The “Too Much” Child • Wounded Child Archetypes

 A wounded child archetype is a set of traits and behaviours acquired in childhood from parental or cultural conditioning that falsely defined who you truly are.

False Identities to Release

🗝 I am crazy

🗝 I am too intense

🗝 I am too much

SYMPTOMS + PERPETUATING BEHAVIORS

Do you recognize these symptoms or behaviors that perpetuate the wound?

🌀  Constantly misunderstood and told to calm down, be quiet and/or stop moving.

🌀  Others are intimidated / overwhelmed by the bigness of my ambition, energy, speed, creative pursuits, voice, etc.

🌀  Chronically repress my needs / desires, never asking for their fulfillment, fearing that they are “too much” for others.

🌀  Overstay in relationships / situations that require self-containment, thus denying my soul’s grandest and truest self-expression.

🌀  Always shrink to meet others where they’re at and/or have dramatic outbursts just to be seen, heard and/or understood.

🌀  Others feel threatened when I am fully myself and therefore ostracize / leave me.

🌀  Incapable of receiving, always the giver.

Integration Practices

If you do recognize yourself in these archetypes, here are some practices to maturate and integrate that wounded child.

🌹 Practice articulating needs / desires and receiving guilt-free support from others.

🌹 Only enter into relationships that feel equal and mutually enriching (emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, and physically) and stop settling for less.

🌹 Develop decision making strategies based on clear boundaries and strong intuition.

... and more inside the Wounded Child Archetypes guidebook!