Why I Created Break the Repeat

If you are here, you've probably seen this: The goal that's always in the back of your mind.

I didn't choose that phrase because it sounded good.

I chose it because I kept hearing it. From clients. From friends. And, if I'm honest, from myself.

For years I thought the problem was discipline.

Or motivation.

Or finding the right system.

It turns out it wasn't.

My life looked pretty successful on paper.

I left my small hometown in northern Spain and moved to the U.S. on my own with a scholarship to study engineering. English was my third language, and I spent the next 17 years building a career, solving problems, and checking all the boxes I thought I was supposed to check.

And of course life interrupted. Several times: Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Ike. A second autoimmune disease.

I was told I would probably need medication for the rest of my life.

And something about that didn't sit right with me.

So I started researching, and researching, and researching.

The engineer in me wanted to understand.

That search completely changed how I looked at health, habits, and, life itself.

I think a lot of us underestimate what we can do when life throws us a curveball. We feel overwhelmed and wait until we have the right time or the motivation to move forward.

But when I look back, I realize that the big “interruptions” in my life weren’t solved with the perfect mindset or motivation. 

They got solved because I kept coming back.

Again and again.

That idea stayed with me.

Then I started coaching.

Different people and different goals.

One person wanted to start a business.

Another wanted to lose weight.

Another wanted to feel stronger.

On the surface, their goals had nothing in common.

But underneath, they were all describing the same experience.

Life got busy ➡️ They stopped ➡️ They blamed themselves ➡️ They tried to start over.

And the goal stayed in the back of their mind without progress.

That's when everything clicked.

The problem wasn't that they didn't know what to do.

The problem was that nobody had ever taught them how to come back after life interrupted them.

That's why I created Break the Repeat.

Not to teach another perfect routine or to help people become more productive.

And definitely not to convince anyone that life can be perfectly balanced.

I created it because life is always going to interrupt.

The question is whether one hard week turns into six months.

That's a skill we can learn.

More importantly, I think it's a skill we can practice together.

That's what this community is for.

If that sounds like something you've been looking for, I'd love for you to join us.

Sofia