Aaron Doughty explains how clinging to familiar people and situations creates a false sense of safety that blocks deeper love and new opportunities. What feels safe is often just familiar, and recognizing the difference helps you stop pushing people away.
The deeper shadow aspect of why it's hard for you to let go is because in the unknown, in the past, there was some scary unknown energy. So because of that unknown energy, the choice is then, well, what I do know is this attachment. What I do know is this kind of person. What I do know is this idea. But then staying attached, while it allows you to stay in familiar, that attached energy that allows you to stay in familiar is also blocking out of your life more love and connection, deeper friendships, new opportunities. So the attachment itself is something that is keeping you safe, but this idea of safe might not actually be something that is healthy. Let me remind you, safe is a concept. Safe is not some like actual feeling. So many of the attachments you have may actually allow you to not feel safe, but if we replace the word safe with familiar, things make a little bit more sense, don't they?
