The Witch Wound runs deep in the bones of many women. It is a collective trauma in the soul lineage of many who experienced persecution, silencing, betrayal, and exile in former lives. It’s the feeling that speaking your truth isn’t safe. A feeling of it’s safer to remain hidden.

This wound probably didn’t start with you, but the healing of it can.

Many women today are waking up to the ancient path of the priestess. The energy of the priestess is a sacred remembering and a soul frequency. The priestess is the woman who embodies sacred power, and softness, healing, and wisdom—and becomes the sacred chalice to allow the energy of the divine to move through her and into the world.

To walk the path of the modern priestess is to heal seven core wounds, and reclaim the sacred birthright of your voice, your gifts, and your connection to the sisterhood you were once isolated from.

Here are three sacred ways to begin:

1. Return to Sisterhood and Safe Space

The first betrayal many women carry is in the realm of sisterhood itself. The Witch Wound often shows up as fear of other women: fear of being judged, cast out, talked about, or not belonging.

But the ancient priestesses did not walk alone—they served in temple sisterhoods, circles of mutual empowerment.

Healing begins in spaces where it is safe to be seen and heard in your wholeness.

Find or create a women’s circle. Sit in ritual. Speak your truth aloud—no matter how small. Practice letting your voice shake. And witness other women doing the same.

When one woman shares her truth and is met with love, we all heal a little more.

2. Reclaim Your Voice with Ritual Practice

The Witch Wound silences women. It whispers, “Be quiet. Stay small. Don’t say too much. Don’t be too powerful.” But this is exactly why reclaiming your voice is a revolutionary act.

You don’t need a stage—you just need a sacred container.

Start by creating a priestess ritual with your voice at the center. Light a candle. Place your hand on your throat. Speak your name aloud. Declare who you are becoming. Let your voice echo through your body like a tuning fork.

Practice voice journaling, mirror gazing, or recording yourself speaking intentions. And most importantly, share your voice in priestess circles. This is where the magic happens and you begin to find confidence in yourself again.

The words that emanate from your voice are a spell. Every time you speak from your soul, you rewrite the old codes.

3. Do the Inner Work of Soul Reclamation

The Witch Wound doesn’t just live in the conscious mind—it lives in the nervous system, in the womb, and in the shadows of the soul.

Tools like EFT Tapping and Timeline Healing are powerful gateways for releasing fear, guilt, and grief stored from lifetimes of persecution or silencing.

In soul reclamation work, we journey to the moments where parts of your power were exiled—whether in this life or another—and lovingly bring them home. Often, we uncover archetypes and gifts that were once hidden: healer, oracle, weaver, midwife, mystic.

Each retrieval is a restoration. Each healed fragment brings your priestess-self back into wholeness.

You Are the One Who Remembers

The Witch Wound isn’t just about what was lost—it’s about what you’re here to restore.

You came to be part of this great remembering. You came to bring your voice, your healing, your embodiment of the sacred feminine back into the world.

There is no greater act of revolution, reclamation, or devotion than becoming fully yourself.

You are not too much. You are just in time.

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