People often say, "I just want to start over." After a divorce, a heartbreak, a health crisis, a career change, retirement, or loss, we imagine the answer is a completely clean slate—a blank page. But is starting over even possible? Would we really want to? We imagine life gives us a blank page. In reality, every new chapter is shaped by the ones that came before it. We don't erase what came before—we write from a different place because of it. Think about who you were ten
