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Sharing truths, stories, tips, tricks and inspiration to help you navigate your inner worlds.8th Episode: The Handless Maiden in Real Life: The Quiet Ways We Abandon Ourselves
What happens when you’ve spent so long minimizing your own experience that you can no longer recognize how much pain you’re carrying? In this episode, I step outside the fairy tale to explore what The Handless Maiden can look like in real life. I share the story of my...
Episode 7: Growing Hands: Healing, Wholeness, and Spiritual Sovereignty
How do we heal from self-abandonment, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim our inner authority? In Part Three of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Handless Maiden, we explore the journey from emotional wounding to healing, wholeness, and spiritual sovereignty. Deep within...
When The Handless Maiden Becomes Real Life
After a frightening car accident, I was reminded what The Handless Maiden looks like in real life: listening to the body, choosing rest, and refusing to abandon ourselves. If you listen to Know Thy Soul each week, you may have noticed there was no new episode last...
Episode 6: The Handless Maiden, Part 2
The Silver Hands: How Relationships Mirror Our Wounds
In Part 2 of The Handless Maiden, we follow the maiden into the king’s pear orchard, where the story begins to reveal one of its most painful truths: sometimes what looks like rescue is not the same as healing. The king gives her silver hands. And from the outside,...
Episode 5: The Handless Maiden, Part 1
The Father Wound: When Love Requires Self-Abandonment
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. It's...
Episode 4: When Stories Become a Tapestry
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...
Episode 3: Why stories matter: How Myths Guide Us Home
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...
Episode 2: The Ego and the False Self: The Armor We Wear
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 identity we construct...
Episode 1: The Wisdom Within
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,...
Welcome to Know Thy Soul
There comes a moment in many of our lives when what once made sense no longer feels true. On the outside, everything may appear fine. We may be successful, responsible, and doing everything we were taught we should do. Yet quietly, something begins to stir beneath the...
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