S4E17 - Healing Our Wounds from Childhood With Don St. John

Very early in his career, Dr. Don St John realized that the "box" of traditional tools and concepts from psychology and psychiatry was not enough for his own personal healing. In this episode, he tells us how he overcame the wounds and traumas from his own childhood to find ways of living a good and happy life beyond all of the "pathologies" from his early life. He pointed out that "We were all wounded in our childhood. There are no perfect parents." That process of wounding and healing is what he talks about in his book Healing the Wounds of Childhood and Culture: An Adventure of a Lifetime. All of his decades of exploration into healing led him to construct a view of healing and human potential consisting of four essential components - Somatic, Psycho-Emotional, Relational, and Spiritual - and we talked about those in some depth in this conversation. He said that he had a big realization at one point that "everyone has issues" and that his own pathologies were not the end of his life, and it was then that his life "became an adventure to become whole". He talked about the importance of finding your "true self" in relationships. Those are the kinds of powerful insight that we all want to have for our own lives, and this episode can give you helpful insights. Don also pointed out that "Our wounds motivate us to seek spiritual answers." He encouraged everyone to enjoy life's adventures and to know them as part of a journey towards your own wholeness. You can learn more about him and his book at PathsOfConnection.com.

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