Matt Licata: Intelligence Within the Wound
In the alchemical and tantric traditions, it is believed that our wounds contain information and if we eliminate the hurt places, we will lose contact [...]
Matt Licata: Wisdom in the Dark
When we engage in any work of depth, we will inevitably come up against a cultural bias toward the light, the upward, the clear, and [...]
Matt Licata: On Empathy
The word “empathy” is often used to describe a positive stance toward another, synonymous with “being nice.” But empathy is more radical than that. When [...]
Matt Licata: Sacred Return
In times of transition, there is a natural tendency is to rush to rebirth, quickly back into the known, in an urgent attempt to cure, [...]
Matt Licata: To Care For Myself in a New Way
The next time you notice that you’re attacking yourself, caught in a looping storyline about how you’ve failed, how you’ll never get it right, how [...]
Matt Licata: Transformation and Rest
When a painful thought or emotion arrives, do we accept it as it is and flood it with open, non-judgmental awareness? Or do we engage [...]
Matt Licata: Healing and Integration
There’s a lot of talk about 'integrating' and 'healing' traumatic experience which I believe has led to a lot of confusion. We have to re-envision [...]
Matt Licata: A Great Meeting
A great meeting is being assembled. Inside, the guests begin to arrive: the achy one, the confused one, the vulnerable one, and the one who [...]
Matt Licata: Resistance and Flow
There was an old dream that opening our hearts was always going to feel safe, that somehow love promised that. That allowing another to matter [...]
Matt Licata: Inside the Fairytale
It’s not so much that we need to (or even can) get out of the matrix, the developmental-cultural-historical lens through which we have come to [...]