Your comeback begins with accuracy.

Any real recovery starts with an honest account of what happened. Without that, everything built afterward rests on a story shaped by pride, blame, or wishful thinking, and it will fail in the same place. Accuracy is not a moral exercise; it is a structural requirement.

Write down what occurred without softening or exaggerating your part in it. Include what you did, what others did, and what was simply chance. Then plan from that version rather than the comfortable one.