Breaking a bad habit can feel like swimming against a current. You know it isn’t serving you, but your brain defaults to it anyway.
A bad habit is a learned behavior that’s performed automatically in response to a cue; it offers quick reward, but conflicts with long-term goals such as weight loss or career aspirations.
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As Melissa Gallagher, LCSW, the executive director at Victory Bay, a behavioral health treatment center in Clementon, New Jersey, explains: “Habits are hard to break because they are stored in the basal ganglia, the brain’s automatic pilot that doesn’t require conscious thought to operate.” That’s why asking pure willpower…
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