Our Wounds and our Hurts! Everyone of us, regardless of race, colour, status, gender, faith or what language we speak. There is no escaping it, somewhere along all our journeys, we will be hurt and wounded (knowingly or unknowingly by someone).
For some, these wounds will be deeper than others, and long after the physical scars heal, the emotional scares run deep, casting a long shadow in our lives. As Therapists, we are no exception to escaping these wounds and hurts, hence ‘The wounded Healer.
Austria born Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl the founder of Logo-Therapy was a Holocaust survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. In his book ‘One man’s search for Meaning, he wrote ‘it is our own hurts and pain that provide us with the ability and desire to heal others. Becoming aware of our emotions, how they affect us, how they affect those around us, while taking proactive steps to manage them in a healthy and constructive way is not accepting blame, its allowing peace to flow within ourselves.
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