What if one of the oldest fairy tales ever told has been describing the way we lose ourselves all along? At first glance, The Handless Maiden is one of the most disturbing stories in all of fairy tale literature. A father cuts off his own daughter’s hands....
Some stories stay with us because they are beautiful. Others stay with us because, over time, we begin to realize we are living them. For years, I have been studying The Handless Maiden. It has become one of the great mirrors of my life and the foundation for the book...
Why Stories Matter: How Myths Guide Us Home Why do some stories survive for thousands of years while countless others disappear? Why are we still telling the stories of Adam and Eve, King Arthur, Cinderella, the Buddha, or Jesus thousands of years after they were...
What if the greatest obstacle to hearing the soul isn’t the world around us… but the identity we’ve built to survive within it? In this episode, we explore what the ego really is, why it develops, and how it can slowly become the false self—the...
There comes a moment in many of our lives when something no longer fits. On the surface, everything may appear fine. We may be doing all the things we were taught we should do. We may have built a life that looks successful, responsible, or even meaningful. And yet,...
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