The Download Podcast, with Jill Marshall
Exploring patterns, archetypes, and stories that reveal who we are — and who we can become.
Bestselling novelist and storyworld creator Jill Marshall hosts The Download, a podcast where fiction, intuition and philosophy meet. Drawing on her books and cross-media storyworlds, Jill explores the archetypes, synchronicities, and hidden currents that shape both our personal lives and our collective stories. Each episode invites you to see creativity not just as art, but as a mirror of truth, a prophetic force, and a pathway to self-development.
Join Jill each week for downloads that illuminate the hidden patterns in story — and in you.
The Download Podcast, with Jill Marshall
Imprint, Wound, Archetype: The Three Layers We Carry & Can Heal
We all carry invisible threads from our ancestry - imprints, wounds, and archetypes that shape our lives. In this episode, Jill maps these three layers and shows how recognising them leads to personal healing.
We all carry more than personal experience —-we carry ancestral imprints, family wounds, and archetypal roles that shape who we become. In this episode of The Download, Jill Marshall introduces a three-layered map of the self:
- Imprints — recurring family themes passed through generations
- Wounds — the sharper ruptures or traumas that scar a lineage
- Archetypes — the roles we unconsciously step into as a result
Through personal stories, a vivid past-life dream, and insights from Carl Jung, Caroline Myss, Robert Ohotto, It Didn’t Start With You, and The Heroine’s Journey, Jill explores how recognising these layers can reveal hidden patterns and open the way to sustainable individuation and personal healing.
Episode Guide
00:00 – Introduction: Why We Carry More Than Personal Experience
00:45 – Imprints: The Ancestral Echoes and Family Themes
05:16 – Wounds: How Trauma Creates Ruptures Across Generations
07:44 – Archetypes: The Roles We Unconsciously Step Into
10:14 – Case Study: A Past-Life Dream of Exile and Survival
12:30 – Integration: Bringing the Layers Together for Sustainable Individuation
16:07 – Reflection: Questions to Recognise and Transform Your Own Layers
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