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Why Never Again Happened Again

  • May 12, 2025
  • 3 min read

Updated: May 13, 2025

Ramona Robinson, founder of RoRa Hypnosis, blends personal resilience with professional expertise, guiding individuals on transformative paths. Drawing from diverse life experiences, including triumphs over cancer, she helps them rediscover the joy and vitality of life, reclaiming strength with newfound resilience and hope.

Executive Contributor Ramona Robinson

Well, damn. It happened again. You promised yourself it wouldn’t, yet here you are. Caught in the same cycle you swore you’d break. It’s exhausting. Disheartening. Familiar in a way you wish it weren’t.


A woman sits with her head in her hand, appearing overwhelmed or distressed, next to a green houseplant.

But this pattern isn’t random. There’s a deeper reason you keep ending up here. Beneath the surface, your subconscious is calling the shots. It’s repeating what’s known, what feels safe, even when it hurts.


Let’s explore why this keeps happening:

 

1. Your subconscious is still programmed to recreate the same situations


The subconscious mind runs on repetition. It clings to the familiar, even when the familiar is painful. Until you rewire the pattern, it will keep guiding you into the same situations with different faces, different settings, but the same emotional core.


Wanting change isn’t enough. You have to teach your system a new familiar.

 

2. A deeper emotional or underlying issue hasn’t been resolved


Most recurring struggles are symptoms of something deeper. Maybe a wound you learned to bury. Maybe a belief you absorbed without even realizing. If something inside still feels unworthy, unsafe, or unseen, that part of you will continue to steer the wheel.


Until the root is acknowledged and healed, the pattern will return again and again.

 

3. You’re gaining something by keeping things as they are


Some patterns stick around because they serve a purpose, even if that purpose is hidden. Maybe being unwell brings the kind of tenderness or care you don’t receive otherwise. Maybe the struggle keeps you connected to certain people or a version of yourself you’re afraid to outgrow.


If a problem is protecting you or offering an emotional payoff, even unconsciously, your system will hesitate to let it go. Sometimes, the pain itself becomes a source of connection.

 

4. You’re not sure who you’ll be if things change


Change doesn’t just shift your circumstances. It can call your whole identity into question. When your sense of self is built around surviving, imagining life beyond it can feel disorienting, almost like betrayal.


As if healing means leaving behind the version of you that carried you this far.


You’re not just changing habits. You’re stepping into someone you’ve never fully met. That kind of transformation, even when you want it deeply, can feel threatening.

 

5. The idea of changing seems scarier than staying the same


Even when the cycle hurts, it’s predictable. You know how to survive it.


Change asks you to walk into the unknown. That’s terrifying for the part of you that just wants to feel safe.


The mind often chooses the pain it understands over the freedom it can’t yet trust. But freedom can become familiar too.

 

The path forward


This is about becoming conscious of what’s really going on underneath the surface. Awareness is the first step. When you see the pattern clearly, you begin to reclaim your power.


Change doesn’t happen all at once. It takes shape in small, quiet moments where you choose differently.


When your conscious desires finally match the truth of your inner healing, something begins to shift. Slowly, the cycle loses its hold.


And then one day, almost without realizing it, you notice something has changed. It didn’t happen again.


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Ramona Robinson, Hypnotherapist & Mindset Coach

 Ramona Robinson, founder of RoRa Hypnosis, is a seasoned hypnotist and mindset coach dedicated to guiding individuals on transformative journeys. With a compassionate approach and a wealth of personal and professional experience, she empowers clients to overcome challenges, reclaim their strength, and embrace life with renewed resilience and hope. Through her work, Ramona aims to inspire others to discover their inner power and live authentically.

This article is published in collaboration with Brainz Magazine’s network of global experts, carefully selected to share real, valuable insights.

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