FREE ONLINE GATHERING WITH MATT LICATA
WHEN THE CENTER IS LOST: NAVIGATING THE HEALING CYCLE IN TIMES OF HEARTBREAK, UNCERTAINTY, AND GRIEF
Dear friends, I'll be having a free online gathering on Wednesday, April 23, at 9am US Pacific Time/ 5pm in London - When the Center is Lost: Navigating the Healing Cycle in Times of Heartbreak, Uncertainty, and Grief.
You can register here at no cost here - https://mattlicataphd.com/when-the-center-is-lost/.
It’s no secret we’re living in times of profound transition and uncertainty. There’s a lot of restlessness, stress, and groundlessness in the collective, which as open, sensitive relational beings has a way of becoming mirrored within our own bodies, hearts, and souls. It’s a lot to hold.
The path of the heart is not only one of transcendence – ascending and rising above – but also one of descent: into underworld, earth, and shadow, and into relationship with the figures who we find there. Companions on the night sea journey.
These pieces of psyche and soma – personal, collective, cosmic – have something to share with us, that longs to be incarnated, indwelled, and embodied in this time, an element of the mystery that has been forgotten in a world that has (understandably) grown weary.
The lunar way isn’t as clear as its heroic or solar counterpart. It is unclothed: of fixed concept, a precise map, and knowing how it’s all going to turn out. It has a way not of confirming but of dismantling the (spiritual) persona. That disassembling has a way of burning, aching, and also of tenderizing us, at times to our very core.
Inside the temple are the holy images of our broken dreams, disappointments, hopes, and fears – the entirety of our unlived life; the grief of the ancestors, the lamentation of the earth, and the sensitivities of the soma. Along with lost joy, wonder, beauty, and awe.
Here, in the center, the wound is weeping; it is opened and no longer covered over. This is what allows the tincture to enter. In this we may discover that perhaps the heart’s deepest longing isn’t so much to be mended, but permitted to disclose its essence, which reveals a doorway into compassion, aliveness, tenderness, grace.
During our time together, we’ll explore:
- The unique (but difficult) opportunity for soulwork in times of liminality and transition
- How the deep longing in our hearts and aching in our bodies are potential doorways of entry into the Self
- The importance of spending time each day resting the nervous system and attuning to the feeling body
- How it’s not possible to always feel grounded and regulated – and why that’s okay
- A short practice we can do each day to attune to the Center
I look forward to spending some time with everyone on the 23rd
