Based on Lise Bourbeau's model of five emotional wounds (rejection, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal, injustice), the questionnaire identifies your dominant wound and the mask you use to cover it. The reading analyzes how this wound affects your relationships, self-confidence and life choices, and describes characteristic behaviors, physical manifestations and trigger situations. Personalized healing paths and practical steps for self-work are included.
Where it comes from
The idea that early hurt leaves a lasting shape on adult behaviour runs through twentieth-century psychology, from Freud's work on repetition to John Bowlby's attachment research in the 1950s. The specific list of core wounds used in contemporary readings — rejection, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal, injustice — comes from Lise Bourbeau's writing in the 1990s, which drew in turn on earlier body-oriented therapy. It is a modern framework, not an ancient one, and it works as a vocabulary for recognising patterns rather than as a clinical diagnosis.
How the method works
A reading works by asking where the same reaction keeps appearing. A wound of rejection shows up as withdrawing before anyone can withdraw from you; abandonment as holding on past the point where it helps; humiliation as making yourself small or useful to stay safe; betrayal as needing control over what others do; injustice as rigidity and difficulty letting anything be imperfect. Each carries a defence built on top of it, and the defence is usually what other people actually see.
What a reading covers
The reading names which wound is dominant, what defence grew over it, and how that shows up in relationships, at work and in how you speak to yourself. It also covers what tends to trigger it and what a different response would look like in a concrete situation.
Common questions
- Can I have more than one?
- Usually yes. Most people recognise two or three, with one dominant. The dominant one is the one that fires first under pressure.
- Is this therapy?
- No. It is a framework for noticing a pattern. Naming a wound can make it easier to talk about, but working through one is what therapy is for.
- Does a wound ever close?
- The framework says the reaction weakens rather than disappears — you keep the sensitivity but stop being run by it.