Recognising your calling can be an adventure of wisdom or woe. For the most part, it’s less about what you find and more about how you can repurpose those findings: what you make of what you have and what you’ve learned along the way. 

Every heart seeks its own destiny. Once you touch the core of your soul that is your Self—which is sacred—you don’t need to look back. You won’t need to overthink your future. There is a light to illuminate your presence of spirit that cannot be taken away. There are insights to stir your imagination and transport you on your journey. There are treasures you’ve looked for elsewhere but eventually find on the doorstep of your soul. 

Masked by your broken or wounded archetypes and buried deep inside the core of your Sacred Self is your personal calling. When you learn to access the energy of your Sacred Self, you can engage with, and nurture, an ongoing relationship with each of your archetypes. 

The energy of your Sacred Self is at the centre of your soul around which your healthy archetypes are gathered, waiting to assist you. The broken or wounded archetypes will remain a hinderance until you create a dialogue of healing and integrate them into your Sacred Self. 

Gail Goodwin 2025

Your healthy personal archetypes are gathered around the perimeter of your soul, waiting to assist you. Meanwhile the wounded archetypes will have broken into your soul thinking space where, clutching at your Sacred Self, they wait for you to heal them. And if these archetypes have been ignored for too long, they seem to function in a similar way as the wounded parts in IFS Therapy. Broken and wounded archetypes attach themselves to a weak or vulnerable area of your body, creating pressure, stress, discomfort or pain. All so you can heal them.

But.

As you begin to accept each of your personal archetypes—with their strengths and limitations—you will transform the neglected, broken, or wounded archetypes into your divine attendant spirits. You will have absorbed their best and learnt from their worst. You will have integrated your personal archetypes into the core of your soul that is your Sacred Self and be on your way to recognising your soul’s calling.