A Persona Archetype Mentor's Story

Leanne Tololeski • Feb 08, 2022

Finding Katie’s Persona Archetype Work 

I'm Leanne and I'm one of the Mentors here at Katie Eden Todd. I wanted to share my story and offer a perspective as someone who has deeply benefited from this work. In fact, I've joined the company and am making it my life-work to share this knowledge with the world.


I've Included my Persona Archetype Map below. You can also find a podcast episode where I discuss my map with Katie here.


  1. Sparrow
  2. Swan
  3. Owl
  4. Nightingale
  5. Parrot
  6. Raven


An avid proponent of ‘self-development’ gospel, my twenty-year-old-self was (arrogantly) proud of the hunt to find ‘Me’…

Leaving school, I realised quite quickly how young and green I was in a world of people who seemed to know themselves and what they wanted in life. All I had were questions, mistrust, and a tsunami of self doubt. I filled that discomfort and void with self-development courses, retreats, life coaching, healing…. With an equal share of numbing and avoidance…The rollercoaster of life was real!

Whilst that concoction helped fill some gaps, it could never quench my real thirst for deeply knowing

myself, understanding my purpose and finding hope in the sea of the unknown. The first time I truly

felt seen, heard, and validated was upon meeting Katie and her earlier Archetype work. There, my

true pilgrimage home began and continues now with the Persona Archetypes.


Working with the Persona Archetypes was like laser therapy for the bits of myself I disliked and

fought to extinguish and distance myself from. It shone a light onto the areas I kept hidden and was

ashamed of and gave them a face and a name. My anxiousness, mistrust, over-analysing, and despair

were not there to overcome, cure, or be rid of. They are a compass and a map to the areas of my

greatest self rejection. They will forever be a part of who I am…It is my choice how I meet them and

hold them within.


I believe this to be the true Adulting of this world – taking responsibility and accountability for

myself. The young adult being overwhelmed and paralysed in anxiousness – I now see and accept as

my Sparrow who needs constant adulting. I recognise the self destructive, mistrusting young woman

who almost failed and gave up university at the very end of her degree, as my Swan rebelling against

an Owl blueprint and a complete soul displacement. I can look upon these as failures or

acknowledge and own them as times where I swayed most from my true north and listened the least

to my heart.



My Persona Archetype journey has helped lift the heavy, crushing weight of who I thought I had to

be. Knowing, understanding, and welcoming home all my 6 Personas, as well as the ones I don’t

have, has been a path of true liberation. It has steadied my soul, enriched my connections and

community and nourished my heart in a world of the Innate Wild Unknown.

Katie Eden Todd - Blog

By Katie Eden Todd 08 May, 2022
May we celebrate and truly appreciate every ounce of love from Mother-figures (in whatever gender) we were fortunate enough to have experienced, today. May we open our hearts to those who have lost mothers, those who have or are painfully struggling to become mothers, and those who haven’t been able to sustain a healthy relationship with their mothers… this day can be a hot poker right into the heart of our greatest vulnerability. We see you, we acknowledge you, we appreciate the mountains you may still be climbing. We are here walking with you. But today in these Feminine Rising times, my mind is going to Roe vs Wade and the likely knocking down of this legislation by the Supreme Court in the U.S. This landmark case in 1973 legalised abortion. There are states in the U.S. now making abortion illegal and wait for it… offering a $10,000 bounty to those who dob in providers or recipients of abortion! Way to go Texas!! FFS!! My Kali Raven blood is boiling as I write this. Texas et al… are regressing to the literal dark ages and the days of witch-hunts. (Never underestimate how terrified those who have severed their inner feminine are of this life force. They.Are.Petrified of those that have access to the feminine’s intangible powers, that’s why they are behaving so tyrannically, they’re in Child and totally fear driven). We’ve lived in a severed Feminine, Masculine dominated tyranny for eons. This darkly hierarchical, cynically abusive and entitled reign has left ALL of us somewhat motherless … as the true, empowered feminine has been exiled for thousands of years. We’ve ALL missed out on primal Feminine unconditional love and support, that knows how to embrace our darkness, pain and mistakes. That wise, loving embrace that’s been there, faced all shadow and can sooth pain, shame and guilt with a depth of love and insight few ever experience. Our Masculine era sought to sever and annihilate the Feminine, yet she still exists in all genders. She’s been louder and more seen recently, have you noticed?! That’s why the Masculine is running scared and reactively trying to assert more power and micro control over her, as we see in Texas etc… they are truly doomed if they take this Child directed path. If we see Roe vs Wade overturned, our world will be turned upside down. White evangelical Christians around the world will be galvanised and seek the same everywhere. NO MORE! The right for women to decide what happens in their bodies and their lives is sacred. (The men responsible for unplanned pregnancies of course have zero laws impeding their lives, no hypocrisy here.) This is ‘punish and chain women as second-rate citizens’ legislation, and is nothing to do with pro-life. Pro-life is we feed, house, provide health care, nourish, support, value and educate everyone as equally valuable… you need the Feminine for that. We crave this. Until we recognise and embrace the Feminine as sacred and vital in all our lives, our world is doomed. To be equal, and not deliberately and legislatively chained, impoverished, marginalised and diminished to a life of few if any opportunities or choices, must happen now. Many women will literally die, many will be horribly scarred or left infertile and many more will be condemned to lives of indescribable hardship if we make abortion illegal again. NO. NO privileged class gets to decide for us ever. NO ‘CHRISTIAN’ decides that for us. WE decide. (Please know the wealthy, mostly white ‘Christian’ men and women with the power to overturn Roe vs Wade, will always have abortion access. It’s the middle to poorer lower classes who won’t.) This issue I foresee will be THE issue that could bring much that is corrupt, heartlessly cruel and unjust down to rubble. This epic battle will likely be a key tipping point in our era of Masculine oppression of the Feminine (in all genders). The great severance, the great divide collectively and within, is ending. Feminine Rebirth is challenging, it’s painful, it’s hard work, BUT it’s the only way the feminine can rise again. This is HER time. In you and me and all of us. ALL GENDERS are hearing her call… So on this Mother’s Day be galvanised. Be passionate about bringing empowered mothering to our world. Hear the call of your heart to be an advocate of love and mother wisdom in every facet of life. I’m not interested in tokenism and commercialisation of special days celebrating whatever … I tell you what I am interested in. I’m interested in delivering unconditional primal feminine mothering to the world, daily. In small to big ways. I’m interested in justice, truth, compassion, tolerance and feminine wisdom rising like a tsunami to wash the old toxic system away. Happy Primal Mothering my Darlins… P.S. and if ‘they’ are foolish enough to light the abortion match … they’ve no idea the fire and rage they will untap. ‘They’ will inevitably be burning themselves to the ground by their own hands. Eventually, what we deliver to others must come home to self. I wouldn’t touch that match if I were them. (P.P.S. There’s a special bonus episode with 3 stories on our Feminine Rising times in our Cellmates to Soulmates course out now if interested to learn more.) Much love xxx
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