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Growing Closer to the Centre of the Adoption Wound adoption attachment healing wound Aug 27, 2026

The adoption wound has been with me for as long as I can remember. But something is changing as I move through my mid-fifties. I am getting closer to its gritty centre. I can begin to see it more clearly. Name it more honestly. Feel its particular shape inside me.

For most of my life, the wound has felt like a black hole. Something vast and dark that I have spent a lifetime trying not to fall into. Some days it is far away, beyond my reach. I can move through my life and almost forget it is the...

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Monique Pangari, MEd, SEP

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Monique is a Somatic Psychotherapist with 25 years experience. She is the director of Somatic Sovereignty and specialises in guiding womxn and children through the transformative journey of healing from developmental and complex trauma. Her integrative approach combines somatic counselling, attachment therapy, therapeutic touch, jungian sandplay therapy, eco-psychotherapy, nature based expressive therapies and trauma-informed yoga & bodywork to help you reconnect with your body, nurture your nervous system and reclaim your life and sovereignty.

 
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