A wild grace
There are times when even our most precious realizations will fall apart and dissolve in front of our eyes. What was so clear only days ago is no longer available, valid, or able to contain …
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The weeping of the wound
Healing can’t just be conceptual. It’s not a matter of thinking differently, more “positively,” or even more “spiritually” – orbiting around the wound with our favorite metaphysical beliefs, ideas, and fantasies.It’s not clear thinking, insight, …
Into the sacred world
It’s essential to take time each day to slow down, rest our nervous systems, feel our hearts, listen to our bodies, and allow the unconscious a chance to speak to us. Otherwise, the density of …
Matt’s book – A Healing Space
Dear friends, my most recent book, A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times, is available through Sounds True, Amazon, and other online retailers. Please support your local independent bookseller whenever possible! At some point …
Spring Renewal, Rebirth, and the Purifying Activity of Grief
Dear friend, I hope this note finds you well and that you’re enjoying spring and the re-emergence of the light. I’m writing to you from Finland where the birds are sharing a new song and the …
Slow and safe
We’ve all been given experience that we’ve been unable to process consciously. This is one of the basic characteristics of trauma, unendurable emotional pain that hasn’t been able to find a relational home in which …
Late entry to Matt’s 2023 Spirituality & Healing Group and Community
Dear friend, I’ve been receiving some questions about whether it’s still possible to join the new 2023 Spirituality & Healing online group and community that started on February 2. We have decided to re-open enrollment up …
To live once again
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 …
Human beings having a spiritual experience
Even if our primary interest is in spiritual transformation, we can’t separate out our unresolved relational trauma, attachment wounding, and narcissistic injury we may have experienced. There just isn’t a bright line separating these things. …
Matt’s Spirituality & Healing group closing enrollment on Thursday
Dear friend, Just a quick reminder that my new 2023 Spirituality & Healing group will be starting on Thursday with our first live session if you’d like to join us. → Click here to join our …