The Heroic Journey

The full-length animated movie Finding Nemo is on a powerful story about life’s heroic journey and begins with a series of traumatic events in the lives of Marlin and Coral, expectant parents of 400 children (clown fish) about to be born. As the movie begins, Coral and 399 of their children-about-to-be-born are lost to a barracuda attack, leaving only one “child” to survive – Nemo. Marlin must deal with the profound losses, his guilt that he could not stop the attack and hav

As human beings, we have an innate desire to make sense of life. Some people are more philosophical about it than others, but the desire is there. One of the main reasons we seem to connect to certain movies, books, real-life stories, religious/spiritual texts and even video games, is because the hero’s journey is intertwined in them. We are inspired when people have made it through difficult times and have thrived. In this blog, I am going to take people through the process