Resonant Healing Mind/Body/Spirit

01/12/2023

Trauma occurs when our capacity to process emotional, psychic, and somatic experience is overwhelmed.

In addition to this shattering of information processing, there is the lived reality of the missing Friend, resulting in an unendurable sense of aloneness.

Not only do we experience a flooding of unbearable images, feelings, and sensations, but at some basic level we’re alone with all that.

In my experience, it is this aloneness, in the end, that is so devastating to us as sensitive, relational human beings, with a nervous system that has been crafted for companionship.

As an act of mercy and compassion, we make the journey inside the neural network holding our unmetabolized shame, rage, terror, and grief. It is there where we will find the frozen, confused, and scared one who has become stuck in the time machine of trauma and lost in the disorganizing fields of implicit memory.

To behold the lost orphans of psyche and soma and listen, hold, feed, surround, and love them, so that they feel felt and understood, and more than anything help them to know that they are safe now, perhaps for the first time ever.

To bear witness to their untold story as it unfolds across verbal, somatic, and autonomic narratives:

“Yes, I hear you, I see you, I want to know you, hold you, care for you, listen to you. I will not forget you. I will not forsake you. You are allowed to be. You are no longer alone. It is okay now. You are safe. Even if you continue to shatter, I will collect the pieces within a holy vase.”

It is a reparative neural experience that unveils that sacred soothing, where the unmetabolized images, feelings, and sensations are taken into the sanctuary and placed on the altar in front of us. This holding allows the secret nutrients to be disclosed and for the scattered pieces to return to their rightful place within the larger ecology of being.

While understanding and insight can be supportive, it is right-brain immersion in fields of safety which fosters cellular restructuring.

The psyche will reassemble when it feels safe.

The body will reorganize when it feels safe.

Photo by Sarah Richter

12/08/2022

‘Tis the season of healing! Share the light with those you love… Gifts certificates available for 1/2 off when you get a massage for you! You are worthy! 💗🙏🏽 Send me a message to schedule! 🙏🏽💗

11/18/2022

Warmth. Nourishing touch. Slowing down. Spaciousness.
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As the temperature drops, the light of the days grows shorter, and the pressure of the season intensifies, re-member: it is loving to take time for healing, reflection, and softening into the moment.
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Too much hustle, too much worry, too much stress serves no one.
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Let me help you return to yourself, nourish your soul, and rejuvenate as we dive deeper into the darkness of the season. Private message me to schedule for you or a loved one. Massage•Cranialsacral•
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You are worthy. 💗🙏🏽🕯✨🕯🙏🏽💗

11/12/2022

Scheduling appointments for next week! Send me a dm or text me to schedule. 💗🙏🏽 You are worthy! 🙏🏽💗

09/01/2022

You don't have to fix anyone's problems. You don’t have to save them, heal them, or get them to take on your favorite metaphysical beliefs, theories, and techniques.

Just be there with them so that they feel felt and understood. Bear witness to their own organic wisdom as it recalibrates, reorganizes, and emerges.

Listen. Not only to their verbal narrative but to the somatic story as well. To the secret, sensitive language emerging from their heart.

Bracket your beliefs and systems for a few moments. Attune. With the poetic beauty and power of your mirror neuron system, enter into the miracle we-space with them, so that they feel felt.

I'm with you. I'm here. I feel you. I understand you. Be midwife as a new story is woven with new cloth, one that is majestic enough to contain the immensity that they are. One that is updated in real-time, integrated, spacious, flexible, translucent, and kind.

Extend to them a soothed nervous system, a sanctuary of presence, a field of permission where they can go through their experience without any pressure to heal or to meet some hidden agenda in order for you to stay close. Resist the temptation to “teach” them. But instead, “reach” them, finally, by way of the circuitry of empathic immersion.

It's going to be difficult to do this if we are out of touch with our own unlived life – with the unmet grief, the unheld sadness, the unmetabolized rage. If we have disavowed these visitors – including through our endless metaphysical theories and beliefs: it will just be too unsafe to enter the vessel with eyes and heart open.

Of course the mind has such a hard time with this. It just can't believe it. What about my theories and techniques and spiritual beliefs and all of it? I must convey it all and show them.

But the body knows. The heart knows. The holy nervous system knows.

The Other – whether outside us or taking internal form – is not in need of new information, theories, or spiritual beliefs, but needs and wants and longs for you… your nakedness, your tenderness, your raw unfiltered being, your love. https://mattlicataphd.com/

06/20/2022

I will be hosting an online Heart Centered Talking Circle on Sunday at 1pm! This is the first online Heart Centered Talking Circle I have hosted. The in-person circles have been transformative medicine, and I look forward to seeing how these online events impact community. Sign up soon because space is limited. You are worthy! 💖🙏🏽https://fb.me/e/24OV8hdEk

06/17/2022

Infinite planes of consciousness await your exploration. Softening into a presence of expansion gives healing the space to manifest.
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Scheduling appointments for next week… massage, Cranialsacral, and shamanic healing sessions. Resonant Healing Mind/Body/Spirit. DM me to schedule. You are worthy. 🌀
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06/08/2022

Raising the vibration… taking healing to another level…

Scheduling appointments for massage, Cranialsacral, and shamanic healing sessions.✨🙏🏽💗🙏🏽✨

Direct message me to schedule.

