Coming home to ourselves is what we do on the Hero’s Journey, the journey where we set forth into the Great Unknown, experience many things along the way (not only trials but wonders), and return home a changed person. Most mythologized accounts of the Hero’s Journey involve archetypes like the Brave Young Hero, Noble Steed, Damsel in Distress, and Fire-breathing Dragon (for females, we might substitute the Innocent Maiden, Jealous Witch, Fairy Godmother, and Handsome Prince). Whatever the ...

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