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Have you struggled to release or heal some of your darkest corners of shame, pain or grief? Have you felt these areas are holding you back from living life to its fullest?
The good news is that your wounds can become the source of your greatest gifts. Places where you have been broken or faced trauma or loss can become wellsprings of strength, resilience and wisdom — after you have fully integrated them.
Through a unique writing process designed by leading author and teacher Mark Matousek — and with enough awareness, courage and love, you can find the blessings in your pain and access the power trapped inside your most defended parts.
This writing process becomes a curriculum in self-realization.
It opens a door to spiritual awakening, making you a conduit for grace, healing and transformation.
In the immortal lyrics of Leonard Cohen, “Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. It’s where the light gets in.”
Most of us have areas of unresolved wounding or closely guarded secrets, partially because it can feel unsafe to air the full messiness of our emotions. This is a prerequisite, though, to awakening and to discovering the blessings within our wounds.
When we stuff our feelings and truths down deep, we can poison the rest of our lives and act out in unconscious, addictive or sabotaging ways. In the recovery community, there is a saying that “you are only as sick as your secrets.” Bringing your secrets and authentic truths to the surface is a key to wellbeing and reaching our full potential.
If you haven’t experienced wounding in dramatic ways from devastating loss or pain, you may think that there are those who are wounded — and then there is you. But the truth is we all have wounds. They are part of the human condition. And they can manifest in many ways — your insecurities, your limiting beliefs, your challenged relationships or issues with anxiety and depression.
Not only do we all have wounds, but we also have aspects to our identities that are lived out in the shadow. And yet, these forbidden parts contain essential elements of our true nature. They hold wisdom, energy, creativity and power — and need to be brought into the light so we can be free and whole. Actors often prefer to play dark, complex or tortured characters because there is more juice, aliveness and liberation that comes when they give these shadow parts a voice.
But how do you make this journey into your personal wounds, secrets and shadows safe? And how do you not get stuck in old stories or loops but genuinely free yourself?
A practice of deep, transformative writing is one of THE most powerful ways to release and transform your past and find the blessings in what you once saw as burdens.
There is powerful science demonstrating that, for instance, when people write about the loss of a job, they get rehired FAR faster. The same is true of divorces, deaths and many other areas of wounding.
The practice of writing is also very safe. Even safer than sharing with a trusted friend or therapist. It allows you to express in voices that might otherwise be taboo. You can vent. You can rage. You can feel self-pity. You can allow yourself the full spectrum in a space of total confidentiality.
And then, after the raw, naked truth is on the page or screen, you will start to feel freer. Lighter. More whole. More capable of seeing the treasure that was held in the tragedies. More aware of your deeper insights and a higher vantage point on your life.
However, this journey is not simple or easy to take. Defenses and fears come up. Resistance and distractions get in the way. Much of your conscious identity has been created to protect yourself from the broken and hurt places. Thus, it is important to enter into a transformational practice of writing that is guided and supported by a teacher and a community of fellow explorers who can — in their own vulnerability and compassion — give permission for you to do the same.
In Writing to Heal, you have an unprecedented opportunity to enter into an engaged and supportive, 9-month journey to birth a more healed and whole version of yourself, one in which you have alchemically transformed your darker places into gold.
What You’ll Discover in These 9 Months
In this 9-month transformational intensive, Mark will guide you through the fundamental spiritual skills and competencies that you’ll need to successfully navigate your past experiences and mine them for your journey of healing through writing — which will, in turn, transform the quality of your life.
Each weekly, LIVE contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to sustain your writing throughout the course and beyond.
Course sessions are on Thursdays at 12:00pm Pacific.
Module 1: Touching the Wound
(July 7, 14 & 21)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Tell the truth about your pain
- Isolate the source of suffering and its effects on your life
- Free the voice of emotion
- Tend to your particular pain
- Understand the value of limitations
Module 2: Exposing the Shadow
(August 4, 11 & 18)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Overcome shame towards your shadow
- Reflect on parts of yourself you deny
- Stop hiding behind your pain
- Become intimate with your own damage
- Cull the shadow’s hidden treasures
Module 3: Realizing the Gift
(September 1, 8 & 15)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Use the gift as a tool for self-healing
- Enter the “fruitful darkness”
- Turn the gift toward self-realization
- Grasp the power of paradox
- Change your wounding story
Module 4: Facing Resistance
(October 6, 13 & 20)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Confront your adversaries as difficult friends, not strangers
- Tap the inverted power of anger
- Weaken fear through open awareness
- Stop resisting adversity
- Practice comfort in moments of discomfort
Module 5: Piercing the Myth
(November 3, 10 & 17)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- See where your story diverges from reality
- Discern in what ways you are blind to yourself
- Step outside of the fiction you’re telling
- Reinvent this fiction over time
- Gain authenticity and wellbeing
Module 6: Transforming Pain
(December 1, 8 & 15)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Become comfortable with life’s messes
- Connect vulnerability with strength
- Transform pain from suffering to wisdom
- Be tender with your wounded parts
- Accept the trauma of everyday life
Module 7: Seeing With New Eyes
(January 5, 12 & 19)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Harvest the gifts of survivorship
- Use limitation as a strength
- Establish a beginner’s mind practice
- Savor the ever expanding view of what is possible
- Dwell in gratitude each day
Module 8: Stabilizing the View
(February 2, 9 & 16)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Stabilize emotion using mindfulness
- Practice mindfulness off the meditation cushion
- Catch yourself when old patterns appear
- Use the body as a self-tuning instrument
- Practice openness to the view
Module 9: Expanding the Circle
(March 2, 9 & 16)
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In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Use the wound as medicine
- Put that medicine to the service of love
- Bless the gift of the wound
- Use pain as a bridge for connecting to others
- Know yourself, finally, as unharmed
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