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Just thinking out loud here, so take this for what it's worth. I wonder if we sometimes take the word "wounded" too literal in reference to the "Primal Wound". I wonder if sometimes we apply the word "wounded" as a "label" to ourselves as adoptees. I notice that a lot of people seem to avoid this book because they don't "feel" wounded. I myself was guilty of avoiding this book, because I didn't want to be labeled as someone who was "wounded" or "damaged". I don't think of it that way now that I have really examined my whole life as an adoptee, who has been reunited with my entire bio family. The "Primal Wound" isn't a lable for adoptees. It is a "thing that happened" to adoptees. I think there is a huge difference.
The one thing that I think no one will deny is that with adoption there is loss, with loss there is pain (conscious or subconscious),. Isn't that loss why we search? We are looking for the missing information? Loss leads to pain...pain/hurt=wounded..not a label...a thing that happened?
Again, just my thoughts on the subject.
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