The Power of Vulnerability, From Wound to Wisdom
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Written by Adina Andronic, Shamanic Practitioner
Ara is a seasoned shamanic practitioner with over 15 years of experience in the field of spiritual healing and transformation. Ara was formally initiated into shamanic practice by Daniel Leonard and has since trained with some of the most respected teachers in the field, including Sandra Ingerman, Marcela Lobos, and Alberto Villoldo.
Vulnerability is not weakness, it is the doorway to our deepest truth. When we dare to meet the hidden parts of ourselves with compassion, we unlock a freedom that reshapes our choices, our relationships, and even our contribution to the world. This article explores how personal healing becomes collective healing, and how embracing our wounds can reveal our purpose.
The hidden hunger within us
It is never enough to tell people they have a problem. What truly matters is giving them the tools to resolve it, and the courage to look at the parts of themselves they have long avoided.
I was fortunate to meet people whose own vulnerability stories illuminated the most hidden corners of my being.
For years, my decisions were shaped, even deviated, by situations where my needs were not met. Until the day I learned to nurture these needs from within.
And when that happened, something extraordinary unfolded, I began making decisions from a freedom I hadn’t felt in decades.
When power hurts, look for the wound behind it
When someone in power acts in a hurtful way, we often react with judgment, fear, or anger. But there is another path, a more courageous one.
We can ask ourselves: What part of this person is acting out? What wound is being mirrored in their decisions? What did they miss in their own life that now echoes through their actions?
And then, instead of feeding the cycle of hurt, we can pray, for their healing and for our own. Because often, the wound we see in another is a wound we have lived by ourselves, even if at a different scale.
This is how vulnerability becomes a bridge between the personal and the collective.
A dream, a war, and a collective shadow
A few years ago, before the war in Ukraine, I had a dream about Vladimir Putin’s mother. Except she wasn’t his mother, she felt like his grandmother.
In the dream, he was holding a simple pot used to cook rice, something he had inherited from her. The tenderness in that image stayed with me.
When the war began, I remembered the dream and searched for information. I discovered that there were stories that he had indeed been raised by his grandmother.
I prayed then,for him, for all children who have known abandonment, and for the collective wound that abandonment creates.
Perhaps I did not pray strongly enough. Perhaps none of us did. But the message was clear: Collective harm is always rooted in personal wounds.
And healing must address both. We can ask
What inner wound leads a leader to uproot families, separate children, or remove people from their homes?
What shadow self is acting through them?
And then we can pray for that shadow, not to excuse the harm, but to transform its source.
Have a conversation with your shadow
Your shadow is not your enemy. It is the part of you that acted out when you were hurt, unseen, or afraid.
Sit with her. Ask her what she did and why. Ask her what she needs from you so she no longer seeks it outside, through conflict, through avoidance, through self-sabotage.
This is how vulnerability becomes power.
Crossing the strait of hormuz: What must we leave behind?
Every transition, personal or collective, is like crossing a narrow strait. To enter a new world, something must be abandoned, old beliefs, old fears, old identities, old wounds.
The question is not what will happen to us, but what we are willing to release so we can step into who we are becoming.
Unplanned moments: Blockages or blessings?
Life rarely unfolds according to plan.
But what if the unplanned moments, the delays, the blockages, the detours, are actually blessings? What if they are invitations to pause, to listen, to realign? Vulnerability teaches us to see the sacred in the unexpected.
Love: Investment or resonance?
Let’s pause a moment today and remember that love is not something we earn or negotiate. It is not an investment expecting return.
It is a resonance, a frequency we embody when we are aligned with our truth. And when we live from that resonance, everything changes.
If you feel called to explore your own vulnerability, your shadow, or the hidden parts of yourself that are waiting to be seen, I invite you to begin this journey with me. Book a hypnosis coaching session, and let’s discover together what your wounds are trying to teach you, and who you are becoming through them.
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Adina Andronic, Shamanic Practitioner
Ara's journey into shamanic practice began with a transformative trip to India in 2010. This experience sparked a profound personal growth journey, during which she discovered the lasting and deeply transformative impact of spiritual practices. Immersing herself in ancient traditions and healing modalities, Ara gradually embraced shamanism as a path to inner wisdom, connection, and holistic healing. Through her studies and practice, she has cultivated a rich understanding of energy medicine, soul retrieval, ancestral healing, and nature-based wisdom traditions.
