your life is the epic

  You are not lost. You’re in Act II.

We’ve all been told life is messy, chaotic, unpredictable. But underneath the seeming randomness, there’s an ancient pattern that echoes through every soul's journey. Joseph Campbell called it "The Hero's Journey," and it shows up in every myth, fairy tale, and — yes — in your life.

The arc goes like this: you begin in the Ordinary World. Then something disrupts your sense of normal — a call to adventure. Maybe it was heartbreak. Maybe it was illness. Maybe it was a sudden inner knowing that your life wasn't aligned.

You cross a threshold. You face trials. You meet guides and shadows. You lose your footing. Then, somewhere in the darkness, you begin to transform.

This isn’t fiction. This is your real life. These arcs aren’t for the chosen few. They’re for all of us. You’re living one right now.

Resources:

Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Christopher Vogler, The Writer's Journey

Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Meaning Is Made, Not Found

"The question isn’t ‘What’s my purpose?’ The question is: ‘What meaning am I shaping from all I’ve lived?’"

Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist, said that life is never made unbearable by circumstance, but only by lack of meaning. And here is the beautiful truth: meaning is not something you find. It is something you make.

We often think purpose is some grand external mission. But soul purpose begins in the details — the stories you've lived, the pain you've endured, the wisdom you've earned.

You don't need a five-year plan. You need to sit with the question: What has my life taught me? And what am I here to offer because of it?

Resources:

Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Edith Eger, The Choice

Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy

Rewrite the Script — You Are the Author Now

"The pen is in your hand now. How do you want Act III to unfold?"

Here’s the truth: you can’t go back. You can’t undo what happened. But you can absolutely choose the story you tell about it.

Narrative therapy, reframing techniques, and ancient spiritual traditions all agree: transformation begins when we change the lens through which we view our life.

Were you abandoned? Or were you called into radical self-love? Did you fail? Or were you redirected? Reframing is not denial. It's reclaiming power.

You are the author now. The third act is yours to write. And it begins with choosing how you see the first two.

Resources:

Hilary Jacobs Hendel, It’s Not Always Depression

Jim Loehr, The Power of Story

Michael  White & David Epston, Narrative Therapy founders

Live the Rest of Your Life from Soul

"The story is yours now — but your soul already knows how it wants to be written."

Living from soul means letting go of the checklist and tuning into the current. It means slowing down, breathing in, listening to the wind between the trees.

It means honoring intuition over obligation. Rest over hustle. Presence over performance.

Everything you’ve lived has shaped you into someone who can now live aligned with your deeper truth. 

This is what the soul asks for — not more perfection, but more honesty.

Refine. Daydream. Heal your gut. Follow the next nudge. You already have the map. It’s inside you.

Resources:

Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

Francis  Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

You’ve lived through chaos, beauty, betrayal, survival.

What if you were never meant to “follow” your purpose—but to shape it from the threads of your story?

This is the art of living soul-led.

This is what it means to become the author of your own epic.

Invitation for your Own Epic Soul Adventure

 I invite you to embark on the journey of uncovering what truly matters to you — your inner core values, the search for meaning through Logotherapy as taught by Viktor Frankl, and the ancient Japanese art of Ikigai, which helps you connect that meaning to a way of serving the world with your own unique gifts and skills. These three paths are outlined on the main Your Story page. If you feel called to explore one or all of them, I offer one-on-one mentorship to guide you through each journey at your own pace. Together, we’ll walk through the material in a conversational way that helps you enjoy the process of uncovering the shape and soul of your own epic story.