The Empowerment Series at FUELhouse Presents:

Agency Over Avoidance: A Habit Loop Approach

Reclaiming agency through understanding how your brain builds habits. 🧠

📅 Event Details

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
🕕 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
📍 Yoga Room at FUELhouse
4027 Leary Way NW, Seattle, WA

💛 Free and open to members and non members
⚠️ Registration Required (limited spots available)

At FUELhouse, we talk often about consistency — not as perfection, but as the ability to return. To begin again. To follow through in small, meaningful ways.

But what happens when avoidance keeps getting in the way?

This month’s Empowerment Series explores the habit loop and what your brain is actually doing when you avoid the things you care about. Instead of focusing on willpower or discipline, we will look at how habits form — and why avoidance is often a very effective, but ultimately unhelpful, loop.

Avoidance is not a character flaw.
It is often a learned and reinforced pattern. 🔁

When we understand the loop, we can begin to change it.

✨ What You Will Experience

This interactive workshop is reflective, practical, and discussion based — not a lecture.

Together, we will:

• Explore how habit loops shape automatic behavior
• Examine what your brain is doing when avoidance shows up
• Understand why avoidance can feel relieving in the short term
• Identify personal patterns with curiosity instead of judgment
• Walk away with one small, practical tool to make starting easier

This talk is neurodivergent friendly and designed to help you work with your brain, not against it. 🤝

You will leave with greater clarity around your own patterns and a deeper sense of agency over the habits that shape your consistency — in training and in life.

💡 Why This Matters

Consistency is rarely about trying harder.

It is about understanding the system underneath your behavior.

When we move away from shame and toward awareness, we reclaim agency. Instead of labeling ourselves as unmotivated or undisciplined, we begin to see behavior as part of a loop that can be redesigned.

Agency over avoidance.
Choice over autopilot.
Progress that feels aligned, not forced.

That awareness creates autonomy.
And autonomy creates change. 💛

👤 About the Workshop Leader

Frances Coppa is an ADHD coach who specializes in habit formation, executive function, and the emotional drivers behind avoidance. Her work focuses on helping individuals better understand their patterns so they can build sustainable strategies that align with how their brains actually operate.

While Frances brings deep experience working with ADHD, this workshop is designed for anyone who wants to better understand their habits and build more sustainable consistency.

We hope you will join us for an evening of insight, reflection, and meaningful conversation.

Strength is not just what you lift.
It is the agency you reclaim. ✨

Coach Hay and Team FUELhouse 💛

Meet the event leaders

Frances Coppa

Frances Coppa is a Certified ADHD and Executive Function Coach based in Seattle who helps individuals build awareness, develop practical strategies, and navigate behavior patterns with greater agency and confidence. With a background in education and coaching, Frances supports adults, teens, and parents in identifying patterns that hold them back and finding ways to move forward with more consistency and self-understanding. Her approach is collaborative, grounded in connection, and focused on helping people feel more empowered in their daily habits and goals.