Emotional Wounding and Identity: Gina Goldfeder and Dawson Church in Conversation

Gina Goldfeder is a psychologist and the author of Releasing the Emotional Wound: Shamanic and Psychological Tools to Release Trauma and Rebuild Your Life. Her work draws on her training in shamanism, dream interpretation, psychdrama, and sacred geometry. She helps individuals and couples find core wounds and uses both psychological and spiritual techniques to release them to build a new and functional identity.

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Great psychology as spiritual

The wound as the portal to healing

Why we shouldn't be in a hurry to fix your wounds

Exercise: Write about the you with this wound and the you without it

The ways we wear armor and eventually we forget we even have it on

Our strategies to avoid suffering that disconnect us from who we really are

Exercise: In what ways am I armored?

Why some people seek help and others do not

How for some people, suffering becomes the purpose of life

The practice of owning your life and being responsible