Hosted by Jehan Sattaur · EN · 22 episodes
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Are you tired of getting in your own way, repeating the same patterns, or feeling stuck despite your best efforts? Why You Self-Sabotage uncovers the hidden reasons behind self-sabotaging behaviors and shows you how to break free. Each episode explores how your nervous system, past experiences, and learned survival strategies shape your choices—and how understanding these patterns opens the door to healing, self-regulation, and lasting growth. You’ll discover practical strategies, mindset shifts, and tools grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and coaching to help you stop self-sabotaging, reclaim your confidence, and create the life you want. Whether you’re struggling with work, relationships, or personal goals, this series gives you the insight and action steps to move forward safely and sustainably.
Jehan Sattaur hosts Why You Self Sabotage, a education show with 22 episodes published.
Fear of success is a profound yet often overlooked form of self-sabotage, masquerading as procrastination, self-doubt, or sudden disinterest just when breakthroughs loom—because true achievement can threaten your identit
Perfectionism is one of the most pervasive and insidious forms of self-sabotage, masquerading as high standards while paralyzing action through the relentless demand that nothing is ever "good enough." It traps you in en
Procrastination is one of the most universal forms of self-sabotage, trapping you in a loop where tasks you care about remain undone—not because of laziness or poor time management, but because your nervous system percei
Episode 19: Secondary Gains: Why Your System Protects Old Patterns Secondary gains are the hidden benefits your nervous system receives from maintaining self-sabotaging patterns, making old habits feel paradoxically safe
Episode 18: Comfort Zone Rigidity and Resistance to Change Change feels threatening to your nervous system because it disrupts predictability, often triggering self-sabotage through procrastination, resistance, or retrea
Episode 17: Fear Patterns That Restrict Progress of Why You Self-Sabotage Fear represents one of the most powerful mechanisms in human neurobiology, functioning as a protective signal that, while evolutionarily adaptive,
Episode 16: Learned Helplessness and Pattern Entrainment Learned helplessness is a deeply entrenched form of self-sabotage where past experiences of uncontrollable stress or repeated failure train your nervous system to
Self-sabotage thrives in the gap between what you consciously want and what your subconscious believes is possible or safe. You might set goals for success, health, or deep connection, but if your deeper system holds bel
Episode 14: Sabotaging Financial and Professional Success Self-sabotage in money and career often feels like invisible barriers: you spot an opportunity—a raise, promotion, new client, or bold move—and something inside p
Episode 13: Self-Destructive Health and Habit Patterns Self-sabotage often shows up loudest in health and habit patterns. Overeating, skipping movement, staying up too late, or turning to addictive behaviors are rarely j
Episode 12: Toxic or Sabotaging Relationship Patterns of Why You Self-Sabotage (and How to Heal From It). Toxic or sabotaging relationship patterns are often less about “being bad at relationships” and more about your ne
Episode 11: Impulse Behaviors and Emotional Reactivity of Why You Self-Sabotage (and How to Heal From It). Self-sabotage does not always look slow or subtle. Sometimes it looks like a sudden choice, a sharp reaction, or
Episode 10: Over-Commitment and Busyness as Avoidance of Why You Self-Sabotage (and How to Heal From It). Over-commitment and constant busyness can look productive from the outside while quietly pulling you away from the
Episode 9: Avoidance Through Distraction and Escape Avoidance through distraction is one of the most common, and most socially accepted, forms of self-sabotage. It often feels harmless—even comforting—to scroll, binge, o
Episode 8: Imposter Syndrome – Self-Doubt at High Achievement of Why You Self-Sabotage (and How to Heal From It). Imposter syndrome can be one of the most disorienting forms of self-sabotage because it often appears at t
Episode 7: Low Self-Esteem and Core Beliefs of Unworthiness Low self-esteem quietly shapes how you show up in your life, often long before you consciously label it. When a core belief like “I’m not enough” or “I don’t de
Episode 6: Fear of Failure vs Fear of Success Fear can keep you from moving forward in more than one way. It is not only the fear of failing that leads to self-sabotage; sometimes, what feels just as threatening to the n
Episode 5: Negative Self-Talk and Self-Criticism of Why You Self-Sabotage (and How to Heal From It). Negative self-talk is one of the most persistent and exhausting forms of self-sabotage, and for many people it has been
Episode 4: Perfectionism and Impossibly High Standards Perfectionism isn't excellence—it's self-sabotage in disguise. This episode reveals why impossibly high standards keep you stuck at the starting line, how perfection
I n Episode 3 of Why You Self-Sabotage (and How to Heal From It), we explore the deeper psychology behind procrastination and avoidance. You’ll learn how trauma, early conditioning, and subconscious patterning can wire t
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Why You Self Sabotage is hosted by Jehan Sattaur. The show is categorised under education (self improvement) and has published 22 episodes.
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