beginning again – Ruthann M. Wilson

What is true for you is within you, even when you can’t sense it clearly.
Be still.
Be quiet.
Stay open to inner guidance.

There are times when inner guidance feels quiet or distant. This is when a steady practice becomes essential. Practice is the bridge between reflection and action, the way you return to yourself and move from what you sense into what you choose next. Sometimes, even with consistency in practice, what comes next may not feel clear. It can feel uncomfortable to sit in that space, but it doesn’t mean you’re off track. It is the natural rhythm of inner work. Trust asks you to stay open to what is unfolding beneath the surface, even when you can’t yet name it.

Trusting the process is a choice we make again and again. It is the willingness to let your inner world rearrange itself without rushing to interpret or control it. Trust is not passive. It is a quiet, steady openness to what is unfolding, even when you can’t yet see where it is leading.

When you release the pressure to know or control, you create space to sense what is true. When you trust that clarity will come, you make room for what is true to rise. This is where inner guidance becomes easier to hear, gently and in its own time. Not through effort or control, but through openness. Trust deepens your inner work.

How to practice

✦ Treat uncertainty as an opportunity to deepen trust in the process.
✦ Sit with what feels unclear with openness.
✦ Let what you sense speak before trying to interpret it.
✦ Notice subtle shifts in how you think and feel.
✦ Come back to quiet when you feel yourself trying to figure it out.
✦ Keep a journal. Put your thoughts on paper without filtering what you write.

Nature as teacher

Think of the way seeds take root. It looks like nothing is happening, yet everything essential is taking place beneath the soil. Roots form long before anything breaks the surface. Your inner work moves in the same way. You’re building the foundation and preparing for what’s next even when it doesn’t feel like it.

Reflective Prompt

Where in your life are you being invited to trust what you can’t yet see?

You don’t need to sense what is true or what is next right away. You only need to stay open. Trust the quiet work happening within you. It’s already shaping the path ahead.

If you would like to explore more

The first two resources below for Beginning Again were originally shared in January and offer grounding as you explore what it means to trust the process.

Read the original Beginning Again reflection
Explore the 28-day practice for Beginning Again
Read the post on the power of silence, especially if being still and quiet feels challenging
Watch the video on creating and maintaining a journal practice if you want support with journaling as a part of your practice

If this reflection resonates, you are welcome to share in the comments. I would love to hear how you’re practicing trust when what’s next isn’t clear.

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Affirmation for the month

I trust the inner work unfolding within me, even when it’s not yet visible.

To the quiet work unfolding in you.

Warmly,
Ruthann

There’s something tender about the first weeks of a new calendar year, the quiet hope, the subtle pressure, the sense that you should be further along than you are. But beginning again, as shared in this reflection, doesn’t require a grand gesture. It simply asks you to return to yourself as a way forward.

January often arrives with expectations to set goals, make resolutions, reinvent your life. But the truth is, most of us don’t need reinvention. We need a moment to pause and reconnect, quietly checking in before planning or moving forward.

Beginning again is not about fixing yourself or becoming someone new. It is about returning to what matters most and letting that guide your next step, a way forward rooted in what is true for you right now, rather than external pressure or expectation.

It is about noticing where you have drifted, where you feel stretched thin, or where you have lost your rhythm, and gently returning to what steadies you.

This is the heart of practice, small, honest returns that build clarity and momentum over time.

Beginning again is the practice of coming back to yourself with honesty and without judgment. It is choosing presence over pressure to rush ahead. It is acknowledging where you are right now and taking one small step toward what matters in this new chapter.

Beginning again does not erase what came before. It integrates it. It lets you begin where you are as a foundation for moving forward.

When you allow yourself to begin again, you stop waiting for the right moment and start moving from the moment you are in.

This practice creates room inside. It softens urgency. It invites clarity. And it reminds you that you can return again and again and again.

Beginning again is how you build a life that feels aligned, not through force, but through the rhythm and sacredness of returning to yourself.

Beginning again can be simple, gentle, and deeply grounding. Here are a few ways to pause, reconnect, and begin again:

Notice your whole self. Where are you right now physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually? What is true in this moment?

Name what is true. Without judgment, acknowledge what you are carrying or avoiding.

Honor your values. Identify one value you want to honor and let it inform what you do next.

Choose one small next step. Not the perfect step, the honest one based on where you are right now.

Return often. Beginning again is not a single moment. It is a practice of intentionally returning to what steadies you each time you drift from your values, your rhythm, your truth, your faith, and the way you want to move through the world.

Reflective Prompt

Where in your life are you longing to begin again, and what is one small, honest step you can take from where you are right now?

Let it be gentle. Let it be yours.

Beginning again is not a reset. It is a return, a way of reconnecting and choosing to anchor your steps in what is true for you right now. Each time you come back, you strengthen your capacity to live with intention, clarity, and ease.

If you feel called to deepen this work, you’re welcome to explore the 28-day practice for Beginning Again.

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Affirmation for the month
I begin again by returning to what is true in me.

To returning to what steadies you

Warmly,
Ruthann