Wind and Raven
Healing Pathways, personal development, reflection, and the continuing work of becoming.
Wind & Raven is the public home of Steve R. Patterson’s Healing Pathways work: personal-development education, individual and group experiences, videos, reflections, books, and an archive of writing about recovery, illness, survival, identity, meaning, and transformation.
This site began during a very different season of life. Some of the older writing came from the years when Steve was living with end-stage liver disease, liver cancer, and the uncertainty of whether he would survive long enough to receive a liver transplant.
What began as a search for meaning during illness became part of the foundation for This Is How It Feels to Heal and later helped shape the Healing Pathways framework.
Today, Wind & Raven carries that work forward through a broader approach to personal development, self-awareness, resilience, and meaningful change.
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Healing Pathways
Healing Pathways is a twelve-Path, nonclinical educational program designed to help individuals explore the process of personal change.
The program offers a structured approach to understanding personal narratives, recognizing established patterns, identifying strengths, exploring relationships, clarifying values, and making meaningful choices about what comes next.
Developed through years of experiential work, recovery education, individual guidance, and group facilitation, Healing Pathways has evolved beyond its original recovery-oriented application into a broader framework for personal growth.
Whether someone is navigating a significant life transition, reconsidering familiar habits, exploring a new direction, or simply interested in understanding themselves more fully, Healing Pathways provides an opportunity for reflection and practical application.
New Healing Pathways Opportunities
Individual Programs — Beginning December 2026
Individual Healing Pathways experiences are planned to begin December 1, 2026. These coaching-style educational sessions allow participants to explore the twelve-Path framework through individual guidance, structured reflection, and personal-development exercises.
We are welcoming inquiries now from people interested in beginning individual work in December.
Founding Participant Benefit: Individuals who enroll in the initial Healing Pathways individual program will also receive complimentary admission to the January 2027 guided group beta. Participation in the group is optional and offers an additional opportunity for shared learning and discussion.
January 2027 — Guided Group Beta
Following the original recovery-oriented alpha program, Healing Pathways is preparing for its next group experience. This four-week beta will introduce the broader personal-development framework through guided instruction, reflection, and group discussion.
January 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2027
Wednesdays, 7:00–9:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Online — Hosted by Recovery Café
Each meeting will explore three of the twelve Healing Paths. Recovery Café is providing the administrative home for this beta because members of the Healing Pathways development team have worked there in recovery education and group facilitation.
The Healing Pathways beta is nonclinical. It is separate from Recovery Café’s counseling and ASAM Level 1 treatment services.
Following the beta, Wind & Raven plans to offer regular guided groups and continuing individual experiences.
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The Archive
Wind & Raven also preserves older writings from the years of illness, transplantation, recovery, spiritual exploration, searching, and rebuilding.
Some of that material may not match the current direction perfectly. That is part of its value. It documents the evolution of the thinking and experiences that eventually contributed to Healing Pathways.
The archive is a record of a person trying to understand extraordinary circumstances, tell the truth about those experiences, and find language for questions that did not always fit neatly into established categories.
Older spiritual and philosophical writings remain part of that history. They should be understood within their original context rather than as requirements or universal recommendations of the current Healing Pathways program.
Books and Public Work
This Is How It Feels to Heal emerged from the years of illness, transplantation, recovery, and spiritual inquiry that originally shaped Wind & Raven. It is a personal account of profound life changes, survival, and rebuilding.
The Healing Pathways publications include The Healing Pathways Companion and The Healing Pathways Facilitator’s Guide, originally published in developmental editions in 2025.
Revised editions of both books are planned following the January 2027 beta, including updated print and e-book formats that will reflect the program’s current educational framework.
Coming Spring 2027: Personal Pathway, a new standalone book bringing the complete twelve-Path experience together for individual readers who prefer a self-directed approach.
A separate self-guided online course is also in development for participants who prefer to explore Healing Pathways independently and at their own pace.
These books and related educational materials are published through Valkyrie Counseling Group.
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Wind & Raven, Valkyrie, and Recovery Café
Wind & Raven is the public-facing home of Healing Pathways, including individual educational experiences, future groups, reflective writing, videos, and personal-development resources.
Valkyrie Counseling Group is the publishing and professional education organization behind the Healing Pathways books, facilitator resources, and ASAM-related educational materials. It publishes the work of Steve R. Patterson and Juliana Tabares.
Recovery Café is a separate organization providing clinical ASAM Level 1 outpatient services. It is also serving as the administrative host for the January Healing Pathways beta.
This separation is intentional. Wind & Raven concentrates on the participant experience and public conversation. Valkyrie provides the publishing and professional-resource foundation. Recovery Café’s clinical services remain separate from Healing Pathways.
What Wind & Raven Is — and Is Not
Wind & Raven is a place for reflection, education, personal development, writing, conversation, and the continued growth of the Healing Pathways program.
Healing Pathways is a nonclinical, coaching-style educational program. Its individual and group offerings are not counseling, psychotherapy, addiction treatment, medical advice, diagnosis, clinical treatment, or crisis services.
Steve Patterson’s professional experience in recovery education and group facilitation informs the program, but participation in Healing Pathways does not establish a clinical counseling relationship.
Anyone needing clinical, medical, mental health, addiction treatment, or crisis support should seek an appropriately qualified professional or emergency resource in their area.