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The Labyrinth

Finding your way through the systems we live inside

Sharon Mackenzie · Published by Spirit Led Counselling

Sharon Mackenzie SpiritRSPrac · Founder & Educator

  • Diploma of Counselling
  • Accredited Chaplain
  • Narrative Practice Practitioner · Health & Harmony Colleges
  • Advanced Aromatherapy Practitioner · Health & Harmony Colleges
  • Trauma-Informed Care

Counselling and chaplaincy training and trauma-informed care inform Sharon’s educational work.

A labyrinth is not a maze. There is a path, and it leads somewhere — even when it feels like you are walking away from the centre.

About the book

A maze is built to confuse you. A labyrinth is not.

The Labyrinth opens the Human Systems series with the simplest and hardest idea in it: the winding is part of the way. The turns that feel like going backwards are still the path.

This is a book about walking through the tangle of relationships, communities, roles and expectations without losing the thread of who you are.

What this book explores:

  • The difference between a maze and a labyrinth — and why it matters
  • Why the path turns away from the centre before it arrives
  • Walking through relational tangle without losing yourself
  • The roles and expectations we carry into every system
  • Patience, pace and the practice of staying on the path
  • What we find at the centre — and what we carry back out

Who it's for

  • Anyone in the middle of a season that has no clear map
  • Readers new to the Human Systems body of thought
  • People navigating complicated families, communities or workplaces
  • Those who suspect the long way round might be the honest way

You are not lost. You are on a path that turns.

The Labyrinth is the way in to the Human Systems series — the walk before the map.

A labyrinth has only one path. You cannot take a wrong turn. You can only keep walking.
The Labyrinth by Sharon Mackenzie — Spirit Led Counselling — a garden labyrinth at sunrise

The Way In — part of the Human Systems body of work.

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