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How to Stop Sabotaging Your Progress & The Secret to Lasting Change - With Gabby Bernstein

Author
Shawn Stevenson
Published
Mon 08 Sep 2025
Episode Link
https://themodelhealthshow.libsyn.com/how-to-stop-sabotaging-your-progress-the-secret-to-lasting-change-with-gabby-bernstein

Whether you want to get fitter, improve your relationships, or advance in your career, it all starts with mindset. And if you want to unlock your full potential, you’ll have to identify and eliminate self-sabotaging, negative patterns. That’s exactly what you’re going to learn on today’s show. On this episode of The Model Health Show, our guest is #1 New York Times bestselling author, Gabby Bernstein. She’s here to share the transformative work from her books, including how to overcome the self-sabotage that’s stopping you from reaching your goals. This episode contains conversations on understanding yourself better so you can create the life you desire. You’re going to learn about true inner work and what it entails, how your past can inform the way you behave today, and how to compassionately connect with yourself. Gabby is bringing so much value to this interview, and I hope this conversation resonates with you. Enjoy!  

In this episode you’ll discover: 

  • The truth about self-sabotage. (9:14)

  • What the different types of protection mechanisms are. (10:28)

  • How childhood trauma can manifest into a state of protection. (12:53)

  • What being happy actually is. (15:25)

  • Why Gabby called her newest book Self Help. (15:34)

  • What fear is a sign of. (17:21)

  • The four steps of a self-help practice. (20:28)

  • What the greatest gift you can offer yourself is. (21:23)

  • Why doing inner work can help you create the life you want. (28:04)

  • What synchronicity is and why it happens. (31:30)

  • The four questions Gabby asks herself every morning. (43:17)

  • How to control your experience of your experience. (45:42)

  • The importance of training mentally. (46:58)

  • How to handle failure. (51:54)

  • Why curiosity is a compassionate response to yourself. (53:53)

  • A conversation on AI. (58:01) 

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