Be proud of your scars, they have everything to do with your strength and what you’ve endured. They are a treasure map to the deep self.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, storyteller and author of
Women Who Run with the Wolves
“I love that quote because for many people the motivation for therapy, healing, development, and growth is a wound. There is a place of dis-ease or wounding from the past or the recent present that is looking to be soothed, healed, or resolved. I’ve seen many people coming to me because they were carrying a burden and they were trying to unburden themselves, to heal, and to feel well rather than disempowered, wounded, and a victim. On the other side of the process, further down in their personal development, there is a feeling of being proud of their scars . . . They are indeed connected with a deep self. Like a treasure map, you can follow the scars to their original matrix place and then follow them through the healing place at the end and they are a treasure map with all the collections of wonderful moments, difficult moments, treacherous moments, and victory moments. At the end they are the human soul wanting to grow and heal and liberate itself.”
Francoise Bourzat, co-author of Consciousness Medicine:
Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens and Expanded States
of Consciousness for Healing and Growth
