Breaking a streak isn’t the problem. Treating it as permission to quit is.

A missed day is a missed day, and the numbers barely notice. What does the damage is the story that follows it, the one where the streak was the point and now that it is gone there is nothing left to protect. That story turns one skipped session into three weeks off. The break is small; the interpretation is what costs you.

When you miss, make the next one non negotiable and unimpressive. Ten minutes counts. The goal is not to repair the streak, it is to stay somebody who does the thing.