Inspired by the Gathering Gold podcast and accompanied by a soundscape created by podcast co-host and producer, Victoria Russell, Sheryl walks the listener through the landscape of her inner world as she traverses the threshold of midlife, focusing on six themes:

• midlife

• parenting

• panic

• seasons

• emotions

• spirit

As she shares in the introduction:

"This is a book birthed from dreams, from journal entries, from poetry, from my own labyrinthian journey across the portal of midlife. It’s a book that reveals aspects of my personal journey through parenting and panic attacks, as well as musings on archetypal places that I hear about every day in my work, and feel myself. It’s a personal book with the hopes that, as Carl Jung taught us, when we plumb deeply enough into the personal layers, we touch the collective. It’s the book I thought I would birth when I was eighty, sitting on a chaise looking out at the gardens and my grandchildren while reading through my hundreds of journals, deciding which entries called to be shared.

"But in the months around my fiftieth birthday it became clear that the book doesn’t want to wait until I’m eighty. It wants to be birthed now."