Welcome to Everything Speaks if You Listen with Jen CobbleWorks where we befriend our humanity and the Sacred through story, soul questions, and every day life.

In this week's episode, I introduce my FAVORITE spiritual practice, the examen, and my unique approach to it. The examen is a daily ritual of inner listening, self-reflection, and connection to the Sacred (however you name that). It has helped me get to know myself, embrace my humanity, heal wounds, do shadow work, practice accountability, set intentions, and cultivate a unique relationship to the Sacred. It is a spiritual and mindfulness practice that honors our left brain rationality as well as our intuition and inner wisdom. I love it! It's practical and beautiful.

I explore a little of the history of the examen practice, my approach to it, and walk through each step using my own experience as a guide and example. (I also stumble with my grammar and say "more easier" which would make my mother fall out of her chair. lol.)

Below are the resources I mention if you'd like to learn more about this practice and my approach to it. I really think this is a tool that can serve us well in this time of change and transformation. It helps us to build inner ground when life feels rather groundless.

Inner Wisdom Step-by-Step Examen Cards: www.etsy.com/shop/CobbleWorks

Compassionate Question Cards: www.etsy.com/shop/CobbleWorks

Newsletter that comes with a free illustrated mini book on the examen: www.jencobbleworks.com/free

I'm Jen Cobble Willhoite, a contemplative storyteller, spiritual tool designer, and life-long soul seeker. My path is formed and framed by questions more than answers. I'm more comfortable wondering and wandering about things spiritual than I am in ideology, religion, or dogma.

My soul language and connection with Spirit is primarily grounded in Celtic Spirituality, science, nature, seasonal cycles, myth, folklore, and stories of all kinds. I do have roots in progressive Christianity that I sometimes speak from. My tap root, though, is ordinary life. I believe enlightenment is rhythmic, unfolding, and found in our everyday experiences and selves. I also offer tools and courses on my modern interpretation of the examen: a daily ritual of looking back, looking within, and looking ahead to cultivate a rapport with your inner wisdom and the Sacred as you understand it.

Every few weeks, I share an episode from my own spiritual explorations, offering invitations for you to explore these themes on your own. Thanks for journeying with me!

Welcome to Everything Speaks if You Listen with Jen CobbleWorks where we befriend our humanity and the Sacred through story, soul questions, and every day life. 

In this week's episode, we talk about uncertainty and how it can be so painful and cornering, that the only thing we (often) end up feeling is tremendous fear. And also...uncertainty marks a threshold, a place of the Unknown and Mystery where all things are possible because no things are yet determined which means we are being gifted something HUGE: the opportunity to pay attention and see a bigger horizon.

We honor how this is not easy or trite and explore what it would feel like to grow in our ability to abide with uncertainty until we can see the amazing sense of possibility it brings (even if we're still feeling afraid).

There are more dog sounds in this podcast, a few yawns and gurgles from the jackhuahua in my life. There is also me singing a totally made up, not rhyming, not particularly good song, and an invitation to affirm that it is ok, always, to not know something. Here is the link to the comic I drew and mention in the episode. I hope you join me this week for Everything Speaks if You Listen!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpx9PoqPnxA/

I'm Jen Cobble Willhoite, a contemplative storyteller, spiritual tool designer, and life-long soul seeker. My path is formed and framed by questions more than answers. I'm more comfortable wondering and wandering about things spiritual than I am in ideology, religion, or dogma.

My soul language and connection with Spirit is primarily grounded in Celtic Spirituality, science, nature, seasonal cycles, myth, folklore, and stories of all kinds. I do have roots in progressive Christianity that I sometimes speak from. My tap root, though, is ordinary life. I believe enlightenment is rhythmic, unfolding, and found in our everyday experiences and selves. I also offer tools and courses on my modern interpretation of the examen: a daily ritual of looking back, looking within, and looking ahead to cultivate a rapport with your inner wisdom and the Sacred as you understand it.

Every few weeks, I share an episode from my own spiritual explorations, offering invitations for you to explore these themes on your own. Thanks for journeying with me!

Welcome to Everything Speaks if You Listen with Jen CobbleWorks where we befriend our humanity and the Sacred through story, soul questions, and every day life. 

In this week's episode, we explore some of the symbolism and spiritual invitations from the full moon for our human and soul growth. There's also a guided meditation/reflection at the end for you to engage with in your imagination or journal.

We cover themes around the cyclical nature and seasonality of life and how the moon's waxing and waning affirms seasonality as natural, and as a way to find grounding even through things that shift and change. I introduce questions you can ask yourself every month at the full moon which help you name what has come to fruition and what needs to be released before you move forward. And we spend a fair amount of time remembering that this process involves celebration, savoring, and pleasure from what has matured in our life as well as re-framing release, pruning, and surrender not as something punishing, but as part of what it means to transform and grow. 

