A Healing Space... reflections on love, meaning, and the aliveness of immediate experience

This space is devoted to the path of embodied healing and spiritual transformation. Drawing from psychotherapy, contemplative practice, and the wisdom of the body, these reflections invite us into a deeper relationship with ourselves and the mystery of being alive.

Monday, August 17, 2026

Regulation and being disturbed on the healing path

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Sometimes life comes not to soothe us, but to overturn the world we have made. Something arrives—death, a new lover, shattering grief, the e...

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Grief is the midwife of new life

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At times, we are asked to bear witness to a shattering. To the death of an old dream - me and my life and the way it was all supposed to tur...

Monday, July 20, 2026

The rich soil of grief

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There are times when life does not ask us to rise, heal, transcend, or become better versions of ourselves. It asks something far more diffi...

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Who is Holding Whom?

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Space is too wild, undomesticated, and vast to be "held." The image of “holding” is an evocative one that has given rise to the id...

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

What we lose on the healing and awakening path

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Much is said these days about healing and spiritual transformation, and the deep joy, clarity, and peace that are the promised fruits of the...

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Matt Licata: I'm a psychotherapist, writer, teacher, and author of A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times (Sounds True, 2020) and The Path is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You (Wandering Yogi Press, 2017). To learn more about me and my work, please visit http://www.mattlicataphd.com. For free videos and information about my online courses, please visit linktr.ee/MattLicata.

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