Returning to the Well | Healing the Mother Wound
Blessing The Waters
The Inner Child
Embracing the Inner Child - Cultivating the Great Mother Within
At the heart of the mother wound lies the painful belief: “I am not enough.” This course gently guides you to meet this wounding compassionately, tending to the inner child who still longs for safety, care, and affirmation. You will begin to nurture that tender part of yourself and offer it the kindness it always deserved. We explore the shame and guilt often woven into the mother wound—feelings that can arise as you begin to walk your own path. You will be supported in cultivating an inner “good enough” mother—one who soothes, steadies, and believes in you. Through the lens of reparenting, we’ll explore the impact of parentification and how to reclaim your development by becoming the source of the care you once needed.
This course explores how to cultivate a loving, nurturing "good enough" inner mother to support the wounded, exiled aspect of the self—what we call the "inner child." This journey of reparenting is a vital part of healing, allowing us to address deep-seated pain and reconnect with lost parts of ourselves.
The inner child represents the unconscious aspect of us that carries unmet needs, past wounds, and the parts of ourselves we suppressed or repressed to conform. These are the aspects of us that were not fully embraced or nurtured when we were young.
This child within is the part that didn’t receive the support needed to feel loved, accepted, and secure. Yet, this inner child also holds untapped creative potential, a capacity for play, and transformative wisdom—qualities that were repressed in the name of survival.
This course, we guide you to reconnect with your inner child—the part of you that holds both your earliest pain and your deepest capacity for joy, wonder, and belonging.
This course is an immersive, visceral odyssey of the soul and spirit, a journey to the metaphorical well of wisdom that flows through Irish myth and memory. You will see sweeping images of the Irish landscape, and experience the music, poetry, insights from Depth psychology and Psychotherapy, and ancient stories, meeting the great Irish goddess mothers of the landscape, to help connect you to your inner world, the inner child within, and thereby heal the Mother Wound in your life.
Join Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin in your very own return to the well. Together, we will explore, through the work of Psychotherapy, Depth Psychology and Irish Mythology, where we can begin to meet what was hidden and reclaim your inner wholeness.
What is included?
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We will begin by Crossing the Threshold—the Opening Ritual that guides all of my Deepening the Senses Programs, Courses, and Workshops. In this space, we create a container for our work together and set our individual and collective intentions.
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We begin by introducing the themes of the course in a 30-minute immersive video presentation to explore ideas, images, and reflections from the world of Depth psychology, philosophy, literature, Irish folklore, and poetry. We will explore the emotions that are stirring within the theme and how this learning can be a rich source of knowledge to support us in developing a relationship with our inner world and soul self.
After the seminar, there will be a time for reflection, a space for you to note your experience through awareness, journal invitations, and personal reflection.
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In this section, we will deepen into story and mythology with a visual meditation of sweeping footage of the Irish landscape. You will hear stories from mythology or Irish folklore to deepen into myth, ancient customs and practices of the ancient Gaelic world, drawing on somatic practices throughout to support you in your body, to enhance this visual experience. For our ancestors, the world of storytelling, poetry, songs, and folktales shared around the hearth at night provided an escape from a harsh existence—an escape that brought them into the unseen world of imagination, psyche, and spirit. We will become curious about what images are stirring our own imagination from these ancient stories and images, and deepen our relationship to our soul selves.
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This second seminar draws on the features of all the Deepening the Senses workshops and includes ritual, mythology/folklore, music, and poetry. It is a space of reflection and exploration, a space for sharing and mutual learning. This seminar aims to create and deepen into the theme on the path of discovery and self-development.
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Here, we sit at the symbolic hearth to create a pause and space for reflection. I share insights with you on the key themes, from my work with clients and those who attended live Gatherings over the years. This is designed to support you in your own integration of the learning thus far.
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This is the final video module, where we capture the essence of the course's learning, sharing rich reflections, images, and lessons from the collective experience. We explore how you will apply this learning to your daily life.
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We will cross back over the threshold again, returning to our initial starting place of ritual, the container of our work together, where we will close this work again in ritual. From here, we return to our everyday lives, inspired and curious about what new perspectives, new understandings, and awareness we can bring with us, from the Deepening the Senses experience.
This course is for you if…
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You long to heal the inner child who still aches to be seen, soothed, and safe. You sense there are parts of you—tender, wild, creative—that were silenced in childhood and are now calling to be reclaimed.
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You feel the echoes of the Mother Wound—through self-abandonment, perfectionism, shame, or difficulty setting boundaries. You’re ready to gently explore where these patterns began and how to rewire them through compassion.
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You desire to cultivate an inner mother who is 'good enough'—nurturing, wise, and loving. One who knows how to tend to your emotional needs, and guide you home to yourself with warmth and presence.
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You’re drawn to the deep waters of myth, memory, and the Irish landscape as mirrors for inner healing. You feel the ancestral pull of story, language, poetry, and archetype, and wish to weave them into your path of reparenting.
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You are ready to make space for joy, play, and belonging—without guilt. You want to reconnect with your soul’s original light, your creative essence, and the childlike wonder that never fully left.
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This offering is particularly relevant to you if you are engaged in psychotherapy, interested in your own personal development, and curious to learn more about Irish heritage, ancestors, language, folklore, and myth as a lens into your inner world and soul self.
Purchase the Course
✓ Over 120+ Minutes of Immersive Video Lessons
✓ 30+ Page Companion E-Workbook
✓ CPD Certificate for Irish Professionals
✓ Instant & Unlimited lifetime access
✓ A Depth Psychology Experience Rooted in the Irish Landscape
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You will learn how to…
Through guided practices, depth inquiry, and gentle embodiment work, this course will help you:
Understand the origins and impact of the mother wound in your relationships, sense of self-worth, and creative soul self.
Cultivate a relationship with the inner child part of you, to re-pattern self-punishment, perfectionism, guilt and shame.
Learn how to support yourself to play, and step in on your own creativity and authentic path.
Work with the archetypes of the Embodied Mother and Inner protector to create internal safety, nurturance, and boundaries as you meet the shadow aspects of the wounding.
Support you in changing your patterns of self-criticism and cultivating self-compassion and loving kindness, helping you build a daily practice of re-mothering from within.
Cultivate a relationship with your instinctive, knowing, embodied self, so that you can cultivate a relationship inward, separate, coming into your own separate ground.
Learn about the mother figures of Irish mythology, folklore, ancient stories, and poetry. You will engage with those stories in an embodied way to enrich your life journey.
Grow appreciation for the Irish language, folklore, mythology, and poetry, and the wisdom of the ancestors in an enriching, soul experience.
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Depth psychotherapy research, theories and practices, somatic psychotherapy, psychology and neuroscience, Celtic mythology, ancient Gaelic wisdom in folklore and stories, the medium of poetry, art images, symbol and metaphor.
Returning to the Well Online Course Series
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The Great Mother
The Guardian of the Well
Nurturing a Relationship with the Great Mother Archetype - Embodying your Sensing, Intuitive, Soul Self. -
The Dark Mother
Entering the Sacred Grove
Encountering the Shadow in the Mother Wound -
Blessing the Waters
The Inner Child
Embracing the Inner Child - Cultivating the Great Mother Within -
Kindling the Fire
Reclaiming the Ancestral Story
Embodying Sovereignty & Agency - Honoring the Ancestral Lineage