Have you ever felt that unspoken tension between womenโ€”like competition or mistrust getting in the way of connection? I have, and itโ€™s something Iโ€™ve worked hard to understand. In this episode, I open up about the sister woundโ€”those deep patterns of rivalry and distrust weโ€™ve inheritedโ€”and how healing them can create real, supportive sisterhood. Iโ€™ll share my own journey and what itโ€™s taken to break the cycle, leaning into trust and love to build relationships that empower us all. Letโ€™s explore what sacred sisterhood truly means.

 

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“The sister wound isn’t who you are, it’s what you learned. And what you’ve learned, you can unlearn.” – Tanya Lynn

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Takeaways

  • The sister wound is a pattern of competition and mistrust among women.
  • It’s a legacy inherited from generations of women before us.
  • Healing the sister wound is our responsibility.
  • Sacred sistership is about collaboration, not competition.
  • When we heal, we change our relationship with ourselves.
  • The sister wound whispers when we feel threatened by another’s success.
  • Healing is about being intentional, not perfect.
  • We can create a new way of relating to each other.
  • This is collective healing, not just personal work.
  • Together, we can change the world through sisterhood.

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Chapters

00:00 Understanding the Sister Wound

03:20 Personal Experience with the Sister Wound

06:00 Healing and Transforming Relationships

 

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If youโ€™re ready to heal those sister wounds and create a new culture of connection, the Healing the Sister Wound Course offers a powerful framework to release past pain, build reciprocal relationships, and step into a supportive, sacred sisterhood rooted in mutual respect and love: https://sistershipcircle.com/healing-the-sister-wound-course/

 

About Tanya Lynn

Tanya Lynn is the visionary founder of Sistership Circle, a global organization that has trained tens of thousands of women how to fill, lead, and grow their womenโ€™s circles. With her truth-telling style of leadership, she has a gift of seeing the brilliance in women and activating them to step into their power.

She has successfully integrated the masculine and feminine within herself, making her both fierce and soft, strategic and able to surrender, mission-driven yet highly relatable with her vulnerability. She has been gathering community since growing up as a little girl in San Diego CA, and lived in various places around the world including China, Japan, Spain, and currently Costa Rica where sheโ€™s building a goddess temple and retreat center with her husband and business partner Brent.

Tanya is the best-selling author of multiple books including Open Your Heart: How to Be a New Generation Feminine Leader, The Art of Leading Circle, and The Womenโ€™s Circle Ritual Handbook. You can count on Tanya to show up no matter what, take 100% responsibility for herself, and receive feedback to make her work even better. She values integrity, authenticity, and co-creative leadership. When sheโ€™s not in a circle or training leaders, you can find her with her two daughters Kali and Summer.

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