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Wounds to Wisdom: Reclaiming Feminine Power in a Culture of Disconnection
How women can come together in circles for healing and the chance to unify rather than compete
Stephen James
February 19, 2022
An interview with Lauren Elizabeth Walsh, founder of Global Sisterhood & Wounds to Wisdom
“When we judge another, we’re just revealing an unhealed part of ourselves.” —
There’s a subtle grief most people carry and never name.
The grief of disconnection. Disconnection from ourselves. Disconnection from others. Disconnection from the Earth. Disconnection from God.
And at the root of that fracture, if we’re being honest, is a collective forgetting of the feminine. The soft strength. The fierce compassion. The embodied, emotional, intuitive force that this world has tried to control, commodify or shame into silence.
But the feminine never died. She just went underground. And right now, she’s rising through people like Lauren Elizabeth Walsh.
Lauren is the founder of the Global Sisterhood Movement and creator of Wounds to Wisdom, a course helping women transform trauma into purpose, and pain into power. We sat down for a deep conversation about shadow, blame, healing sexual trauma, awakening feminine energy, and what it truly means to reclaim sovereignty in a world that profits from your self-rejection.
The Core Wound: “I’m Not Enough”
Lauren’s story begins, like many of ours do, with rejection. As a child, she was bullied, cast out, and alienated by other girls. It’s a trauma that left an imprint. One that many women know too well: the wound of female disconnection, where sisterhood has been replaced by jealousy, competition, and mistrust.
And from that place of rejection, she began rejecting herself.
It took her years—and an intense, honest walk through her own healing—to realise that this wasn’t just her story. It was our story.
And it’s a story worth rewriting.
A New Feminine Vision (That Doesn’t Involve Blaming Men)
If you’ve been to enough women’s circles or spiritual events, you’ve probably felt it: the undercurrent of man-blaming that sometimes simmers beneath the surface.
But Lauren’s work doesn’t go there.
The Global Sisterhood is not about spiritual superiority or masculine shaming—it’s about emotional integrity. It’s about coming home to the feminine without needing to make the masculine wrong.
She says:
“So many women—especially millennials and younger—don’t resonate with the word ‘feminism’ anymore, because it’s been equated with shouting, blaming, and hating men. But when we blame, we just give our power away.”
Instead, the sisterhood she teaches is rooted in self-responsibility. Emotional maturity. Transformational rituals. And a kind of fierce grace that doesn’t bypass pain—but alchemises it.
So What Happens in a Global Sisterhood Gathering?
Each new moon, women across the world gather in sacred circle to focus on a shared theme. Themes like “Free the Voice,” “Sacred Sexuality,” or “Courageous Gratitude.”
The gatherings include:
Somatic practices to drop out of the mind and into the body
Emotional rituals that honour the shadow (rather than suppress it)
Authentic sharing to dissolve shame and build true connection
Affirmations and storytelling to activate new beliefs and heal old ones
The key isn’t what happens, but the intention behind it. A space where women can witness each other—not to fix or compete—but to be real.
Healing the Feminine Means Healing the Masculine, Too
As Lauren puts it: “It’s not just women that need to rise. It’s the feminine in all of us.”
And that includes the part of every man that’s been conditioned to shut up, man up, and emotionally check out.
The feminine isn’t about gender. It’s a current. A frequency. A way of being that this world desperately needs—especially in the masculine-dominated institutions that have run the planet into the ground.
She says:
“When a woman returns to her true power with compassion—not from blame—the masculine in her partner begins to soften too. It’s energetic. It’s deep. And it’s real.”
This is where true power lies: not in domination or submission, but in energetic co-creation. And that requires every one of us—man, woman, or in between—to take self-accountability for our own triggers, stories, and trauma patterns.
From Blame to Self-Responsibility
Here’s the truth most spiritual bypassing doesn’t want to face:
Blame feels good—for about five seconds.
But it keeps you small. Trapped. Reactive. And worst of all, it makes you dependent on someone else being the problem… and someone else needing to change.
Lauren’s course, Wounds to Wisdom, is about flipping that script.
“When you reclaim your story, and shift out of victimhood, you don’t just heal yourself—you become a beacon. You become someone who can hold others. That’s how the new world is born.”
And it starts with self-awareness. Catching yourself when you’re in blame. Journaling. Lighting a candle. Asking: Where am I giving my power away right now?
Healing Sexual Trauma Isn’t Optional. It’s Sacred.
It’s estimated that 1 in 3 women—and a growing number of men—carry unresolved sexual trauma. Whether it’s from abuse, coercion, childhood experiences, or the constant psychic assault of mainstream media and porn culture… it affects everything.
Lauren speaks to this with reverence and rawness.
Sexual energy isn’t just about sex. It’s your creative force. Your vitality. Your ability to manifest and feel safe in your body. When it’s shut down through trauma, the entire nervous system becomes dysregulated. The inner child hides. The adult self contracts. And relationships suffer.
Her advice?
Don’t rush. Don’t override. Don’t pretend.
Seek out support from someone who’s been through it—and healed it.
Know that you can heal. Truly. And you’re not broken.
“The best apology is changed behaviour,” she says. And that starts with the apology we make to ourselves when we finally decide to stop abandoning our inner child.
For the Men (and Partners)
If you’re in relationship with someone healing from sexual trauma, here’s your job: Don’t fix. Don’t force. Hold space.
Be safe. Be emotionally available. Be curious, not defensive. And stop making it about you.
This is sacred ground. And how you show up in those moments can either reinforce old wounds—or become part of her healing story.
What Power Actually Is
Power isn’t volume. It’s not dominance. It’s not performance.
Power is presence. Power is knowing your shadow and choosing to show up anyway. Power is saying: I choose to stay awake here, even if I’ve made a mess before. I choose truth. I choose integrity.
That’s what Heart Initiation is all about.
And that’s what Lauren Elizabeth Walsh is here to remind us of.
Final Words from Lauren:
“We are not meant to walk through life alone. True healing happens in safe connection. In community. In sacred space. And when we choose to reclaim our power without blaming others… we become unstoppable.”
Resources
📩 Contact Lauren: [email protected]
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Lauren Elizabeth Walsh is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Unify Global Sisterhood Movement, Woman’s Spiritual Empowerment Coach, and Creator of Wounds to Wisdom. Find out more about Lauren at www.laurenelizabethwalsh.com/
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