Consider it your home base for navigating this sprawling literary adventure. If you ever get lost or in too deep (as I will no doubt be doing), you can simply breathe and circle back to the start. Re-read bits that need refreshing, or begin all over again — without having to sift through my other, unrelated posts.

Next up is a rather lengthy (though necessary) prologue I’m dividing up into parts for more digestible reading. Honestly, I spent so many months honing it (yay for first impression anxiety and perfectionism) that what comes after is currently a towering slush-pile of notes and the barest structure of chapter ideas...so bear with me as I hack away at them all.

Though it might be a while between instalments, I believe you will appreciate the end result — I’ve put so much heart and soul into even the pre-publishing phase. Your ideas, questions, thoughts and comments will help me shape things as we go, so don’t hesitate to lend them. And keep in mind that sentences, paragraphs, and chapters might shift around here and there.

Such is the playful and interactive nature of a book being written in real time! I hope you find it as fun as I’m having writing it all.

Introduction/Table of Contents:

Prologue (Three Parts):

Part One: Victim or Adventurer?

Part Two: Untitled/Home/Death?

Part Three?: Untitled/Life Again/Living From Your Centre

I’m playing with a structural concept at the moment: two halves of a circle (spiral?) that I’ve noticed and ventured into, and emerged from, many times over the course of my life. I’ve experienced these two halves of myself as a kind of going away/coming home process, which I am considering somehow working into a parts structure; interwoven with teachings from the fable I alluded to in my introduction, along with many other references and resources I find profoundly helpful and insightful. Before, then, finding your centre and re-living from that place. Stay tuned while I tease them out.

(Fun discovery on this theme: I am currently devouring Women Who Run With the Wolves, in which Clarissa Pinkola Estes often refers to what she calls the Life/Death/Life cycle. From what I understand, she has absolutely nailed down what I have been experiencing at an intangible soul level for some time! It's a thing!)

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Introduction/Table of Contents:

Prologue (Three Parts):

Part One: Victim or Adventurer?

Part Two: Untitled/Home/Death?

Part Three?: Untitled/Life Again/Living From Your Centre

Lauren Crabbe