ABSTRACT
The continual process of authoring all three dimensions (intrapersonal dimension, epistemological dimension and interpersonal dimension) of their lives resulted, for many participants, in an internal foundation from which to guide their lives. Thus from the internal foundation participants were able to develop their ability to know intuitively and to accept life as it came. In their late-twenties, some participants described feelings of peace and satisfaction stemming from this internal foundation. Numerous versions of the internal foundation emerged from the stories because participants constructed their unique frameworks from their unique experiences. The internal foundation stood at the basis of life decisions and altered the role of career for some participants. Maintaining connection to the authentic self was central to self-authorship and building the internal foundation. The epistemological dimension of the internal foundation was also so deeply ingrained in participants’ meaning-making at the late-twenties that it sounded less complex initially than the meaning-making articulated as they became authors of their lives.
