Originally Posted by
BuffaloGal 
I once read a comparison of learning repetitive life lessons over and over to going through a spiral seashell. Each time you go around, the journey is smaller and shorter.
My therapist would tell me that my life is like a spiral staircase with my "issues" at the center. As life progresses I will spiral up and around the issues. Each trip I will be looking at the issues from a different angle and be experiencing things differently and hopefully in a more healthy way.