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Stop Waiting for the Perfect Monday: Sticky Habits for ADHD Moms with Monica Packer

Jessica Lynn Lewis | The ADHD Mom

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What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

You know what habit you want. You just keep waiting for the right conditions to start it. Monday. After the holidays. When things calm down. When you finally feel ready.

Monica Packer is a recovering perfectionist, certified habits and identity coach, and host of the top-rated podcast About Progress. She is also a mom of five currently managing a gas leak, a dying car, and three-hour play rehearsals five nights a week... and somehow, her habits are holding.

In this episode:

The quick win: before deciding what habit you want, identify the time of day you need more support and name how you want to feel during that time; the feeling points you to the right habit.

Why the self-help world's approach to habits was designed to make you fail and what consistency actually means.

The Do Something List: a yearly practice that has nothing to do with goals and everything to do with remembering who you are.

Why bad habits are helpers in disguise, and why shaming yourself out of them does not work.

The baseline habit: how to design your habits to flex with your season instead of collapse under it.

Monica's book Sticky Habits: A Woman's Guide to Reclaim Happiness, Ditch Perfectionism, and Create Habits That Last is publishing Fall 2026. This episode is the practical companion to everything she teaches.

Find Monica at aboutprogress.com and pre-order Sticky Habits at stickyhabitsbook.com.

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Quick Wins for ADHD Moms is a podcast for smart, high-functioning moms with ADHD who are tired of systems that don't work. Practical resets for ADHD burnout, mental overload, and everyday mom life. Find every episode at theADHDmom.com.