Founder Letter: Pattern of Knowing
Are you aware sometimes of life being on repeat? Like we are just copy-pasting yesterday into today?
Dear Rosies,
Are you aware sometimes of life being on repeat? Like we are just copy-pasting yesterday into today? Old patterns looping so smoothly we might not even be aware that we're even running them? We might even say we're doing what "feels right" - when right in this case isn't what's best for us, but rather what's most familiar. How do we stay fresh and unpatterned.
Many of our "instincts" are adaptations. Early on, we learned how to stay safe: please others, avoid conflict, blend in, control what we could. Those strategies worked. They kept us alive. But if they run automatically, posing as intuition when they're really just well-worn grooves, we're doing our magnificent potential a disservice!
Our nervous systems love the familiar. They read repetition as safety, even when the pattern itself is draining us... you know: the relationship that doesn't work, the job that feels wrong, the chronic stress we've normalized. Our brains reward us for staying in the groove: comfort chemicals, reduced uncertainty, the reinforcement of "this is just who we are."
But comfortable isn't the same as enlivening!
Real intuition gets clouded when fear, shame, guilt, or unprocessed hurt wrap around it. It gets drowned out by mental noise—the constant rationalizing, analyzing, justifying. The signal is still there, but it's buried.
Here's how we clear the static:
- Slow down. Intuition speaks from stillness, not speed. Find quiet through breathwork, meditation, movement, whatever helps us drop below the chatter.
- Feel it in the body: Intuition registers as expansive, light, alive. Adaptive patterns feel tight, contracted, heavy—once we pause long enough to notice.
- Ask: Is this familiar, or is it true? Familiarity soothes. Alignment energizes.
- Name it: "There's my people-pleasing reflex." "There's the part that needs control." Naming breaks the trance.
- Small intuition checks: When a choice leaves us feeling freer, more energized, deeply peaceful, that's a sign of alignment.
- Clear what's stuck. Somatic practices, therapy, or bodywork can help release old fear and grief that otherwise hijack our knowing.
- Surround ourselves with beauty. Nature, music, ritual, art... recalibrate our systems toward what's true.
We don't have to keep living the same loop. Our intuition is there, underneath everything. We just have to get quiet enough to hear it, and brave enough to follow it.
To your shiniest and most authentic expression of your life.
With love,
Christine Marie Mason
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Christine Mason
Founder & Author, Rosebud Woman
Christine Marie Mason is the founder and CEO of Rosebud Woman, a leading brand in women’s intimate wellness and self-care. She is the author of six books on embodiment, intimacy, and awakening, and the host of The Rose Woman podcast—ranked in the top 5% worldwide. A longtime yoga and consciousness teacher, Christine writes and speaks on women’s health, sexuality, and midlife vitality, helping people cultivate love, reverence, and radiant wellbeing in every stage of life.