I’ve had any number of clients with an uncanny knack for winding up in the job situations and relationships that echoed their painful pasts. This “repetition compulsion” has the effect of pulling you back to the source of your pain, so that you have a chance to heal old wounds and learn new, more self-supporting responses to people and events. Once you’ve fully grieved the original wounds that scarred your psyche, you’ll stop unconsciously seeking and repeating them.
