Tending grief and the path of the wounded healer
Tending to grief is the essence of the wounded healer. Providing sanctuary and safe passage for its unfolding – in the body and in the imagination – requires that come to the ground, touch the …
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The parting of the veil
So much of our psychological wounding is relational and encoded around love.While understanding by way of left-brain processing can be helpful and supportive, it is right-brain immersion in fields of safety which fosters reorganization.The body …
A vessel in which love is able to find its way here
Because our deepest wounding, which is always a wounding around love, emerges relationally, it will be most effectively tended, repaired, and healed within a relational field. We are relational beings and all healing is relational …
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 …
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 …