Star Wars arrived in 1977 — thirty years after the atomic bomb. The Force, the Dagobah training, the cave, Vader's suit: none of it was science fiction. It was a nervous system training manual, delivered in the only language the culture could absorb at the time.

Most people think of a wound as a single injury. But a childhood wound is more like a burr — it has hooks. It catches on things. Over time, what started as one injury gathers so much around it that every piece of snagged material looks like its own separate problem. Here's how I discovered the architecture underneath my patterns — and built a session to map yours.