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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 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...
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...
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