All of a sudden, and possibly out of nowhere, something youve known has come to a halt.
It will feel, for a moment, as though the world is crashing in on you.
The resounding feeling that youll experience is one of total defeat.
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Youll wonder whats next, and how you will ever possibly go on.
And thats if youre lucky.
Even if it seems like the rug was pulled out from under you, it wasnt.
This hadnt been working for a long time and you were in denial.
Its time to get out of that and into reality, into the now, into your actual life.
That is what it means to start over.
Maybe a relationship ended and you cannot imagine how youll date again.
Remember what youre good at, what youre experienced in, what you feel called to.
The truth is that you will have to build a home no matter where you are.
You will have to decorate and settle and reach out.
You will have to find rhythms and routines.
You will have to be vulnerable, and you will have to be seen.
There is nowhere we can turn to that is an escape from ourselves.
Its time to start over, and its time to begin right here.
Weed out whats dead in your life.
Nourish the garden around your soul.
Start where you are and with what you have.
Stand on what youve built.
shut the gaps in your own foundation.
Strengthen what already exists.
Deepen your roots and spread your branches wide.
Then see how you feel.
When we live like this, we exist in a constant state of running from ourselves.
Because the truth is that our lives are very often a reflection, and extension, of ourselves.
Thats work that starts right here, and right now.
No matter where your life takes you, you are always with you until the very end.
Nothing will save you from yourself, and nothing can.
