You downloaded the meditation app. You read the book. You told yourself the new routine starts Monday. And the same thoughts are waiting for you when you wake up.

That isn't a discipline problem, and it isn't proof that therapy won't work for you either. It usually means the work is somewhere else. In the boundaries that have gotten too soft or the standard you hold yourself to, or a nervous system that has been running at full volume for years and has forgotten another setting exists.

That's the work we do together, and it's the reason the change tends to to be lasting.