Let me give you a different way to look at this week.

You are sitting there thinking "I fell off" or "I should have done more" or "I am back in the same place again."

But what if that is not actually true?

What if you are not going backwards... it just feels like you are?

Here is something I discovered on this journey that changed the way I see everything.

Most of us were taught to think about growth as a straight line. You start at the bottom, you work hard, you move up.

Progress is linear and if you end up feeling the same way you felt six months ago... that means you failed. That means nothing worked and it means you are back at square one.

That model is wrong and it has kept more people stuck than almost anything else I can think of.

Because growth does not move in a straight line.

It moves in a spiral.

Picture it like this.

You are on a path that winds upward, looping around a central point as it climbs. And as you move along that path, you keep passing the same landmarks, the same views, the same feeling and the same old thoughts showing up at your door like they never left.

And your brain looks at that and says, "See? Nothing changed. You are right back where you started."

But you are not at the bottom of the spiral anymore.

You are higher up on it.

Same landmark, different elevation. Same view, wider perspective. Same feeling... but now you have tools you did not have the last time you stood here.

Now you have awareness you did not have before. Now you can see what is actually happening instead of just drowning in it.

That is not failure. That is the spiral working exactly the way it is supposed to.

Old you? Would have stayed there without even realizing it. Would not have questioned it, would not have noticed it, would not have had the language to describe what was happening.

That version of you just called it life and kept moving through the fog.

But you?

You see it now. You feel it now. You are aware of it now.

And awareness at a higher level of the spiral looks different than awareness at the bottom. It hits different. It teaches differently. It shows you things you could not have seen the last time you came around to this place.

That is growth. Even when it feels like shit and even when it looks exactly like where you have been before.

This is one of the core things I work through with the people I coach helping them stop interpreting the spiral as failure and start reading it as information.

Because every time you come back around to a familiar feeling or a familiar pattern, there is something in it for you. Something you were not ready to see the last time. Something that only becomes visible now because of how far you have actually traveled.

The spiral is not bringing you back to punish you.

It is bringing you back to complete you.

So here is your reframe going into this week:

Stop asking "Why do I keep ending up back here?"

Start asking, "What am I being shown at this level that I could not see before?"

Sit with that question. Really sit with it. Because the answer is in there somewhere. And the moment you find it... you move. Not in a straight line. In a spiral. Upward, expanding, becoming more of who you have always been.

That is how this actually works.

And now you know.

PROUD OF YOU 💙

Walking with you,

Leasha