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What is The Sacred Forge?
Most of us were taught that suffering is either a punishment or a detour. The Sacred Forge offers a third possibility: the fire in your life was a forge — and what it has been shaping is more sacred than you have been allowed to believe.
Explore a psychospiritual framework for navigating life’s most disorienting seasons. Discover why you are still here and meet the person the fire was always forging you to be.
This is not a book about resilience. It is a book about revelation and governance.
The fire was never meant to destroy you. It was always meant to reveal you.
The Sacred Forge releases on Juneteenth — June 19, 2026 -- the day freedom was finally named for those who had already survived the fire.
It is not a coincidence. It is a covenant.
Pre-order now and be among the first to receive a book written for every person who has come through something they didn’t choose, and is learning what it means to finally be free.
About Warren Mitchell, LCSW
Warren Mitchell is a licensed clinical social worker with over 35 years of experience accompanying
people through their most disorienting and transformative seasons. He is the CEO and Clinical
Director of Journey of Self Discovery, LLC in Stonecrest, Georgia, and the founder of Grove Place
Press — a publishing imprint named for the neighborhood in St. Croix, USVI where he grew up.
Warren writes not as a therapist but as a practitioner who has sat across from those struggling with
various challenges for decades — and learned to support people with transforming their pain to
serve them. His work is rooted in the wisdom traditions of the African diaspora, Caribbean culture,
and Ubuntu philosophy, and is designed to speak to the whole person: body, soul, and spirit.
The Sacred Forge is his first book.
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