If any of this describes you, then this course is for you. You are tired of burying and repressing it. At the same time, you are tired of being subconsciously influenced by it. It seems impossible to create the space to thoroughly work it through. Or you can’t quite figure out how to integrate this work into a busy daily life. Perhaps you are overcome with self-doubt, resistance, perfectionism, and shame. Perhaps you feel afraid of its intensity, its honesty, the raw primal nature of this core wound. You come close and retreat, or you can’t begin at all. You may have tried to work it through (internally, emotionally, and therapeutically), and still it persists. We know our abandonment wound is in there-but its vulnerable nature makes it difficult to meet head-on. There are so many hidden faces and facets to this core wound. You may feel that you have been rejected by love, and life itself. The abandonment wound may eat at you with a nagging sense of unworthiness, a hesitation to take chances. It may rear its head in the form of toxic connections, self-destructive behaviors and addictions, paths that don’t serve your self-actualization. It may take the form of not believing in yourself, and holding back from the dreams and goals that have meaning for you. At other times it shows its unhealed face as a painful trigger, a persistent personal issue, or a feeling of being unsafe in the world and in your own skin. It may show up as a fear of intimacy or of being vulnerable with others. Sometimes it manifests itself as issues within personal relationships, or as unhealthy attachments.

You may not be able to directly identify the wound-but somehow you know it’s there, beneath the surface, acting upon your life in a multitude of ways. And it has stayed with you, impacting your relationships, your self-esteem, your sense of security, and your feeling of belonging in the world. At some point in your life, whether it was in your most vulnerable stages of infancy and childhood, or later in life-you have experienced the searing pain of feeling left behind, unwanted, uncared for, rejected, or unloved.

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