Emily McDonald

And that kind of happens, right?

Like the brain, the predictive processing, like the brain loves predictability.

The brain loves predictability that feels safe to us.

That's why a lot of times we'd rather stay in the kind of like uncomfortable, you know, predictable pain rather than move out into the unknown.

Even when the unknown could allow us to grow into a better version of ourselves, a lot of people will stay stuck where they are because the predictable pain

feels better even if it isn't necessarily what we want.

And so the brain loves predictability.

And so creating that predictability for ourselves and our brains, like in our own nervous systems, that's regulating as well.

And so, and a lot of people hear discipline and they think rigidity and structure.

And look, I have ADHD.

Like I, I, I like...

immediately, I'm like, I don't know about that.

I'm not like a super structured person.

But I also know that if I have zero structure, I'm a cookie crumbled on the floor.

Like I am all over the place and I am falling apart.

I know for a fact that when I am on my morning routine and I do my three morning M's, which are my three M's, which I think routine is so important.

It's important for identity stabilization, right?

So we say we want to be someone, the brain doesn't just listen to

Our thoughts or our affirmations listens to who we're being, right?

It listens to our actions.