There's a brief exploration of gardening by the moon, a family tradition from my ancestry of gathering in the graveyard for remembrance and storytelling, and a visit from Snake, who teaches us that letting go can be vulnerable even though it's necessary and reminds us that we remain ourselves even after a season of release. Enjoy! I hope it's fruitful listening.

The link to the Moon Oracle Deck by Alauna Whelan is here:

https://alaunawhelan.com/products/moon-mantra-oracle-deck

I'm Jen Cobble Willhoite, a contemplative storyteller, spiritual tool designer, and life-long soul seeker. My path is formed and framed by questions more than answers. I'm more comfortable wondering and wandering about things spiritual than I am in ideology, religion, or dogma.

My soul language and connection with Spirit is primarily grounded in Celtic Spirituality, science, nature, seasonal cycles, myth, folklore, and stories of all kinds. I do have roots in progressive Christianity that I sometimes speak from. My tap root, though, is ordinary life. I believe enlightenment is rhythmic, unfolding, and found in our everyday experiences and selves. I also offer tools and courses on my modern interpretation of the examen: a daily ritual of looking back, looking within, and looking ahead to cultivate a rapport with your inner wisdom and the Sacred as you understand it.

Every week, I share an episode from my own spiritual explorations, offering invitations and questions for you to explore on your own. Thanks for journeying with me!

Welcome to Everything Speaks if You Listen with Jen CobbleWorks where we befriend our humanity and the Sacred through story, soul questions, and every day life. 

I'm Jen Cobble Willhoite, a contemplative storyteller, spiritual tool designer, and life-long soul seeker. My path is formed and framed by questions more than answers. I'm more comfortable wondering and wandering about things spiritual than I am in ideology, religion, or dogma.

My soul language and connection with Spirit is primarily grounded in Celtic Spirituality, science, nature, seasonal cycles, myth, folklore, and stories of all kinds. I do have roots in progressive Christianity that I sometimes speak from. My tap root, though, is ordinary life. I believe enlightenment is rhythmic, unfolding, and found in our everyday experiences and selves. I also offer tools and courses on my modern interpretation of the examen: a daily ritual of looking back, looking within, and looking ahead to cultivate a rapport with your inner wisdom and the Sacred as you understand it.

Every week, I share an episode from my own spiritual explorations, offering invitations for you to explore these themes on your own. Thanks for journeying with me!

In this week's episode, we explore coddiwompling: the act of intentionally journeying towards an unknown destination. I frame this, a bit, through the lens of Lent, but expand the conversation to include any kind of conscious, on-purpose journey-before-the-journey. All of us experience various thresholds in life where we consent to a leap of faith, a stepping out, an embrace of transformation that feels *right* even though it also feels mysterious and likely, scary. What would a pre-journey do for us, a season where we listened to our human fears, dreams, and questions and regularly sat down at a campfire with the sacred to honor them and receive more wisdom around them? Would we grow braver and more prepared to enter our "big journey", our leap of faith transformation? Would we grow a friendship with ourselves and the sacred that would make the bigger journey more doable? Lots of questions to explore when we walk with intention into uncertainty. Join me in coddiwompling this week! And...hear me sing a small bit of a Patti LaBelle song too.

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Welcome to Inner Journey, Outer Worlds with Jen CobbleWorks where we befriend our humanity and the Sacred through story, soul questions, and every day life. I'm Jen Cobble Willhoite, a contemplative storyteller, spiritual tool designer, and life-long soul seeker. My path is formed and framed by questions more than answers. I'm more comfortable wondering and wandering about things spiritual than I am in ideology, religion, or dogma.

My soul language and connection with Spirit is primarily grounded in Celtic Spirituality, science, nature, seasonal cycles, myth, folklore, and stories of all kinds. I do have roots in progressive Christianity that I sometimes speak from. My tap root, though, is ordinary life. I believe enlightenment is rhythmic, unfolding, and found in our everyday experiences and selves. I also offer tools and courses on my modern interpretation of the examen: a daily ritual of looking back, looking within, and looking ahead to cultivate a rapport with your inner wisdom and the Sacred as you understand it.

Every few weeks, I share an episode from my own spiritual explorations, offering invitations for you to explore these themes on your own. Thanks for journeying with me!

In this week's episode, I talk about the thing I rarely talk about: Jesus. Namely, the tradition of Lent and how starting this season with a lens towards our own mortality, while it's relevant and meaningful, is not vibing with me this year. What DOES feel like an invitation this year is to consider 40 days in the wilderness as a spiritual honeymoon rather than an exile. What also resonates this year is a desire to be marked by stardust and earth, things that expand and ground our lives, rather than by dust, the symbol of our life's end.

It's elemental, deep, casual, and--I hope--good company for you on your own journey. Thanks for accompanying me.