Gifts and Wounds

This in-depth course explores how an ancient understanding of human nature includes the sense that each soul born will bear both natural gifts and core wounds. As the world around us becomes more conflicted and divided and we become more vulnerable to levels of anxiety and fear, our inner gifts try to become more conscious to us and core wounds seek to be healed.

As many wisdom traditions illustrate, each person carries within the knowledge and medicine they most need. Yet, in order to activate the inner medicine we must face the inevitable traumas suffered early in life. The territory of gifts and wounds inevitably involves our parents and issues of family fate.

Fears of abandonment and overwhelm, along with family spells and neglect will arise again at each critical turning point in life. Not because we are deficient or somehow unworthy, but because the true adventure of life involves both awakening to our gifted nature and learning to heal from within.

In allowing ourselves to be vulnerable a deeper wisdom can come to us and live through us. When we invoke the archetypal energies of the wounded healer, our deepest wounds can be seen as a womb through which we become reborn as initiates taking up the paths of healing, transforming and becoming more creative.