Letting Go to Begin Again: A Story of Reinvention

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What happens when you leave behind the career you worked so hard for? The life you thought you wanted? The identity you built around it? I didn’t have a plan—just the pull to step away and figure out who I was outside of it all. So, I left. I sold my things, moved to Mexico with one suitcase, and gave myself time to explore, create, and ask the big questions. This is the story of what I discovered when I finally stopped running on autopilot—and how it led me to build something new, with the right people by my side. A story by Melissa Patenaude and Na-Mii for The Flowprints.