Holiday invocation – and 2023
Dear friends, I’m you all a joyous, safe, and reflective holiday time. Thank you for sharing your hearts and journeys with me this year – your suffering, your chaos, your courage, and your love. This time of …
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Voices of intergenerational trauma and trance
At times, the wisest, most skillful, and most compassionate action is to establish a boundary with another person. To stand up and assertively say No. To move in an empowered and swift way to protect …
In touch with our own unlived life
You don’t have to fix anyone’s problems. You don’t have to save them, heal them, or get them to take on your favorite metaphysical beliefs, theories, and techniques.Just be there with them so that they feel …
Free videos and webinars from Matt Licata
Dear friend, I hope this post finds you well. I wanted to let you know about six free videos you can watch below, on topics I write about and inevitably come up in my clinical …
All therapy is grief therapy
Sometimes I wonder if all therapy isn’t grief therapy when all is said and done. The original Greek therapeia referred to attending, caring for, sending breath into. Not “curing,” “fixing” or even “healing,” not these heavy clinical …
The heart knows
So many of us feel shame related to our trauma, wounding, and sensitivities, as if they’re evidence that we’ve failed, it’s our fault, that something’s wrong with us, and that we’re broken and beyond repair.Even …
How well did I love?
It is so easy to take for granted that tomorrow will come, that another opportunity will be given to bear witness to a sunset, take a walk in the forest, listen to the birds, or …
The breath is here
The contradictory feelings of hope and hopelessness, meaning and flatness, anxiety and rest. The shakiness and uncertainty in the belly. The tightness in the throat. The ache inside the heart. The joy that at times …
Private Sessions with Matt Licata
Dear friends, I’m writing to let you know that I’ve recently opened some private sessions via Zoom. There are only a limited number of spaces available and I hope to make more sessions available later …
A temple of refuge
If a child were to appear at your door: uncertain, afraid, and exhausted from a long journey…If he or she were anxious, in despair, full of rage, or confused…Would you refuse entry to the little …