#93 It’s Safe to Begin Again
What does it really mean to begin again?
In this Shame Out Loud reflection, Lori explores the courage it takes to start from a new place — not because we failed before, but because we’ve grown beyond what once kept us safe.
This episode is for those who:
have outgrown old patterns and beliefs
learned to survive before they learned to feel safe
are quietly longing for peace, wholeness, and self-trust
Beginning again isn’t about erasing the past.
It’s about choosing a different relationship with it.
This episode gently leads into the Child and Woman series — a space for deeper conversations about healing, boundaries, curiosity, and returning to love through lived experience and reflection.
It’s never too late to begin again.
Show Notes
Episode 93 — It’s Safe to Begin Again
Shame Out Loud | An Introduction to the Child and Woman Series
Show Notes
Welcome to Shame Out Loud, a space within The Lori Clarke Show where we speak openly about shame, fear, silence, and the ways these experiences live in our bodies — and how we can begin returning to ourselves through curiosity, truth, and compassion.
In this episode, Lori reflects on a quiet but powerful choice many of us face: the choice to begin again.
Not because we failed.
Not because something is wrong with us.
But because peace, safety, and wholeness matter.
This episode serves as a gentle bridge into the upcoming Child and Woman series, releasing at the end of January, following Episodes 91 and 92. Together, these episodes explore what it means to feel safe in your body, to regulate your nervous system, and to reimagine your relationship with yourself after survival.
Lori shares her own journey of choosing to begin again — not for more success or productivity, but for calm, stability, and internal safety. Beginning again, in this sense, is not about erasing the past — it’s about releasing patterns, beliefs, and protective strategies that once helped us survive but may now be limiting how we live.
In this episode, you’ll hear reflections on:
What it means to begin again without self-judgment
Choosing safety and alignment over survival mode
Curiosity as a doorway to healing
Breaking free from inherited narratives and family containers
What it means to be “the first” in your family or community
Honoring adaptation without being defined by it
Why beginning again has no age requirement
How self-validation changes everything
Why healing does not require reliving trauma
How boundaries, self-trust, and agency emerge through starting over
This episode honors those who:
Grew up in alcoholic or emotionally unstable homes
Were parentified
Experienced sexual or physical abuse
Lived in toxic family systems
Or simply learned to survive in silence
And it gently reminds you:
You are not alone.
You are not broken.
And it is safe to want more for your life.
The Child and Woman series begins with a creative reading written by Lori, followed by intimate roundtable conversations with women who chose to begin again — to break cycles, reclaim agency, and redefine safety on their own terms.
This series is not about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about honoring what adapted.
And choosing what you want to reclaim.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for choosing yourself.
And thank you for entertaining the possibility that you can begin again — with courage, compassion, and curiosity.
🎧 Continue your journey with the reading of Child and Woman, and the conversations that follow. Launching January 2026