Ukraine Invasion Activating Your Wound?

Have you found yourself sick since Russia’s horrendous, aggressive invasion of Ukraine? Maybe a cold, digestive irritability, mood swings? Or you feel tired, lethargic, depressed or have feelings of hopelessness and fear punctuated by nightmares and sleeplessness? Your physical, emotional and mental symptoms are all likely a reaction to your unhealed wounds that have been activated. It does not matter that this is happening on another continent.

Unhealed wounds are not influenced by geography or time.

The unhealed wound stands ever vigilant, one eye open, in our minds and our physical and emotional bodies. It is always on high alert, working the day and night shift.

Remember a time you were startled by a snake or spider? From that moment on whenever you encounter anything that resembles a snake — even a stick — from the corner of your eye, fear is activated.

Fear is the oxygen your wound breathes. Memory keeps the fear alive. This vigilant watchtower is always on the lookout for the enemy — snake, spider, abusive partner or tyrant.

One day, along comes the snake, aka the abuser in the form of Putin, invading your sense of safety and security in the form of war on an independent country. The dictator is the proxy for the bully in your life, the Narcissist or abuser who…