Nurses as Wounded Healer Dr. Marion Conti-O'Hare

What about wounded nurses who are wounded from career related injuries? Or wounded nurses who have chronic illnesses but HAVE to work anyway. Or the enabling nurses who are trying to break free of the abusive home relationship, whether the cause is drug/alcohol stimulated abuse or emotional or physical abuse?
Nurses do tend to be nuturing and then enabling. We take care of everyone but ourselves.
Those are all wounded nurses, and if they are also impaired in other ways, say their own fight with drug or alcohol or obesity- they are also ones who need the studies to be done on them

I'm not familiar with Conti-O'Hare's work, but I once attended a short seminar that spoke to this very topic. The speaker told us that the concept of the wounded healer rises from ancient Greece. People would travel miles to seek the wisdom of the Oracle of Delphi. They would have to undergo a purification process of body, mind, and spirit before their supplication. Those who were healed during their audience with the oracle would then become the guides and workers for the cleansing process for the incoming pilgrims hoping for an audience. I was in my psych rotation when I heard this, and it filled in all the gaps that my textbook learning had left wide open. It clicked right into place for me. I now work on a substance abuse co-occurring unit, and am very very happy with my choice of profession.

And yes, I come from an alcoholic home, and consider myself codependent no more.....

Hope this helps.

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