Valerie Bertinelli encourages followers to ‘forgive yourself and begin again’ in the new year

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Valerie Bertinelli is looking forward to starting fresh in the new year.In a recent post on her Instagram story, the 64-year-old Food Network star shared a video featuring an inspiring message for her fans.

The video showcases a white sign hung on a lamppost with the words “2025 is the perfect year to forget your past, forgive yourself and begin again.”The “Valerie’s Home Cooking” host has had her share of ups and downs over the past year.

Throughout all her struggles, she kept her fans in the know, posting about her dark moments on Instagram.In November, Bertinelli shared with her fans that she experienced a surprising anxiety attack, telling her followers she chose to share because she was “pretty sure I’m not the only one out here who has experienced this.”She said the panic attack left her shaking for hours as she tried her “best to meditate and EMDR my way out of this.”“Part of me is fascinated by what the human body is capable of when our feelings can get in the way or override any reasonable thought and another part of me is just curious on how all of this happens,” she wrote in the caption. “You know the weird neuropathies in our brain and how it affects our bodies, what feelings (which are just information btw) are and why are they so powerful that they make our body go into overdrive.”Not long before sharing she had a panic attack, Bertinelli posted a photo of herself with a large gash on her arm at the end of October.“I would ask for hazard pay, but it was my own damn fault,” she wrote in the caption. “I’ve been working on a really fun new project that I can’t wait to tell you about and this is what happens when you literally trip over the corner of a stage and fall on your a– in front of the crew.