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Earth Tones Podcast
Earth Tones is a soulful podcast rooted in four pillars: survival, passion, service, and love. Born from personal experience, spiritual devotion, and huge heart for humanity, this show explores the sacred intersections of faith, culture, healing, empowerment, and human connection.
Through raw storytelling, spiritual reflection, and conversations that matter, host Ella- a single mama, creative, solo traveler, and once, non profit founder- invites you into the journeying that shapes each of us. From her time working with refugees in Syria and Afghanistan to the quiet revelations that come through motherhood, each episode offers perspective, purpose, and permission to keep growing.
Whether you’re rebuilding, reimagining, or reaching for more- this space is for you. For the ones yearning for closer connections to each other or to God. Earth Tones is a return to what is real- a rhythm, a remembering, a quiet rebellion against a world that tells you to stay surface- level. Here, we go deeper.
Earth Tones Podcast
Episode 33: Part 2- Ancient Wisdom & Walking the Rooms of Your Interior Castle
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In today’s episode, I spend a little more time exploring The Interior Castle by Teresa of Ávila and her beautiful image of the soul as a castle with many rooms. Each room represents a different stage of the spiritual journey, inviting us to move deeper inward toward God.
I gently walk through Teresa’s seven rooms of the castle and pause for reflection, asking where you might see yourself within them right now. Along the way, I also lightly reference the writings of John of the Cross and his idea of the Dark Night of the Soul, exploring how seasons of spiritual dryness may actually be some of the most meaningful parts of the journey.
One image I return to is that our spiritual life is a lot like a landscape. Beautiful landscapes aren’t made only of sunshine. They include storms, fog, quiet valleys, and long seasons of shaping. In the same way, faith often grows through both clarity and mystery.
I also share a personal reflection on how this metaphor can change the way we see others. Instead of closing doors when we don’t see eye to eye, perhaps we can remember that we are all moving through different rooms of the same castle, each on our own path inward.
Toward the end of the episode, I briefly touch on the wisdom of the desert seekers who embraced silence and solitude as part of their spiritual life, reminding us that the journey inward has always been part of the human search for God.
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