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A profound, in-depth guide to help you heal core wounds, identify your authentic self, improve relationships, and find a sense of true belonging.
If you experienced emotional trauma in childhood—neglect, parentification, physical or sexual abuse, or unhealthy family dynamics—your core wounds may be deep or even hidden. You may struggle with relationships, or feel like you just don’t belong. And if you’ve sought refuge as a spiritual seeker, you may feel alienated by the dogmatic and inevitably shallow “love and light” spirituality scene that can often bypass real struggles of mental health, trauma, and loss. It’s time for an in-depth approach to healing.
In this evocative guide, Ora North—author of I Don’t Want to Be An Empath Anymore—will lead you on a journey to uncover and better understand your shadow self, allowing you to integrate unconscious aspects of yourself, shore up repressed emotions, and tap into the self-awareness necessary to heal core wounds. You’ll explore nine archetypes of the self, including the shadow self, the higher self, the wounded self, the creative self, and more. And finally, you’ll discover strategies to help you continue this journey on your own, such as tapping into your intuition, energy work, inner child healing, and boundary setting.
If you’re seeking lasting change in your life, this book goes beyond the toxic positivity and “good vibes” only aspects of popular spirituality to help you heal the emotional wounds at your very core—allowing you to fully understand who you are, and feel truly connected with the world around you.
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“Ora North offers a brilliant evolution of shadow work, moving beyond toxic positivity into a deeper cycle of healing. The archetypes of the Self—higher, wounded, compassionate, powerful, primal, creative, and healed—provide an accessible template towards true integration. With various suggestions such as journal reflections, synchronicity, dreamwork, boundaries, and more, this accessible manual becomes a guide to reclaim soul fragments and create a true
home within ourselves.”
“Truly healing our wounds means inviting all our foul-mouthed mon-
sters to come sit with us; to share their bitter wisdom, no matter how
wicked that wisdom may be. Shadow work is gnarly, wild work. It is
the work of secrets, the most important work we will ever do. In this
book, Ora North expertly maps a journey of integration, a wilderness
guide for those seeking a genuine encounter with both the wound and
the gift, the fertile dark and the hallowed light that make for a life
well-lived.”
“Shadow work’ is a buzz term and seems to be all the rage. The key to shadow work is that it requires just that: work. Folks don’t want to do the work. They bypass. Throw love and light at the wound and call themselves healed. Ora has a voice that roars. Shadow Work for Core Wounds does not allow you to bypass your wounds, your shadow, or yourself. Ora breaks down integration and emotional alchemy in a way that is palpable, palatable, and most importantly, practical. You’ll be given the tools to face your deepest shadows.”
“Ora North helps us to cut through the carapace of everyday agendas and cut down the sugar of feel-good approaches to self-cultivation to recognize that our deepest soul yearning is for our return from exile and to our soul family and our true place of belonging. She helps us to revisit and understand our wounds as seeds that are planted in the fertile dark, and that, with careful tending, can rise from the mud like the lotus.”
“Ora, in her signature, magical way, has yet again opened the portal to individual and collective healing. In Shadow Work for Core Wounds, she invites us into wholeness by working with the power of archetypes, uprooting our shadow parts, and ‘tending to the soil of our souls.’ I highly recommend this book for all who are committed to doing their inner work as part of the collective healing needed in these times.”
“If you need help breaking tenacious, destructive patterns, Shadow Work for Core Wounds is the book for you! Ora North offers a grounded, spiritual approach to healing core wounds, while avoiding the toxic positivity that is so rampant in our world. This guided,
archetypal journey uncovers common blueprints of human suffering with grace and clarity. Grab your journal and reconnect with your inherent wholeness through this powerful book.”