What does it really mean to let go of your old life and fully step into the person you’re becoming?

Letting go of who you were can sound freeing, especially when you know it’s no longer who you want to be. But as so many of us learn, wanting to become someone new is much easier than actually letting go of who we’ve been.

Even when you know you’re ready for something new, there may still be parts of your old identity, familiar patterns, relationships, and the life you once imagined that you aren’t quite ready to release. But you can’t create a new life while keeping one foot in your old one.

In Replay 2 of the six-part Starting Over Series, we explore why starting over after divorce, heartbreak, loss, or a major life transition requires more than physically walking away. Sometimes, we also have to release the familiar patterns, identities, relationships, and fears that keep us emotionally tied to the life we’ve known.

This episode is about choosing yourself—not out of selfishness, but because you can’t build a new life while still living in alignment with the old one.

It’s about facing change, trusting what’s ahead, and making choices that reflect the future you say you want.

If you’ve been caught between who you were and who you’re becoming, this is your sign to stop straddling both lives and go all in.

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What happens when the life you knew has fallen apart, and you’re left looking at the pieces, wondering, “Where do I go from here?”

This is the first episode of a six-week Starting Over Series. Every rebuilding journey begins with something ending: a divorce, heartbreak, loss, career change, move, or a life that no longer looks the way you planned. Before you can rebuild, you have to acknowledge what was lost, look at what remains, and decide what comes next.

Inspired by Stoic philosopher Zeno, whose literal shipwreck redirected him toward an entirely new purpose, this episode explores how adversity can become a turning point. Sometimes the experience that wrecks your plans also creates the opportunity to build a life more aligned with who you are becoming.

In this episode:

• Starting over when life doesn’t go according to plan
• Turning adversity into growth and purpose
• Accepting what you cannot control
• Responding intentionally instead of reacting emotionally
• Walking away from what no longer serves you
• Finding inner peace during uncertain seasons

Starting over doesn’t begin once everything is fixed, and you finally have a plan. It begins in the wreckage, when you look at the pieces of the life you once knew and ask, “What can I build from here?”

Follow Wandering the Wild Mess and join me each week as we revisit six episodes that tell the honest, emotional journey of starting over.

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What does it look like when you stop trying to control everything on your own and finally let go and let God?

If you know me, it's a little wild to be sharing this story, as I spent years trying to figure out the formula for a meaningful, fulfilling life. I turned to personal growth, mindset, manifestation, neuroscience, self-help... anything that could help me understand how to become the person I wanted to be, create the life I wanted, and trust where my life was going.

But after years of searching for answers, the deepest peace I found came when I finally stopped believing I had to figure everything out on my own.

I found God.

In this episode, I’m sharing the very personal evolution of my faith.. from growing up Mormon, to questioning religion, identifying as agnostic and spiritual, and eventually finding my way back to God and building a relationship with Jesus that has profoundly changed my life.

I talk about what trusting God’s plan actually looks like for me: surrendering the need to know exactly what comes next, taking the next right step without demanding to see steps two through forty-five, and learning that trusting your path feels different when you trust the One leading it.

Because sometimes trusting God means moving when you feel called to move.

And sometimes trusting God means leaving the space open long enough for Him to show you what’s next.

If you’re starting over, searching for purpose, questioning what comes next, or exhausted from trying to figure out your entire life on your own, this episode is for you.

You don’t need to see the whole path to take the next step.

Sometimes you just need enough faith to take it.

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