Returning to the Well | Healing the Mother Wound
COURSE THREE
Blessing The Waters
The Inner Child
Embracing the Inner Child - Cultivating the Great Mother Within
This is the third course in the four-part Returning to the Well series.
It can be taken as part of the course series or standalone.
This is a self-paced, reflective online course
You are invited to move slowly, to pause when needed, and to return to the material in your own time.
The work is offered with care, spaciousness, and respect for each person’s pace and inner world.
An Invitation
At the heart of the Mother Wound lives a quiet and painful belief: “I am not enough.” Blessing the Waters gently guides you to meet this wounding with compassion, turning toward the inner child who still longs for safety, care, and affirmation. This course offers a space to nurture that tender part of yourself — to offer it the kindness, presence, and protection it may not have received. Here, we explore how shame, guilt, and self-abandonment often weave themselves into the Mother Wound, particularly as we begin to walk our own path. You are supported in cultivating an inner “good enough” mother — one who steadies, soothes, and believes in you.
Rooted in Irish Myth & Ancestral Memory
This work is rooted in Irish mythology, ancestral memory, and the living landscape of Ireland. In the Gaelic world, myth was not separate from daily life—it was a way of understanding the psyche, the land, and the soul’s unfolding.
Irish myth carries deep knowledge of belonging, loss, sovereignty, and return. The stories of the land—its goddesses, rivers, wells, and thresholds—offer a symbolic language through which we can meet inner experience, inherited patterns, and the places where healing asks to occur.
Rather than using myth as metaphor alone, this work approaches myth as a living presence—one that helps us listen more deeply to the body, the imagination, and the ancestral layers of the psyche.
The Heart of This Course
The inner child represents the part of us that carries unmet needs, early wounds, and the aspects of ourselves we once suppressed in order to belong or survive. These parts may still live quietly within us, shaping our sense of worth, creativity, and capacity for joy.
Yet the inner child also holds profound gifts: imagination, playfulness, wonder, and a deep well of creative life force.
In Blessing the Waters, we explore the work of reparenting — becoming the source of care, nourishment, and emotional safety we once needed. Through this process, we begin to reconnect with lost parts of ourselves and to restore a sense of belonging within.
Join Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin in your very own returning to the well. Together, we will explore, through the work of Psychotherapy, Depth Psychology, Irish Mythology, and Folklore, where we can begin to meet what was hidden and reclaim your inner wholeness.
Themes We Explore Together
Themes explored include:
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The Inner Child Archetype
The inner child as a carrier of both early wounding and creative potential. -
The Mother Wound
Shame, guilt, perfectionism, and self-criticism as expressions of the Mother Wound. -
Reparenting the Self
Reparenting and cultivating a nurturing, “good enough” inner mother. -
Parentification and the loss of childhood needs.
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Reclaiming joy, play, and emotional nourishment.
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Developing inner safety, presence, and self-compassion.
You are invited to meet these themes gently, listening for what stirs in your own inner world.
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.
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You sense parts of you — tender, wild, or 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.
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You wish to cultivate an inner mother who is “good enough” — nurturing, wise, and emotionally present.
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You feel drawn to the deep waters of Irish myth, memory, and landscape as guides on your inner journey.
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You are engaged in psychotherapy or personal development and are curious to explore myth, ancestry, and soul through a depth psychological lens.
You will learn…
In this course, you will learn the origins and impact of the Mother Wound on your relationships, self-worth, and creative self. With compassion, you’ll cultivate a healing relationship with your inner child, transforming patterns of perfectionism, guilt, and shame. Through embodied practices and work with the great Mother archetype and the Inner Protector, you’ll learn to build inner safety, strengthen boundaries, and develop a daily practice of self-compassion and re-mothering from within.
What is included?
This course is educational and reflective in nature and is offered as a supportive complement to personal or therapeutic work.
A Self-Paced Online Course you can return to at any time
120+ Minutes of Immersive Video Content
35+ Page Companion E-Workbook for reflection and integration
a 30 minute bonus gift - Inner Child Mediatation interwoven with the Irish language
Space foa 30 minute bonus gift - Inner Child Mediatationr journaling, contemplation, and embodied listening
Instant access with unlimited lifetime availability
CPD Certification for Irish Professionals
A Depth Psychology Experience Rooted in the Irish Mythology
Blessing the Waters online course is an immersive, visceral, odyssey of the soul and spirit with sweeping images of the Irish landscape, music, myth poetry and ritual to support you to connect to your inner world and soul self.
Continue the Journey
About
Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin
BSocSc, MA Social Work, MA Psychotherapy, Dip Supervision, Dip Jungian Psychology, Certified Coach (WCI)
I am a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist, Supervisor, and Personal Development Coach with over 20 years of experience. I work internationally and am dual-located in the US and Ireland (in Northern Nevada and on the West Coast of Ireland, in Connemara). I work from a Jungian and depth-oriented perspective, integrating Jungian Psychology, Psychodynamic and somatic therapies.
I grew up in Connemara, a wild and rugged landscape on the Atlantic coast of Ireland. Oscar Wilde famously said of the region, “Connemara is a savage beauty”. I grew up in a small, rural Gaeilge (Irish) speaking community where Gaeilge is my first language, and is still spoken today in people's homes. This area was a major centre for the work of the Irish Folklore Commission, recording endangered folklore, mythology, sean-nós (old-style) songs, and oral literature. I have been greatly influenced by the wild physical landscape and immersed in those ancient songs, stories, customs, myths, legends, and music since childhood.
My work interweaves the Gaelic (Irish) World and Otherworld with Jungian Depth Psychology. The Gaelic world, with its symbols, language, myth, folklore, literature and heritage, becomes a doorway through which you can enter and explore your own inner landscape. I desire to share with you a felt sense of that ancient culture and spirit and, as a Psychotherapist, support how that connection can nourish and guide you on your personal development journey.
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