The Way Home | Free Book
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 Campbell’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.
In The Press
"A fantastically written, powerfully wise offering from Ben Katt to
his generation, especially to men of his generation – and thus a gift
to our world of pain and promise.”
–Krista Tippett,
award-winning broadcaster and New York Times bestselling
author
"Katt aims in his spirited debut to help middle-aged
readers 'grappling with anxiety' and 'lost in loneliness' recover
their purpose....From biblical figures to movie heroes, the 'universal
way home to wholeness' is an arduous but eminently human trek, Katt
concludes. This inspires."
–Publishers Weekly
"Well organized, deeply thoughtful, and vivid in its encouragement to
follow the call. At times comforting both in its awareness of what a
reader in midlife may be struggling with and in its assurances that
the more uncomfortable stages of the Hero’s Journey do eventually lead
back to hope and purpose."
–Englewood Review of Books
"The Way Home is a powerful story and an
invitation, especially for those who are asking what it means to come
home to ourselves and embark on the complex journey of being an
adventurous, vulnerable human. Through Ben’s visceral and honest
storytelling, we remember what it means to be alive, to go deep within
ourselves when we have no idea what we will find. The wisdom provided
in this book comes from the ideas of
grace, space, and pace, and will guide us forward, no matter
where we are on the journey. All humans long to find expansive places.
I’m grateful this book is a guide into those spaces, helping us find
the power of language and gift of story along the way."
–Kaitlin B Curtice, award winning author of Native and Living Resistance
“The Way Home offers timely guidance for a
timeless tangle: how do we fully show up to our lives? Ben shines a
fresh light on what homecoming actually means and why finding
wholeness matters for how we relate to ourselves and others. This book
shows great heart and will be welcomed by anyone courageously willing
to trade the familiar, risk the unknown, and engage the mythic,
intimate practices of being truly free, alive, awake.”
—Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher and author of
Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage and
Compassion
"Heartfelt and honest storytelling that's packed with
wisdom. Ben Katt's The Way Home is a powerful guide for those
searching for more meaning and connection—especially men in their
midlife."
—Scott Shigeoka, author of
SEEK: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World
"Ben's courageous and vulnerable offering of his own
personal myth serves as a powerfully relevant map for those who have
lost their heart in the process of striving to create a fulfilling
life based on the often tattered directions we inherited from family
and society. I pray that all those who are seeking, especially my
brothers who feel lost without a map, somehow, someway, find this one
in their hands."
–Aubert Bastiat, founder of Sacred Sons
"I have never read anything that illuminated my own life
more, illuminating my own journey with dangerous, remarkable clarity.
Ben Katt's The Way Home is the rare book that
happens to you. These stories will crack open your own stories;
these words will give you language you can find yourself in. This is
sage wisdom without any of the pretentiousness--soulful, vulnerable,
tender, experiential. The Way Home is also rare in that it
fully delivers on the title--if home is what you long for, this book
will absolutely guide you there."
–Jonathan Martin, author
of The Road Away from God and
How to Survive a Shipwreck, director of the Center for
Spiritual Life at DePauw University
"I spend a good
portion of my life walking with middle aged people (mostly men) who
have come to the end of what our Western versions of identity and
vocation have offered us. They feel bored, disconnected and searching.
They are desperate for a journey toward wholeness that animates a life
marked by tenderness, joy, presence and meaning. This book offers a
desperately needed vocabulary, practice and lived experience of that
journey."
–Jon Huckins, author of Mending the Divides and lead
guide for the Journey Home Cohort
"If it hasn't happened to
you already, one day you're going to feel the grief and disorientation
of being far away from your true home with no precise way to trace
your steps back. Let The Way Home be a compass, and Ben Katt, a
guide."
–Pamela Ayo Yetunde, pastoral counselor and author
of
Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community
"The Way Home is a practical and inspiring guide
for those who find themselves in the midst of the midlife transition.
Katt shares his deep wisdom cultivated through his own journey through
the travails of a midlife transition, in a practical, compassionate,
and poignant way helping readers to reframe the midlife crisis as an
invitation to wholeness and an exciting new chapter of the journey of
life. This book will be the go-to guide for the next generation of
adults approaching midlife."
–Brandan Robertson, author of
Dry Bones and Holy Wars: A Call for Social and Spiritual Renewal
"The Way Home is moving, thoughtful, and a
heart-centered gift for those who are embarking on their own hero's
journey. In other words, it's a guide for the journey that each of us
must undertake."
–Jerry Colonna, author of Reboot and
Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong
"We are all called to a life of wholeness. Ben has listened and is
generously sharing the wisdom he found along the way. A wonderful read
for myth-lovers and spiritual adventurers."
–Casper ter Kuile,
author of
The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful
Practices
“Toward the end of this book, Ben Katt describes the
memorabilia he keeps in his office. Small containers for uncontainable
memories. That’s what this book is: a collection of words that gather
meaning, decisions, regrets, changes and joy in stories and questions.
Ben is a kind guide, and a clear one: he notices the small things,
enquires with curiosity and intelligence, queries meaning and
belonging, inviting conversation and attention.”
–Pádraig Ó Tuama, host of the Poetry Unbound podcast and author of
In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
"If
you're trying to make sense of your life, this book offers a gentle,
nourishing and liberating path for uncovering one's deepest truths and
callings."
–Leisa Peterson, author of
The Mindful Millionaire
"If you’re ready to embark
on the soul-inspired reinvention of your life, this book is a
beautiful and necessary guide. In The Way Home, Ben Katt
describes the transformative stages of The Hero’s Journey in usable,
relevant and relatable terms. And he shares the intimate details of
his own journey, the struggles and the expanded awareness that comes
from trading in mediocrity for mysticism. You may just feel as though
you’ve gone on a pilgrimage, and you will definitely feel inspired to
stay true to your own journey of a lifetime."
–Tama Kieves, bestselling author of Thriving Through Uncertainty and USA
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"Katt invites us
on a journey through personal pain to the suffering of the entire
human family. Through his compelling, poignant and humorous
storytelling we are invited again and again to surrender our own
resistance to reaching the end of our ropes and to being surprised by
grace."
–Killian Noe, founding director of Recovery
Café
"Ben is an expert guide in the art of getting quiet -
helping people access a life of greater joy, compassion, and purpose.
He knows the landscape of the inner journey from his years of personal
practice and leadership experience. Listen to this vulnerable, daring
invitation to embark on your own inner adventure."
–Jesse Israel, meditation expert & founder of The Big Quiet
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