In this episode of Conversations for the End, I’m joined by story healer Rick Diamond for a wide ranging conversation on personal myth, somatic knowing, and the often unseen stories shaping our lives.

We explore how personal myths form, how they repeat with subtle differences across a lifetime, and how the body often knows long before the mind is ready to understand. Rick speaks about healing ruptures that arrive unexpectedly, the dangers of spiritual bypassing, and the importance of recognising the psyche as fundamentally polytheistic rather than unified or linear.

Together, we examine what it means to live inside a myth, how archetypal figures and gods continue to move through modern lives, and why the hero’s journey is less about triumph and more about the courage to say yes to what is already calling.

The conversation also turns toward creativity, imagination, and story as essential tools for integration rather than aesthetic luxuries, culminating in a discussion of Rick’s Story Workbook and the practical work of engaging myth consciously rather than being unconsciously lived by it.

This episode is an invitation to listen differently to your own story, to notice where repetition is asking for transformation, and to approach healing not as correction but as deepening relationship with the psyche.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

02:42 Rick’s personal myth

06:58 The joy of waking up

11:15 Somatic healing

15:19 Unexpected healing ruptures

18:00 The polytheistic psyche

21:00 Eastern spirituality and spiritual beggars

23:00 Recognising our personal myth

31:19 Repetition with a difference

38:40 Living inside a myth and somatic reaction

43:30 Archetypal figures and the gods

44:30 The hero says yes to the journey4

7:50 Confronting the hero’s call

48:40 Unconditional love and the relief of realisation

54:00 Common stories we need to heal

60:02 The importance of creativity and imagination

60:08 The Story Workbook

Listen to Episode 26 of Conversations for the End on YouTube and all podcast platforms.

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