10/16/2025
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to practice frustration, anger, or disappointment.🙂↔️
That’s what made me pause recently. I noticed I kept going to talk about something that brought me no joy 😂
And I thought, why on earth do I keep wanting to revisit this? Especially when I know what we repeat, we practice. And what we practice, we become.🔄
I’ve watched this play out in high school, in corporate…people (myself included) rehashing what’s wrong, not once or twice, but with multiple people, multiple times.
It’s not that we enjoy it, it’s that our 🧠 brains crave familiarity, connection, and control, even when the story itself doesn’t feel good.
👉🏼Understanding Human Needs Psychology also helps explain this. The first 4 needs are the needs of our personality and here’s how they play out with talking about problems.
🧠 Certainty: Talking about what’s wrong gives the brain something to hold onto. It creates predictability and a sense of control when things feel uncertain.
🎢 Variety: Even negative drama can meet the need for stimulation. It adds energy, emotion, and intensity when life feels flat or routine.
💞 Connection: Sharing pain builds bonds. When we vent, we often get empathy, attention, and closeness…even if it keeps us stuck in the same story.
⭐️ Significance: The need to feel important and sometimes, having “big” problems or talking about them meets that need. “Look at everything that’s going on with me.”
Once you see this, it changes how you relate to the urge to vent.
You can meet those needs in healthier ways, without reliving what you no longer want to practice.
Kirstin xx