At 48, I rebuilt after job loss and burnout. These 3 journal entry prompts helped me trade comforts for clarity, create beauty where I am, and expect more without apology.

New York has a way of holding up a mirror. For me, it showed up in a leopard-print dress, a bar called Albert’s, and the moment I realized survival mode no longer fit. Being fired could have broken me, but instead it became the turning point. This is how I rebuilt confidence after losing my job — not instantly, but piece by piece, until my presence felt like enough.

I didn’t stop spiraling, I just learned how to spiral smarter. In this post, I’m sharing the exact clarity tools that helped me move forward during burnout, panic, and financial pressure.

After years of overthinking everything, I realized I wasn’t reflecting—I was rehearsing pain. Here’s how I broke the cycle and reset my clarity.

I used to get stuck replaying memories that didn’t serve me. In this post, I share how I learned how to stop overthinking the past—and how that shift led me to create the Clarity Reset Journal.