You don’t need to recreate a new “you” every time you rebrand or transform/transition into a new life cycle. Take the parts of you that nurtured you and helped you grow and leave behind the parts that hindered you. You don’t always need a “new” you, you need a “refined” you.
This guy has been peeling an orange for his wife every time and making a heart out of the peels to gift to her, and his wife has been collecting and keeping these hearts for years;