04/06/2026
Falling off track does not mean you have failed. It does not mean you are broken, weak, or that you have wasted all the work you have already done. Sometimes recovery looks like choosing day one again.
In this week’s episode of The Vanessa Barrington Show, I sit down with author Railene Turner-Rose to talk about her debut memoir, Day One Again, and the deeper story behind addiction, recovery, perfectionism, grief, people-pleasing and starting over.
And what I loved about this conversation is that it is not really about weight loss, willpower, or getting everything right. It is about the invisible weight so many women carry. The pressure to be perfect. The need to hold everyone together. The workaholism that looks like ambition. The people-pleasing that looks like being “good”. The private ways we numb, avoid, over-function or try to outrun what hurts.
Railene speaks so honestly about what it means to stop managing yourself like a project and start meeting yourself like a human. And I think so many high-achieving, soul-led women will feel this one deeply, because you can be successful and still be exhausted. You can be capable and still be carrying grief. You can be the strong one and still need support. You can have started over a hundred times and still be worthy of the life you are trying to create.
One thing I know for sure is this: choosing day one again is not failure.
It is courage. It is self-responsibility. It is healing. It is the moment you decide not to abandon yourself.
Catch Choosing Day One Again: Writing About Addiction, Recovery, and Starting Over with Railene Turner-Rose now on The Vanessa Barrington Show.
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