Online Course Series
A Journey Inward
Healing the Self-Abandonment Wound
A five-part online course series exploring the Self Abandonment Wound through depth psychology, Irish mythology, folklore and embodied reflection.
A Journey Inward is a series of online courses that explore the Self-Abandonment Wound and how to support yourself in healing the wound of unworthiness and embracing life—mind, body, and spirit.
Each course may be taken as a standalone experience or as part of the full five-part journey.
An Invitation
Self-abandonment rarely begins as a choice. It often emerges early in life as a quiet adaptation — a turning away from one’s own needs, feelings, instincts, or truth in order to preserve connection, safety, or belonging. Over time, this turning away can become habitual, shaping how we relate to ourselves, our bodies, and our inner lives. A Journey Inward is an invitation to pause and gently turn back toward what has been left behind.
This series offers a slow, reflective journey into the Self-Abandonment Wound and its healing — creating space to listen, reconnect, and re-establish relationship with the inner self. This is not a path of fixing or striving, but of remembering — of returning to the inner ground from which authenticity, agency, and self-trust can grow. The work unfolds gently, at your own pace, inviting curiosity, compassion, and deepened presence.
What is Self Abandonment?
Self-abandonment often lives beneath the surface of daily life, shaping how we relate to ourselves, our bodies, and others. It may show up as chronic self-doubt, difficulty recognising or honouring needs, or a sense of disconnection from inner knowing.
What once served as protection can later limit our capacity for aliveness, choice, and belonging within ourselves. Healing begins by meeting these patterns with awareness rather than judgement — and gently coming home to the body and inner knowing.
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 Shape of the Journey
A Journey Inward is composed of five interconnected courses, each tending a distinct aspect of the Self-Abandonment Wound and the process of inner return.
This is a self-paced, reflective online series. You are invited to move slowly, to pause when needed, and to return to the material in your own time. The work unfolds through listening, reflection, and embodied awareness rather than effort or performance. Each course may be taken as a standalone experience or as part of the full five-part journey. Together, they form a gentle arc — moving from awareness and safety, through reflection and repair, toward integration, agency, and embodied presence. Additionally, the series and individual courses include an introductory orientation to creating sanctuary — an intentional hearth-space that acts as a container for the work, supporting rhythm, safety, and presence.
This arc is also held within an alchemical rhythm, mirroring the Celtic calendar — moving through the seasonal thresholds of Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine, and Lughnasadh as inner movements of descent, renewal, emergence, and integration.
You are welcome to enter wherever you feel called.
COURSE TWO
The Cailleach’s Descent to the Underworld
Crossing the Dark Seas of Loss into Strange Country
Together, we cross the thresholds of change and learn, through the wisdom of the ancient Crone - The Cailleach, how we can come to support ourselves in the liminal places.
COURSE ONE
Embodiment, Soul & the Celtic Spirit
Healing the Wounds of the Abandoning Self
This foundational course focuses on remembering the language of the body. We explore our feelings and senses and how returning to our bodies helps cultivate our inner ground.
COURSE THREE
Resting Under Brigid’s Mantle
Cultivating Sanctuary and Self Compassion in Daily Life
We explore what sanctuary means to us and how we can begin cultivating spaces of intentional support and self-compassion to grow and embrace life as our authentic selves. We explore the growth that comes at this Imbolc time and draw on the healing power of Brigid’s Cloak to support us on this path.
Course FOUR
Awakening Bealtaine
Embracing Our Authentic Power - A Celebration of Granuaile
We explore the transformative power of anger and how the energy produced from anger can support us in finding and discovering our boundaries, guide us in taking up space in the world and begin to stand in our Authentic Power. We introduce the concept of inner marriage and the uniting power of our inner feminine and masculine sides.
COURSE FIVE
Celebrating the Harvest at Lúnasa
Taking Your Seat at the Banquet of Life
The final course explores what it might be like to allow the life force of eros, joy, and abundance into our lives, where we can begin to live again, rejoice, experience, and feel beauty in life.
Who is this series for?
