INNER JOURNEY 
Psychology, Inc.

In an achievement-driven world that prizes action, productivity, and external success, many women feel a quiet inner imbalance. Drawing from Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey, this series explores an inward path of development—one that honors loss, longing, and healing as essential movements toward wholeness, especially within masculine-dominant cultures like Silicon Valley.

Even as women embrace adulthood, the spark of the inner girl — her dreams, curiosity, and freedom — remains. Honoring this Eternal Girl while balancing life’s responsibilities allows women to keep their light alive, integrating imagination with reality, and carrying joy, creativity, and meaning into every stage of life.

Many high-achieving professionals carry quiet loneliness beneath their success. Raised to value productivity over connection, they may find their outer accomplishments feel hollow. This blog explores how emotional and relational growth—often left behind—can be reclaimed, and how the journey toward wholeness begins not with doing more, but with reconnecting to what matters most: meaning, belonging, and self.