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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.
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.
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