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Photography by Paper Monday
Wounded Healers: A Healing-Centered Education Portrait Series & Podcast
This portrait series captures the profiles of nine educators, community leaders and practitioners, all of whom have dedicated their lives to — in some shape or form — creating spaces for others to thrive, flourish and heal. We call them the Wounded Healers.
The concept “wounded healer” finds its roots in both Carl Jung's work and in Greek mythology. For Jung, the wounded healer represented the sensitivity and understanding of one’s own wounds and how this informs helping others heal. As Wounded Healers, they use their deep understanding of trauma to create conditions for collective flourishing and know the importance of engaging in their own personal healing work to authentically be of service to others. They embrace the challenge of often working and teaching in systems that perpetuate violence and inequality, yet they are resolute in moving through the challenges to bring about a better world. The subjects of this series have dedicated their lives to helping others find wholeness, joy, and hope even as they navigate violent circumstances. They are warriors of a different kind — reflective, undaunted, and tender. Read on to learn about their lives and work.
Love recognizes no barriers.
It jumps hurdles, leaps fences,
penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
-Maya Angelou
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" For some wounds... in it is the medicine. The wisdom that you need to be a better you. The wisdom you have to share to the next generation, to the next person. When you do some work around that wound, you can live in that experience and it might not hurt so much because you are dealing with the wisdom of it. You already worked through some of the hurt and now you understand the learned lessons from it and the wisdom from it. So you always go backwards, you always go to the wounds, you always go backwards. That's the only way you move forward."
- Cory Greene
Photography by Paper Monday
Photography by Paper Monday
Photography by Paper Monday