The Wounded Healer Always Carries and Angel Shield

We need the wounded healer. You know this person or maybe you are one yourself. Easily fatigued and easily overstimulated by situations or events. But yet….often the most compassionate and most wise person in the room. That’s just how they roll. They are always there in a crisis and they know what to say to offer help.

The wounded healer has gone through so many intense happenings, sometimes in multiple lifetimes. The depth of compassion is so profound but they can be worn around the edges from what they’ve been through and how they still perceive life and its pains.

The first step for a wounded healer, someone who has been through a lot and is here to serve and help others is to recognize what it means to be an empath. If you are a wounded healer, you have to practice extra self care, because your sensitivity allows you to feel EVERYTHING that is going on around you. It can be hard for you to tell what is you and what is NOT you. Someone else’s pain may feel like it is your pain, because your wounded healer heart is tender and big.

So first step is to know this and next is make a commitment to protect yourself. Practice energetic clearing techniques like Kundalini Yoga or Tai Qi. Tapping and affirmations also help you connect with yourself and your inner ability to heal.

You’ve also got to clear the “shock” that is around you from the suffering you’ve gone through. You probably have PTSD symptoms and you could be confused about your emotions and how to set boundaries with other people. One thing that may help is to recognize that this shock or PTSD is like a debris field around you. It’s impossible for you to be your best self until you focus first and foremost on healing yourself. Invest time every single day in caring for you. Eat very healthy foods, rest and exercise regularly and take homeopathic remedies to help clear the PTSD or shock from your body. The simplest remedy that does this is Star of Bethlehem; a Bach flower remedy that helps to clear the debris field of past suffering and fear. You can simply put it directly under your tongue when you are feeling anxious OR put it into your water bottle and drink it all day long.

The “shock” is a very pervasive symptom that clogs your process and makes it hard to tap into your healing powers within. It’s essential to name that you have it, and recognize that it gets amplified during stress and health crisis and makes everything seem worse than it is and hopeless.

Shock can manifest as a tendency to disassociate or be spaced out. You are not able to stay present in the moment and enjoy the present moment. Instead your mind is very busy wandering and thinking about other things and sometimes obsessing about other things. Your proprioceptive sense may be disoriented meaning you literally don’t quite GET where you are in time or space. You are not anchored and therefore have a hard time having boundaries with other people and even knowing what you need isn’t clear to you…..

But there is hope because for a wounded healer person, it is imperative to recognize that you do have angel wings and an angel shield around you protecting you all the time. You came here to earth to help others and you chose, as painful as it may seem to go through challenging circumstances so that you could heal yourself and then heal others.

There are people out there waiting for you to heal so that you can help them heal. This is the cycle of the wounded healer archetype. You dust off your angel wings, pick yourself up, fortify yourself and then give to yourself and others.

You have to tap into the strong energy around you that protects you; it is a kind of angel shield. Please trust that things will get better and that you have the energy to heal all of yourself within you. Please speak positively to yourself with affirmations "I am united from within, I heal myself now" multiple times a day. "I let go of the past so that I can create healing miracles for myself and others."  Use the homeopathics and your self care to ground into your body and look to be present in the moment. Look for the simple pleasures of life and joy of the moment whenever you can.

There are people waiting for you to heal so that you can offer them support. This is the cycle of life for the archetype of the wounded healer. We go through painful challenging times so that we can better serve others. It is through deep and profound love that we heal, take care of ourselves and then offer this to others.

Nurture yourself, love yourself and trust your angel shield.

From one wounded healer to another, I wish you the very best in your journey.

Love, Dr. Japa