Descent to Wholeness:

A Heroine’s Journey

Excerpt... 

This book is the journey on my own path towards ascension. My process of individuation through the constructs of the Hero and Heroine’s Journey, and the archetypes I’ve worked to embodied, and navigated 100s of women to open too, in both their shadow and light. As I wrote this, I realized this is not one book, rather the journey of many lives in the span of my first 40 years of life. In these pages I focus on the evolution of Hero’s Journey and what led me to deconstructing it all as I descend back into my body on the rediscovery of self through my Heroine’s Journey.  Women’s psychology would say up to my midlife split. As the underdeveloped intellect of my masculine oriented mind suffocated the grounds of my underdeveloped feminine’s subtle body consciousness. From my Hero’s Journey and the outward expression of life. To my Heroine’s Journey: where I put down DOING the Heroics to BECOME the Heroine in my life. Where undeveloped qualities of my boy-ish masculine are no longer the lead actor in the show. Rather, the developed qualities of my mature Feminine begin to rise, pulling the developed qualities of my mature masculine forward. Where She is the lead actress in the show, and the masculine, her supporting role. As they dance, on a journey to Unity Consciousness where I begin to unravel what mature leadership looks like through Feminine Consciousness, and marry the qualities of the inner masculine and feminine together in a Divine Sacred Union within.

I’ve written this book, not only to teach women how to take a seat at the table of their lives, but also to demonstrate how a person could deconstruct that table and transverse from the security of the known to the mystery of the unknown, time and time again. As the realization settles in that anything outside of ourselves is simply not the answer. The answers live within. Joseph Campbell states, “The cave you are scared to enter holds the answers that you seek.” Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman elaborates, “It’s your body. The cave is your body,” and only the body holds the answers that you seek. An innate wisdom already mapped within the strands of your DNA. It’s a bit of a cosmic joke and paradox to think that only as you unravel the threads of your psyche does the intelligence built into the threads of your DNA, or your divine mission, speak through.

This is my journey from the head to the heart—the longest journey any of us will ever take in life. The masculine shines in the mind, but feminine thrives in the spaciousness: of metaphor, of the void, in the unknown crevices where miracles occur. Birthed from, and through, the body. A somatic intelligence and body consciousness alive for those willing to listen.