Sojourn: On doing what looked right, starting over with intention, and becoming who you were meant to be

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Happy Sojourn Sunday!
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This week: 1 quiet reflection, 1 anchoring idea, and 1 prompt to meet the moment.

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1 Quiet Reflection

We talk a lot about reinvention.
About the becoming.
But not enough about the beginning.

The part that feels awkward, uncertain, maybe even a little invisible.
Where you don’t have a full vision yet… just a feeling.
A knowing that something needs to change.

That’s where I am right now.
Not at the finish line.
Not with all the answers.
But here: in the raw, sharing the lows & highs and the in-betweens.
And that’s fine with me…

I spent years chasing what looked good on pixels
What made sense to others.
What seemed like the right thing.
But deep down, it never felt like mine.

When I hit rock bottom, I didn’t have a 10-step plan.
Just a blank page… and a quiet yes to finally doing it differently.

Starting over didn’t come with a surge of confidence.
It came with self-trust.
It came with self-love.
It came with asking: If not this… then what?

That’s the real beginning.
Not the Instagrammable part.
But the deeply human one.
The real one.

1 Idea to Anchor You

The start is sacred...
In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl wrote:

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Starting over isn’t about reinvention for reinvention’s sake.
It’s about reclaiming the parts of you that were ignored, silenced, or forgotten.

It’s not about becoming someone new.
It’s about becoming honest.
And that begins not in the perfect plan…
But in a quiet moment of self-recognition: This is no longer mine. I’m ready for something else.

The start is sacred because it holds truth.
And that truth?
It doesn’t need to be explained.
It just needs to be honored.

1 Prompt to Meet the Moment

This week, reflect on the moment you knew something had to change.
Maybe it wasn’t dramatic.
Maybe it was just a quiet realization:

“This isn’t working for me anymore.”

Write from there and answer:
What are you no longer willing to carry into what’s next?

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Until next Sunday,
Ana