Becoming Isn’t Linear
We tend to imagine growth as a straight line: once we have learned something, changed something, or moved through something, we should not have to meet it again. But becoming rarely works that way. Sometimes the return of an old question or familiar pattern does not mean we have gone backward. We may simply be encountering familiar ground from a different place in ourselves.
Why Changing Your Habits Isn’t Changing Your Life
We change our routines, make new promises, and begin again, only to discover that familiar patterns have followed us into the life we were trying to change. Perhaps the problem isn’t that we need more discipline. Perhaps lasting change begins when we become curious about what our old habits have been doing for us.