http://www.gladysganiel.com/irish-catholic-church/the-apostolic-visitors-are-coming-wounded-healers-and-healing-for-the-wounded/ Building a Church Without Walls Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.gladysganiel.com/irish-catholic-church/the-apostolic-visitors-are-coming-wounded-healers-and-healing-for-the-wounded/comment-page-1/#comment-1239 Eleanor stoneham Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:47:14 +0000 http://www.gladysganiel.com/irish-catholic-church/the-apostolic-visitors-are-coming-wounded-healers-and-healing-for-the-wounded/#comment-1239 I utterly agree with you. Brady's definition of Wounded Healers - "those who have made mistakes in the past" - is in my view misguided and overly simplistic, and those in that category who have done nothing to heal themselves, to transcend their own wounds first, to be in touch with their own woundedness, will be in no position to heal others of their deep hurts. We are all wounded to some extent and that wounding evokes healing. I love Rachel Remen's definition: "My wound evokes your healer. Your wound evokes my healer. My wound enables me to find you with your wound where you have the illusion of having become lost," she says. The Wounded Healer implies the deepest compassion and empathy born out of our own hurt that conjures up a deep spiritual capacity to heal those others in their own need. I utterly agree with you. Brady’s definition of Wounded Healers – “those who have made mistakes in the past” – is in my view misguided and overly simplistic, and those in that category who have done nothing to heal themselves, to transcend their own wounds first, to be in touch with their own woundedness, will be in no position to heal others of their deep hurts.
We are all wounded to some extent and that wounding evokes healing.
I love Rachel Remen’s definition: “My wound evokes your healer. Your wound evokes my healer. My wound enables me to find you with your wound where you have the illusion of having become lost,” she says.
The Wounded Healer implies the deepest compassion and empathy born out of our own hurt that conjures up a deep spiritual capacity to heal those others in their own need.

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