Summarise What Your Relationship With a Habit Is Actually Telling You

The habit keeps returning because it is doing something. Willpower is not the problem, or willpower would have solved it by now. This finds what function the habit is serving, whether it filled a gap or has always been a default, what your track record of trying to change it says about how much you actually want to, and one honest question before deciding whether change is what you want.

Summarise what my relationship with the habit described below is actually telling me.

For the habit and pattern:
1. What function the habit is serving: what it is providing or managing (stress, boredom, avoidance, comfort, reward, identity)
2. Whether the habit is filling a gap that something else used to fill, or has always been a default
3. What my repeated attempts to change it (or lack of attempts) suggest about how much I actually want to change it
4. One honest question to sit with before deciding whether to change it

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[describe the habit, how long you have had it, how you feel about it, and what has happened when you have tried to change it or thought about changing it]
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