"Act your way into change, not think your way Drawing from her clinical practice, Dr. LePera identifies why most people stall despite years of therapy or self-help: 'our nervous system doesn't learn by insight alone.' The stumbling block is almost never a lack of awareness — people 'can tell the story of why we're so dysfunctional' — but the failure to take new action consistently enough. She explains it is truly about 'learning how to cope with the discomfort of doing something new and then doing that consistently enough so that we've quite literally created a new pattern for ourselves.' This means journaling about your patterns is not enough; you must behave differently in the triggering moment itself. Source: Dr. Nicole LePera, MindBody Green Podcast, Dr. Nicole LePera on Reparenting Yourself"