New! Online Course Series
Returning to the Well
Healing the Mother Wound | Mother Archetype & The Celtic Spirit
A four-part online course series exploring the Mother Archetype through Depth Psychology, Irish Mythology, Folklore and embodied reflection.
Returning to the Well is an invitation to come home to the ground of your own being — a place of inner nourishment, instinct, and remembering. This four-part series offers a slow, reflective journey into the Mother Wound and its healing, guided by Irish myth, folklore, psyche, body, and the living landscape of Ireland.
Each course may be taken as a standalone experience or as part of the full four-part journey.
An Invitation
Honouring the feminine in our lives is to return to the wellspring of the body. For many of us, the Mother Wound lives as a quiet disconnection from our sensing, feeling, instinctual knowing selves — a pattern often carried across generations until someone is ready to meet it. Returning to the Well offers a space to pause, listen, and turn inward. This is not a path of fixing or striving, but of remembering — of re-establishing relationship with the inner ground from which safety, agency, and authenticity can grow. The work unfolds gently, at your own pace, inviting curiosity, compassion, and deepened presence.
The Symbolism of the Well
Wells have been with us since Neolithic times, as a means of accessing water from deep within the earth. Water is our first home — we enter the world when the waters of the womb break — and in mythology and depth psychology alike, it symbolises the unconscious: what lies beneath the surface.
To return to the well, then, is to return to a wellspring of inner knowing — rooted in the body, in the earth, and in the ancestral soul. It is a reawakening of something once lost or exiled in early life, now calling us back.
In Irish folklore and cosmology, the well holds profound spiritual significance.
Across centuries, Ireland’s holy wells have remained places of ritual and devotion, threaded with ancient customs and offerings. In this work, we turn toward the stories, symbols, and myths surrounding the well — listening for the wisdom of our ancestors as we walk the path toward healing, remembrance, and wholeness.
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, the Mother Archetype is one of the most universal expressions of the feminine: the source of nurture, protection, belonging, and life itself. In depth psychology, she is not only personal, but ancestral and collective — carried through bodies, families, and lands.
In Irish myth, the Mother appears not only as a figure, but as the land itself. The Cailleach was the making and shaper of the landscape itself. Goddesses such as Danú, the ancient earth mother of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was understood to be the one from whom life, nourishment, and belonging flowed. Others, like Ériu, for whom Ireland is named, embodied sovereignty, place, and ancestral inheritance.
These stories speak to something older than language — a knowing held in the body.
In Returning to the Well, Irish myth, language and folklore offers a way to meet the Mother Wound not as pathology, but as an inherited story longing to be seen, felt, and tended. Through myth, image, language, landscape, and embodied reflection, we reconnect with the deep maternal ground beneath our lives — personal, ancestral, and collective.
This is not about learning mythology— it is about deepening your connection to your inner symbolic life and remembering yourself through it.
The Shape of the Journey
This series is composed of four interconnected courses, each tending to a distinct aspect of the Mother Archetype and the healing of the Mother Wound in your life.
This work is self-paced and reflective. You are invited to move slowly, to pause when needed, and to return again and again, in your own time. Rather than striving or performance, the journey unfolds through listening, reflection, and embodied awareness.
Each course may be taken on its own or as part of the full four-part course arc. Together, they trace the initiatory movement - from inner safety and nourishment, through shadow and repair and towards agency, integration and embodied presence. Both the series as a whole and each individual course begin with an orientation to creating sanctuary: an intentional hearth-space thresholds the world and supports rhythm, safety, and presence.
You are welcome to enter wherever you feel called.
COURSE ONE
The Great Mother
Guardian of the Well
This foundational course in the series explores the Great Mother as a source of nourishment, protection, and inner safety. Through myth, psyche, and embodied reflection, we begin cultivating a loving inner mother and reconnecting with the body as a place of knowing and belonging.
COURSE Two
The Dark Mother
Meeting the Shadow of the Feminine
This course turns toward the shadow aspects of the Mother archetype — enmeshment, over-attunement, guilt, and the loss of a separate self. Here, we explore boundaries, differentiation, and the patterns that shape our capacity for autonomy and truth.
Course Three
Blessing the Waters
Tending the Inner Child
In this course, we meet the tender places within — the inner child shaped by early attachment and emotional inheritance. Through care, reflection, and mythic imagination, we explore how trust, feeling, and self-compassion can be restored.
COURSE FOUR
Kindling the Fire
Ancestral Healing and Sovereignty
The final course widens the lens to the ancestral field. Here we explore inheritance, lineage, and the reclamation of agency and voice. This course invites a return to sovereignty — standing in one’s own life with clarity, warmth, and embodied authority.
Who is this series for?
This series is for those who sense a disconnection from their inner life - from their body, their feelings, or their own inner knowing. When a child receives physical care without consistent emotional attunement or support, a deep relational imprint can form, often called the Mother Wound. Passed through generations, this wound can quietly shape how we trust ourselves, hold boundaries, and feel at home in our own bodies and lives.
Returning to the Well may be for you if…
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You sense a disconnection from your body, emotions, or inner knowing.
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You feel called to re-mother yourself, with tenderness, safety, and presence
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You recognize patterns of guilt, people-pleasing, or porous boundaries rooted in early emotional enmeshment or in environments where “no” felt unsafe.
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You feel the imprint of the Mother Wound as self-doubt, inner disconnection, or a belief that your worth lies in regulating others’ emotions.
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You feel the imprint of the Mother Wound as self-doubt, inner disconnection, or the belief that your worth lies in regulating others’ emotions.
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You long for a deeper homecoming to intuition and instinctual wisdom through somatic and sacred practices.
