{"id":8513,"date":"2020-11-17T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=8513"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:22:09","slug":"matt-licata-phd-the-alchemy-of-befriending-ourselves-in-difficult-times","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/matt-licata-phd-the-alchemy-of-befriending-ourselves-in-difficult-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Licata, PhD: The Alchemy of Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matt Licata is a practicing psychotherapist, a co-facilitator of a monthly online membership community called Befriending Yourself, and the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Path Is Everywhere. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Sounds True, he has written a new book titled, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tami Simon speaks with Matt about what it is to be a healing space, that is to hold space for ourselves and others, as well as how we can feel held by something greater than ourselves during challenging experiences. They also explore our inner wounds and self-abandonment, spiritual bypassing and the ways in which many practices allow us to gloss over the real healing needed, and how coming into an embodied state can open us to greater inner depths. 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