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Pattern Reflection

by Dr. Tonya Caylor
Jun 08, 2025

This week, I invite you to reflect on what patterns you observe in yourself - concerning anything - relationships, lifestyle, planning, mindsets, etc.

You likely have some very helpful adaptive patterns and some that may be, well, less supportive of the life you want to live.

There is great news here, specifically for the latter!

Once you recognize a pattern you'd like to change, you can now look at areas within the pattern to interrupt it. It's like the asthma treatments - we interrupt the natural progression at various points in the pathophysiologic pathway.

Spend a couple of minutes designing your best plans for disrupting the pattern in a way that makes sense to experiment with first. Try one thing at a time. Find out your best way of changing old patterns that no longer serve you.

Would love to hear what you discover.

 

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