How Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Helps Break the Cycle of Habitual Relapse

A woman practicing mindfulness meditation outdoors, illustrating how Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) helps break the cycle of habitual relapse, reduce cravings, and build long-term emotional resilience.

Returning to an addictive or maladaptive behavior after taking a break from it can make someone feel like they’ve failed themselves or disappointed their loved ones. And when someone else relapses, we often think, in that judgmental way humans have of each other, that the person obviously wasn’t ready to change or didn’t have the … Read more