The Way Home, Ben Katt
The Way Home, Ben Katt
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The Way Home
Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife

Author: Ben Katt

Narrator: Ben Katt

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2024


Synopsis

A guidebook for those at midlife struggling to find themselves, applying Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey to the modern reader’s quest for wholeness.
Those reaching midlife often discover that they have been bombarded with messages from society telling them who they should be and what their life should look like. While chasing the three-headed monster (achievement, perfection, and the approval of others), author Ben Katt realized that he had lost himself along the way. The Way Home is a book for those struggling to find their way back to themselves, especially at midlife.
Katt distills Joseph Campell’s Hero’s Journey into an accessible, ten-step program to help readers move beyond their limitations, find fulfillment, and make the greatest possible contribution to their community and world. Anyone – ordinary, extraordinary, or somewhere in between – can embark upon the Hero’s Journey, leaving the familiar, falling into the unknown, and ultimately rising to wholeness.
Bringing together personal experience, spiritual wisdom, and well-known mythologies, The Way Home serves as a practical guidebook to inspire and equip people in the second half of life, helping them move from isolation to belonging, from security to surrender, from conformity to wildness. Katt employs a number of tools and rituals to guide readers along the path back to themselves, including solitude, dreamwork, fasting, and meditation.
This book serves as a reminder to those at a transition point in their life that the most important task is to stay connected with their own heart.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candance on July 12, 2024

This book spoke to me on many different levels— as parent, professional, and curious being. Katt’s interest in Jung and Campbell echoed for me a time when the hero’s journey spoke to me as a powerful organizing force to interpret life. The theme still has potency for me, yet more in chorus with othe......more

Goodreads review by Markie on August 10, 2023

"The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife" by Ben Katt appears to be a valuable guidebook for individuals navigating the challenges and self-discovery that often accompany the midlife phase. The book draws inspiration from Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, a well-known na......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 06, 2025

In The Way Home, Ben Katt has written a book about he had lost his own way home and his journey to getting back to wholeness. He was entering his 30s about to hit his midlife. He had three kids in three years. His wife was about done with graduate school. He started three community minded startups.......more

Goodreads review by AB on January 01, 2025

I typically wouldn’t read this kind of book, save for the fact that I recently completed a pilgrimage (of sorts) over the course of 2024. Ergo, reading through Katt’s approach to his own style of sacred quest, spread across six years, reminded me very much of the past three years of preparation for......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on March 05, 2024

This book is an amazing read for those searching to find their true self. from the first page I couldn't not put the book down, I spent 9 hours totally enthralled with the book. there is wisdom on ever page (I would suggest having a highlighter with you), but wisdom can be seen everywhere so what ma......more