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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