Rewriting Your Backstory: The Lost Manuscript of You!
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This post is for Lab Members only, aka the inner circle shaping the future of The Heroine’s Adventure. As a Lab member, you get early access to every course, workbook, and tool I create before anyone else sees it. Your feedback (or silent lurking, no judgment) helps shape what’s next. You’ll also get behind-the-scenes insights from someone who built and sold a 7-figure business from scratch. I’ll show you the real systems, strategies, and decisions behind this adventure so you can use them in yours.
I’ll be sending out a “Spoiler Alerts” newsletter later this week, so not too many personal updates from me today. I am sitting in the countryside of Umbria in a gorgeous little country cottage with spectacular views and spending my mornings getting into the groove.
Today is the start of a NEW Adventure Quest. Yay! You get the introduction today, but as always, you’ll get every module for this quest over the next week or two. And as always, your comments, ideas, and even insults are always welcome. These quests are for you!
Adventure Quest™ - Rewrite Your Backstory: The Lost Manuscript of You
The Foundation: Reclaiming the Power of Your Story
Ever feel like your life took a wrong narrative turn somewhere around Chapter Three, and you’ve been stuck in someone else’s plotline ever since?
Maybe you were supposed to be the bold heroine, charging toward adventure and taming dragons, or perhaps you were supposed to be the wicked witch, fattening up children or choking princesses with apples (hey, who am I to judge?)… but instead, you got cast as “supporting character that has absolutely no agency and is there only to inform the storyline of others.”
Yeah. Welcome to the first step in taking back your pen.
Your life is a story. Not a metaphor. A literal story. It’s full of inciting incidents, surprising plot twists, side characters who overstayed their welcome, and a whole lotta scenes you didn’t actually consent to.
But here’s the thing they never told you:
You don’t just live your story. You shape it. Rewrite it. Decide which parts stay in the final draft.
You have a character arc inside of you that you need to fulfill. One that’s aligned with your Extraordinary Life. And that starts here.
Your Memory Is a Story Editor With Opinions
Your identity isn’t built from facts. It’s built from stories, and like any unreliable narrator, your brain plays favorites (yes, like the narrator in Fight Club).
“Memory distortions are basic and widespread in humans… it may be unlikely that anyone is immune.” — Elizabeth Loftus
“The past is less an archived library of what really happened, and more a fluid director’s commentary we’re constantly updating.” — Steven Kotler
Translation? Your memories are more like a director’s cut than the unvarnished truth of your Ring doorbell. They get trimmed, tweaked, and edited by your traitorous brain to match the storyline you think you’re supposed to be living.
So if you’ve spent years believing the lies that you’re “not creative,” “too much,” or “not enough,” those things are not true (I mean, probably.)
You believe these things because you’ve been trained to give more airtime to scenes that support those beliefs… and to cut the ones that prove otherwise.
How a Single Scene Can Rewrite a Whole Character
Let’s take a detour into one of mine.
A six-year-old girl gets a rare gift: a brand-new coloring book and a perfect set of colored pencils. She colors a parrot. She uses every color in the box and treats every feather as a labor of love. She shows her dad, eager for a gold star. And he says:
“You didn’t use your pencils correctly. You can see all your coloring lines.”
Just like that, bam: The Lie takes root.
“My dad doesn’t think I’m good at anything.”
And because brains love consistency, that little girl starts scanning her world for more moments to confirm it. Forget the praise and all the other wins in her fresh new life. She’s already bought the script for the next twenty years.
This is how a limiting belief, or in author speak, “a lie you believe,” is born.
And this is why you’re here: to break the spell.
What Is Narrative Re-Authoring?
This Quest isn’t about denial, or delusion, or pretending the hard stuff didn’t happen.
It’s about taking back the power to decide which stories define you. It’s about digging up buried truths and making space for the moments that prove your magic. It’s about finding the voice beneath the edits.
Narrative therapy calls this work re-authoring or re-storying, and in the Heroine’s Adventure, we treat it as your literary rite of passage.
Because every heroine must back her story before she can change her life.
Your Heroine’s Journey Through This Quest
You’re not just doing mindset work. You’re rewriting your origin myth. And here’s your chapter guide:
Module 1: Your Life's Chapters: The Lost Manuscript of You: Reclaim your pen and remember what got edited out.
Module 2: Excavating Key Stories & Identifying the Ghostwriters: Track the plot hijackers and false narrators.
Module 3: Red Pen Revelations: Exposing the Lies We Believe: Reveal the beliefs quietly scripting your life.
Module 4: Finding the Original Manuscript: Challenging Thin Descriptions: Recover the scenes that tell the whole story, not just the parts that kept you small.
Module 5: Becoming Editor-in-Chief: Crafting Thick, Empowering Stories: Make conscious choices about your character, her arc, and the story you’re here to live.
Module 6: Book Launch: Living as the Author of Your Life: Step into the world as the fully rewritten version of you.