Why Do I Keep Doing This? The Real Reason Habits Stick—and How to Finally Change Them, with Kati Morton | E503

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby · Feb 9, 2026 · 56m

There is a particular kind of frustration that comes from knowing yourself well enough to recognize a pattern, and still feeling unable to stop it. You understand what you are doing. You may even understand why. And yet the behavior keeps showing up anyway. In this conversation, I’m sitting down with licensed marriage and family therapist and mental health educator Kati Morton to talk about why habits that no longer serve us can be so hard to change. Not because we lack insight or discipline, but because many of these patterns began as emotional coping habits. At one point, they helped us…