"Author, herbalist and visionary Holly Bellebuono’s luminous and transformative book Once Upon a Place is a travel guide for healing, change and discovering your soul’s true home. This isn’t just another travel guide—it’s a soul-stirring roadmap to healing, purpose, and personal evolution.I think she has some wonderful and unique ideas that can help you on your hero’s journey because it focuses on place.
Holly reveals how landscapes like forests, caverns, and vessels mirror our inner worlds, each offering symbolic wisdom straight out of the hero's journey. Together, they explore how myth, metaphor, and place intertwine to help us find meaning in the midst of chaos and clarity in times of change.
Whether you're navigating a life transition or craving a deeper connection to yourself and the world, this episode offers a powerful reminder: your story isn’t over—and the map is already in your hands."
--Laura Giles, the Pan Society and Fantasia Podcast
The Place is at the heart of the journey
Searching for the darkest and most dangerous places where heroes and heroines go in quests and adventures, author Holly Bellebuono identifies five life-changing locations that influence every life’s journey. In her 8th book Once Upon A Place: Forests, Caverns, and Other Places of Transformation in Myths, Fairy Tales and Film, she invites the reader to dive headlong into the symbolic Cavern, Deep, Vessel, Forest, and Labyrinth where obstacles seem insurmountable and personal growth almost takes a backseat to survival. Holly does not shy away from either the ugliness nor the beauty of personal change as she walks you through rich stories that will unlock next steps in your own real-life adventure.
You brought it together so delightfully and so playfully in this wonderful book
You're demonstrating just how passionate you are about the mythology and the fairy tales of our culture. You're citing these because you're in love with them and you've written this book that shares the passion you have for these types of stories, and I'm delighted to have you on the show because I love the power of our mythology, the power of the story, the power of our lineage, so to speak. What you've done so well is show that the journey itself is woven into the human experience probably from the beginning. And you brought it together so delightfully and so playfully in this wonderful book.
--Les Jensen, New Human Living
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