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Episode 16: Who Taught You That You Weren’t Enough?
What if the deepest wound we carry is the belief that we’re not enough? After a heartbreaking loss in her community, Jennifer Maura DePascale explores shame, original sin, the Garden of Eden, and what ancient stories reveal about our inherent worthiness of love.
Episode 15: The Emperor’s New Clothes: Why We’re Afraid to Speak Up
Why do we stay silent when something doesn’t feel right? Discover what The Emperor’s New Clothes reveals about conformity, fear of judgment, and the courage to trust our own inner knowing.
Episode 14: Pointing Toward the Moon: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
What if the stories, symbols, and teachings we’ve been exploring were never meant to become answers in themselves?
In this episode of Know Thy Soul, we step back and look at what The Handless Maiden, Perceval, Dame Ragnell, and the Zen parable of the finger pointing toward the moon may all be revealing about self-abandonment, sovereignty, inner knowing, relationship, and the courage to act on what we already know.
Sometimes the story helps us see everyone else first.
Eventually, though, the finger turns back toward us and asks:
Where is this in me?
Episode 13: The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell: A Story of Sovereignty and True Chivalry
Explore the story of Dame Ragnell and Sir Gawain, women’s sovereignty, true chivalry, and the difference between love and domination.
Episode 12: Why You Get Triggered and What Your Reactions Are Trying to Tell You
Why do certain moments hit us so much harder than they seem like they should? In this episode, we explore what triggers reveal about old wounds, subconscious beliefs, emotional armor, and the deeper question beneath our reactions: What ails you?
Episode 11: Perceval, Part 2: The Masculine Wound and the Courage to Feel
Perceval knows how to fight battles. What he does not yet know is how to remain present before suffering or allow compassion to move him toward the person in pain. After failing to ask the question that could heal the Fisher King, Perceval spends five years searching...
Episode 10: Perceval and the Holy Grail: The Masculine Wound Beneath the Armor (Part One)
Perceval and the Holy Grail is more than an Arthurian legend about a boy becoming a knight. It is a mythic map of the masculine journey and the wound hidden beneath the armor. In Part One, Perceval leaves his mother, defeats the Red Knight, learns the rules of...
Episode 9: When Your Soul Has Other Plans: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing
What happens when the life we carefully planned is not the life our soul is asking us to live? In this episode, we explore what becomes possible when the different parts of us begin working together—when thinking and action no longer rule alone, but learn to serve...
Episode 8: The Handless Maiden in Real Life: The Quiet Ways We Abandon Ourselves
What happens when trusting someone else requires us to stop trusting ourselves? Through childbirth, the Handless Maiden, an octopus, and the wisdom of a turtle, this episode explores self-abandonment, body wisdom, and the slow journey back to inner knowing.
Episode 7: Growing Hands: Healing, Wholeness, and Spiritual Sovereignty
Explore the final chapter of The Handless Maiden and discover how healing, living hands, and spiritual sovereignty transform the maiden and her king.
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