What we can learn from The Heroine’s Journey

Dear fellow explorer,

Based on the work of Maureen Murdock, Victoria Lynn Schmidt and Joseph Campbell, this integrated map reflects my understanding of The Heroine as the archetypical journey to our internal world, after a moment of profound rupture or crisis.

The beauty of this map and the stories of the podcast, is that they helps us make sense of things that happen in our life, while understanding through our shared experiences, that we have not fallen off the edge of what it means human. We can embrace it all -even pain and death- knowing that in these moments of rupture, come great opportunity.
It is ok to be in any one of these 4 phases. They are a part of life and each has valuable lessons and insights awaiting to be discovered.

This map is meant to be a flexible guide, more of a spiral that a circle. You can inhabit several phases at the same time; so use it with that lens.

Some questions for you to reflect on (as well as helpful podcast quotes) as you move through your own journey: