The Hero’s Journey
Each of us becomes the hero of our own life at the moment we face a defining choice: to adapt while staying true to ourselves, or to lose ourselves along the way.
The Story We Tell Ourselves about who we are begins early
In my case, it began in a family where meaning, responsibility, and care for others were a way of life. I grew up with two parents devoted to serving people—my father, a priest, and my mother, a pediatric nurse—and this structure taught me early on that life has a dimension greater than personal interest. My two older brothers had the role of protecting and guiding me, and I grew up within a system of relationships, rules, and responsibilities where belonging and order were natural.
The Axis
School and sport strengthened this axis. Sport taught me discipline, sustained effort, and the simple truth that results are built through daily presence. My professional foundation as a teacher and coach brought structure and rigor to this path, transforming athletic experience into a way of understanding and supporting people’s processes of growth. For a long time, these reference points were clear and stable.
I became a mother at a young age, and the role of motherhood became, for me, one of the deepest sources of meaning. Raising my children became an absolute priority and a responsibility I fully embraced.
The Drift
After 1989, life led me into the world of business. I built, I worked, I lived in several countries, and carried forward projects and responsibilities of significant scope. In this process of continuous adaptation, distance from myself gradually took shape. The roles I inhabited—as partner, professional, and supporter of my family—began to cover my inner voice. My original values remained present, yet they moved into the background. Sport remained the anchor that kept me connected to myself.
The Moment of Truth
There comes a point when adaptation turns into survival. For me, that point arrived as a simple and uncomfortable question: if I continue like this, who remains of me? In that moment, I understood that I had moved away from the axis built by family, school, and sport through the loss of my own direction, in the effort to do “what is expected.”
The Return
Years of searching followed—years of working with myself and exploring different forms of therapy and personal development. Each experience brought clarity and meaning, while structure emerged later through mental neurocoding and working with mentors who brought order, method, and rigor to my inner experiences. There, these experiences integrated, and the threads came together into a coherent form—like a conscious return to an old competence, matured over time, where supporting growth processes once again became natural.
The cold is an absolute doorway to the soul
When the Hero Becomes a Mentor
Today, I no longer see this story as one of sacrifice or struggle. It is the story of a distancing from oneself and a conscious return.
I am happy because the fire of passion burns once again in my heart—because I do exactly what I love and live in alignment with my own choices.
This is the result of a path walked with patience, structure, and accountability. I know this is possible because I built it step by step. Mentorship is a natural continuation of this journey: the capacity to stand beside people, to support their processes of growth, and to create structure where it is needed.
If you feel that the time has come to rediscover your direction, I can be alongside you as a mentor, supporting the process you choose to undertake.
About the Hero’s Journey
The myth, the story of our becoming
Among those who devoted themselves to the study of myth—such as Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Theodore Gaster—was Joseph Campbell, who brought together a series of observations into the theory known as the Hero’s Journey. In his books, Campbell synthesized the common elements he identified across the myths and legends of many cultures.
The Hero’s Journey is an inner, metaphorical path that heroes across time and cultures appear to share. It unfolds as a transformative adventure that exposes the hero to dramatic moments—loneliness, descent, and falling—through which they pass intense experiences, only to return—sometimes seemingly by magic—renewed and victorious over darkness.
Drawing on Campbell’s model, George Lucas created the Star Wars saga, in which young heroes of a highly advanced technological civilization confront their inner and outer demons, passing through trials and wonders much like the heroes of ancient times. Beyond the universal motif of adventure and transformation that shaped humanity’s mythic cultures, Campbell’s work also overlays a cosmogonic cycle—a circular story of continuous creation and dissolution within human existence.
All human beings give meaning to the world they live in and make sense of life’s experiences by telling stories.