Breaking Through Your Own Comfort Zone

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Going to necro this thread, because I used to ask f*cking great questions. It is worth reading this thread and its previous replies. I'm just hoping I get some as good answers now as I did back then. Also necroing because I feel like I was rather naïve about wanting to be challenged. Challenges I got. Major, major challenges.

My new question, along the same lines as the OP, goes like this: The feeling of wanting itself, and wanting things that are familiar, rather than the new - How do you break out of that kind of thinking? How do you embrace change, including a change of people around you and yourself? Releasing toxic people from my life for example, and really accepting it?

It's interesting how my previous answers in this thread...just don't compare to all the events that happened in my life since then. The events flipped everything I knew on its head. Rather than being curious about life and bettering myself and that life has a reason to it...I feel now that life itself is pointless. I'm still very much spiritual, there's things out there no-one can explain, some of it terrifying.

Back on topic, I keep delving into the past to recover parts of myself I feel I've lost. I need to change myself so I can forget those people of the past. I mostly have forgotten, it took some counselling and spiritual healing (F*ck it, judge me.) to recover some parts of myself. Major changes have resulted in me as a result of what my parents did, acted as, and still act as. Devastating. I had no idea any of it was coming, and yet it hit me with the events...then I look back in the past, and see the buildup of it. So what happened wasn't as random as it's felt to me.

I got challenged. Hard. Was it worth it?..

Anyways, yes, the question of learning to detach from the familiar bad stuff and embracing and most importantly searching for the new. In feeling, the feeling of finding something new feels numb and therefore does not interest me. It feels like nothing because the potential of anything new does not exist yet. Familiarity is already there, and it is comforting because it is already a feeling, a stimulation, that exists. Like craving your absolute favourite food and getting it, even if it's junk food and bad for you. I'm making that comparison to feelings. How do I motivate myself to search for or build up new things?

The feeling of wanting itself, and wanting things that are familiar, rather than the new - How do you break out of that kind of thinking? How do you embrace change, including a change of people around you and yourself? Releasing toxic people from my life for example, and really accepting it?
Personally I prefer to make small changes rather than trying to break out of anything in one swoop. I don't know what to say about releasing toxic people, because in my case I don't often have any trouble dropping people who get too annoying. Usually I just stop seeking them out and they leave me alone. On rare occasions they haven't, and I've had to get more forceful about it, the worst example was a partner who wouldn't let go.
How do I motivate myself to search for or build up new things?
I don't know. I used to get very wound up about not having the enthusiasm to change much, but I kind of accepted myself for what I was (mostly, not entirely) in the end. I suspect if more than gentle pressure is needed, the change is just too ambitious. So I spend a lot of time pondering the practicalities - the "how to" of taking small, bite-sized steps. I'm barely capable of anything beyond that, unless there's a dire emergency.