| I promised some sneak peeks,
so here are a few pieces from our fourth chapter, "Camaraderie."
Please hit REPLY with your thoughts and answers. :)
“Aaron, can you think of a hero that saves the world by themself?” I asked as I turned the tv off, set the remote down, and sat up so that I could look at him.
His eyebrows furrowed in thoughtfulness for a few moments. “No, I can’t think of one. They all have friends who help them out. Avatar had Katara and Sokka. Luke had Han and Leia. Troy had Chad.”
“Yeah, we need good friends because we all go through hard times and face our own villains. That’s why I always call your Aunt Kate my ‘Sam Wise.’”
“What?” He cocked his head curiously.
“Well, when I went to college and started to question my beliefs, I lost many of my relationships and felt a lot like Frodo from The Lord of the Rings. I was on a quest for truth and felt scared and alone.
Your Aunt Kate was one of the few people who stayed by my side, even though she was struggling with the big questions, too. You know that scene where Frodo sneaks away to travel to Mordor himself and Sam finds him floating away in a canoe?”
Aaron smiled. “Oh yeah, and he jumps in the water to follow him even though he can’t swim?”
“Yep. That was your Aunt Kate. She jumped into water she could barely swim in herself to make sure that I didn’t go alone. And we’ve been ‘saving each other’ through our different life challenges ever since. It hasn’t always been easy. We have disagreed, fought, and even taken time apart like Ron did when he was upset at Harry and Hermione. But we always find our way back to each other. That’s the type of friend I know you’ll find someday.”
He nodded and smiled.
Camaraderie
What did you learn about friendship from your favorite childhood movies, tv series, and books?
When I look at my list, I see a few interesting patterns. First, a lot of the tv shows I watched were family-focused, meaning that family members were friends with each other but there weren’t a lot of external relationships. Of course, there was Elliott (E.T.) who made friends with an alien and then had to let go of him. Ren McCormick (Footloose) found himself in a small town where he was not understood but lucky to find one not-so-clever-but-ever-so-sweet companion and a young woman who was looking for someone to help her escape small-town thinking. In fact, many of the movies I loved (My Girl and Benny and Joon) had characters who just didn’t fit in but found another outcast to be their friend and love them despite, and sometimes, for their quirks. Finally, I can’t leave out the soap operas I used to watch with my aunt, where betrayal was the norm and usually compounded instead of resolved; and of course, 90210 helped to bring that to the teen experience too.
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| | How did your favorite heroes (or groups of heroes)
“make things right” when everything had gone wrong?
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| | Oh, and here's a little reminder
In chapter three of A Religion of Story, I briefly discuss the failures of our current industrial model of learning that emphasizes the head
(logic, information, structure) and minimizes the importance of the heart (emotion, experience, intuition) and then invite parents to begin cultivating a new model of learning in their homes... using Story.
Otherwise, we will continue to raise generations that are in pain but can't speak about it or, worse, even feel it.
And without access to our voices, we lose our ability to preserve our values, freedom, and personal sovereignty.
My friend, Senami, is doing the same type of work but in a different way.
She is helping women balance the masculine energy of the mind
(which initiates and drives actions) with the more feminine energy of the heart (which receives and knows the power of pure presence),
and become the Sovereign Queens of their lives.
Senami has found herself on a similar journey for the last ten years and has traveled all around the world – from the Black Hills mountains of
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or the ashrams of India, etc. – studying with some of the top names in the fields of women’s empowerment and transformation.
One of the treasures she brought back from this quest was a newfound ability
to blend her feminine radiance with the masculine action she
already mastered from her scientific corporate career.
Ultimately, she realized that this journey was really about integrating the Sovereign Queen archetype and was able to tap into her own unique
Feminine Leadership style that felt truly aligned with her values.
Today, she is a catalyst for women to find their authentic leadership style
and become the irresistibly magnetic leader they can be.
This existential life project has taken a new turn into soulful
conversations with fellow Queens/Kings (including me!).
It's called The Magnetic Queen Retreat: How To BE Remarkably SOVEREIGN
I have a complimentary ticket for you to attend this 10-Day retreat starting on April 1st. You can register using this link HERE.
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