01/09/2026
What familiar discomfort do you keep choosing, simply because it feels known?
Sometimes we don’t repeat patterns because they’re good for us.
We repeat them because they’re familiar.
Predictable.
Safer than the unknown.
The mind often prefers a pain it understands
over a peace it hasn’t learned to trust yet.
Noticing the pattern is not failure.
It’s awareness.
And awareness is the first moment where choice becomes possible.
You don’t have to judge yourself for surviving the only way you knew how.
But you can gently ask:
Is this still protecting me… or just keeping me stuck?
Sit with that question.
Let it meet you honestly.