The Healing Power of Repitition

Have you ever felt like you were back where you started?

Maybe an old pattern showed up again.
Or you had the same conversation for the third time.
Or you found yourself repeating a lesson you thought you’d already learned.

It’s frustrating, isn’t it?
We like to think of healing or growth as a straight line — forward, upward, onward.
But the truth is, it’s not linear. It’s spiral-shaped…

As Adam Grant puts it, growth isn’t linear — it’s spiral-shaped. We come back to the same ideas again and again, but each time with more wisdom and perspective.

This is encouraging and normalizing, because when you come back to the same themes, the same wounds, the same questions — you’re not in the same place. You are very often engaging these things from a different version of ‘you.’

You’re coming back with more awareness. More support. More gentleness. And each time you do, you go a little deeper. You gain a little more freedom. This is what healing actually looks like.

Think of it like “sacred repetition.”
It’s not failure. It’s integration.
It’s your nervous system checking in: “Is it safe to feel this now?”
It’s your creativity whispering: “Let’s return to that thing — we’re ready to see it differently.”

If you’re in a season of repetition, here’s what I want you to know:

• You’re not broken.

• You’re not regressing.

• You’re doing the real, gritty, sacred work of becoming.

There is no shame in circling back.
There is only the quiet invitation to meet yourself with more kindness this time around.

A question for you this week:

What’s something you thought you “should be past by now” — and what if it’s just asking to be seen with new eyes?

“We are not going in circles; we are going upwards.

The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
— Hermann Hesse