The Chiron Effect: Healing Your Core Wound Through Self-Forgiveness with Lisa Tahir
What if the place that hurts the most is also where your greatest gift is waiting? In this episode, I sit down with astrologer Lisa Tahir to explore Chiron, often called the "wounded healer" of the astrological chart. Together we talk about how Chiron can point to our most tender places, and how meeting those places with compassion can open the door to healing, wisdom, and the gifts we're here to share. Whether you're new to astrology or have studied your chart for years, this conversation invites you to look again at your own story with gentler eyes.
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What if the thought you keep thinking on repeat is the one quietly holding you back?
In this episode, I sit down with Lisa Tahir, a licensed psychotherapist of 26 years and author of The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds Through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness. Lisa believes we can only go as far as our largest limiting belief, and that most of us, especially high achievers, are far too hard on ourselves.
We talk about Chiron, a small body in our solar system named for the wounded healer of Greek mythology, and how its place in your birth chart can point to one of twelve core wounds that shape what you believe about yourself. Lisa approaches it not as an astrologer, but as a therapist looking for the pattern underneath the pain.
In this episode:
- A simple self-forgiveness practice: hand on your heart, your own name, and the words “I’m so sorry you went through that. What do you need from me?”
- Why we recoil from emotional hurt the way we pull back from a hot stove, and how treating hard feelings as information instead of a threat changes everything
- Chiron in Aries: the high achiever who looks successful on paper but never feels good enough, and why your worth is based on who you are, not what you do
- Gentle ways to stop overcommitting and people-pleasing, including “let me get back to you on that” and the freedom to cancel
- When loneliness shows up: asking “how old does this part of me feel?” and texting someone who comes to mind
Find your Chiron: visit nolatherapy.com and click “Order My Book” for a free tool that shows where Chiron sits in your chart, using your birth date and place.
Connect with Lisa:
- Website and book: nolatherapy.com/chiron
- Glass art: LisaTahir.com
- Podcast: All Things Therapy (Heather was a recent guest, talking about Spirit Portraits)
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nolatherapy/
Connect with Heather:
- Wednesday letters and original art: HeatherEck.com
- Instagram: @HeatherEckArtist
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