Break Repeating Patterns: Why Insight Isn’t Enough With Michael Lauria

Healthy Mind, Healthy Life · Oct 13, 2026 · 26m

You can describe your pattern perfectly. You can explain where it came from and trace it back to childhood. And yet you still do it again. If understanding were enough, why are so many insightful people still stuck? In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Niharika talks with Michael Lauria, a qualified therapist, author, and philosophical mythologist, about what sits underneath our patterns.

Michael shares his idea that sacrifice is the pattern underneath all patterns, and that many of us sacrifice incoherently, choosing belonging over what is true for us. He talks about why…