Online Story Coaching
The Heroine’s Journey
A space to be heard. A framework to be understood. A guide who has spent a lifetime learning to read a life.
There is a story you tell yourself about yourself.
It runs beneath every decision you make, every role you accept, every dream you pursue and every one you quietly abandon. It shapes what you believe is possible for you — and what you have already decided, without quite realising it, is not.
Story Coaching is the work of finding that story, reading it honestly, and rewriting the parts that are no longer true.
This is not therapy. It is not career counselling. It is not a personality assessment or a five-step framework for professional reinvention. It is a guided biographical conversation — with a master storyteller who has spent 25 years helping women read the arc of their own Heroine’s Journey and find, inside it, the clarity and courage to write what comes next.
What Happens in a Session
Every session is a conversation. Unhurried, confidential, and built entirely around you.
Peter listens for the patterns beneath the surface — the recurring themes, the moments of genuine aliveness, the places where the story stalled or took a wrong turn. He brings the frameworks of The Heroine’s Journey to what you share: the archetypes, the biographical turning points, the distinction between the story you inherited and the story you are capable of choosing.
You leave each session not with a to-do list but with something more valuable — a clearer, more forgiving, more accurate understanding of the life you have lived and the life that is still available to you.
Over time, that understanding becomes momentum. The narrative clears. The choices become more purposeful. The work becomes more alive.
Who This Is For
Story Coaching is for women who sense that the real conversation about their life and work has not yet happened. Women who have achieved what they set out to achieve and find themselves asking is this it? Women who are at a turning point — in their career, their creative life, their sense of purpose — and need not a plan but a witness.
It is for the founder whose success hides a growing emptiness. The executive whose public achievements mask private doubt. The creative professional who has spent decades serving other people’s visions and is beginning to wonder what her own looks like. The woman approaching the second half of life who refuses to believe her most meaningful chapter is behind her.
If you have never had the experience of having your story truly heard — not summarised, not diagnosed, not redirected toward solutions, but genuinely heard — this is what Story Coaching offers.
The Heroine’s Journey Framework
The Heroine’s Journey is not the Hero’s Journey with a different pronoun. It is a distinct narrative structure — one that honours the particular quality of the female creative and professional path: the tension between external achievement and inner knowing, the cost of adaptation, the long work of reclaiming what was set aside, the discovery that the deepest source of power was never external recognition but the courage to live a story that is wholly and unapologetically one’s own.
Peter has worked with this framework for over two decades, across hundreds of coaching conversations and biographical portraits. He brings it not as a theory but as a living tool — something that illuminates rather than prescribes, that opens questions rather than closes them.
The Investment
Single Session — €350 A 90-minute biographical conversation with Peter. Recorded and shared with you. A written reflection sent within 48 hours noting the key themes, patterns, and questions that emerged.
The Journey — €1,800 Six sessions over three months. The full arc of narrative work: from mapping the story you have been living to sketching the story you want to write. Includes written reflections after each session and access to The Heroine’s Journey frameworks and reading materials. The format for those who want not just insight but genuine transformation.
The Intensive — €3,500 Ten sessions over six months, plus a Biographical Portrait commissioned at the halfway point — a 2,000–3,000 word written portrait of your life as it has actually been lived, crafted by Peter from the material of your sessions. For those at a significant turning point who want the deepest possible biographical work. The portrait becomes both a record and a compass.
Your first conversation is free. A 30-minute discovery call to meet Peter, ask your questions, and decide together whether Story Coaching is right for you. No commitment required.
Begin
Email Peter directly: peterdekuster2023@gmail.com Subject line: My Story
Write two or three sentences about where you are right now. He will reply within 48 hours.
Or call: +31 5 19192245
The Heroine’s Journey has always been about one thing: finding your way back to the story that was yours from the beginning.
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