From the author: “Life itself is the most beautiful fairy tale.” - G. H. Andersen. “One day you will hear the Call... Whose voice it will be, you will not immediately understand. At first it will simply sound in your head, provoking the desire to “change something.” This need will be followed by the realization that that something is wrong in your life. Behind this realization there will be a desire to move somewhere, to go “there, I don’t know where,” to bring “that, I don’t know what.” will drown out the loud voice of the wind, the sound of the rain or the surf. You will hear it in random phrases and books you read. You will think about the meaning of your life and will certainly want changes. At the same time, you will feel fear and resistance. Perhaps this is why you will decide to turn to. psychologist."I really like this metaphor that fairytale therapists use when talking about their clients. As a rule, people come to a psychotherapist when they feel that integrity has been violated. It’s as if some part of one’s “I” has been lost, which has to be found and returned “to its place.” Fairy tales are sacred knowledge, which are dressed in a very simple-looking form. But this is only apparent simplicity. After all, few people think about what unites the most primitive, in our opinion, fairy tales “Kolobok”, “Turnip” and “Ryaba Hen”, what meaning is put into this egg, which “grandfather beat and beat, but did not break”, why Kolobok travels around the world, meeting on his way either a Hare or a Bear. Why is it so difficult to pull out a turnip, even if you “drag” it with the whole family? Fairy tales contain deep meaning and the wisdom of our ancestors. That is why in the fairy-tale space of all the peoples of the world there is a certain hero who must walk along a certain path, to a certain inner center and back. The inner center in a fairy tale is the place where the Gods live. Where sacred knowledge is located. And in life, this is the path to yourself. To your soul. To your selfhood and integrity. Mythology researcher D. Campbell, in his work “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” identified a certain general pattern according to which the plot of any fairy tale moves. Conventionally, the “Hero’s Path” can be divided into three main phases. 1. The hero hears the “Call” and goes on a journey. 2. The journey leads the hero to the inner center, (to his soul.) 3. The hero returns back to share his knowledge with others or simply live in a new quality. The client, like the hero of a fairy tale hears the "Call". Resistance to this call leads to pain. Pain leads to a psychotherapist. The therapist helps you “go on a journey” of exploring yourself. Guides the client along the “hero’s path”, revealing deep-seated fears, prohibitions, and attitudes. Changing, overcoming them. Finding new resources. This journey leads the client to “Self”. On the way he encounters obstacles and obstacles that he overcomes. On this path, the hero often has to make a choice. On this path the hero will have to lose and gain. Die and be born again. Meet a “magic assistant” to take advantage of his knowledge and magical power. Without which the hero cannot do. In the fairy tale, the hero has to find living and dead water, kill Koshchei, save the Princess, carry out the king’s orders, wander “far away”, emerge from a dense forest, from the mouth of a whale, from the left ear of a totem animal, fight a bear, shoot a falcon, swim across river, swim in boiling milk and icy water... Experience the initiation rite and become different... More beautiful, more confident, smarter, stronger. And in life, the client needs to find resources, his own source of strength, realize his greatest fear, defeat it , make healthy choices. Respond to this Call. Go on this journey to yourself. Experience the transformation of your fears and complexes, and finally become yourself. Your true self. In a fairy tale, the hero’s path usually ends with a “Feast for the whole world.” In life, with self-acceptance and inner harmony. Each of us lives “in our own” fairy tale. In fairy tale therapy, there is an effective technique - to guide the client through the plot of his fairy tale. Reveal his fears, help him “live”.