Know Thy Soul

Jennifer Maura DePascale
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Know Thy Soul is a podcast about the journey home to ourselves, to the divine, and to the wisdom within waiting to be remembered.   Hosted by Jennifer Maura DePascale, each episode draws from myth, fairy tale, scripture, symbolism, ancient spiritual traditions, personal reflection, and conversations to uncover the timeless patterns woven through the world's great stories and spiritual traditions, and what they reveal about our lives today.   Together, we'll explore questions of meaning, healing, consciousness, relationship, and our direct connection to the divine. Through ancient stories and modern insights, we'll discover what these enduring patterns can teach us about ourselves, our world, and the journey from exile to wholeness.   Join us as we explore the lifelong journey of knowing thy soul.  🎙️ New episodes are released every Tuesday.  Visit knowthysoul.com to listen, read episode transcripts and reflections, and join the Know Thy Soul newsletter. 

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  1. 1일 전

    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 first childbirth—how often I silenced what I felt, handed my authority to others, and insisted I was fine when my body was telling me otherwise. This is an exploration of what happens when we believe trusting someone else requires us to stop trusting ourselves. Along the way, an octopus shows us how something lost can grow back, and a turtle becomes an unexpected teacher in listening to the wisdom within us and trusting the next step without knowing where the entire path will lead. Together, we explore the quiet ways self-abandonment happens, the healing that often takes place where no one else can see it, and the first small act of sovereignty: telling ourselves the truth about where we are. And I’ll leave you with one question: Where in your life might you be calling a nine a three? About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

  2. 8월 25일

    Episode 7: Growing Hands: Healing, Wholeness, and Spiritual Sovereignty

    In the final chapter of The Handless Maiden, the maiden has spent seven years healing in the sanctuary of Here All Dwell Free. Her living hands have grown back. Meanwhile, the king has spent seven years wandering through the forest, learning to lay down his armor and soften the heart that could once offer her only silver hands—beautiful on the outside, but cold, rigid, and unable to feel. When they meet again, neither is the person the other once knew. She has become a whole and spiritually sovereign woman. He must learn to recognize her, hear what his absence has cost, and love her without trying to rescue, possess, or change her. In this episode, we explore: Why healing requires rest, safety, and the freedom to belong to ourselvesHow living hands symbolize inner authority, creativity, and spiritual sovereigntyWhy healing does not erase memory—and forgiveness does not automatically restore trustThe king’s transformation from a hardened heart to a heart soft enough to feelKintsugi and the possibility of allowing our wounds to become catalysts for rebirthMaslow’s idea of Being-love: loving another person without needing them to complete or rescue usThe sacred marriage and the reunion of the healed feminine and masculineWhat it means to reclaim the authority of the soulDrawing from fairy-tale symbolism, the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, psychology, and personal reflection, this episode asks us to consider where we may have surrendered our own hands—and whether something within us is now ready to return. What is true within you may be forgotten, buried, or silenced, but it cannot be destroyed. About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

  3. 8월 11일

    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 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 to God. In this episode, Jennifer explores deficiency-love, the honeymoon stage, wounded masculine and feminine patterns, and the painful loneliness of trying to make love work with someone who has emotionally left the castle. This is an episode for anyone who has ever confused being chosen with being truly met, or who has had to learn that healing cannot come from someone else covering the wound. This is not the end of the maiden’s journey. Next week, we’ll follow her deeper into the forest, where her real hands grow back, the king begins his own healing, and we begin to see what love looks like when it comes from wholeness. About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

  4. 8월 4일

    Episode 5: The Handless Maiden, Part 1 | The Father Wound: When Love Requires Self-Abandonment

    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 quiet wisdom within us. Together, we'll explore the symbolism of severed hands, tears, father wounds, self-abandonment, and why so many of us spend our lives searching for someone else to heal wounds that only we can begin to heal ourselves. Along the way, we'll discover why these ancient stories continue to speak so powerfully today, how they illuminate patterns modern psychology is only beginning to name, and why the journey home often begins the moment we leave the place where we were wounded. This is only the beginning of the Handless Maiden's journey. Next week, we'll follow her into the forest. About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

