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10th Jul 2025

159. The REAL Reason You Keep Avoiding That One Thing: 5 Min Journal Prompts for Self-Sabotage

There's ONE thing you've been putting off for weeks... months... maybe even years, right? The important action that would move your life forward, but somehow you keep finding reasons not to do it?

In today's 5-minute journaling session, I'm getting vulnerable about my own 3.5-year avoidance story and sharing the exact prompts that finally helped me break through the self-sabotage and take action.

Whether you're avoiding a difficult conversation🗣️ , postponing a career move 👩‍💻, or procrastinating on something that would improve your life 👭- this episode will help you understand what's REALLY keeping you stuck and give you a clear path forward.

What You'll Discover:

✨ My personal story of avoiding child support paperwork for 3.5 years (and what finally shifted)

✨ The difference between frustrating self-sabotage & sneaky self-sabotage

✨ Why your procrastination might actually feel "safe" and protective

✨ 3 powerful journal prompts to identify what's blocking you and create a breakthrough

✨ How to separate your needs from someone else's struggles (game-changer!)

Perfect For:

  • Ambitious women who know what they need to do but keep putting it off
  • Anyone stuck in analysis paralysis or perfectionism
  • Moms who struggle with people-pleasing and avoiding difficult decisions
  • Anyone ready to stop letting self-sabotage run their life

Ready to Go Deeper?

  • If these prompts resonated and you're ready for personalized support breaking through your unique sabotage patterns, I'd love to work with you in my Peace & Confidence Collective or through 1:1 coaching. Visit samanthapenkoff.com/working-together to learn more about getting the clarity and courage to finally take that action you've been avoiding.
  • Download the free Calm Mind Blueprint to start the 5 day experience of going from overwhelm to inner peace. Click here to download & start!

Connect with me:

📧 Weekly newsletter: www.samanthapenkoff.com/prompts

📱 Instagram: @samantha.s.says

🎧 Subscribe/Follow for more 5-minute journaling sessions every Thursday

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Beyond Awareness: Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
Beyond Awareness (formerly Journal Entries) is for successful women in leadership and business who know exactly what they need to do but can't make themselves do it.

You know you need to prioritize yourself, delegate more, set boundaries, stop bringing work home. You've tried therapy, coaching, retreats. You know the solution - but you either can't follow through, or when you DO, it doesn't stick.

Host Samantha Hawley helps business owners and executives earning $100k+ excavate the root beliefs underneath the execution gap. Why do you keep not doing the thing? Why doesn't it feel better when you do? Using strategic journaling and emotional excavation, we go beyond awareness into why you're actually stuck in the pattern.

This isn't about more tactics or tips. This is about understanding why awareness isn't enough and what actually needs to shift for you to change.

You'll hear about: decision fatigue, why you can't prioritize yourself, nervous system regulation, being present with your kids, root cause of overwhelm, why boundaries don't stick, self-sabotage patterns, and how your internal state impacts everything.

Perfect for: Female CFOs, VPs, directors, executives, business owners, and women in leadership who are tired of knowing what's wrong but not being able to change it.
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