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Mindful Habit Mastery was born from both success and profound failure.

Craig Perra climbed high as a hot-shot litigator and corporate executive. On paper, he had it all — a big career, a loving wife, two kids. But behind the curtain, he was falling apart. Addiction, destructive patterns, depression, and anxiety brought him to his knees. He hit rock bottom more than once, including a suicide attempt that landed him in a three-day inpatient facility.

For Craig, the very factors that fueled corporate success — grind harder, hide weakness, push through — nearly destroyed him. In his darkest moment, he realized something had to change. With Michelle by his side, he began searching for answers. He found the right help at the right time, but more importantly, he started seeing the problem differently.

The turning point came when Craig realized he didn’t need more willpower - he needed a system for life.

At work, everything ran on systems: departments, project plans, performance reviews, goals, and accountability. But in life? Nothing. No blueprint. No operating manual. Just willpower, shame, and white-knuckling it. After years of therapy and self-help that never stuck, Craig saw the missing piece: he didn’t need more motivation — he needed a system for life.

That realization was the spark. By merging his business training with everything he had learned in recovery, neuroscience, and counseling — and deepening his expertise as an IFS Level 2 Certified Practitioner — Craig created a framework for sustainable behavior change. That framework became the Mindful Habit® System. First, it saved Craig. Then it saved his marriage. And soon, it began transforming millions of lives across 30+ countries.

Over time, Craig recognized something powerful: the same tools that help men in crisis also equip executives, entrepreneurs, and high performers to thrive. Leaders face many of the same risks — burnout, poor coping strategies, broken systems, hidden vulnerabilities. The Mindful Habit® naturally evolved into a leadership model: Mindful Habit Mastery.

Out of that journey came three guiding principles - the foundation of Mindful Habit Mastery.

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The Three Pillars of Mindful Habit Mastery

The science-backed foundation of sustainable change — rooted in how the brain and body actually work. Because all behavior is need-seeking behavior, real transformation comes from meeting those needs consciously, through better systems and self-leadership.

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Pillar 1

Needs Drive Behavior

All behavior — good, bad, or destructive — is an attempt to meet a need. The problem isn’t the need; it’s the programming. You were conditioned — by trauma, culture, and repetition — to meet real needs in destructive ways. Transformation begins when you interrupt that programming and retrain your brain to meet those same needs consciously and constructively.

Pillar 2

Systems Create Freedom

You don’t rise to the level of your goals — you fall to the level of your systems. Change is hard because the brain resists uncertainty, so we build conscious systems for habits, emotions, and focus. These systems make the right behaviors automatic — giving you the structure that produces freedom.

Pillar 3

Self-Leadership Is the Ultimate Advantage

You can’t lead others until you learn to lead yourself — especially the parts of you that sabotage success. Self-leadership means aligning your actions with your values and needs, transforming internal conflict into clarity, power, and performance. It’s the ultimate competitive advantage.

Why Us

Real leadership begins with learning to lead yourself. The Mindful Habit System was born from our own journey of breaking destructive patterns and rebuilding what matters most — our marriage, our family, and our ability to perform at the highest level. Today, we help professionals and high performers do the same — creating stronger relationships, greater focus, and sustainable success that elevates every part of life, both at home and at work.

We don’t just teach this system — we live it.

Craig’s lowest points nearly ended our marriage. We had to rebuild from the ground up. By applying the Mindful Habit principles — self-leadership, resilience, and emotional intelligence — we rebuilt not just Craig, but our relationship and our family. Today, our marriage is stronger than ever.

For Michelle, the system was just as life-changing.

Supporting Craig through addiction while managing her own stress and needs forced her to lead herself first. The Mindful Habit gave her the tools to stop living in reaction, find her voice, and create peace in the middle of chaos.

That’s why this work

That’s why this work is bigger than recovery — it’s about life. It’s about giving high performers the tools to lead themselves in the boardroom, in the living room, and in their own minds.

What We’ve Learned

We began in one of the hardest places: helping men overcome sex and porn addiction. The Mindful Habit® created extraordinary results there, transforming lives, marriages, and families. But as Craig worked with leaders, CEOs, professional athletes, Hollywood executives, and even world-famous musicians, a pattern became clear: sex and porn were just a small part of the story.

The real work wasn’t about “fixing an addiction” — it was about self-leadership. The same tools that helped men stop destructive habits were helping high performers build resilience, increase capacity, and create extraordinary results. Executives weren’t just saving their marriages — they were becoming better leaders at work. They were building stronger teams, growing their businesses, even losing 100 pounds.

Because at the end of the day, sex, porn, alcohol, gambling, drugs, overeating, over-working, and doom scrolling — those are just symptoms. Different coping mechanisms for the same problem: unmet needs. The real issue is how we lead ourselves, how we meet stress, and how we build systems that empower us instead of sabotage us.

That’s when we realized: this isn’t just a recovery framework. It’s a leadership model. And when leaders apply it, the results ripple out into every part of their lives.