Who is Holding Whom?
Space is too wild, undomesticated, and vast to be “held.”The image of “holding” is an evocative one that has given rise to the idea of “holding space” for another, where we’re attuned to what they’re …
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What we lose on the healing and awakening path
Much is said these days about healing and spiritual transformation, and the deep joy, clarity, and peace that are the promised fruits of the inner journey.Not much is mentioned, however, about the disappointment involved in …
Many of us were never taught how to stay with ourselves
Most of us were never taught how to stay with ourselves.Not in the moments when something inside begins to open. Not when the body fills with grief, or anger, or a longing that has no …
Catharsis is not the same as integration
Catharsis is not the same as integration.In shadow work and deep emotional–somatic practice, these two are often conflated. But something essential depends on our ability to tell them apart—not in theory, but in the fire …
The Quiet Work: A Six-Week Online Journey with Matt Licata
The Quiet Work: Learning to Stay With Ourselves When Things Feel HardA Six-Week Online Journey with Matt LicataStarting Wednesday, April 8>>Learn more and register here Dear friend,This course is an invitation into a slower, deeper …
Free live gathering with Matt – Wednesday, April 1
There comes a moment for many of us when the language of self-improvement begins to feel thin.We’ve done the work. Read the books. Tried the practices. Worked on ourselves with sincerity and care. And yet, …
Grief is love reorganizing itself through the body
There are times in our lives when the ground gives way beneath us.A relationship ends. A dream collapses. Something we believed would carry us forward dissolves, disintegrates, is taken to dustIn these moments, it can …
The reawakening of feeling
Most of us have one or two feeling states we will do just about anything not to feel. It might be an emptiness, a particular kind of shame, heartbreak, a sense of abandonment, or the …
Matt’s new 2026 spirituality and healing group to open in February
Dear friends, In a world that moves so quickly — where overwhelm, disconnection, and emotional exhaustion have become almost normal — many of us sense a longing to slow down, turn inward, and remember what is …