You don’t need to create a sanctuary within. It’s already there. It’s called your soul. At the core of your soul is your true, authentic Self, which is sacred, whole, untouched, and unbroken, no matter what life has brought your way. It’s not something to be earned or constructed. It simply is.

Your Sacred Self rests safe and undamaged at the centre of your soul around which your personal archetypes are grouped. Archetypes are universally recognised patterns of behaviour, of energy, of thinking, feeling, and experiences that shape our world, inside and out.

Your personal archetypes carry your stories, wounds, strengths, challenges, obstacles, options and life lessons. Though they can act out of fear, insecurity, or distortion at times, your personal archetypes just want to be transformed. What transforms them is your recognition of their divine origin. Despite their faults, shortcomings and flaws, once you acknowledge the Sacred Self in each of your personal archetypes, that recognition activates their highest potential in you. Which is there for transformation and integration.

Your recognition is powerful because it activates the archetype’s highest potential, which is always aimed toward healing.

Gail Goodwin 2025

When you consciously acknowledge the Sacred Self within each archetype, even the troublesome ones, you open the way for them to return to their higher purpose. Whether it’s your Victim archetype learning to reclaim power, the inner Saboteur archetype revealing where self-trust is needed, or the inner Prostitute archetype seeking authentic value, each archetype is born to be an ally in the journey of your soul.

Your Sacred Self is untouched by fear. Every archetype within you, especially those you judge, can be called home to the centre of your soul for transformation and integration.