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-it's okay to be still in the ashes where life tried to burn you down.

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Aug 11, 2024
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define | what is left of something after it has been destroyed by fire, ruins.  - Cambridge Dictionary

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I have so many things I want to say and write about - but I struggled with where exactly to start.  Then, I was reminded to start from nothing - to start from the ashes. What has to come before that first step - is the willingness to take it when you feel like you have absolutely nothing left to even take that first step.  

When life has burned us down and all we have is ash, how do we find that willingness / willpower to take that first step into the next adventure that life has waiting for us?

Can you relate?

I am so lost. I am frustrated. I am exhausted. I can’t believe I find myself here in this place again. I feel like I am a mess, an imposter; who am I to…. (you fill in the blank here)?  Why do I keep ending back here? Am I going in circl…

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