Quarterlife

I needed to know that there was at least a possibility for a different life.

Grace would swing from one extreme to another because she wasn’t yet attuned to what she needed, or to the importance of self-care.

conscious consent or interest.

“The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself. And the best way I can do this is to be who I am and hope that he will learn from this not how to be me, which is not possible, but how to be himself. And this means how to move to that voice within himself, rather than to tho

work hard to stay connected to his body and build healthy routines.

Stories like these are core to what mythologist Joseph Campbell began to identify in the 1940s as the Hero’s Journey theme in global storytelling, a theme that I was grateful to start understanding in my midtwenties. Hero’s Journey stories convey the transformation of a person—almost always a Quarterlifer—from one level of consciousness to another.

Supporting Grace to incorporate more stability and security in her life would be the key to building a sustainable adulthood.

Moving through the work to Separate, Listen, and Build can feel more like an oscillation, or like weaving, as we move back and forth and back again.

The structure to hold the meaning.