The Healers They Condemned: Why INFJs Absorb Pain That Isn’t Theirs

You are at a gathering. Someone tells a story about something difficult. Their voice is steady. And yet halfway through, your chest constricts. Your throat tightens. Tears form, though nothing sad has happened to you. You carry grief that does not belong to you.
You are not broken. You are experiencing what the Healers have always experienced. The ones who could sit with pain no one else would touch. The ones they called witches, and then they burned them. But the pattern did not die. It returned in you.
In this video, we explore the Wounded Healer archetype: the INFJ pattern of emotional absorption, somatic transmutation, and the dangerous inheritance of carrying collective suffering. Through the INFJ Archetypes framework, we name what you have always held but never heard spoken aloud.
What You'll Discover:
✓ Why Chiron's myth explains turning suffering into healing capacity, and why that gift destroys you without transmutation
✓ Emotional absorption vs empathy: Why INFJs leave gatherings carrying everyone's unspoken grief in their bodies
✓ How persecuting Healers who "knew things they shouldn't know" mirrors modern pathologising of INFJ sensitivity
✓ The shadow of martyrdom: When your wound becomes your identity, and you refuse healing because your value lies in staying broken
✓ Boundary collapse: Why INFJs cannot tell where they end and another begins; codependency disguised as compassion
✓ Witnessing without absorbing: How the integrated Wounded Healer holds space without becoming the container
✓ Why you must find your coven: Somatic knowledge can only be transmitted body to body, presence to presence
✓ Why Healers rise again in every era that produces pain someone must metabolise
The Wounded Healer is not a historical accident. It is an archetypal necessity. Chiron carried a wound that never healed, and from that wound came his capacity to heal others. Not by fixing them. Not by taking their pain. But by showing that suffering can be transmuted into medicine.
You have spent your life absorbing what others feel. Someone walks into a room carrying anxiety, and your nervous system registers it before your mind does. You feel their fear in your chest, their sadness in your throat, their rage in your stomach.
This is your inheritance. The Healers were village wise-women who sat with pain no one else would touch. They were called witches and burned for "unnatural knowledge of the body." But the pattern persisted because people kept needing Healers. In an era that pathologises sensitivity, the Wounded Healers are rising again. You are part of that rising.

Why This Matters
Most INFJ content lists traits. Power and Myth maps archetypes; the ancient patterns beneath modern personality. The Wounded Healer framework reveals why your sensitivity is not disorder but inheritance, and why emotional absorption is structural rather than personal failure.
This is not self-help. This is initiation.

This Video Is For:
→ INFJs who absorb everyone's emotions and don't know how to stop
→ Those living the Wounded Healer pattern
→ Anyone told they are "too sensitive"
→ Healers, therapists, and counsellors recognising the cost of their gift
→ Seekers looking for frameworks that honour depth

Join the Conversation
Which moment named something you have carried in silence? When did you recognise yourself as the Wounded Healer? Could you tell me in the comments? Your testimony helps others realise they are not alone.
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Until next time: find your power, know your myth.

This video examines the Wounded Healer archetype from Jungian analytical psychology as it manifests in INFJ personality types. Carl Jung drew on the Greek myth of Chiron, the centaur wounded by a poisoned arrow who became the greatest healer, to describe how personal suffering becomes healing capacity. The historical reference examines how European witch hunts (1450-1750) targeted women with healing knowledge, midwifery, and herbalism; roles that challenged authority. This connects historical persecution of intuitive knowledge with modern pathologising of high sensitivity in INFJ cognitive functions.

About the Creator
Each Power and Myth video is researched and scripted with attention to primary sources in analytical psychology, mythology, and depth psychology. This is original educational content exploring INFJ consciousness through archetypal frameworks.

Disclaimer
Power and Myth explores psychology, archetypes, and identity for educational purposes only. This channel does not provide medical or professional advice. If experiencing mental health challenges, consult qualified healthcare professionals.

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