Nicole LePera

It cuts right through the uncertainty that we struggle to tolerate because when there's uncertainty, when we don't know what's going to happen next.

our body will naturally feel stress and our nervous system will activate.

So to avoid that, we become a prediction machine, right?

We kind of know how to be, to feel, to predict what happens next, even if it's not the reality.

And this is all driven by our nervous system.

So very counterintuitively and often with a lot of frustration,

Even a healthier habit, so we can both probably agree, I don't need to be perfect.

I can just be good just how I am.

I can say that logically, but the second I try to accept imperfection, a mistake, I try to show someone my messiness, my nervous system isn't going to know what happens next.

So now my body feels stressed even by a somewhat healthy, so to speak, decision.

And these are the moments why, and I often get asked, we often fall back into old habits.

It's not a light switch.

We don't come to an awareness logically.

We can all acknowledge all the habits that would be better serving.

We're now talking about going against what our body has become used to.

And any step outside of that familiar pattern works.

will create stress in the body.

And then going back to kind of where we began, if we don't have the resources to tolerate stress in our body, as very few of us have that emotional resilience, we're going to go right back into those old habits sooner rather than later.

Stress is what has allowed us to evolve, to experience the environment.

Environments are stressful to different degrees, in my opinion.