A Journey Inward | Healing the Self Abandonment Wound
Course one
Embodiment, Soul
and the Celtic Spirit
Healing the Wounds of the Abandoning Self
This course is the first course in the five-part A Journey Inward 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
We will focus on remembering the language of the body. We will explore our feelings and senses and how returning to our bodies helps cultivate our inner ground. This will allow us to begin the journey inward, where we will create a touchstone, an anchor, that supports us to return to our sense of separateness, our own differentiated ground, our own soul self.
Rooted in Irish Myth & Ancestral Memory
This work is grounded in Irish mythology and Folklore— not as story alone, but as a living language of the psyche.
Across cultures, myth has served as a language for inner experience — offering images and stories that reflect the psychological journeys of loss, exile, return, and restoration. In Irish mythology and folklore, themes of separation, wandering, and homecoming echo the inner movements of self-abandonment and return.
In A Journey Inward, myth, image, and symbol are not approached as stories to be learned, but as mirrors of the inner life — helping us recognise, feel, and re-inhabit parts of ourselves that may have gone quiet or unseen.
This is not about learning mythology. It is about deepening your relationship with your own inner symbolic life and remembering yourself through it.
The Heart of This Course
Many of us carry childhood wounds. Trauma occurs when our nervous system is overwhelmed and our survival response takes over. Without support to process it, this response can become stored in the body, leaving us stuck in anxiety, fear, and limiting patterns that shape how we relate to the world and disconnect us from our authentic self. The central movement of this course work is to reconnect with feeling and sensation, cultivate inner ground, and create a touchstone that can hold us as we turn inward. This matters because so many people have become distanced from their bodies, their feelings, and their deeper selves. Embodiment is not only about being present; it is about restoring a relationship with the self so that healing, self-awareness, and a fuller experience of life can begin to emerge.
Join Eileen on a journey inward. Together, we will explore, through the work of Psychotherapy, Depth Psychology and Irish Mythology, how we can become aware of self-abandonment patterns and begin to make space for ourselves in our lives.
Themes We Explore Together
Themes explored include:
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Exploring the roots of your self-abandonment wound and how it disrupts your ability to fully connect — to yourself, to others, and to life.
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Understand how old narratives and unresolved trauma live in the body, keeping you in patterns of vigilance, self-doubt, and inner sabotage.
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Embodiment practices that focus on cultivating safety and connection in the body.
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Recognise the ways self-abandonment has shaped your choices, relationships, and sense of worth — and begin to meet these patterns with awareness and care.
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The ancient landscape of Ireland, and how connection to the very ground at our feet bring us into relationship with our own inner world and embodied self.
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Learn ways to soothe anxiety and gently come home to your body as a place of safety, wisdom, and presence.
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Reconnect with the soul self — the deeper, undivided self — and begin to feel the pulse of your own aliveness.
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Cultivate a deep appreciation of the richness of Irish mythology, folklore, and language through sweeping footage of the irish landscape, poetry, music and ritual.
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 want to feel more connected to your body, emotions, and inner experience, and cultivate a deeper sense of safety within yourself.
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You recognize yourself in the description of the Self Abandonment Wound, feeling anxious in yourself and your relationships and feel the need to make changes in your life to heal this wound.
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You are seeking to create a steady inner anchor and deepen your relationship with soul, psyche, and the fuller experience of life.
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You are drawn to jungian depth psychology, myth, and somatic ways of understanding the inner world.
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You feel a call toward Irish mythology, folklore and ancestral wisdom, and the living spiritual landscape of Ireland.
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You are engaged in personal or therapeutic work and are curious to explore and deep that work, through a mythopoetic lens.
You will learn...
How to reconnect with the language of your body and use embodiment as a foundation for your inward journey. Through feeling, sensation, reflection, and inner awareness, you’ll cultivate a deeper sense of safety and support within yourself. Drawing on ritual, mythology, seminars, and insights from Jungian Depth Psychology and psychotherapy—alongside guided journal reflections—you’ll deepen your connection to your inner world, your soul self, and the wider psyche. This is a visual, visceral experience designed to awaken curiosity and wonder and to stir the soul, offering a grounded touchstone you can return to again and again as you reconnect with your true self.
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
30+ Page Companion E-Workbook for reflection and integration
Space for 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
Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit online course is an immersive, embodied journey of soul and psyche, weaving sweeping images of Irish Landscape, myth, folklore, music, poetry and ritual to support a return to your inner world and soul self.
Begin the Journey
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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.
A Journey Inward Course Series
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Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit
Healing the Wounds of the Abandoning Self
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The Cailleach's Descent to the Underworld
Crossing the Dark Seas of Loss into Strange Country
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Resting Under Brigid’s Mantle
Cultivating Sanctuary and Self Compassion in Daily Life
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Awakening Bealtaine
Embracing Our Authentic Power
A Celebration of Granuaile -

Celebrating the Harvest at Lúnasa
Taking Your Seat at the Banquet of Life