The Story of the Tender-Hearted Warrior Journey
Discover the structure of this story—and learn how to become your full self, free of the old stories that have kept you swathed in fear.
Saturday, April 4th
11 am, Pacific
90-minute online workshop
This workshop is FREE.
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 Journey 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.
You're stumbling
in the darkness.
You are not alone.
You've been hip-checked into the wilderness. You feel alone, wandering by yourself. But the path is clear. Thousands of tender-hearted warriors have walked it before you.
This time is hard. But you've survived something hard before. You feel life deeply. And you've never felt like you fit in. Too much, not good enough — these old stories have haunted you. But walking this path leads you to your own bittersweet wisdom. Freedom you've never felt before.
Can you hear the call? Listen to it.
The cave you fear to enter holds the elixir you need.
Studying the journey — and how generations of women before you have walked it — will help you find your way.
Meet your guide.
Shauna James Ahern
I’m a storyteller, teacher, and lifelong lover of literature and cinema.
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.
Great stories help us learn that we don’t have to work through the struggles and fears of our lives alone.
Telling and hearing stories is what makes us human.
There’s a well-trodden path before you.
You don’t have to walk this path alone.
The hero leaves the familiar world by crossing the threshold into the unknown with a trusted guide.
I will be your guide.