Walker: A Memoir

Before there was Phoenesse, there was the journey.

Readers know Jill Loree as the founder of Phoenesse, the creator of the Real.Clear. series, and a modern voice for the transformative teachings of the Pathwork Guide. But before she rewrote spiritual teachings for a new generation, she had to live her own.

Walker is the deeply personal memoir behind the books.  

Growing up in a family shaped by alcoholism, emotional wounds, and unspoken struggles, Jill learned early how to adapt, achieve and survive. Her path would take her from small-town Wisconsin to a successful corporate career, through addiction and recovery, marriage and divorce, motherhood, spiritual searching, and a series of life-changing awakenings.

With candor, humor and remarkable self-reflection, she shares the experiences that ultimately led her to discover the Pathwork teachings, become a Pathwork Helper, create Phoenesse, rewrite more than one hundred Pathwork lectures in the acclaimed Real.Clear. series, and devote her life to helping others heal.

Yet this is not a story about having all the answers.

It is a story about learning to trust the next step.

For longtime readers of Jill's spiritual work, Walker offers a behind-the-scenes look at the life experiences that shaped her understanding of healing, personal growth, recovery and spiritual transformation. For new readers, it is an inspiring and deeply human memoir about resilience, family, forgiveness, and the courage to keep walking when the road ahead is unclear.

Because there is no road, walker.

You make the road by walking.

From PROVERBS AND TINY SONGS

You walking, your footsteps are
the road, and nothing else;
there is no road, walker,
you make the road by walking.
By walking you make the road,
and when you look backward,
you see the path that you
never will step on again.
Walker, there is no road,
Only wind-trails in the sea.

– By Antonio Machado (1875–1939), translated by Robert Bly