Psychology Says You're Empathetic Myth Says You' re The Wounded Healer

Описание: Someone tells you their story. By the time they finish, you are carrying something you did not carry before. They walk away lighter whilst you spend days processing grief that was never yours.

You are not too sensitive. You are not broken. You are living the Wounded Healer's inheritance: the ancient pattern of those who transmute suffering through their own wounds.

In this video, Psychology Says You're Empathetic: Myth Says You're the Wounded Healer, we explore the archetype beneath what psychology calls empathy. Through the INFJ Archetypes framework, we name what you have always carried but never heard spoken aloud. This is what we do here at Power and Myth.

What you'll discover:

✓ The Wounded Healer: Why your empathy is not observation but absorption: direct, bodily, immediate

✓ Chiron's inheritance: The wound that cannot close is the wound that makes you capable of healing others

✓ The transaction no one speaks of: They arrive fractured, leave lighter. You hold what they could not carry

✓ Jung's insight: The healer who has never been broken cannot reach the one who is breaking

✓ The shadow of martyrdom: When you believe your value lies only in carrying what others cannot

✓ Who heals the healer: The structural loneliness of being needed for only one part of yourself

✓ The wound as portal: Why descending into suffering transforms rather than destroys

✓ Integration: How the wound becomes source when you stop trying to close it

The Wounded Healer has walked this path for thousands of years. This is not a personality trait psychology can fully explain. This is archetypal: the pattern Jung identified in those who do not witness suffering but transmute it. Chiron could heal every wound except his own. The pain was immortal. Unkillable. And in carrying it, he became the greatest healer in all of myth.

You have spent your life absorbing pain you did not create. Processing wounds you did not inflict. Wondering why other people's suffering lives inside you longer than it lives inside them. This is not empathy as a skill you developed. This is empathy as an architecture you were born into. You participate in the collective unconscious, the shared field of human pain, more directly than most.

And this is why the clinical word empathy feels inadequate. You do not cross a bridge toward their pain. The bridge crosses itself. One moment you are separate. The next, you are not. This is the Wounded Healer's gift. But it is also the wound.

Most INFJ content discusses empathy as a trait. Power and Myth maps it as archetypal inheritance. You are not here to be told you are valid. You are here to understand that your wound is both personal and ancient. That it belongs to you—and to something far larger than you. Other channels categorise. We name. And naming changes everything.

This video is for:

→ INFJs who absorb others' pain as though it is their own

→ Those living the Wounded Healer's gift and burden

→ Anyone who has been the therapist friend whilst wondering who therapists them

→ Seekers looking for frameworks beyond surface personality content

Which moment in this video named something you have carried in silence? Tell me in the comments. Your recognition helps others feel less alone.

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About the creator

Each video is researched and scripted, drawing on primary sources in analytical psychology, philosophy, and comparative mythology. This is original educational content created to explore INFJ consciousness through frameworks not found in mainstream personality psychology.

Disclaimer: Power & Myth explores the intersection of psychology, archetypes, & modern identity. Our content, including discussions of the Sigma INFJ, is intended for educational and reflective purposes only. This channel does not provide medical, psychological, or professional advice. Viewers are encouraged to reflect critically, think independently, and use these ideas as inspiration rather than instruction.