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Led by school founder and coach Susanna Liller, our blog offers practical tools and real-life stories to help you navigate life's challenges and discover the extraordinary within yourself.

The Second, Annual, Real-Life Heroines Holiday Gift Guide (+ Cyber Monday 2022 Deals!) the heroine's journey Nov 28, 2022

We are doing it again (here’s what we did last year) - sharing what’s out there to please Heroines young and old. My hope, dear Heroines, is that you’ll find here something here to make your own shopping easier and maybe even more fun.

What were our selection criteria? Well, our intuition led the w...

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Heroines Stepping Out and What's Coming Up the heroine's journey Nov 15, 2022

Grab a cup of tea or a coffee and let’s sit down so I can fill you in. There’s so much going on! No, I’m not talking about the election or the stock market, the climate summit, Hurricane Nicole, or the Beaver Blood Moon eclipse. Those are all worthy topics for discussion and we are fortunate to have...

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Treat Yourself on Halloween the heroine's journey Oct 25, 2022

ā€œYou must do the thing you think you cannot do.ā€ - Eleanor Roosevelt

Candy Corn or Courage?Ā 

I’m not talking about candy corn (one of my favorites) or candy apples (too sticky) or even cider and donuts when I suggest that you should treat yourself on Halloween this year.Ā 

I’m talking about giving...

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Shaking Up Your Fall! the heroine's journey Oct 11, 2022

I’m shaking your tree with this blog post, Heroine. I’m knocking down those acorns and scattering those fall apples onto the ground. I’m setting those colorful leaves cascading down. It’s wake-up time and I have a BIG invitation for you!

Can you hear your future calling?

We never know what’s aroun...

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Do You Struggle With ā€œNot Good Enough?ā€ the heroine's journey Sep 27, 2022

Do you think you’re ordinary?

It's important to me – IT’S MY MISSION!! - that all women know that they are greater (by this, I mean ā€œmore thanā€ – much more) than they think they are – that they are what I call, Heroines.

Yes, I’m talking to you, dear Heroine. You, who probably considers yourself, ...

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Writing With Your Non-Dominant Hand the heroine's journey Sep 13, 2022

ā€œI believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be.ā€ - Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Are you stuck, blocked, at a dead end, confused, up against a brick wall…

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Writing Morning Pages the heroine's journey Aug 23, 2022

ā€œWhen people ask, ā€˜Why do we write morning pages?’ I joke, ā€˜To get to the other side.’ They think I am kidding, but I’m not. Morning pages do get us to the other side: the other side of our fear, of our negativity, of our moods.ā€ - Julia Cameron

Are you blocked, stuck, filled with negative thoug...

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Taking A Step Changes Everything the heroine's journey Aug 09, 2022

Heroines! Here’s another blog post about the labyrinth! I can’t stop talking about them! This blog post accompanies the video I recorded for my YouTube channel, which is a pictorial view of my discovery of the labyrinth.Ā 

Let's Talk About Labyrinths

While preparing to write to you today, I re-r...

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Get Out Of The Weeds: A Valuable Anti-Distraction And Goal Achieving Tool the heroine's journey Jul 26, 2022

Who is feeling very distracted lately? You? I know, me too - really distracted.

Just now, for example…I’m walking through my kitchen to turn off the hose that is watering my too-dry vegetable garden. ..(The peas didn’t make it.) and I notice my cat in the sink, which means she wants water, so I tur...

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Identifying with the Virgin In The Virgin's Promise the heroine's journey Jul 12, 2022

(This is a two-part blog. Part 1 explained the concept of the Virgin’s Promise. Now, two weeks later, Part 2 invites you to put your own life into the framework of the Virgin’s Promise.)

ā€œThe overall arc is a journey from dependency to shining your own bright light.ā€ Christopher VoglerĀ 

Two Wee...

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The Quest to Become True to Yourself - A Feminine Journey the heroine's journey Jun 07, 2022

(This is a two-part blog. Part 1 explains the concept of the Virgin’s Promise. Two weeks later, Part 2 invites you to put your own life in the framework of the Virgin’s Promise.)

ā€œThe Virgin’s Promise provides a pathway into the feminine archetypal journey lying dormant in our collective unconscio...

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We Have Come a Long Way, Baby the heroine's journey May 24, 2022

ā€œWomen will wear enormous hats. There are obvious disadvantages about having women in Parliament. I do not know what is going to be done about their hats. "How is a poor little man to get on with a couple of women wearing enormous hats in front of him?"

- Rowland Hunt, MP for Ludlow, U.K.

My work ...

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