The Identity Reclamation Project
A framework for recognizing the wounds that shape identity and reclaiming the self that was set aside.
Five Identity Wounds
The IRP names five wounds that commonly shape how people see themselves, relate to others, and move through the world.
Worthiness
The belief that your value has to be earned.
Belonging
The fear that you are too much, or not enough, to be fully welcomed.
Agency
The sense that your choices and your life are not fully your own.
Safety
The learned expectation that it is risky to be fully yourself.
Voice
The silencing of what you think, feel, and need to say.
The Self-Reclamation Framework: The 5Rs
Five movements that guide the work from awareness to a life lived on your own terms.
Recognize
Name the beliefs and wounds shaping your life.
Release
Let go of narratives and burdens that were never yours to carry.
Reclaim
Take back the parts of your identity that were set aside.
Redesign
Build your life and your narrative on your own terms.
Receive
Let in belonging, rest, and the life you have chosen.
A psycho-social-spiritual journey of honest introspection.
We help you unpack your embedded theology, not to assign blame for what others did or did not do, but to understand how you conceptualized and internalized your experiences.
One event can affect two people very differently. What matters is not only what happened, but how it was processed, stored, and expressed in your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world. Our strengths-based approach helps you live fully, not just functionally.
A journey of extreme introspection. It asks you to take a deeper look in the mirror and see your strengths as well as your weaknesses. We take a strengths-perspective, focusing first on what you do well. Your weaknesses are not what you were created for, though you can still grow in those areas. It is easy to get so bogged down in what is not right with you that you miss the plethora of things that are. We help you maximize your strengths and your self-esteem by leading with them.
The goal is not to understand yourself for its own sake, but to learn how you work and live best, and what gets in the way, so you can live your best life now.
- Psychology of self: inward, not blame-focused
- Strengths as the primary lens
- How experience is conceptualized and internalized
- Formation within culture and context
- Permission to think critically about theology
- Lyricology: music as mirror and healing tool
- Sexuality as an integrated part of identity
- Narrative reshaping through creative expression
How we do it
Through whatever means available, including trainings, teachings, music, podcasts, and videos.
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