What is a Wounded Healer and how did I know I was one?

 

We all come into this life with gifts.  A wounded healer is often someone who is sensitive or very intuitive, from a family history of emotional or physical abuse. 

I suffered such severe emotional abuse growing up I couldn’t even recognize it in therapy. Up to and through my divorce I was so traumatized, depressed, etc. from trying to be all things to all people and worrying about people liking me and looking for someone to love me and fill the void I had been carrying with me I finally stopped and listened to that inner voice. I was now ready to release and surrender to divine guidance and in that surrender I found unconditional love in the true love connection between myself and Divine Source (God, etc.) and the enlightened path to healing and for the first time in my life discovered the real me and what it was to really feel love and be truly loved in return. 

 

I was always "different" being born with intuitive abilities and many times in chaotic home environments, wounded healers are the psychic gatekeepers of the family. Often considered by others to be different, they are the intuitive conduits that keep a dysfunctional family together.  This is where these healers learn how to communicate and survive  and discover their ability to thrive as a result of gaining greater awareness, understanding and empathy for the human condition.

 

What distinguishes wounded healers from healers is their extra sensitive or intuitive psyches, experiences of intense suffering in dysfunctional families, and passing through the Dark Night of the Soul to their own Awakening.