protective behaviors, and what real healing looks like. She also shares the deeply personal experiences that shaped her work and her journey to becoming a YouTube mental health educator.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Katie Morton is the author of Why Do I Keep Doing This, Unlearn the Habits, |
| 0:48.7 | keeping you stuck and unhappy. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, best-selling author, |
| 0:56.9 | and highly set-after speaker in the mental health field. |
| 1:04.8 | With a master's in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University, Katie has delivered impactful talks at prestigious events and platforms worldwide. |
| 1:11.8 | She has been at the forefront of the mental health movement since 2011, sharing powerful videos that demystify mental health and replace stigmas with understanding. |
| 1:13.8 | Her influential YouTube channel, with over 1.5 million subscribers and 130 million views, |
| 1:19.1 | has made her a prominent figure in translating complex mental health concepts into accessible language. |
| 1:24.4 | An accomplished author of two bestselling books, Are You Okay, a Guide to Caring |
| 1:28.4 | for Your Mental Health, and Traumatized, Identify, Understand, and Cope with PTSD and Emotional |
| 1:33.7 | Stress, Katie's dedication to dismantling barriers to mental health services and fostering a |
| 1:39.0 | supportive global community is unmatched. Welcome, Katie. Thanks so much for coming on Totally Booked to talk about |
| 1:45.4 | why do I keep doing this, unlearn the habits, keeping you stuck and unhappy. Congratulations. |
| 1:50.8 | Thank you. Such a pleasure to be here. You too. I feel like I should start out by saying, |
| 1:54.9 | like, you don't want to hear this. You're not going to want to hear this, but, you know, because you |
| 1:59.4 | start so many of your things, dispelling a myth that maybe we have in our heads about our behavior or our emotions |
| 2:06.8 | or whatever, and you just like shred it right away. Talk a little bit about the book |
| 2:13.3 | and about your whole mission of helping people in this way that you do. |
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