Tell the Story of Your Soul
The sole purpose of this course is to honor your own becoming.
You will not be asked to polish your life into a tidy narrative or arrive at some verdict about who you are.
You will not be asked to judge yourself or justify your choices.
You will tell the story of your soul free from the pressure of watching eyes so that you can tell your story in freedom and truth. Whether you ever share it with anyone, will be entirely up to you.
Your story might take months or even years to craft. There will likely be more turns in the journey ahead. There's no race to the finish.
In the Soul Discovery sessions of this course you'll use the lens of the liminal to trace the patterns in your inner life, to mark the crucial turns in your journey, the sticking points, the threads you’re still carrying.
In the Story Crafting sessions you'll give form to what emerges, in whatever medium fits you best. That might be words, but it might also be music, movement, arts or crafts.
Let your soul be your guide!
About the Author
S. K. Kruse’s debut short-story collection Tales from the Liminal (Deuxmers, 2021) includes a story that was longlisted for the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction. Her novel Of Beginnings and Ends (Deuxmers, 2026), won the NLAPW’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Award. She is the founder of The Liminal Essay Contest and co-curator of The Liminality Project. You can sign up for her newsletter or find out more about her projects right here at skkruse.com.
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What is the Story of a Soul?
Tell the Story of Your Soul grew directly out of my own experience writing Of Beginnings and Ends. To create that fictional world, I drew on the key turning points of my own inner journey. The process was filled with insight, catharsis, and genuine healing, and it got me thinking that everyone should get to do this!
Tell the Story of Your Soul grew directly out of my own experience writing Of Beginnings and Ends. To create that fictional world, I drew on the key turning points of my own inner journey. The process was filled with insight, catharsis, and genuine healing, and it got me thinking that everyone should get to do this!
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Why Tell the Story of Your Soul
Story is powerful — and that power cuts in more than one direction. Revisiting the past can sometimes pull us into rumination rather than reflection — rehearsing grievances, reopening wounds before they are ready, or hardening a single narrative into something we mistake for the whole truth. It can tempt us toward a story that fixes us in place, or asks too much of us too soon.
Story is powerful — and that power cuts in more than one direction. Revisiting the past can sometimes pull us into rumination rather than reflection — rehearsing grievances, reopening wounds before they are ready, or hardening a single narrative into something we mistake for the whole truth. It can tempt us toward a story that fixes us in place, or asks too much of us too soon.
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The Role of the Liminal in the Story of Your Soul
If you know anything about me, you probably know that I am a little obsessed with the liminal. I write about it constantly—in Tales from the Liminal, in the Liminality Project, in my newsletter Libations from the Liminal. It shows up everywhere in my work because, honestly, it shows up everywhere in life once you learn to recognize it.
If you know anything about me, you probably know that I am a little obsessed with the liminal. I write about it constantly—in Tales from the Liminal, in the Liminality Project, in my newsletter Libations from the Liminal. It shows up everywhere in my work because, honestly, it shows up everywhere in life once you learn to recognize it.
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Navigating the Liminal State
When it comes to the interior work of a liminal season, muscling through doesn't work. It just delays the process—or worse, shuts it down entirely. The liminal has work to do in you. The goal is to let it.
When it comes to the interior work of a liminal season, muscling through doesn't work. It just delays the process—or worse, shuts it down entirely. The liminal has work to do in you. The goal is to let it.
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The Trap of the Liminal
Before you settle into the Soul Discovery sessions, I want to share one more thing I think is important. Something I wish I had understood earlier in my own journey.
The liminal isn't only a place of possibility. It can also become a trap.
Before you settle into the Soul Discovery sessions, I want to share one more thing I think is important. Something I wish I had understood earlier in my own journey.
The liminal isn't only a place of possibility. It can also become a trap.
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Preparing to Tell Your Story
There are two types of sessions in this guide — Soul Discovery and Story Crafting. You get to decide how much time you give to each. Some people might devote a weekend retreat to the Soul Discovery portion. Others bring it into their daily quiet time over weeks or months. Likewise for the Story Crafting sessions.
There are two types of sessions in this guide — Soul Discovery and Story Crafting. You get to decide how much time you give to each. Some people might devote a weekend retreat to the Soul Discovery portion. Others bring it into their daily quiet time over weeks or months. Likewise for the Story Crafting sessions.
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Finding the Turns in Your Journey
Every life has moments that redirect us. Openings and endings, losses and gains, ruptures and returns. Some of these moments arrive dramatically, announced and impossible to ignore. Others are quiet but just as decisive — a conversation, a season, a slow interior shift you barely noticed until you were already on the other side of it. The liminal at work in our lives.
Every life has moments that redirect us. Openings and endings, losses and gains, ruptures and returns. Some of these moments arrive dramatically, announced and impossible to ignore. Others are quiet but just as decisive — a conversation, a season, a slow interior shift you barely noticed until you were already on the other side of it. The liminal at work in our lives.
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Identifying Your Response to the Turns
Now that you've taken the wide-angle view of your soul’s journey and noted the crucial turning points on your spiral, it’s time to move in closer. Now you’ll sit down with one turn in particular and ask it to tell you more.
Now that you've taken the wide-angle view of your soul’s journey and noted the crucial turning points on your spiral, it’s time to move in closer. Now you’ll sit down with one turn in particular and ask it to tell you more.
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Telling Your Story From Your Soul
Story Crafting as Another Path for Soul Discovery: You've marked the turns in your journey, named your responses to them, and gathered the real, textured stuff of a life. Now comes the creative part— shaping all of that raw material into a form that honors your becoming.
Story Crafting as Another Path for Soul Discovery: You've marked the turns in your journey, named your responses to them, and gathered the real, textured stuff of a life. Now comes the creative part— shaping all of that raw material into a form that honors your becoming.
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Choosing Your Story Container
Crafting the story of your soul seems to work well when it lives inside a repeatable structure—a container that can hold unique creative expression for each turn in your journey. This container could be your medium or your metaphor.
Crafting the story of your soul seems to work well when it lives inside a repeatable structure—a container that can hold unique creative expression for each turn in your journey. This container could be your medium or your metaphor.
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Ways to Tell Your Story
There are as many ways to “tell” the story of your soul as there are people on this Earth.
Each of the following mediums offers a different approach. The list is by no means comprehensive. You can craft the story of your soul in any way that feels authentic to you.
There are as many ways to “tell” the story of your soul as there are people on this Earth.
Each of the following mediums offers a different approach. The list is by no means comprehensive. You can craft the story of your soul in any way that feels authentic to you.
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Mapping Your Metaphor
Once you’ve chosen your metaphor, you can begin mapping the turns in your journey to it!
Once you’ve chosen your metaphor, you can begin mapping the turns in your journey to it!
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Crafting the Turns in Your Story
As you move ahead with the story-crafting part of this course, let your soul continue to speak, and stay open to the possibilities.
As you move ahead with the story-crafting part of this course, let your soul continue to speak, and stay open to the possibilities.
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Continuing the Journey
I'm so glad you decided to tell the story of your soul. I hope you've found this process to be as cathartic and life-giving as I did.
What you've done takes courage. It's much easier to just stay on the surface, to just keep moving and let the noise of life drown out the voice inside you.
I'm so glad you decided to tell the story of your soul. I hope you've found this process to be as cathartic and life-giving as I did.
What you've done takes courage. It's much easier to just stay on the surface, to just keep moving and let the noise of life drown out the voice inside you.
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