Matt Licata, PhD: The Alchemy of Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Matt Licata is a practicing psychotherapist, a co-facilitator of a monthly online membership community called Befriending Yourself, and the author of The Path Is Everywhere. With Sounds True, he has written a new book titled, A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, 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. Finally, Tami and Matt discuss becoming an alchemist of your own life, discovering the inner gold that each of us has within, and befriending all of ourselves.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True. My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation. Take a
0:15.0	wiser and kinder world, the Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser
0:19.0	and kinder world by making transformational education widely available.
0:25.0	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools
0:30.0	such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.7	The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:55.4	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:59.8	please visit Sounds True Foundation.org.
1:05.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:11.0	Today my guest is Matt Lakata. Matt Lakata is a practicing psychotherapist whose work incorporates developmental psycho analytic and depth, as well as a contemplative, meditative, and mindfulness-based
1:27.3	approach to transformation and healing.
1:31.1	He hosts in-person retreats and co-facilitates a monthly online membership community called
1:38.4	befriending yourself. He's the author of the book The Path is Everywhere, and a new book which sounds true called A Healing Space,
1:49.0	Befriending ourselves in difficult times. I've got to tell you the truth. I know Matt Lakata very well.
1:57.2	I've known him for close to 30 years. For 20 of those years, he worked right beside me at Sounds True. We worked really closely together and quite honestly as time went on I thought he could read my mind.
2:14.0	We just had a way of working together.
2:17.0	And then he left, started working as a psychotherapist one-on-one with clients,
2:21.0	hosting retreats, and becoming quite a well-respected author in his own right,
2:28.3	and having him now as a guest on Insights at the edge. It's a great joy and really a kind of fruition, I think,
2:39.7	in our life together. Matt's new book, A Healing Space, is perfectly title because I have to say,
2:49.6	I always found him and find him to be a healing space and that's where we're going to start our
2:57.6	conversation.
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