The basic human wound, which is prevalent in the modern world, forms around not
feeling loved or intrinsically lovable as we are. Inadequate love or attunement is shocking
and traumatic for a child’s developing and highly sensitive nervous system. And as we
internalize how we were parented, our capacity to value ourselves, which is also the basis
for valuing others, becomes damaged. I call this a “relational wound“ or the “wound of