When the Center is Lost

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 

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.

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When the Center is Lost: Navigating the Healing Cycle in Times of Heartbreak, Uncertainty, and Grief

About Matt Licata

Matt Licata, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer based in Boulder, Colorado. Weaving together the wisdom and practices from somatic and depth psychologies, relational neuroscience and trauma studies, and the meditative discoveries of the mystics, yogis, and alchemists, he presents a contemporary path to embodied transformation and healing. 

He is author of A Healing Space: Befriending Yourself in Difficult Times (Sounds True, 2020), The Path is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You (Wandering Yogi Press, 2017), and the forthcoming The Path of the Wounded Healer: Embodied Spirituality and the Alchemy of the Heart.