Returning to the Well | Healing the Mother Wound
Kindling the Fire
Reclaiming the Ancestral Story
Embodying Sovereignty & Agency - Honoring the Ancestral Lineage
We explore the Mother Wound and the ancestral patterns passed through the maternal line — the unspoken traumas, beliefs, and silences that shape our inner lives. You’ll be guided to understand how these inherited wounds impact your sense of self, especially as you begin to differentiate and step into your own sovereignty. Together, we will tend to the guilt, grief, and self-sabotage that can arise in this process, helping you reclaim your personal agency and authentic path.
This course explores the Mother Wound through the lens of ancestral healing — examining how we inherit not only the strengths of those who came before us, but also their wounds.
Many ancestral patterns are passed down intergenerationally—the unspoken traumas, beliefs, and silences that shape our inner lives. We also inherit strengths and beauty through the generations. By understanding and reclaiming both in the ancestral story, we begin the sacred work of healing and restoring our personal sovereignty and agency.
This course looks at the pattern of self-sabotage that can arise as you begin to differentiate and step into your own separate ground. You will be guided on supporting yourself to meet this and honouring your own path.
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, and ancient stories that support you in connecting to your inner world and soul self.
On this transformative journey you deepen your connection inward, meeting the ancestral story and honoring what came before, to hold both the beauty and the wounding. There you’ll awaken your intuition, rekindle your creativity, and learn to trust the quiet voice within. This is the path of healing—the gentle claiming of your own ground, the healing of 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?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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…
-
You feel the echoes of ancestral pain—unspoken grief, inherited patterns, or emotional burdens passed down through your lineage—and wish to bring them into consciousness and begin to heal it.
-
You’re navigating the tender path of individuation, seeking to step into your own ground of being while facing resistance, guilt, or fear around separating from inherited roles or expectations.
-
You sense that your creative gifts, inner wisdom, or intuitive voice were silenced long ago, and you’re ready to reclaim them by listening to the quiet rhythm of your soul.
-
You’re drawn to the deep well of Irish myth, landscape, and language, and yearn to root your healing in a cultural and spiritual inheritance that speaks to the soul through story, poetry, and place.
-
You want to honour both the strength and the sorrow of those who came before you, doing the sacred work of ancestral repair so you—and those who follow—can walk with greater clarity, agency and compassion to yourself.
-
This offering is particularly relevant for you if you are engaged in psychotherapy, or if you are interested in your own personal development, and you are 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
Listen to a short excerpt…
You will learn how to…
Through guided practices, depth inquiry, and gentle embodiment work, this course will help you:
How to meet the Ancestral Story and understand the voices behind the wounding.
Use ancestral reflection to gently unearth intergenerational patterns and release what is not yours to carry.
How to Reclaim Sovereignty by establishing and creating boundaries.
Reclaim sovereignty by stepping into your agency and assertiveness, and through somatic exercises and embodied awareness, build an inner trusting embodied knowing and instinct.
To sit with the discomfort of the emotion of guilt and shame as you begin to make the necessary changes in your differentiation.
Recognise and make conscious the self-sabotage that comes in, particularly as you start to grow beyond where your mother or ancestors went and how to support yourself in it.
Honour what came before, embracing the strengths in the lineage and reclaiming the ancestral story.
Grow appreciation for the Irish language, folklore, mythology, and poetry, and the wisdom of the ancestors in an enriching, soul experience.
-
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
-
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