Sometimes it feels like we have taken 10 steps back.
We feel like we are right back where we used to be, we are feeling the same feelings and running the same stories through our heads.
But the simple fact that you are aware of those familiar old feelings and stories means you haven’t gone backwards.
You didn’t have the same awareness before.
Each time we experience something we learn a little more and get a little better.
It’s all a dress rehearsal. Once you nail your part, you get a new role but you never go backwards.