Our deepest wounds often shape us as much as our greatest joys. The pain we carry—and the ways we learn to move through it—can define who we become. We asked community members from a broad array of industries to reflect on their defining wounds and have shared the responses below.
Carey Selk
A significant wound in my life I moved through was trusting my intuition. Messages and guidance received in dreams and the energetic world guided me to what I would relate to ancestral, karmic and past life experience that was tied into the unresolved dynamic with my father. Read more>>
Adriana Richardson
One of the defining wounds of my life has been learning to navigate my ADHD diagnosis, which I received in late 2022, right around the time my business started to unravel. In early 2023, I lost two major contracts back-to-back, and everything I thought I was doing “right” in business stopped working. Read more>>
Casey Segel
A defining wound of my life has been being told I’m too much. I’m too emotional, I’m too loud, I’m too difficult, I’m too stubborn, I come on too strong— the list goes on. I’ve received countless rejections from others for these things, and the fear of “being too much” is still very real for me. Read more>>
Huangxu Yi
One of the defining wounds in my life has been the feeling of disconnection—between places, people, and even time. Moving between cities and cultures, I often felt suspended, like I didn’t fully belong anywhere. Over time, I’ve learned to turn that distance into observation. Through photography, I began to see emptiness not as absence but as space for reflection. Read more>>
