Breaking Your Loyalty Contract With Pain
- Katie Kaspari
- 5 hours ago
- 6 min read
We choose hurt.
Again and again.
Sometimes for years.
That moment hits you like a punch to the gut. The sudden, crystal-clear awareness that you've been faithful to your pain longer than you've been faithful to your possibilities. That you've built entire relationships, routines, and beliefs around what hurts you rather than what heals you.
It's a brutal realization.
And it changes everything.
Because once you see it, you can't unsee it. The loyalty program you never consciously signed up for but have been earning points in for years. The familiar discomfort you've mistaken for safety. The walls you've decorated so beautifully you forgot they were still walls.
