When Nothing Seems to Change Your Most Persistent Patterns
Those feelings can be exhausting and heartbreaking. A part of you knows you’re capable of something different:
✔ more honesty
✔ more ease
✔ more grounded moments where you stay with yourself rather than abandoning your needs, disappearing behind a wall, or criticizing yourself later.
It’s Time to Rethink Your Approach to HealingÂ
Here’s a closer look at each of the five Origin Wounds.
PRIORITIZATION WOUND
The Prioritization Wound is the belief and experience that your needs are chronically less important or deprioritized by the most important people in your life. This wound often shows up as over-functioning in relationships, saying yes when you want to say no, and hyper-focusing on other people’s emotions while neglecting your own. Over time, you can feel overlooked, like an afterthought, chronically disappointed by people who don’t prioritize you, and resentful or burned out from carrying the weight of the relationship.
TRUSTÂ WOUND
The Trust Wound is the deeply ingrained belief that you can’t fully rely on others — that betrayal, deception, or abandonment are inevitable. It often shows up as hyper-independence, guardedness, and over-control, or as constantly scanning for red flags, testing people, and struggling to truly relax into vulnerability. You might find yourself keeping everyone at arm’s length, or swinging between trusting too quickly and not trusting at all, and repeatedly feeling blindsided or let down.
SAFETYÂ WOUND
The Safety Wound is the deeply ingrained belief that the world is unsafe and that you have to stay hypervigilant or in control to protect yourself. It teaches you that your safety is not guaranteed, and not something people honor, protect, respect, advocate for, and attune to. And sometimes it’s not that anyone did something wrong—your nervous system simply learned, through an experience you couldn’t control, that the world can turn unsafe without warning. It can look like constantly scanning for what might go wrong, feeling unable to fully relax in relationships or environments, avoiding vulnerability, or clinging to “safe” people and routines even when they’re not actually good for you.
When You Only Work With One Wound, You Only See Part of the Pattern
You might feel your Worthiness Wound most in dating, your Belonging Wound in groups, and your Safety or Trust Wounds in conflict — all while your Prioritization Wound quietly keeps you saying yes when you’re already at capacity. These wounds don’t operate in separate lanes; they often overlap and interact, shaping how you protect yourself and how you reach for connection.
That’s why The Origin Healing Method brings all five guidebooks together. Working with each wound in turn helps you see the whole picture of your patterns and start recognizing what’s happening not only in you, but also in the people you love — so their reactions feel more understandable and less personal.
The Origin Healing Method gives you a complete, therapeutic-style set of tools you can return to in different seasons of your life.
Meet Your Guide
THOMAS L.
“Vienna Pharaon’s The Origins of You is one of the most eye-opening, compassionate, and transformative books I’ve read in years. It is not just a book about self-help or psychology – it’s a map to understanding who we are at our core, why we behave the way we do, and how we can finally break free from the patterns that have held us back.”
KAYLIN W.
“None have articulated so clearly what Vienna has in Origins of You… Vienna lays the foundation for understanding what origin wounds look like and how they manifest… Then, she offers a roadmap for approaching conflict and communication while healing the wounds that are still showing up for us today.”
RACHAEL L.
“Learning the language of Origin Wounds gave me an insightful new perspective on myself; it helped me to connect the dots in an intriguing, self-compassionate, sometimes painful, but ultimately revolutionary way.”
FAQs about The Origin Healing Method
Do I need to have read The Origins of You or taken the Origin Wound Quiz first?
I just want one guidebook for “my” wound. Can I buy a single one?
I’m not sure which wound I have. How do I know which one I should start with?
What if I relate to all five wounds?
Is this therapy?
Can I get direct support from Vienna while I use the guidebooks?
How long will it take me to work through a guidebook?
How will I access the guidebooks, and do I get updates?
Is this only for romantic relationships?
What if I’m brand new to this kind of inner work?
What if I’ve already done a lot of therapy or personal growth work?
Is there a refund policy?
It’s Time To Walk a New Path
Â
Awareness is a powerful first step in your healing process, but it shouldn’t be the last.
The Origin Healing Method is here to walk alongside you as you practice new ways of responding, relating, and caring for yourself and the people you love.
One page, one prompt, one small, courageous choice at a time.