The Winter Passage:A Season of Soul Descent and Renewal A 3-Month Mentorship | Begins November 6 Learn More → mattlicataphd.com/spirituality-healing As the outer world cools and darkens, a corresponding movement begins within us. The energies that once flowed outward turn toward their roots. The soul, like the trees, draws its life inward—to rest, digest, and remember. This turning inward is not a collapse or regression. It is a sacred rhythm, an alchemical invitation. What was once exiled—old feelings, forgotten images, unfinished gestures—returns to be felt again, not to overwhelm us but to re-enter the great conversation of the psyche. In our culture of constant productivity and light, we often forget that descent is an equal partner to awakening. We speak easily of transformation, yet true transformation requires contact: with the body, with feeling, with the unlived life. The Winter Passage is a three-month immersion designed to honor this season of descent. Through trauma-informed practice, somatic attunement, and a contemplative spirituality rooted in the living body, we’ll explore how to meet experience directly—without pathologizing or rushing it to resolution. Together we’ll slow down enough to listen: to the places in us that have not yet been welcomed,to the subtle intelligence of the nervous system,to the imaginal figures and archetypal patterns seeking expression,and to the quiet presence that holds it all.Our time together will not be so much a matter of engaging with the (seemingly endless) project of self-improvement, but an invitation into soul remembrance—the gentle art of returning to what is most real. If you feel the call to enter the winter months with others who value depth, presence, and genuine transformation, I invite you to join us for The Winter Passage. Learn More → mattlicataphd.com/spirituality-healing