You can rebuild a life from the ground up and still find more of yourself on the way. Heather opens a new season with a vulnerable life update that starts with a lost job and a cross-country move and unfolds into a fuller story of recovery, faith, family, and calling. The year brought hard resets. Downsizing, living with relatives in Texas, and supporting loved ones in sober living—yet those constraints uncovered agency, compassion, and a sharper purpose.
We explore what recovery really means beyond addiction: recovering dignity after loss, recovering trust when plans fail, and recovering the courage to ask for help. Heather shares how her husband’s long job search reframed success as alignment, not title; how a second bout of shingles forced deep rest and sparked new creative work; and how earning a recovery specialist certification turned lived experience into practical tools for others. Through family milestones, graduations, marriage, and military service, the household learned to celebrate while still healing, to make space for joy alongside grief.
Spiritually, the risky path becomes a daily practice: embracing uncertainty, leaning into community, and finding God in the not knowing. February, her birthday month, serves as a personal new year, a moment to recommit to authenticity, vocation, and self-acceptance even while navigating menopause with humor and grit.
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