The Wisdom Map
Understanding Yourself, Love, and the Life You’re Living
$14PDF · 105 pages
Coming soon The book will be available here shortly. The first chapter is free to read now.
A life can make perfect sense and still not be fully understood by the woman living it.
What it is
The Wisdom Map is a book for women who are doing fine on paper and still carrying a question they can't quite name. Across eleven short chapters, it offers eleven distinctions that are easy to miss and can change how you see your life: the difference between a role you play and a rule about who you must be, between being appreciated and being understood, between hoping someone will change and seeing that they are. Each chapter ends with a Map page that looks at one situation in your own life from a new angle. By the last page, your answers become your map.
Four women you’ll come to know
Nora48
Has just been offered the job she worked toward for a decade.
Diane54
The practical one, newly in a quiet house.
Teresa51
Her father's caregiver, while her sister sends money.
Lena46
Three years past a divorce, waiting on a “soon.”
Composite women drawn from many lives. Their stories move forward as the book does.
The eleven ideas
- Start hereYour live question
- Part I · Self
- A role, or a rule?
- The value under the plan
- What happened, and what I added
- What I do, what I bring, what I'd miss
- Part II · Love
- Appreciated, or understood?
- Hope and evidence
- A yes I chose, or a yes to keep the peace
- Part III · Meaning
- The goal and its promise
- Happy, meaningful, rich
- The cost of staying, the cost of changing
- A loss, a value, or a life I'm imagining
- Your mapWhat I see more clearly now
What’s inside
- 105 pages
- 11 chapters
- 13 fillable Map pages
- A designed PDF that reads well on a tablet, phone or computer, and prints at home
- Draws on research in psychology, Carl Jung, Aristotle and fiction, with full sources
Read Before We Begin and the whole first chapter, free.
Your Wisdom Map
Eleven questions about one part of your life, seen from eleven angles.
Is there a question you’re carrying?
Send it to the Library. We don’t reply to anyone individually. From time to time we answer a question anonymously, here on the website.
Questions
What format is it?
A PDF. Read it on any device or print it.
Can I write in it?
Yes, the Map pages are fillable on screen, or print them.
Is it therapy?
No. It's for reflection and education. It isn't a substitute for professional advice.
How does it relate to the videos and Companion Workbooks?
Each video explores one idea in depth with its own Companion Workbook; the book brings eleven ideas together in one journey.
Some insights are worth passing along.
Know a woman doing fine on paper and still carrying a question? Send her the first chapter.
I thought of you when I saw this book. Ask yourself: If you stepped back from one part of it, what are you afraid it would say about you?
A card with a question from the book’s first chapter, for Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest.
