Vienna Pharaon Healing Quotes

Just because we have wounds from our childhoods doesn’t mean we are doomed to repeat those patterns. If we pause to understand where these wounds come from (our origin stories) and take the time to make different choices, we can access powerful healing.

It doesn’t matter how much you try to avoid that painful past: how far away you physically move (“the geographical cure,” as psychologist Dr. Froma Walsh calls it) or whether you fully cut yourself off from a harmful family member. There is an internal resolution that must happen if you’re going to heal, and that internal resolution requires an understanding and awareness of the origin wounds that have a tight grip on you.

The pause is where you begin to ask yourself questions like: What’s familiar about this? What’s the origin story here? How do I normally respond? What opportunity is in front of me? What is something healing I can offer myself right now? and What is one shift I can make to step out of the cycle?