Know Thy Soul

In Part 2 of The Handless Maiden, we follow the maiden into the king’s pear orchard, where the story begins to reveal what our relationships often mirror back to us: our wounds, our patterns, and the places where rescue can be mistaken for love.

The king gives the maiden silver hands, but silver hands are not living hands. They may cover the wound, but they cannot restore her agency, her inner knowing, or her direct connection...

What if the deepest wounds aren't the ones inflicted upon us... but the parts of ourselves we slowly learn to abandon in order to survive?

In this first episode of The Handless Maiden, we begin exploring one of the most profound fairy tales ever told. Beneath the shocking image of a father cutting off his daughter's hands lies a story about the ways we lose our voice, silence our intuition, sacrifice our needs, and slowly forget the...

In this episode, we zoom out to see the larger tapestry these ancient stories are helping us recognize.

The Handless Maiden and Perceval may seem like two separate tales, but when we place them side by side, they begin to mirror one another. One tells the story from the perspective of the soul. The other tells it from the perspective of the ego. One loses her hands. The other loses the ability to ask the healing question. Both enter...

Why have some stories survived for thousands of years while countless others have been forgotten?

Why are we still talking about Adam and Eve, Cinderella, King Arthur, the Buddha, and Jesus?

What if these stories have endured because they are pointing toward something timeless within us?

In this episode of Know Thy Soul, we explore why myths, fairy tales, parables, and sacred stories continue to speak across cultures and generations&m...

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 to survive, belong, and protect ourselves from pain.

Drawing from Carl Jung, mythology, fairy tales, scripture, psychology, and spiritual traditions, we'll discove...

What if the thing you've been searching for was never outside of you?

In this opening episode of Know Thy Soul, Jennifer shares a story that has shaped her life and introduces the central question that will guide this podcast: How do we learn to recognize the quiet voice of the soul?

Together, we'll explore the stories we inherit, the stories we tell ourselves, and the deeper patterns woven through myth, fairy tales, scripture, and o...

Welcome to Know Thy Soul. In this short trailer, I'll share what this podcast is about, why I created it, and what you can expect on the journey ahead. If you've ever felt that ancient stories, myths, fairy tales, scripture, and symbolism might hold more wisdom than we've been taught, you're in the right place. I hope you'll join me as we learn to see with new eyes, listen to the quiet wisdom within, and find our way home. 

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