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 relation ...