What nobody tells you about starting over
Starting over is not a failure. It is a decision — and one of the bravest ones you will ever make. Here is what I wish someone had told me when I was standing at the beginning of mine.
Jena writes for the woman who is still figuring it out — who is somewhere between where she was and where she is going, and needs something honest to hold onto.
Starting over is not a failure. It is a decision — and one of the bravest ones you will ever make. Here is what I wish someone had told me when I was standing at the beginning of mine.
Busyness is not the same as progress. I spent years confusing the two. This is what changed when I stopped filling my calendar and started protecting my strategy.
We are taught to make ourselves smaller, to need less, to be grateful for whatever we are given. Unlearning that is the work. Here is where I started.
These are not separate issues. They are the same story told in different courtrooms — and the people caught inside them deserve advocates who understand that.
I have had seasons of profound doubt. I have questioned everything. And I have come to understand that faith is not certainty — it is the decision to keep moving anyway.
It was not graceful. There were days I did not know how I would make it work. But I did — and I want to tell you exactly how, because the version I needed to hear was honest.
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