We often hear the phrase, the wound is where the light comes in.
But first, the wound has to be witnessed.
Really witnessed.
It is easy to know where a wound came from. We can name the person, the relationship, the experience, the moment something changed in us.
But knowing where it came from is only one layer.
There is another question.
What has this wound become inside of me?
How has it shaped the way I love, the way I receive, the way I protect myself, the way I make choices, the way I see my own worth?
Some wounds become so woven into us that we begin to live from them without realizing it.
They amplify certain fears. They dictate choices. They become the place we return to again and again, even long after the original experience has passed.
And this is where the wound begins to reveal its medicine.
When we are willing to look at it with curiosity.
When we are willing to see the depth of it, the courage it took to carry it, the love that may have existed within it, and the ways we learned to survive through it.
There is power in saying, I see you.
I see what you have been doing here.
I see what I built around you.
I see where I handed you my power.
And I see the part of me that is ready to take that power back.
This kind of healing is not about pushing the wound down or pretending it no longer matters.
It is about meeting it fully enough that it no longer has to run your life from underneath everything.
The wound you are willing to witness in yourself can become one of your greatest assets.
Because once you truly see it, you begin to see the strength inside it too.
The wisdom.
The discernment.
The compassion.
The power.
And eventually, the wound is no longer only the place where you were hurt.
It becomes part of the medicine you carry.
If this touches something you are ready to look at more deeply, this is the terrain I work in.
You can work with me in a one-to-one session or through a longer private container when you are ready to stay with what is being revealed and create real movement from it. Discover HERE
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And if you are in a season of questioning the life you have been living and listening for what is asking to change, my book, Lost in the Truth: When the Life You Knew No Longer Fits, may meet you there. Discover HERE
With love and blessings,
Susan