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All right, welcome back to the podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Pewter, and today I am going to be going through the hero's journey,

specifically the second part, initiation, in which we enter into this other world where

there's trials.

And specifically today I'm going to be talking to therapist, psychiatrist, mental health professionals,

and talking about our unique journey, our unique trials.

In the last episode on this, I talk about departure, which is the call to the adventure.

This belly of the whale moment, including coming up against our unconscious, the darker

side of our personality, the shadow where we might have aggression, jealousy, resentment.

And I recently have had a client who has found this and who says, you know, I could easily

be comfortable.

I could easily avoid even looking at this part of myself, but there it is.

There's a hesitation to even go there to even look at that part, right?

And then the second part is initiation, the third part is return of the hero's journey.

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