The 3 Types of Wounding
And an update about todays call...
If you have been following along for the last month or so you will know that my writing has been largely devoted to the Wounded Healer, specifically, the story of Parzival and his meetings in the Grail Castle with the Fisher King. Tomorrow I am offering another free live workshop, and we will be focusing on the wounded healer archetype without the Parzival reference. You can join here.
Among other things we will discuss the 3 types of wounds we can receive-
Individual, cultural and universal.
Individual wounds are what happens to you directly. Maybe an abuse or the death of someone important. We all carry something that hurt us deeply, and this is very individual.
Cultural wounds are what we inherit through our birthplace and culture we are raised in. A wound specific to the western psyche is the need to fix ourselves, saying that we are inherently broken. In India, Peru and Brazil, (at least in the places I visited) they don’t have the lingering need to mend what is broken, and you can feel this in the people. Another cultural wound is loneliness, some cultures do not have this as they move in such large groups that there is always someone to talk to, play with, be supported by etc. Depression and anxiety are not only cultural (meaning some cultures have little to none), but also new at the level we are experiencing it in our own culture, this is something to meditate on.
Universal wounds are what we all experience on some level - abandonment, rejection and inadequacy are a part of being human. But depending on how they are managed by caregivers, we can either be traumatised by them or find ways to integrate the experience.
Trauma being defined not as the “bad” things which happens to us, but how these things effect us after the events.
The wounded healer archetype is the potential if the above can be integrated.
The call is today - Tuesday 18th February 6:30pm - 8:30pm BST. Join Here. This call will not be recorded, the last call was, but subsequently taken down due to wanting to keep the space open so participants can be venerable without the fear of being observed by people outside the group.