S01E10 The Hero On The Balcony Episode

Different stages of life: the call, the messy middle, the resolution

Life being one long journey, with lots of small hero's journeys throughout

Stage 1: Ordinary World; Stage 2: The Call to Adventure; Stage 3: Refusal of the Call; Stage 4: Meeting with a Mentor; Stage 5: Crossing the 1st Threshold; Stage 6: The Adventure (enemies, shadows, etc); Stage 7: The Elixir

Saying no in my mind, and not feeling like I had a choice.

When our ego says that we don't have a choice

When our mentors muddle the waters by giving us another perspective, which doesn't align with our values or intuition

Who is the 'right' person to ask?

Going to the outside for advice because we don't trust ourselves

Having a challenge network (band of pirates) to rattle us and keep us integrity

Use criticism as a way to reinforce our values

Can you refuse a call and be the same afterwards?

Choices aren't always crossroads, but exits on a highway.

Archetypes: The Hero, the Mentor, The Threshold Guardian, The Herald, The Shape-Shifter, The Shadow, The Ally, The Trickster -- all at the service of the hero.

The journey is the hero's search for identity and wholeness

We can't always see the arc of our own hero's stories

Our blinders can prevent us from seeing the truth of our life

Importance of getting perspective to see the stories we are in

Look at your life as a story

Sometimes we don't see when we need to go to the balcony to get perspective

Is the shero/heroine journey different from the hero journey?