Walking the Hero's Journey | Field-Reading Week 27

Walking the Hero's Journey | Field-Reading Week 27

July 5, 2026 · 20 min · Season 2026 · Episode 34

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of the Hero's Journey and how resistance in life can lead to personal transformation.

What if the greatest resistance we experience in life is not standing in our way, but pointing us toward the very transformation we are being invited to make? This week has been deeply connected to the Hero's Journey. It is a week that carries both celebration and remembrance in my own life. July 1 is my daughter's birthday. July 2 marks eleven years since my son Aleksander left this life. July 4 would have been his thirty-third birthday. Every year these dates invite me to reflect on endings, beginnings, loss, love, and the profound transitions that shape every human life. The Hero's Journey is often misunderstood. We imagine it as a path toward success, purpose, or fulfillment. Yet before anything new can be born, something old usually has to come to an end. Sometimes it is an identity. Sometimes a belief. Sometimes a relationship. Sometimes the way we have learned to protect ourselves. Throughout this week I have met people who are walking difficult paths, carrying enormous resistance while trying harder and harder to make life work. Many of us respond to challenge by doing more, pushing harder, or fighting our way forward, without stopping to ask the deeper question: What is…

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