Collective wounds: past. present. future.

Collective wounds come in all shapes and sizes.  

Some are specifically held by certain communities and family lineages due to histories of conflict or oppression. Others are shared across a whole country, such as experiences of war or pandemic. And then others are held by identity groups that span across locales, such as shared experiences of injustice or alienation.

Getting to know what collective wounds are, and the unique ones you are naturally attuned to is more important than ever. It can give you more insight into yourself—your body, your family lineage.

And it can also give you more insight into the role that you’re meant to play here on Earth at this time. What are the values that you’re being called to protect? To shout from the rooftop? To manifest more fully into the fabric of our culture these days?

In this offering, I do something a little bit different than what I typically do for my guided meditations. Instead of a pure meditation visualization, what I'll do is share a framework for thinking about collective wounds—specifically using a time-based framework, organizing them as ones related to the present, the past, and the future.

You'll then have an opportunity to see that framework in practice through me sharing my own lived experience with the current wildfires in Canada and the smoke that's coming down the Northeast from them.

The invitation here is instead of listening to my share as a passive recipient, engage with it from a place of inner observation. Noticing what you notice within yourself as you listen—what shifts or changes, what stirs, what arises. In order to develop your own felt sense understanding of this framework, and build your own personal sense of what collective wounds are and how they show up for you.

I would love to know what you think, how this lands, how this feels.

Please write to me and let me know at connect@wehealforall.com. And if there are others in your life who you think would resonate with this or need this, please share it with them.

This meditation is a perk of being a paid subscriber. Each month I offer a new practice in support of collective healing—meditations and embodiment exercises that help you have a healthier relationship with the world .

Please reach out if you’d like something specific. Sending you so much love.