Your Mind Loves What's Familiar (Even If It Keeps You Playing Small)

Your mind has one job: to keep you safe. 

Not to keep you expanding. Not to keep you thriving. Just safe—even if that “safety” looks like self-sabotage, staying stuck, or repeating the same cycles.

As Marisa Peer teaches, “The mind loves what is familiar and hates what is unfamiliar.” That’s why we stay in patterns we’ve outgrown. Why success can feel scary. Why love might feel uncomfortable. And why we resist the very things we say we want.

To the mind, familiarity equals survival—even if that familiarity is struggle, fear, or not enough. So how do you shift it? 

By making the unfamiliar familiar.

By showing your mind again and again that the next level isn’t dangerous. It’s desired. You do this with repetition. With visualization. With language. With action. You create new evidence until the mind stops bracing and starts believing.

This is how expansion happens.

Not by force.

But by gently retraining your mind to feel safe in success, love, abundance, and ease.

You get to choose a new familiar.