During the season of Winter, 2014 I began having a series of dreams. These dreams were repetitive, vivid, and felt urgent and very real. They had themes of a child being lost and found and hiding a big secret. They were unlike any I have ever had before or since, in that they seemed to begin from within my womb-space, and the openings continued during meditation.

When I think back over the last few years, about what really made a difference in my own life, in fulfilling my own Soul hunger for more love, joy, fulfillment and freedom, and moving forward with the highest-level transformational and spiritually healing work I am passionate about doing, the dreams I had that winter were clearly the turning point. They opened the door to healing the one thing in my own life, that got me moving after being stopped by fear.

This was the healing of my adoption trauma and Mother Wound.

Healing this one thing changed everything for me. . . and taught me three things on a deeper level than I had known before, through my own personal lived experience:

1. The importance, necessity and transformative power of finding and healing core wounds. These are the wounds underlying the center of the challenges and primary patterns that keep us living with less than the optimal joy, fulfillment, love and passion we sense we are meant for, but somehow don’t quite realize in our lives. These are the wounds that hold us back and also block us from having our highest-level impact and leaving the unique legacy we are each born to give the world.

   The Mother Wound is among these wounds. It is a significant component of the Patriarchy Core Wound™. Healing our Mother Wound is often the way we begin the journey of healing and gaining freedom from the Patriarchy Core Wound™.

2. The crucial central need to find the story, no matter how hidden or how deep, underlying our core wounds, because it is in the story of the wounding or trauma ~ the real story that resonates in our bodies ~ that the required healing path and process is unveiled.

   I had known about this issue from my early childhood before the dreams, and even done other personal work with it, and benefited in the past .But I had not found the real story of my adoption; and by the time I had the dreams, all my family members who did know, had passed on. With their passing, some might say it became impossible to learn the real story. My Soul and my body knew otherwise, and the real story of my adoption and how the Mother Wound became imprinted in my life, was unveiled to me, and with it, the pathway and power to heal it.

3. No matter how deep, or how hidden the wound or trauma, if you find the story, invisible roots and origin, and where it is anchored in the spirit-mind-body, lasting, profound, comprehensive healing is possible. Healing like this is the deepest, most comprehensive and life-changing healing of all, and always includes spiritual healing, which is a return to your True Self.

I have been guiding and facilitating deep healing work for other women for over 30 years, including healing their core wounds, and rarely share my own experiences of the healing journey. This story of how I was healed from the earliest childhood, past-life and generational trauma at the heart of my Mother Wound from adoption, is such a clear illustration of the power and impact of healing core wounds, that I felt to share it with you.

This story shows what is possible – for every woman. And when we find, heal and release the core wounds, including the Mother Wound, deep inside us, our lives change forever.