Recognizing the wound as an opportunity to create a new personal identity

• Explores the meaning of primal emotional wounds, their origins, and how our identification with them can obscure our self-perception

• Shares mantras, emotional ceremonies, rituals, and amulets to help facilitate the creation of a new personal identity

• Provides practices to experience and maintain your new identity such as encounters with yourself, working with the body/soul connection, and embracing forgiveness

Emotional wounds are more than just scars from the past as they often leave unconscious imprints on our souls. Unresolved traumas can develop an existence of their own and become our excuses for why we cannot live a fulfilling life. Yet, these wounds can also serve as catalysts to nourish and transform our experience of life.

Psychotherapist Gina Goldfeder details the emotional wound, its origin, and how our identification with it can obscure our ­self-perception. She draws on case studies and extensive experience from her practice to share tools for transcending pain and to facilitate healing, such as mantras, emotional ceremonies and rituals, amulets, journaling, and personal testimonies. Releasing the emotional wound and creating a new identity is one of our most important challenges and can change our whole experience of life. To maintain this new state of being, Gina offers grounding and stabilizing practices such as encounters with yourself, working with the body/soul connection, embracing forgiveness as a gift, and recognizing the wound as an opportunity.

Centered on the process of acknowledging, honoring, and learning to release the original wound, this guide will help you turn former trauma into new opportunities for expansion and happiness.