The Blog For Real-Life Heroines
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.
“You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, ...
“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.”
– From The Invitation, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
This blog post is about my heroine’s journey to know my true self – and how it helps to understand ...
“We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.” ― Joseph Campbell
“When Dr. Jung was asked the question “Will we make it?” he always replied, “if enough individuals will do their inner work.” … This...
I offer up a memory, a reminiscence of a particular time in my life when I decided to call out my fear - and it worked! It changed my life, actually. It helped me to be a braver person. As I write this today there is so much fear in the world it’s palpable. Maybe there is something here in this stor...
(This is a continuation from my previous blog post.)
I know some of you are hearing your Call right now. (The pandemic, the chaotic nature of our world has ignited the need in many women to make a change.) You may be standing in close proximity to the Threshold, the entry way to the Heroine’s Jour...
You know that place - the jumping-off spot for what you’ve been wanting to do next with your life. Maybe you’re like so many people right now, you just can’t bring yourself to cross it. In Heroine’s Journey terminology, that spot is called the First Threshold (there’s another one at the end of the j...
“God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.” - The Color Purple, Alice Walker
I know that blog posts are about personal musings. But this second one about my spiritual path strikes a part of me as being so self-cen...
“The Goal of the Hero(ine)’s Journey is yourself, finding yourself.” - Joseph Campbell
The Heroine's Journey
I think the Heroine’s Journey is a spiritual journey at its core. We uncover more and more of our true selves as we answer the calls that just keep coming - responding to each one by enteri...
How to navigate these times, these days? Are you thinking that we just have to adopt a survival mindset, just endure and be our resilient best until this pandemic is over?
Well, have I got a tool for you, dear Heroine!
What Is Intuitive Visioning?
I teach a process that helps you navigat...
Have you ever walked a labyrinth? I took my first step into a labyrinth, one of my own making, and here’s what happened…I hadn’t planned on going on this journey – but something took over once I stepped into one.
It’s January 2010…
I’m in a studio office in Bath, Maine and I’m taping, with masking...
There’s a lot of work that goes into growth, evolution, and transformation - the gifts we get from taking the Heroine’s Journey. The journey is not a “walk in the park.” We have to enter the Abyss every now and then.
Not on every journey but when “stuff” is ready to come up, then the Heroine g...
Here it is, our first offering of just the right thing for those real-life heroines, young and old, in your lives. When you want to know about what makes a Real-Life Heroine happy, it works to ask them – so I did.

Here are the ideas my team and I put together and some from the women i...