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You feel called by the ancestral landscape of Ireland as a place of remembrance, healing, and belonging.
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You are already engaged in therapy or inner work and seek a mythopoetic, embodied path that complements and deepens this process.
This series is offered as an educational and reflective experience, held in care and spaciousness, and respectful of each person’s pace and process.
This series is an odyssey of the soul and spirit, a journey of transformation and personal discovery, with sweeping images of the Irish landscape, music, myth, poetry, folklore and Jungian Depth Psychology supporting you in returning to the metaphorical well, healing this wounding and guiding you towards deeper belonging.
Begin the Journey
Returning to the Well
The Complete Series
For those who feel called to journey through all four courses as a coherent arc, the complete Returning to the Well series is available as a single offering. This option supports a slow, layered exploration of the Mother Wound — from inner safety and nourishment, through shadow and repair, toward ancestral sovereignty and agency.
The Complete Series includes:
✓ All 4 Courses (The Great Mother, The Dark Mother, Blessing the Waters, Kindling the Fire)
✓ Over 8+ hours of Immersive Video Modules
✓ Companion E Workbooks (x4)
✓ CPD Certificates for Irish Professionals (over 12 points total)
✓ A Depth Psychology Experience Rooted In Irish Mythology
✓ Lifetime Access to all course materials
You are invited to begin with The Great Mother, the first course in the Returning to the Well series, or to explore the course that resonates most strongly for you.
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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
The Great Mother
The Guardian of the Well
Nurturing a Relationship with the Great Mother Archetype Within
In this course, we journey alongside the great mother goddesses of the Irish landscape—sovereign figures rooted in earth and myth. They will guide us as we come home to our own ground of being, reclaiming agency, embodiment, authenticity, and the right to our own voice and separate self.
✓ Over 120+ Minutes of Immersive Video Lessons
✓ 35+ Page Companion E-Workbook
✓ CPD Certificate for Irish Professionals
✓ Instant & Unlimited lifetime access
✓ A Depth Psychology Experience Rooted in Irish Mythology
The Dark Mother
Meeting the Shadow of the Feminine
This course supports you in exploring the shadow aspects of the Mother Wound — the unconscious patterns shaped by absence, criticism, engulfment, or abandonment — and how to bring them into awareness and transformation.
✓ Over 120+ Minutes of Immersive Video Lessons
✓ 40+ Page Companion E-Workbook
✓ CPD Certificate for Irish Professionals
✓ Instant & Unlimited lifetime access
✓ A Depth Psychology Experience Rooted in Irish Mythology
Blessing The Waters
Tending The Inner Child
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.
✓ Over 120+ Minutes of Immersive Video Lessons
✓ 35+ Page Companion E-Workbook
✓ CPD Certificate for Irish Professionals
✓ Instant & Unlimited lifetime access
✓ A Depth Psychology Experience Rooted in Irish Mythology
Kindling the Fire
Ancestral Healing and Sovereignty
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.
✓ Over 120+ Minutes of Immersive Video Lessons
✓ 45+ Page Companion E-Workbook
✓ CPD Certificate for Irish Professionals
✓ Instant & Unlimited lifetime access
✓ A Depth Psychology Experience Rooted in Irish Mythology
What Returning to the Well Participants have said...
FAQ
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In depth psychology, every archetype carries both life-giving and shadow expressions. The Mother archetype can nurture, protect, and sustain — and it can also overwhelm, enmesh, or suffocate.
The term Mother Wound describes the impact of receiving physical care without consistent emotional attunement or support, a pattern often carried across generations.
This series explores the Mother archetype in both its light and shadow, inviting conscious engagement with how it shapes our inner lives, relationships, and sense of self.
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This series may resonate if you experience chronic self-doubt, difficulty with boundaries, people-pleasing, or a sense of emotional responsibility for others. More detail about who this work is for is shared above.
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You will be invited to:
Explore your relationship with the Mother archetype, gaining psychological insight into how the Mother Wound may shape patterns, beliefs, and emotional life.
Understand the intergenerational roots of the Mother Wound, tracing how its shadow moves through family lines, culture, and society — and how it may be consciously engaged and transformed.
Support yourself in reshaping relationships by cultivating healthier boundaries, greater self-compassion, and a more rooted sense of self.
Engage with the mother figures of Irish mythology, folklore, and poetry, drawing on ancestral stories in an embodied and imaginative way.
Tend your symbolic inner well — a sacred inner space of rest, restoration, nourishment, and emotional renewal.
Cultivate an embodied connection with intuition and inner knowing, awakening creativity, self-trust, and instinctual wisdom as living guides.
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This series is grounded in depth psychology and psychotherapy, including somatic approaches, and shaped through a mythopoetic lens. It draws from Irish mythology, folklore, cosmology, language, literature, and the living heritage of Ireland.
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The live workshops offer a shared, time-bound experience rooted in presence, dialogue, and community. They allow for collective reflection, witnessing, and the aliveness that emerges when we gather together in real time.
The courses translate this work into a carefully crafted, video-infused format that can be revisited and re-engaged with over time. You can move at your own pace, return to practices and teachings as needed, and begin whenever you feel called to enter the journey.
While the formats differ, the heart of the work remains the same. Both draw from mythology, poetry, and the ancient Gaelic Celtic world, and invite connection with the body and the deeper symbolic, soulful dimensions of the self.
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All workshops, courses, programs, and products are intended to support personal growth and self-reflection. They are not a substitute for medical, psychological, psychiatric, or therapeutic diagnosis or treatment.
By engaging in this work, you agree to take responsibility for your own wellbeing. If you require professional support, you are encouraged to seek guidance from a licensed and qualified healthcare professional of your choosing.