đ Why You Feel Stuck (Even When You Know Better)
How to break free from emotional patterns, identity, and the bodyâs programming that quietly sabotages your growth
Mariagrazia Colletti
5/6/20252 min read
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Intro:
How many times have you said things like,
âIâm anxious by natureâ or âThatâs just how I amâ without thinking twice?
We donât always realize it, but the words we repeat about ourselvesâout loud and in our mindsâarenât harmless. Theyâre instructions. Your body is listening, and over time, it builds an identity around those beliefs.
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đŁïž The Words You Say Shape Who You Become
Your body is always listeningâEach time you say âIâm always overwhelmedâ or âI have no patience,â your body responds accordingly. These repeated thought-emotion loops become so ingrained, they shape how you show up in the world. Every word you speakâespecially about yourselfâis a subtle instruction. Eventually, these repeated affirmations solidify into your identity.
What you say, you become.
What you feel, you repeat.
And what you repeat, you memorize.
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đ”âđ« Why You Keep Ending Up Back Where You Started
When the Body Remembers What the Mind Wants to Forget
Even when you know better and want to change, it feels like you keep falling back into the same emotional cycles⊠Youâve tried to change before. Youâve worked on your mindset. Read the books. Set the intentions. But somehow, when life gets hard, you fall back into the same patterns.
Why? Because your body has memorized a version of youâand itâs running the show on autopilot.
Emotions like anxiety, anger, and guilt become chemically familiar. They feel normal, even if theyâre unhealthy. So when you try to shift, your body pulls you backânot because youâre broken, but because youâre conditioned.
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đ When Your Body Becomes Your Mind
Even when you know better and want to change, it feels like you keep falling back into the same emotional cycles⊠Youâve tried to change before. Youâve worked on your mindset. Read the books. Set the intentions. But somehow, when life gets hard, you fall back into the same patterns.
Why? Because your body has memorized a version of youâand itâs running the show on autopilot.
Emotions like anxiety, anger, and guilt become chemically familiar. They feel normal, even if theyâre unhealthy. So when you try to shift, your body pulls you backânot because youâre broken, but because youâre conditioned.
Hereâs how the cycle works:
Thought triggers a feeling
The feeling activates the nervous system
Hormones (like cortisol) are released
These hormones reinforce the feeling
The cycle repeats
Over time, the emotional state becomes addictive. The body begins craving what it knowsâeven if itâs painful. And because itâs whatâs familiar, the body resists change. It resists peace. It resists the unknown.
Even if the unknown is better.
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đ Final Thought: Youâre Not BrokenâYouâre Memorized
Youâre not stuck because youâre weak, lazy, or broken. Youâre stuck because your body is holding on to an outdated version of youâand itâs memorized that version so well that itâs hard to let go.
But hereâs the good news: if youâve been conditioned into this state, you can also be reconditioned. It takes awareness, action, and a willingness to feel a little discomfort on the path to freedom.
Youâre not your past. Youâre not your pain.
Youâre just operating from a deeply conditioned stateâand that means you can create a new one.
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