What is a Wound, and Why Does it Matter?
A wound is more than just physical damage; it’s any experience, memory, or belief that leaves an imprint on your emotional, mental, or energetic body. These wounds can disrupt your vibration, impacting your health, well-being, and ability to thrive. Left unresolved, they can create energetic blockages, attract negative patterns, and limit your potential for joy, love, and abundance.
Your vibration—the energy you radiate—is deeply influenced by your wounds. When unhealed wounds linger, they lower your frequency, making you susceptible to emotional stress, physical ailments, and spiritual disconnection. On the flip side, clearing these wounds allows your energy to flow freely, raising your vibration and opening the door to greater vitality and alignment.
Wounds can be a source of limiting beliefs and they also often house negative emotions. When we idenify and clear our wounds we release those heavy energies and can feel truly 'light of heart' and happy, sometimes straight away. Energy healing responses vary between people. Some healing may take a little more time to unfold and for you to feel the full benefits.
The Different Types of Wounds
Wounds can come from many sources, spanning lifetimes (past lives), lineages (ancestors), and societal structures (collective consciousness). Wounds don’t just stop with you; they can be passed down through your family line. Ancestral wounds may manifest as patterns of poverty, fear, or limiting beliefs inherited from previous generations. Below, we’ll explore some common types of wounds and how they manifest in your life:
Emotional Wounds
Psychological injuries caused by distressing or painful experiences that deeply affect a person's emotions and sense of self can leave wounds. They are not visible like physical wounds, but they can leave a lasting impact on a person’s mental, emotional, and even physical well-being if left unaddressed. Emotional wounds often result from experiences such as:
Trauma: This includes abuse (physical, emotional, or sexual), accidents, natural disasters, or witnessing violence. Grief, and loss can imprint deeply, causing anxiety, depression, or PTSD.
Loss or Grief: Losing a loved one, a relationship, a job, or a sense of security.
Chronic Stress: Experiencing prolonged periods of stress, such as living in a toxic environment or dealing with ongoing financial struggles.
Rejection or Abandonment: Feeling unloved, excluded, or abandoned by someone important can lead to feelings of loneliness and inadequacy (feeling not enough or unworthy of love). Abandonment can be either physical (being physcally left) or emotional through emotional distance, or emotional unavailability.
Betrayal: Being deceived or let down by someone you trusted. Examples may include a partner cheating, or friends sharing private secrets. This wound can lead us to shy away from trusing people in the future.
Humilitiation: Affects your self-belief and dignity whether it is being demeaned or ridiculed in either a public or private setting. This wound can have lasting effects of embarassment that leads to hiding and avoiding connecting socially.
Injustice: Being treated unfairly or unjustly can lead to guilt, shame and distrust of people, organisations, or the system at large. Injustice can lead to a feeling of helplessness and deep loneliness.
"We all have had ample practice attempting to escape our wounds and relatively little experience facing them directly." Linda Howe ~ Healing Through The Akashic Records
Relational Wounds
Can shatter trust and leave you feeling unworthy or disconnected.
Mother Wound: Emotional pain or unmet needs in the mother-child relationship, as well as the societal pressures placed on mothers that impact their ability to fully nurture. It can arise from:
Feeling unloved, abandoned, or unsupported by your mother.
Experiencing conditional love, where love is tied to achievement or compliance.
Internalizing beliefs of not being “enough” or being overly self-sacrificing.
Father Wound: Emotional pain stemming from an absent, neglectful, or critical father figure, as well as societal expectations of masculinity that impact fathers. This wound can manifest as:
Difficulty trusting authority figures or forming healthy relationships with men.
Struggling with self-confidence or feelings of inadequacy.
Feeling unsupported, abandoned, or unseen.
Sibling Wound: Includes rivalries or lack of connection with siblings. Feelings of competition or unworthiness within the family dynamic.
Inner Child Wounds: Abandonment wound (emotional or physical), neglect wound (unmet needs), rejection wound (can lead to hypersensitivity to criticism), control wound (overscheduling or chaos and lack of structure), trust wound (you may have trouble letting people get close to you), worthiness wound (when performance is linked to love and acceptance), bullying, feeling unheard, or other childhood trauma can leave lasting scars. Signs include difficulty with self-love, emotional triggers, or people-pleasing tendencies.
Generational Wounds
Can be emotional patterns inherited from parents, caregivers and ancestors - they may be in the family system and passed from generation to generation. These patterns may include, addictions, poverty (scarcity) mindset, overachievement perfectionism, low self-worth, unresolved grief, distrust of authority, survival mentality, silence and suppression (afraid to speak up), inherited fears, people-pleasing, etc.
Past-Life and Soul Wounds
These are traumas or experiences carried over from previous lives, including:
Witch Wound: Fear of being seen or using your intuitive gifts, stemming from past persecutions. This wound is common among healers and people with spiritual gifts, it can block them from stepping into what is possible for them.
