Videos from Matt – Embodied Spirituality & Healing
Dear friends,A few of you have written to ask about my YouTube channel. We have 25 or so videos uploaded and plan to add a couple new ones each month if you’d like to take …
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The friend is near
As we move through the second half of life, a new voice will often emerge, pouring out through our longing, our grief, our anger, and our disappointment. A figure from deep in the soul.To hear …
Trusting in our own path
It’s important to honor what it is that we’re really asking of ourselves when we engage a path of individuation and healing. It’s no small thing. When we make that sort of commitment – to …
Safety and companionship
Much of our wounding occurs prior to the acquisition of language and is not able to be healed through the questioning and reorganization of patterns of thinking. In other words, we can’t think our way …
The wisdom in not-knowing
There’s a fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives. And if we do not then this is clear evidence that something is wrong with us, that some cosmic error has …
Sensual, tactile, and attuned to the imaginal
We don’t live in a world that honors the purity and wisdom of grief, and the ways that love will take us apart, dissolving the dream of the way we thought it was all going …
Rebirth, reorganization, and the journey of individuation
The rebirth aspect of the death-rebirth cycle is preceded by a willingness to enter the unknown and to grieve there, to come into Earth and allow an old dream to die – me and my …
A sacred, linking thread
Beyond all the theories, approaches, and techniques, for me therapeutic companionship is a bearing witness to the life of another as they come to befriend themselves in a way that wasn’t possible until now.To excavate …
Tending to the wounds around love
Even if our primary interest is in spiritual transformation – enlightenment, awakening, union with the Divine, realizing our True Nature – there’s a direct link between spiritual, trans-personal realization and the path of personal healing.These …
Emissaries on the path
One way of imagining the path of embodied transformation is through the archetype of the wounded healer. Its invitation is to open to the possibility that our sensitivities and tenderness aren’t obstacles to our path, …