Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
If Spring is the season you’re in, start here:
🍎 Buy Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day — Spring:
amazon.com/dp/B0H9VG7V92
🍎 Explore the full Apple A Day series:
kellyorchard.com/apple-a-day
🍎 Start free with the Core Values playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr69e2K-sb1cdxSyRYb7otKQfvo05N4mi&si=GUGt0n0GyvpC2ZSU
Starting over does not mean starting from scratch.
In this Week Two Apple A Day relaunch video, we begin with Spring — the season of planting seeds, beginning again, clarifying what matters, cultivating hope, and creating room for new growth.
Spring is often treated like a clean slate, but most real beginnings are not clean. They come with history, grief, fatigue, old skills, hard-earned wisdom, and the life you have already lived.
You are not starting from zero.
You are starting from here.
And here is not nothing.
In this video, I talk about beginning again after heart failure, the transferable skills I carried from radio into psychotherapy and writing, why core values matter when you’re standing at a crossroads, and how Spring and Winter can overlap when you’re beginning again while still grieving or releasing something old.
I also share how I use daily tools — writing, walking Kismet, music, movement, fresh air, and reflection — to manage waiting, uncertainty, grief bursts, and the ordinary emotional work of staying grounded.
Apple A Day Spring is the Plant the Seeds season. It gives you about ninety daily reflections with companion journal pages — one Apple a day — to help you clarify your values, refresh your thinking, create healthier habits, and begin planting what still matters.
If you missed last week’s video about the origin story of Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day, start there:
youtu.be/pkX6RcDUn3U?si=HOLldOqbTZgWUUDT
Download Heart Lessons free:
https://mailchi.mp/kellyorchard/heart-lessons-free-pdf-signup
Subscribe to The Courtyard Letter:
kellyorchard.substack.com
Learn more about Kelly Orchard:
kellyorchard.com
Chapters:
00:00 Spring Isn’t a Clean Slate
00:47 What Spring Really Asks
01:49 Beginning Again After Crisis
02:28 Your Old Skills Are Seeds
03:43 Crossroads and Core Values
05:20 Spring and Winter Overlap
06:27 Tools for Waiting and Uncertainty
07:24 Grief Bursts and Daily Tools
08:36 Apple a Day Isn’t Magic
09:38 How to Use the Spring Book
11:03 Invitation and Closing Questions
Reflection questions:
What wants to begin again?
What still matters enough to plant?
What are you bringing with you that you forgot to count?
What old skill might be a seed?
What tool do you need for this season?
Start where you are.
Seek growth.
Be fruitful.
#AppleADay #KellyOrchard #PersonalGrowth #StartingOver #SpringSeason #CoreValues #Journaling #EmotionalResilience #HeartLessons #LifeTransitions #GrowthMindset #WomenWhoWrite #LicensedTherapist #SelfReflection
If Spring is the season you’re in, start here:
🍎 Buy Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day — Spring:
amazon.com/dp/B0H9VG7V92
🍎 Explore the full Apple A Day series:
kellyorchard.com/apple-a-day
🍎 Start free with the Core Values playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr69e2K-sb1cdxSyRYb7otKQfvo05N4mi&si=GUGt0n0GyvpC2ZSU
Starting over does not mean starting from scratch.
In this Week Two Apple A Day relaunch video, we begin with Spring — the season of planting seeds, beginning again, clarifying what matters, cultivating hope, and creating room for new growth.
Spring is often treated like a clean slate, but most real beginnings are not clean. They come with history, grief, fatigue, old skills, hard-earned wisdom, and the life you have already lived.
You are not starting from zero.
You are starting from here.
And here is not nothing.
In this video, I talk about beginning again after heart failure, the transferable skills I carried from radio into psychotherapy and writing, why core values matter when you’re standing at a crossroads, and how Spring and Winter can overlap when you’re beginning again while still grieving or releasing something old.
I also share how I use daily tools — writing, walking Kismet, music, movement, fresh air, and reflection — to manage waiting, uncertainty, grief bursts, and the ordinary emotional work of staying grounded.
Apple A Day Spring is the Plant the Seeds season. It gives you about ninety daily reflections with companion journal pages — one Apple a day — to help you clarify your values, refresh your thinking, create healthier habits, and begin planting what still matters.
If you missed last week’s video about the origin story of Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day, start there:
youtu.be/pkX6RcDUn3U?si=HOLldOqbTZgWUUDT
Download Heart Lessons free:
https://mailchi.mp/kellyorchard/heart-lessons-free-pdf-signup
Subscribe to The Courtyard Letter:
kellyorchard.substack.com
Learn more about Kelly Orchard:
kellyorchard.com
Chapters:
00:00 Spring Isn’t a Clean Slate
00:47 What Spring Really Asks
01:49 Beginning Again After Crisis
02:28 Your Old Skills Are Seeds
03:43 Crossroads and Core Values
05:20 Spring and Winter Overlap
06:27 Tools for Waiting and Uncertainty
07:24 Grief Bursts and Daily Tools
08:36 Apple a Day Isn’t Magic
09:38 How to Use the Spring Book
11:03 Invitation and Closing Questions
Reflection questions:
What wants to begin again?
What still matters enough to plant?
What are you bringing with you that you forgot to count?
What old skill might be a seed?
What tool do you need for this season?
Start where you are.
Seek growth.
Be fruitful.
#AppleADay #KellyOrchard #PersonalGrowth #StartingOver #SpringSeason #CoreValues #Journaling #EmotionalResilience #HeartLessons #LifeTransitions #GrowthMindset #WomenWhoWrite #LicensedTherapist #SelfReflection
