Learning how to relive again on life’s terms sure doesn’t do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.

Nichols frames recovery and rebuilding as a humbling, incremental process: when you’re forced to “relive again on life’s terms,” confidence doesn’t magically return, because the old certainties (status, momentum, self-image) have been disrupted. The quote emphasizes faith not as doctrine but as a practical stance toward uncertainty—taking the next step without guarantees, trusting that small improvements accumulate. Its significance lies in rejecting sudden transformation narratives in favor of lived perseverance: progress is measured step-by-step, and hope is an action (continuing forward) rather than a feeling (being confident).