Internal resistance to achieving health goals can stem from self-sabotage due to feeling undeserving of self-care, prioritizing others' needs, or fear of failure.

“If I'm standing in my own way, there's a reason. I really think that that I have so much to do and and and it's for other people and it means more than me. So, really I don't think I deserve the time and energy it would it would take. I'm not going to spend it on myself. Maybe that's why I don't go. Or maybe I don't go because I'm trying to protect myself, right? Because I'm worried the last couple times I tried it didn't go well and I felt worse. So, I don't even want to start. So, I'm standing in my own way because of fear of failure, right? There's a lot of reasons. There's many many many reasons we could be standing in our own way, but we're not our own enemy.”