Gold in the shadow
As long as we have a body, there will be shadow. The goal isn’t to “get rid of” the shadow or even to “fully integrate” it, as its emanations are ever-emerging by way of psychic …
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The Soul Alchemist: A New Online Journey
The Soul Alchemist: Trusting Your Inner ExperienceSave the Date: my new six-week live online course will launch in September. Additional information available soon.There has always been something unique about the autumn season for me, personally, a …
Pieces of the unlived life
Inside the body the lost ones travel, carrying our dissociated experience and unfelt feeling, taking up temporary residence in our muscles, cell tissue, organs, and breath.Scattered pieces of soul gather in our eyes, shoulders, and …
The alchemy of self and other
Usually when we speak about “others” in our lives, we are referring to those on the outside we are in relationship with, that we care about and matter to us. It’s important to attune to …
Holding the figures of the unlived life
At times, the ground will fall away from underneath us and we’re unable to find the center. It’s the death of an old dream, of me and my life and how I was so sure …
Solar and lunar cycles on the path of embodied transformation
In the cycle of death and rebirth – the archetypal basis of all healing and spiritual transformation – there are two aspects to that sequence, each being an equal portal on the journey of an …
Into the holding environment
Many are familiar with the term “holding environment” as elucidated by Winnicott, an evocative and poetic description of relational experience rooted in embodied, empathic attunement and right-brain to right-brain resonance. As the matrix of secure …
Matt’s Resting Your Nervous System self-guided online course
The current times we are living in are unprecedented in so many ways. In addition to emotional, psychological, and physical stress, many of us are experiencing uncertainty and inner restlessness, an existential or even spiritual …
The crystalline rooms within the center
To unveil the medicine inside the poison requires a shift in our interior center of gravity, into the Earth and the feeling body, with all our sensitivities by our side and available as doorway. In …
Circle and spiral – the cycles of grief
Tending to grief is the essence of the wounded healer. Proving a sanctuary and safe passage for its unfolding – in the body, the psyche, and the nervous system – requires that we fall to …