The Archetypal

Feb 1

A 12 Journal Collection for Connecting with Any Part of You

The Archetypal is the most personal thing I've ever created, and I'm only a little terrified to release it into the world. It's the system that literally changed how I understand myself, and now I'm handing it to you. So let me explain what this actually is, and why I think it might change things for you too.

For most of my life, I thought of myself as one mind. One "me" who should have consistent wants, consistent energy, consistent styles, consistent feelings about things. And when I didn't? When I wanted completely opposite things depending on the day, the week, the phase of the moon, and whether or not I’d eaten recently. When the version of me who showed up Monday morning felt like a different person than the one who didn't want to show up Friday night? I felt frustrated. It felt like a conclusion I needed to decide on and only I was the one who was somehow having a problem with this because so many other people can be so consistently one vibe all of the time. It wasn't until meeting a friend with DID (dissociative identity disorder) that I started thinking differently. I started wondering if maybe I had parts, if maybe EVERYONE did. So, I quietly considered and experimented with finding any parts I might have. And, truly, it was like this insane eureka moment as soon as I did it. Looking at a piece of myself, giving it a name, a vibe, letting the part become its own entity within my world. All of the sudden it was literally IMPOSSIBLE to NOT love myself. All the sudden it wasn't being hard on myself, it was being hard on my PARTS. And I was NOT okay with that. I wouldn't have treated my worst enemy (if I had one) the way I treated myself before. Not only that I was defending them, having love for them, talking with them, solving life long traumas and daily dilemmas quicker and easier than I'd ever had before.

Discovering my parts made me feel more complete than I've ever felt in my whole life.

What I realized pretty quickly is that most of my overwhelm wasn’t coming from one problem — it was coming from too many parts talking at once. One part wanted rest. One part wanted progress. One part wanted beauty. One part wanted safety. And I was trying to satisfy all of them at the same time.

Parts-based thinking works because it stops that internal tug-of-war. Instead of fighting yourself as a whole, you can listen to one part at a time. One need. One voice. One perspective.

That alone reduces tension. And once the tension drops, clarity follows.

The Archetypal is the system I built to make this process tangible.

It’s a way of identifying, naming, and working with the different parts of you that show up at different times — without pathologizing them, fixing them, or pretending they don’t exist.

Each archetype represents a distinct internal spectrum: how you move through the world, what you need, what motivates you, and what throws you off balance, etc.

What The Archetypal is & isn’t…

The Archetypal Journals are guided companions designed to help you work with one archetype at a time.

They’re not full of self help cheese or “fix your life in 30 days” poppycock.

They’re journals written from the archetypes themselves, with love, from my archetypes to yours.

They're about balance, and working with (instead of against) yourself.

The Archetypal isn’t meant to tell anyone who they are.

I created it because learning to work with my parts changed how I treat myself, how I make decisions, how I move through the world, and genuinely made me so much more balanced.

If it helps even one person, I’ll be as happy as a two-year-old with a fresh set of finger paints, white walls, and 0 adult supervision.