Sticky Habits: A Woman's Guide to Reclaim Happiness, Ditch Perfectionism, and Create Habits that Last - Hardcover

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MONICA PACKER is a writer, podcaster, and certified habits and identity coach who guides women to find sustainable growth by adopting progress over perfection. A recovering perfectionist herself, she hosts the About Progress podcast, a top-rated show with millions of downloads. Packer has served thousands of women through her online coaching practice, empowering them to find a gentler approach to personal improvement through habit formation strategies designed specifically for women’s lives. She is a former middle school English teacher and mother of five.

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"Sticky Habits is a much-needed correction to the ?try harder’ culture women have been handed for decades. With clarity, warmth, and rigor, Monica Packer shows why women must do habits differently, and how that shift can help them feel like themselves again."
―EVE RODSKY, bestselling author of Fair Play

"With gentle structure and realistic strategies, Sticky Habits helps you build supportive routines without shame or perfectionism."
―KC DAVIS, bestselling author of How to Keep House While Drowning

"Through vulnerable stories that instantly soften you, to helpful frameworks that seem to make life make more sense, this book is a salve for the overstretched soul."
―AMINA ALTAI, bestselling author of The Ambition Trap

"This book is a gift to women who feel like traditional habit frameworks have failed them. Sticky Habits shifts the focus from productivity and perfectionism to sustainable rhythms that honor real life, real limits, and real fulfillment."
―DIANE BODEN, host of the Minimalist Moms podcast

"Finally! A book about habits by a woman, for women! In Sticky Habits, Monica Packer offers compassionate, realistic guidance that honors the demands, rhythms, and unpredictability of womanhood and motherhood. Rather than pushing women toward perfection or endless optimization, Monica helps us build flexible, supportive habits rooted in self-trust and sustainability."
―RACHEL NIELSON, host of the 3 in 30 Takeaways for Moms podcast

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Traditional habit formation advice fails women because it ignores a fundamental truth: women’s lives are structured differently than men’s. Monica Packer, a certified habits and identity coach who has served thousands of women through her practice and millions more through her top-rated About Progress podcast, developed the Sticky Habit Method after discovering that mainstream approaches overlook the invisible labor and societal expectations that uniquely shape women’s daily realities.

Sticky Habits introduces a flexible, science-backed framework designed specifically for how women actually live. Rather than demanding rigid routines that crumble under the weight of caregiving, career demands, and emotional labor, the Sticky Habit Method adapts to life’s unpredictability. Through research-backed insights and heartfelt storytelling, Packer reveals why perfectionism sabotages progress and offers actionable strategies for building habits that stick.

This book combines cultural critique with practical application, examining the myth of gender-neutral habit formation while providing concrete solutions. Packer shares personal stories alongside evidence-based techniques that help women create supportive routines without guilt or burnout. The focus is not productivity for its own sake but building habits that honor identity, support joy, and foster genuine self-care while navigating the realities of modern womanhood.

Written for women who are recovering perfectionists, busy mothers, and professionals seeking sustainable personal development, Sticky Habits offers a new path forward. Whether navigating career demands, parenting responsibilities, or major life transitions, readers will find a gentler approach to improvement that acknowledges their intelligence, respects their time, and supports progress in ways that matter most to them.