The Story of the Tender-Hearted Warrior
Learn the structure of the Story of the Tender-Hearted Warrior.
This journey is your path to becoming your full self, free of the old stories that have kept you swathed in fear.
Saturday, April 18th
11 am, Pacific
90-minute online workshop
This workshop is FREE.
This is your
call to adventure.
Something is changing in your body. The sweats, the sleeplessness, the rage that arrives without warning, the sudden refusal to keep pretending — this is not your body failing you.
This is your body in perimenopause, sounding the call to adventure.
And if you answer this call, something extraordinary becomes possible: the chance to finally let go of the stories you have been telling yourself for decades — about how small you should be, how productive you must remain, how little you deserve.
The Story of the Tender-Hearted Warrior gives you a structure for this moment — ancient, proven, shaped for women who are done performing and ready to live.
We walk through this journey together here.
And in that community conversation, you will find freedom.
You know this story.
It's the structure underneath every story that has moved you.
Joseph Campbell spent his life mapping this structure across the world's mythologies. Carl Jung found it in the collective unconscious. This journey of letting go of old stories is at the heart of Buddhist practice. Modern neuroscience is writing the story of neuroplasticity in how we process change and trauma.
The Story of the Tender-Hearted Warrior is informed by all of these powerful ways of thinking — and shaped for the particular journey of women in perimenopause and beyond who are waking up to who they could become when they let go of their old stories.
Why the Tender-Hearted Warrior?
Heroes and heroic — these words have been codified, over time, as male. Firefighters. Thor. AI illustrations of pathetic presidents with the muscles of Rambo.
True warriorship requires something different. It requires staying open during an inward journey. Leaning into the melancholy times. Pacing your life according to what you actually need. Allowing the bittersweet wisdom to accumulate.
Tender-hearted warriors have struggled, mightily. But they have learned, over time, to stay open to the present moment. They shed the hard-hearted armor built over decades. They feel more alive.
That is warriorship. And it is yours.
Meet your guide.
Shauna James Ahern
I’m a storyteller, teacher, and a post-menopausal woman who wants to guide you to understanding your own stories.
I've been studying the heroic journey since I first read Joseph Campbell’s work in the early 1980s and watched The Power of Myth in 1989.
I've published 5 award-winning books, full of stories with a purpose.
And, as a teacher and Buddhist practitioner, I feel deep joy in introducing women—in their 40s, 50s, and beyond—to the story structure at the heart of all powerful storytelling.
I've been saying yes to my Tender-Hearted Warrior journey for decades now.
I will be your guide.
Working with Shauna has been the source of a major, radical healing and re-framing of my thoughts over these last few years. My negative self-talk has slowly shrunken up. It’s no longer the radio station I am listening to most of the time.
I’m so grateful.
Nancie M.
We are living through
a mythic moment.
When you study the structure of the Story of the Tender-Hearted Warrior, you learn that other people have been through this chaos — many, many times in human history.
And while the chaos and destruction will always feel like heartbreak, studying the story structure gives you a wider perspective than panic in the moment.
You can look at what is unfolding and see it clearly.
That’s not catastrophe — that’s the middle of the story.
We need this now.
Doing this work alone is harder than you can imagine. Doing it in community will bring you the ease you are looking for. And in the end — you find freedom.
Studying the story — and how generations of women before you have walked it — will help you find your way through.
Join us.
Remember—this is a FREE workshop.