The Wound of Self
As a child, your individuality may have been stifled. You learned that your beliefs, needs or wants were bad or it was wrong to have them, so you felt like you didn’t have the right to be yourself unapologetically. This thorn sits in our subconscious and eventually leads to an underlying feeling of worthlessness as an adult. You may feel you lack a core self, or that something is somehow wrong with you. You may not feel sure of yourself or appear confident, or feel like you don’t belong. With this wound we sometimes see everyone else moving along with a purpose and we’re not sure we were given one. It often shows up in one of 2 ways: You may seek to please others and be intensely influenced by others, feeling that if you can make others happy then you must have some worth. But you’re probably making others happy at the expense of yourself. You may have a hard time standing up for yourself, and this can lead to self-sabotage; you could be sabotaging your relationships, career, anything, to subconsciously prove to yourself that you don’t have any worth. But this is a false belief. If this is how this wound manifests for you, then you may have a lot of underlying rage. In the second scenario, you may become aggressive or a show-off. You still feel unworthy but you’re trying to get attention to prove to yourself that this isn’t true. You may be extra sensitive to criticism and react very aggressively.
Your superpower is that you’re an extraordinary person, someone who stands out and is idiosyncratically themselves.
