Starting Over

November 4, 2025

Starting Over (Again and Again)

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve started over. With food, with routines, with writing, with faith. There was a time I thought that meant I was inconsistent or weak, but I’m starting to see it differently now. Maybe starting over is just what we humans do.
We try things, we drift, we come back. Sometimes we come back with a little more tenderness, or a little more understanding. Sometimes we come back simply because something inside us refuses to give up.
I’ve started over so many times with my health — drinking more water, eating in a way that supports healing, remembering that how I treat my body affects my mind and my spirit too. The same goes for my habits. I fall off track, get distracted, and then quietly begin again. It used to frustrate me, but now I see it as practice — not failure.
When I studied with Dr. John Fielder, the nature cure doctor in Australia, he often would say, “Trust the process”. Just like a snake doesn’t apologize for shedding its skin, and the plants doesn’t hurry to bloom, maybe we can trust the process of renewal.
Starting over doesn’t mean we were doing it wrong before. It means we’re alive enough to keep evolving. It means we care enough to try again.
There’s a deeper kind of starting over that happens inside — when we stop pretending we’ve got it all figured out and allow ourselves to change direction. When we realize we can be kind and assertive. Gentle and determined. Imperfect and worthy of another try.
If you’re in one of those seasons of beginning again, please know you’re not behind. You’re right on time. The shedding, the growing, the starting over — that is the life.

Still Curious. Still Growing, Still Grateful.

by Janis @ Simple Raw and Natural

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