The phrase "habitual self" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a person's consistent behavior or actions that are done regularly or as a habit. Example: She was known for her punctuality and organization, it was part of her habitual self.
"I Want to Be a Sideman" seemed like a protest against the poor conditions of the jazz world but in the end was probably about habitual self-effacement.
He remained a legend you were surprised to find still alive, a fact he was not slow to comment on with his habitual self-irony.
"I thought it would be a good thing to do, because of my habitual self-loathing and the kind of unpleasantness I put myself through with my own thoughts.
The millionaire DJ and habitual self-publicist Chris Evans is to marry his girlfriend of less than four months, the pop singer Billie Piper, according to the tabloids yesterday.
(Later this season, the Lyric will present Hensel's Piano Trio in D Minor, a formidable, extravagantly gesturing work that seems almost a response to her brother's habitual self-containment).
Even in this late age of habitual self-exposure, the term "confessional" can still induce critical contempt, and Olds's work has often been held up as an example of the genre's more extreme disclosures.
There is the strategically and morally disastrous misconduct of the "war on terror," including authorized torture, defiantly unlawful domestic surveillance, and habitual, self-defeating contempt for allied opinion and international instruments.
I could hear my habitual self-judging the sights my road-trip self was embracing.
People who rely on habitual self-harm are sometimes psychiatrically hospitalised, based on their stability, their ability and especially their willingness to get help.
