Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Bethany Cook, PsyD, MT-BC, is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of For What It’s Worth: A Perspective on How to ...

To achieve your health and fitness goals, it's just as important to break unhealthy habits as it is to build healthy ones. We all have bad habits. Maybe you can’t seem to stop snacking, or you spend ...

Bad habits aren’t a reflection of weakness, they’re a reflection of deep cognitive blocks which need more than just willpower to be broken. Have you ever resolved to quit a bad habit, only to find ...

Breaking your habits down into these fundamental categories can help you understand what a habit is, how it works, and how you can break it. This is known as the habit loop. Primarily, a cue is ...

When the bad habit’s trigger repeats, it can quickly reignite the old behavior. This is the greatest weakness in this particular method. Often, when an old pattern or behavior recurs, when you slip ...