This archetype, more than any other, is UNCOMFORTABLE - it's difficult to carry if it's part of you, yes, but honestly the whole idea of an unhealable wound is UPSETTING to many many people.
This is why I think it's so important to talk about it instead of just shutting down the conversation, or (as many people do) focusing only on the \"wounded healer\" part and not talking at all about the wound the healer carries...that he himself is never able to heal.
I also talk more in the episode about why I see that the unhealable wound part is inevitable and universal, but the wounded healer part is optional and not necessarily common.
All of us have this unhealable wound in us somewhere, but the people whose woundedness is really woven through them have this archetype as part of their core nature.
Because it's so difficult to carry this well - and since we can't get rid of it, carrying it is all we can do - I am deeply devoted to helping people get more familiar, skillful, and clear-eyed about this archetype.
As all the archetypes do, it has gifts, strengths, and profound contributions along with its challenges, sorrows, and bleakness.
Holding that all together will help all of you with the Unhealable Wound/Wounded Healer as a significant part of your nature live more deeply into what that means.
For more in-depth information on the qualities of the unhealable wound in people, you can check out an interview I did called \"Working With Unhealable Wounds\" with Simone Seol in 2023.
I go through the list of Chiron (the solar system body at the heart of the Unhealable Wound) in each sign of the zodiac.
https://karenhawkwood.com/interviews/
You might or might not have the archetype of the Unhealable Wound/Wounded Healer, where it's really prominent in your nature, but you have that wound somewhere, and knowing those qualities specific to your Chiron group can be helpful.
You can find out what sign Chiron is in by going to www.astro.com and putting in your birth information, and then looking at the \"legend\" box in the lower left and finding Chiron on the list with the sign it's in.
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