What They Don’t Tell You About Starting Over

They tell you to be brave.

To take the leap.

To pack up your bags—emotionally or otherwise—and walk away from what’s breaking you.

They tell you that freedom will feel like a breath of fresh air. That you’ll feel “lighter.”

But what they don’t tell you is this:

Starting over is not glamorous. It’s gut-wrenching.

It’s staring at a blank wall in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. It’s unlearning the way you used to shrink yourself to survive. It’s grocery shopping alone for the first time and realizing you don’t know what you actually like to eat—because you always bent your appetite to match someone else’s. Starting over is remembering who you were before the world told you who to be. It’s sitting in the grief of lost time, lost dreams, and sometimes… lost people.

And yet….

There is something wildly sacred about this in-between space. Because in the raw silence after everything falls apart, You meet the version of yourself you buried beneath survival. And he/she is extraordinary. The quiet strength. The inconvenient truth-teller. The deeply feeling, wildly imaginative, fiercely resilient soul who deserved better than what she got. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You just have to start writing your way forward.

One page.

One truth.

One wild, messy, magnificent breath at a time.

Ready to begin again—on your own terms?

Join us for Write Yourself Free, a gentle writing mini-workshop where your story becomes a sacred starting point.

Cost: $1.00

Because healing should be accessible—and your voice is worth investing in.

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-xo Heather