It is interesting how skills meant to support growth can also become a way of staying where things feel familiar. Many people get very good at soothing discomfort without asking what the discomfort is pointing toward. Learning to stay with uncertainty while still moving forward is a different kind of practice altogether.
Thanks for your comment, Nicole! We’re so wired to avoid change, even though we know it’s the only constant. It’s fascinating what we sometimes do to stay where we are instead of allowing growth…
It is interesting how skills meant to support growth can also become a way of staying where things feel familiar. Many people get very good at soothing discomfort without asking what the discomfort is pointing toward. Learning to stay with uncertainty while still moving forward is a different kind of practice altogether.
Yeah, the familiar becomes its own kind of cage.
Thanks for your comment, Nicole! We’re so wired to avoid change, even though we know it’s the only constant. It’s fascinating what we sometimes do to stay where we are instead of allowing growth…
Yeah, the part where we keep choosing the familiar is the hardest to see in ourselves.