Coach for The Journey Blog: About the Project

For those of you who are new to the Women and Legacy project or would like some more information about it, it may help to give you some background.

I have been practicing psychotherapy for 20 years and have also added coaching into my work. Working with the process of transformation has been the focus of that work. In both of the therapy and coaching arenas, I work primarily on an individual basis with people. However, finding ways for women to connect regarding their journeys, their legacies, and how they give something of themselves feels important and often difficult to find. Over the past year, the call has become stronger and clearer for me to work on this, so it became time to act.

The main focus of the project is how women reflect on their life experiences and how that has an impact on their personal legacies, or how they give back to the world. My inspiration comes from all of the women I have known and/or worked with who are doing wonderful things in the world. This may be something they quietly do in solitude, or something about how they relate to others, or projects and work that address problems in our society. They care about and for the world, not because they've skated through life without any problems or obstacles, but because of their life experiences, both positive and negative. They know that they have been changed by the challenges they've dealt with and they incorporate that into what is meaningful in their lives.

It is the internal journey that makes its external expression in the world meaningful. This is why I chose The Hero's Journey. It connects the internal and the external and gives us a framework for seeing how both are exquisitely important in life. More on The Hero's Journey in another post...