There is a story we are sometimes told about new beginnings — that they are exciting, bright, and full of ease. That when we are truly ready to start fresh, everything simply falls into place. But the new beginnings I have lived — and the ones I have witnessed in the lives of the beautiful souls I work with — tell a different story. A truer one. Real new beginnings are brave. They are sometimes uncomfortable. They require us to stand at the edge of what we have known and choo