This blog posting is based only on my 17 years plus of working in a residential Rehab unit. I have observed many people that have walked through our doors. Some people seem to breeze through without a problem, while others resist everything and make life so hard for themselves. This posting, I hope will be…
Author: Frank Smolle
The Index of My Hero’s Journey Posts
Over the time I have made posts about the Hero’s Journey. I have enjoyed writing about the subject. I have found it important for clients to know where they are on their journey and what to expect next.
What’s been happening
It’s been a bit over a year now that I have moved house and about 2 years since I moved 100% online with the shop. I have never been happier. My home life has improved, yet I still complain about the amount of work I have to do. I still work as a Drug and…
Hero’s Journey Step 12 – Receiving the Boon
We will first talk about the word Boon. Boon is a word that describes an unexpected gift – Boon from Vocabulary.com or from Collins Dictionary. Hence the term “Boon or Bust market”, where you buy a stock and unexpectedly the market for that share skyrockets, or the opposite the share drops to the point that…
Hero’s Journey Step 11 – Becoming the Master of Two Worlds
When facilitating groups about this stage, I got many answers. When in the progress of change we now the old world that we came from and we are new in this new world that we are just starting. This is the answer that I get. So when addressing those that are recovering addiction they say…
Hero’s Journey Step 10 – Crossing the threshold back
Hero’s Journey Step 9 – Crossing the threshold back
Hero’s Journey Step 9 – The Challenge
This is just a short post.The Challenge is different for each person and depends on the hidden fear that the person has not come to face yet. In a nut shell the challenge is another person giving you an easy way out or lets you give in to your instant gratification satisfaction.In a drug and…
Hero’s Journey Step 8 – Descent into the underworld
Knowing one’s self is to know the depth you have gone and how much worse you are capable of. The descent is a process of working out your emotions. When we do have an emotion we work out what that emotion is. There are but a few emotional driving neurotransmitters or peptides that the neurons…
Hero’s Journey Step 7 – Death
Looking at that heading, this may sound like a terrible subject. It is not, this is about a metaphorical death. The death of a pattern of behavior, A habit or a death of a self belief, or even a removal from the world for a short time. The metaphorical death is the death through departure. going…
Hero’s Journey – Trials – Part 3: Approach
I like metaphors and I will be using a few in this post. The Approach to a situation that we encounter is the key to many of the development arch of Heroes in stories. Because, the you have to see the Hero fail to learn that some approaches just do not work. This is how…