Re-member! You are love! You are worthy.

06/01/2022

“There is a world behind this world. The old cultures used to be in constant conversation with it through the sacred practices of storytelling, dreaming, ceremony, and song. They invited the Otherworld to visit them, to transmit its wisdom to them, so that they might be guided by an ancient momentum. But as we succumbed to the spell of rationalism, the living bridge between the worlds fell into disrepair. As fewer made the journey ‘back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,’ we forgot how to find the Otherworld.”- Toko-pa Turner (from the Book “Belonging”)
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Have you forgotten how to find the Otherworld? Each holy now is an invitation to return to that sacred place. I can help with that journey.
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I have appointments available for massage, craniosacral sessions, shamanic healing sessions, and coaching. I am also beginning to integrate stones into my sessions. Private message me if you are interested in scheduling a session.
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As you heal yourself, you allow more light in, and are able to share that light with others. This is how the healing of the world begins… within… You are worthy. 💗✨🙏🏽✨💗

04/01/2022

Sometimes you don’t realize how much stress you’ve been under until you take time to nourish yourself with peace.
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There is a healing that comes in stillness… in rest… in relaxation.
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A healing that does not originate from chemical medicines… a healing that originates from returning to your essence and releasing all else.
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A healing that generates from softening into this present moment.
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Returning to center, softening into now we have the opportunity to reflect on what is serving us, and what is depleting us…what raises our vibration, and what detracts from the quality of our life.
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From this neutral place we can begin to make healthier decisions about what nourishes us, and choose more of that.
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If you are needing a reset, deep relaxation…a return to the present…healing… my hands are ready to serve and my heart is available to hold space.
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It feels good to be in the office more regularly again. If you would like to schedule an appointment dm me. You are worthy. 💗🙏🏽

12/03/2021

Needing healing?

Holding sacred space is an honor. This time of year you may be experiencing extra stress and pressure. Love yourself by giving yourself the time and space to unwind and return to center.

Deep belly breath in. Hold. Exhale as slowly as you can visualizing any tension washing down your body and into Earth. This is your birthright. You are worthy of peace.

Massage, craniosacral, and shamanic sessions available. Gift certificates available with special deals for the holidays! Private message me for details. 💗🙏🏽

12/03/2021

Needing healing?

Holding sacred space is an honor. This time of year you may be experiencing extra stress and pressure. Love yourself by giving yourself the time and space to unwind and return to center.

Deep belly breath in. Hold. Exhale as slowly as you can visualizing any tension washing down your body and into Earth. This is your birthright. You are worthy of peace.

Massage, craniosacral, and shamanic sessions available. Gift certificates available with special deals for the holidays! Private message me for details. 💗🙏🏽

05/27/2020

05/05/2020

This is a virtual summit that comes with 6 weeks of relationship curriculum, based on the assigned relationship teacher that week! If you are wanting to hone your relationship skills, check this out!!!

04/01/2020

In this short video I guide you through some self-touch techniques to help alleviate stress, muscle tension, and release those feel good hormones. Many of us are probably touch deprived right now, but your body deserves to be cared for. Don't be afraid to give yourself that love. You are worthy!

02/25/2020

Once, I ran from fear
so fear controlled me.
Until I learned to hold fear like a newborn.
Listen to it, but not give in.
Honour it, but not worship it.
Fear could not stop me anymore.
I walked with courage into the storm.
I still have fear,
but it does not have me.

Once, I was ashamed of who I was.
I invited shame into my heart.
I let it burn.
It told me, "I am only trying
to protect your vulnerability".
I thanked shame dearly,
and stepped into life anyway,
unashamed, with shame as a lover.

Once, I had great sadness
buried deep inside.
I invited it to come out and play.
I wept oceans. My tear ducts ran dry.
And I found joy right there.
Right at the core of my sorrow.
It was heartbreak that taught me how to love.

Once, I had anxiety.
A mind that wouldn't stop.
Thoughts that wouldn't be silent.
So I stopped trying to silence them.
And I dropped out of the mind,
and into the Earth.
Into the mud.
Where I was held strong
like a tree, unshakeable, safe.

Once, anger burned in the depths.
I called anger into the light of myself.
I felt its shocking power.
I let my heart pound and my blood boil.
Listened to it, finally.
And it screamed, "Respect yourself fiercely now!".
"Speak your truth with passion!".
"Say no when you mean no!".
"Walk your path with courage!".
"Let no one speak for you!"
Anger became an honest friend.
A truthful guide.
A beautiful wild child.

Once, loneliness cut deep.
I tried to distract and numb myself.
Ran to people and places and things.
Even pretended I was "happy".
But soon I could not run anymore.
And I tumbled into the heart of loneliness.
And I died and was reborn
into an exquisite solitude and stillness.
That connected me to all things.
So I was not lonely, but alone with All Life.
My heart One with all other hearts.

Once, I ran from difficult feelings.
Now, they are my advisors, confidants, friends,
and they all have a home in me,
and they all belong and have dignity.
I am sensitive, soft, fragile,
my arms wrapped around all my inner children.
And in my sensitivity, power.
In my fragility, an unshakeable Presence.

In the depths of my wounds,
in what I had named “darkness”,
I found a blazing Light
that guides me now in battle.

I became a warrior
when I turned towards myself.

And started listening.

- Jeff Foster