Healing self-abandonment is a process of re-relationship. It involves learning to stay — with sensation, with emotion, with inner experience — while also honouring one’s separate self, even when this feels unfamiliar or uncomfortable. Over time, this staying cultivates inner safety, self-trust, and a renewed sense of agency. It involves learning to stay — with sensation, with emotion, with truth — even when it feels unfamiliar or uncomfortable.
A Journey Inward may be for you if…
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You struggle to hear or trust your inner voice, and are often self-critical or doubting of yourself.
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You ‘people please’ and find it difficult to set boundaries or say “no,” even when something doesn’t feel right.
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You minimise your own feelings or hesitate to ask for what you need.
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You feel highly attuned to others’ moods and emotions, often feeling responsible for managing or fixing them.
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You live with a background sense of anxiety or unease, rarely feeling fully at rest within yourself.
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You fear abandonment in close relationships and may feel unspoken resentment when your needs go unmet.
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You carry shame around having needs or emotions, feeling at once “too much” and “not enough.”
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You are drawn to Jungian psychology and Irish mythology as living maps for understanding psyche, symbol, and ancestral memory.
This series is offered as an educational and reflective experience, held in care and spaciousness, and respectful of each person’s pace and process.
When we listen to myths, we step into a timeless world, out of the rational concrete, into the symbolic life. This is the world of soul, the world of metaphor and imagination. Listening to myths makes us more receptive to our inner environment, the energies of life, and the archetypal patterns living through us. This series is cultivated with great care to create an experience for you to engage your heart, mind, body, and soul self.
Begin the Journey
A Journey Inward
The Complete Series
For those who feel called to engage with the full arc of this work, A Journey Inward is available as a complete five-part series. This option supports a slow, layered return to self — from early recognition of self-abandonment through embodied reconnection and restored inner authority.
The Complete Series includes:
✓ All 5 Courses (The Great Mother, The Dark Mother, Blessing the Waters, Kindling the Fire)
✓ Over 10+ hours of Immersive Video Modules
✓ Companion E Workbooks (x5)
✓ CPD Certificates for Irish Professionals (over 15 points total)
✓ A Depth Psychology Experience Rooted In Irish Mythology
✓ Lifetime Access to all course materials
You are welcome to begin with the first course in the series, or to enter at the point that feels most resonant for you.
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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
Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit
Healing the Wounds of the Abandoning Self
We focus on remembering the language of the body. We explore our feelings and senses and how returning to our bodies helps cultivate our inner ground. This allows us to begin the journey inward, where we create a touchstone, an anchor, that supports us in feeling safe while we explore our inner world.
The Cailleach’s Descent to the Underworld
Crossing the Dark Seas of Loss into Strange Country
This course explores the grief we experience during transition periods. Grief is a constant companion with change. So, to change and heal the patterns that no longer serve us, we need to meet the grief inherent in that transition. We can acknowledge that those old patterns kept us safe when needed, but it is time to make space for a new way of life. Together, we cross the thresholds of change and learn, through the wisdom of the ancient Crone - The Cailleach, how we can come to support ourselves in the liminal places.
Resting Under
Brigid’s Mantle
Cultivating Sanctuary and Self Compassion in Daily Life
Through this course, we explore what sanctuary means to us and how we can begin cultivating spaces of intentional support and self-compassion to grow and embrace life as our authentic selves. We explore the growth that comes at this Imbolc time and how the light returning brings the energy of growth and renewal. We draw on the healing power of Brigid’s Cloak to support us on this path.
Awakening
Bealtaine
Embracing Our Authentic Power - A Celebration of Granuaile
We explore the transformative power of anger and how the energy produced from anger can support us in finding and discovering our boundaries, guide us in taking up space in the world and begin to stand in our Authentic Power. We introduce the concept of inner marriage and the uniting power of our inner feminine and masculine sides.
Celebrating the Harvest at Lúnasa
Taking Your Seat at the Banquet of Life
We explore what it might be like to allow the life force of eros, joy, and abundance into our lives, where we can begin to live again, rejoice, experience, and feel beauty in life. We will make space for ourselves to be free from self-sabotaging patterns and the fear of joy. We will reap our own “harvest” and celebrate our growth with gratitude, however large or small.
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