  5. 7월 28일

    Episode 4: When Stories Become a Tapestry

    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 exile. Both must let go of what no longer serves them. And both point us toward restoration, wholeness, and the journey home. Together, these stories invite us to look at the places where we abandon ourselves, hide behind armor, lose connection to our inner knowing, or forget how to see with compassion. This episode asks: Where are you in the story?  What has been cut off?  What armor are you wearing?  And what is your soul asking of you next? About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

  6. 7월 21일

    Episode 3: Why stories matter: How Myths Guide Us Home

    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—not because they are merely entertainment or history, but because they are maps of the human soul.  Together we'll explore:  Why stories often communicate truths that facts alone cannot.  What Jesus meant when he taught in parables.  How wisdom traditions from around the world seem to point toward the same deeper reality.  Why stories reveal new meanings as we ourselves grow.  How symbols such as Bluebeard, Isis and Osiris, and even Dead Poets Society can illuminate our own inner lives. If you've ever wondered why certain stories stay with you long after you've forgotten the details, or why the same themes seem to appear again and again throughout history, this episode is an invitation to begin reading stories with new eyes. Because perhaps the greatest stories were never meant to tell us about someone else. Perhaps they have been telling us about ourselves all along. Reflection Questions • What stories have stayed with you throughout your life? • Which characters or moments continue to speak to something deep within you? • What might those stories be revealing about your own journey? About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

  7. 7월 14일

    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 to survive, belong, and protect ourselves from pain. Drawing from Carl Jung, mythology, fairy tales, scripture, psychology, and spiritual traditions, we'll discover why ancient stories are filled with armor, towers, barren kingdoms, and wounded kings—and what these timeless symbols reveal about our own inner lives. Rather than trying to destroy the ego, we'll discover its true purpose: not as the ruler of the kingdom, but as a faithful steward of the soul. In this episode, we explore:  Carl Jung's concepts of the ego, the persona, the false self, and the Self  Why we build emotional armor after pain, shame, and trauma  The symbolism of armor in fairy tales, mythology, and scripture  Why external success can never heal an inner exile  How to begin discerning the voice of the ego from the quiet wisdom of the soulAbout Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

  8. 7월 7일

    Episode 1: The Wisdom Within

    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 our own lives. Through the shamanic story of the silver and gold books, we begin uncovering what it means to move from living according to inherited expectations to living in alignment with the wisdom within. If you've ever felt like your life looks right on the outside but something deeper is calling you... If you've ever wondered how to distinguish conditioning from truth, or fear from wisdom... This is where the journey begins. In this episode, we explore:  Why stories speak to the soul in ways facts alone cannot.  The difference between the "silver book" and the "gold book."  How the stories we inherit shape the lives we live.  Why myths, fairy tales, and scripture are maps of the inner journey.  What it means to reconnect with your inner compass and the quiet wisdom within.About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

  9. 6월 29일

    Know Thy Soul Trailer

    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.  About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, scripture, symbolism, psychology, and spiritual traditions as maps of the soul, revealing the timeless patterns that illuminate the journey home to ourselves.   🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday. Visit knowthysoul.com for episode transcripts, reflections, and more.  📬 Join the Know Thy Soul newsletter

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Know Thy Soul is a podcast about the journey home to ourselves, to the divine, and to the wisdom within waiting to be remembered.   Hosted by Jennifer Maura DePascale, each episode draws from myth, fairy tale, scripture, symbolism, ancient spiritual traditions, personal reflection, and conversations to uncover the timeless patterns woven through the world's great stories and spiritual traditions, and what they reveal about our lives today.   Together, we'll explore questions of meaning, healing, consciousness, relationship, and our direct connection to the divine. Through ancient stories and modern insights, we'll discover what these enduring patterns can teach us about ourselves, our world, and the journey from exile to wholeness.   Join us as we explore the lifelong journey of knowing thy soul.  🎙️ New episodes are released every Tuesday.  Visit knowthysoul.com to listen, read episode transcripts and reflections, and join the Know Thy Soul newsletter. 

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    Jennifer Maura DePascale
  • 방송 연도
    2026년
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