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Welcome to True North!

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” -Bilbo Baggins

Nice move! You're a lifetime member of the True North Course. Below, find links to all videos, worksheets, and transcripts for Modules 1-5. I hope you'll come back again and again to True North in order for the principles to sink in and take root in your heart.

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Please email Stacey with any questions or technical issues: staceysumereau@gmail.com

Module 1: Set Your Compass

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Image by Heidi Fin

Video 1

  • The Navigation Model that clears up confusion

  • Focusing on WHO rather than WHAT

  • Why vocation and career are less important than you think

Image by Johannes Plenio

Video 2

  • What is discernment, really?

  • The benefits and necessity of waiting- everyone’s least favorite part

  • Which areas are out of our control, (and yes, that’s a good thing)

  • Why we should always be discerning

Image by Agnieszka Boeske

Video 3

  • Your circle of control

  • How to expand your control

  • Set a realistic, achievable action goal for the Course

Module 2: Anchored in God

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Image by Alex H. Pflaum

Video 1

  • The prayer that changed my life (and will change yours too!)

  • Move from distrust to divine intimacy

  • How to hear God speak, and what he says

  • Five practical ways to pray anyone can do

Image by Rana Sawalha

Video 3

  • What God has promised

  • How to love reading scripture, even if you’ve tried and given up before

  • Praying the Liturgy of the Hours

Image by Artem Beliaikin

Video 2

  • Banish the fear that God’s will is misery

  • Move from distrust to intimacy in prayer

  • How to approach God with confidence

  • How to hear God speak

Image by Luca Bravo

Video 4

  • St. Ignatius’s method for having a conversation with God

  • Three practical prayer methods you can do right now

  • Optimizing your prayer time

Module 3: Your True Self

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Image by Joshua Earle

Video 1

  • Why your vocation won’t fulfill you

  • Vocational readiness evaluation

  • Identify untrue paradigms

Image by Jordan Ladikos

Video 2

  • Examined vs. unexamined beliefs (paradigms)

  • Identify paradigms you have about yourself

  • Your true identity as beloved and adopted

Image by Gatis Marcinkevics

Video 3

  • How the brain develops negative thought patterns

  • A practical method to master a healthy mindset

  • Four more strategies to support and sustain a truthful self-image

Module 4: Wanderlust, Desires and Dreams

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Image by Jordan Madrid

Video 1

  • The desires of the world’s wisest man

  • My desires vs. God’s desires: which is which?

  • The mindset shift that’ll allow you to be content right now

Image by Christopher Burns

Video 3

  • Find your WHY

  • Identify common but insufficient motivations for living your purpose

  • St. Ignatius’s one-minute “gut reaction” rule for finding deepest desires

Image by Christine Roy

Video 2

  • Why the heart’s desires are too little, not too much

  • Identify temporary vs. lasting desires

  • How to manifest an unspecified call to greatness

  • “Don’t deny: ally”

Image by Matt Howard

Video 4

  • Three common fallacies: the arrival fallacy, the time-wasting fallacy, and the originality fallacy

  • Overcome fear of suffering

  • How to avoid the most common deathbed regrets

Module 5: Embark with Courage

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Video 1

  • The three good times to make a sound decision

  • Why God often doesn’t give definite answers

  • What to do when you don’t have a clear answer

Image by Dimitry Anikin

Video 3

  • Eight questions that distinguish the voice of God from the voice of the devil

Image by Joseph Barrientos

Video 2

  • Six tools from St. Ignatius you can use right now to decide anything

Image by Fabio Comparelli

Video 4

  • How three saints failed at discerning their vocations

  • Why you should welcome failure

  • How to interpret potential signs from God

©2025 by STACEY SUMEREAU

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