core wounds

Embody and Experience Your Inner Child for Deep Healing

Embody and Experience Your Inner Child for Deep Healing

At the intersection of two different triggers last week, I let myself sink into my darkened bedroom and cloudy thoughts.

I pulled the curtains across the brightness of the afternoon and climbed into my bed.

I wrapped the sheet and blankets around me tight.

The rawness of my core wound comes around every year.

The most vulnerable thing I could ever do is ask if you'd spend my birthday with me.

Even as I write the words, tears flood my eyes and spill over.

A knot clenches in my gut, and my throat becomes so tight it's almost impossible for me to breathe.

I try to swallow it down, but the icy terror in my heart threatens to heave up and out of my body.

6 Steps for Taking Responsibility for Triggers and Healing (your own and/or your partner's)

One of my deepest wounds and greatest triggers of unworthiness happened this week. 

My birthday.

It's become a well-worn path bordered by landmines and avoidance.

Shaun's taken to be my guide on occasion, and this year was especially sweet.