Free Online Event • The Shift Network
What Is the Long Story of Your Soul?
Remember Your Gifts and Passions Across Lifetimes to Awaken the Intelligence of Who You’ve Always Been
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Why Does Your Life Keep Looping?
You swore you were done with that kind of relationship. Then it showed up again, wearing different clothes. You made a plan to finally move forward, and somehow landed right back at the same crossroads. You made a choice you said you’d never make again, and made it anyway.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not broken and you’re not failing. But you may be missing something important about the actual scope of your journey.
Most of us have been taught to see life as a straight line: birth, effort, resolution, end. So when something repeats, it feels like failure. It feels like we should have gotten there by now. That quiet, nagging question underneath it all: “How could THIS possibly be the answer to what I’ve been reaching for?”
According to master storyteller and spiritual teacher Perdita Finn, that question is exactly the right one to be asking. And the answer may stretch much further back than you’ve been looking.
Why This Matters Right Now
We are living in a time of genuine uncertainty. The world is shifting quickly, and many people are searching for a more grounded, far-reaching sense of who they are and why they’re here.
Surface-level self-help has limits. “Think positively” doesn’t explain why the same pattern keeps returning. “Try harder” doesn’t account for the sense that something deeper is at work.
Perdita’s approach offers something different. Instead of treating recurring patterns as personal failures, she invites you to see them as meaningful threads in a much longer story. One that doesn’t begin at birth or end at death, but unfolds across lifetimes, shaped by choices, longings, and gifts you’ve been carrying for a very long time.
This is the kind of perspective that makes your current life more comprehensible, not more mystical. And that shift in understanding can change how you move through every day.
What You’ll Explore in This Free Event
In this illuminating hour with Perdita Finn, you’ll go beyond thinking about your life differently. You’ll begin experiencing it differently.
- How to recognize the “mud puddle” you keep stepping into, the recurring difficulty or entanglement that can follow you across time, and how to begin freeing yourself from it
- Why a single, deeply felt choice can alter the course of your life, and how to discover the one thing you’re meant to stop postponing
- The hidden pitfalls of the long story of the soul, including the pull toward control, self-importance, or despair, and how to stay oriented toward what’s true and life-giving
- What eternity is actually for, and how seeing your life in a broader context can help you become someone who helps rather than harms, and loves rather than withdraws
- What it means to live here, fully, to experience yourself not as separate from the world, but as part of the Earth itself, with real responsibilities, gifts, and a place in the greater whole
- A guided experiential process to help you recognize a pattern you’ve been repeating, and begin to meet it in a way that opens a genuinely different path
Perdita draws on the path of the bodhisattva, a being who chooses to return to this world again and again to help relieve suffering, and the familiar lens of the film Groundhog Day, to show you what it actually looks like to recognize a stuck pattern and respond to it differently. Not in theory. In the real moments of your life where it matters.
Who This Is For
This event is a good fit if any of the following feel true for you right now:
You sense that something deeper is driving the patterns in your life, but you can’t name it yet. You’re tired of running into the same wall in relationships, work, or inner life, and you want a more meaningful framework for understanding why. You feel a pull toward purpose that goes beyond what a single lifetime can explain. You’re open to exploring spiritual concepts grounded in practical, real-world application. You’re drawn to ancestors, lineage, the unseen world, or the idea that you carry more wisdom into this life than you realize.
You do not need any background in past-life studies, the bodhisattva path, or Perdita’s previous work to benefit from this event. It is genuinely accessible and experiential.
Seekers tired of repeating patternsSpiritual growth enthusiasts
Ancestral healing explorers
Soul purpose seekers
Personal development students
Intuitive development practitioners
Bodhisattva path curious
What People Are Saying About Perdita’s Work
“Perdita’s course has been a total shift-gift in my life. It has impacted my relationship to everything, the dead, of course, but also my art practice, my relationships, and the way I see and approach my work. It provided a medicinal reframe of my family-of-origin story about why I am the way I am. I feel so softened and expanded by Perdita’s work.”
Shea Settini, Author of Tarot as Questions
“Perdita has found a way to reside comfortably in the world of the living and the dead. I have never read a book that creates a rapport with the dead with such skill and ease. This truly is a must-read book.”
Caroline Myss, Author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Intimate Conversations with the Divine
“What I love about this book is the warm, practical, spirited way Perdita explores the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. Hers is a wisdom devoid of preachiness, quickened by curiosity, overflowing with love. Beautifully written, luminous, and earthy. Take Back the Magic makes conversations with the unseen world feel obvious, accessible, and our best hope for thriving amid the turmoil of the current age.”
Mirabai Starr, Author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy
“Perdita Finn masterfully weaves a soulful tapestry of stories and reflections that help the reader viscerally appreciate the grand love story we eternally participate in through many different lives, roles, and forms. This is a book I will cherish and read again and again.”
Bethany Webster, Author of Discovering the Inner Mother and Claiming Your Personal Power
About Your Host
Perdita Finn
Perdita Finn is a beloved teacher, master storyteller, and co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of The Way of the Rose, a feral fellowship of friends dedicated to the forgotten earth wisdom of the rosary and the Divine Feminine. Together, they co-authored the widely praised book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary.
Perdita has spent decades exploring the living relationship between the seen and unseen worlds. She has studied with Zen masters, priests, spirit workers, and healers, and apprenticed with psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she co-wrote The Reluctant Psychic. She is also the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, which received extraordinary endorsements from luminaries including Caroline Myss, Mirabai Starr, and Asia Suler.
A former public school teacher and author of numerous children’s books, Perdita brings a grounded, often surprising sense of humor to deeply mystical terrain. She lives with her family in the Catskill Mountains and teaches workshops helping people draw on ancestral wisdom, recover the gifts carried across lifetimes, and belong to something much larger than a single story.
Endorsed by some of the most respected voices in spiritual writing, Perdita’s work has earned praise for being earthy, luminous, accessible, and practically transformative.
Ready to See Your Life Through a Longer Lens?
This free event is one hour that could change how you understand every pattern, choice, and longing you’ve been carrying. Join Perdita Finn live on Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM Mountain, or catch the replay.
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After the Free Event
Continue the Journey: Perdita’s 7-Week Live Video Course
When you attend the free event, you’ll also hear about Perdita’s upcoming 7-week live video journey, where she guides you far more deeply into the long story of your soul. Over seven weeks, you’ll connect with your ancestors across time, recover the gifts and passions you’ve carried through many lives, and begin to live with a sense of belonging, purpose, and creative power that feels both ancient and entirely your own.
There is no obligation to enroll. The free event stands completely on its own. But if the hour resonates and you feel ready to go deeper, the course offers exactly that opportunity.