Where to start looking
I think I need to start again
Something ended, and the shape of the life around it has not caught up.
You are tired in a way that sleep does not touch.
Advice about fresh starts assumes an energy you do not currently have.
Starting again is rarely starting from zero
You carry skills, obligations, habits, relationships and a history. Some of that is ballast and some of it is the foundation. Sorting one from the other is the actual work, and it is more useful than a blank page.
The urge to change everything can be a way of avoiding one thing
Total reinvention is sometimes the most thorough way of not looking at the specific thing that broke. Worth ruling out early.
Order matters more than ambition here
When everything needs attention, the instinct is to address all of it. What tends to work is deciding what has to hold steady while the rest moves.
What this usually connects to
- What must be carried, in practice, whatever you decide.
- What genuinely ended, and what only feels as though it did.
A question worth sitting with
- What are you keeping, deliberately?
The session separates what can change from what has to be carried.
Starting againIt is a conversation, not a questionnaire. You can stop at any point, and finishing it does not mean anything has to change.
If the question turns out to be a different one