"If some part of you feels it is unsafe to fully embrace the magic that exists within and around you. This part of you carries an age-old wound-one that keeps you from claiming your magic, owning your power, and shining fearlessly in your truth." Celeste Larsen ~ Heal the Witch Wound: Reclaim Your Magic and Step Into Your Power
Soul-Level Wounds: Karmic pain or soul contracts that cause recurring challenges in this life.
Energetic Imprints: Residual energy from traumatic past-life events that linger in your aura.
Collective and Cultural Wounds
Patriarchal Wound: Reflects the trauma caused by living in a patriarchal society, where power structures prioritize masculine traits (such as dominance and control) and suppress feminine traits (such as intuition, collaboration, and nurturing). It impacts people of all genders and manifests as: Shame or devaluation of feminine qualities (in oneself or others). Feeling silenced, undervalued, or unsafe in one’s body or identity. Internalized misogyny or competition with other women. Struggles with receiving, resting, or embracing softness.
Capitalism Wounds: Generational pressure to overachieve, conform, or suppress your true self. You may feel some or all of the following characteristics: Disconnection from your Self-Worth. Exploitation and Inequality, Overemphasis on Individualism, Scarcity Mentality, Environmental Destruction, Consumerism and Empty Fulfilment, Work-Life Imbalance – trapped in the grind culture. Pressure to "succeed" can create long-term stress and trauma, passed down through generations. Families may experience cycles of financial struggle or feel burdened by societal expectations.
Imperialism Wound: Characteristics include: A loss of cultural identity, discrimination, oppression. Systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, spiritual disconnection, internalised oppression, physical and environmental exploitation.
Religous Tyranny: refers to the emotional, psychological, and spiritual harm caused by oppressive or controlling religious systems or doctrines. It encompasses trauma experienced on an individual or collective level, where religion has been used as a tool to dominate, manipulate, or suppress rather than to uplift, nurture, or guide.
This wound can arise from strict dogma, abuse of authority, fear-based teachings, or the misuse of spiritual principles to instil guilt, shame, or control. It’s not necessarily about religion itself but how religion or spirituality has been wielded in ways that harm or disempower people.
Planetary Wounds: Empathic pain from environmental destruction or collective fear.
Energetic Wounds
These wounds affect your subtle energy systems:
Chakra Blockages: Emotional trauma that disrupts the flow of energy in your chakras.
Energy Drains: Feeling depleted by toxic environments or people.
Ancestral Energy Wounds: Family patterns that keep you stuck in low-vibrational cycles.
Other Types of Wounds
Wounds can manifest in every area of life, including finances, relationships, health, career, spirituality, and self-worth. These wounds act as energetic imprints or unresolved traumas that influence our beliefs, behaviors, and experiences in those areas.
How Wounds May Show Up in Life:
Emotional triggers or outbursts.
Repeated negative patterns.
Limiting beliefs that block your progress.
Difficulty attracting positive energy or opportunities.
Why Healing Your Wounds is Essential
Unhealed wounds act like anchors, pulling you back into old patterns and preventing growth. By identifying and clearing these wounds, you can:
Raise Your Vibration: Free yourself from energetic blockages and align with higher frequencies of joy and love.
Improve Health and Well-Being: Release the stress and emotional pain that contribute to physical ailments.
Enhance Relationships: Heal relational wounds to cultivate deeper connections and trust.
Rediscover Your Purpose: Shed limiting beliefs and step fully into your authentic self.
Healing is not just about letting go—it’s about reclaiming your power, rewriting your story, and living a life of freedom and authenticity.
How to Begin Clearing Your Wounds
Healing is a multi-layered journey. While each wound is unique, the process often involves the same steps:
Acknowledgment: Identify and recognise the wound and how it affects your thoughts, emotions, and energy.
Track: Use your intution to tune into your body to track the path of the wound from the heart and find where it's hiding in your body. Wounds are stored in the organs and energy systems of the body.
Clear: Identify the trapped negative energies (beliefs, patterns, & emotions) in the wound and clear each of them.
Infuse & Seal: I infuse the wound with Arnica and Rescue Remedy, then seal it with golden energy, visualising the wound is healed.
Integrate: Set the intention you are integrating the healing into your body, energy systems and healing your soul.
After clearing your wound you may feel physically lighter and notice changes in the way you feel and respond to life, people and experiences. You may feel former blocks and resistence falling away and life becoming easier.
If you feel ready to explore, identify, clear, and heal your wounds, I’m here to support you. Together, we can uncover the root causes of your challenges, release what no longer serves you, and raise your vibration to align with the life you desire.
I hope you will take this opportunity to identify and heal your wounds, to reclaim your energy so you can embrace what is truly possible for you in this lifetime.
