Huge fires burn, the Oceans fill with plastic, modern culture continues to extinguish life on Earth, our people die, our relationships fracture, it is too hot where I am sitting. There is a lot to feel fear about. There is a lot to feel sad about. There is a lot to feel angry about.

There are trillions of beings, including humans, on the planet and right outside your door to connect with. If you look outside your dwelling, you will see life, living as if life is worth living. There is a lot to feel joy about.

Connection with others can be shallow if you do not know how to feel, how to express your feelings, or what our feelings and emotions are for. The depths you can reach are limited if you have no processes for emotional/trauma healing. There are known ways to heal. And, they require more than you might think. It is work, and perhaps unlike a type you've ever done before. It is the type of work that involves consciously undoing your survival strategies, your "personality," your box, who you think you are and are not.

Group photo from last Rage Space, one person not pictured.

I will be holding two upcoming group spaces for you to embark on or continue your journey. The journey is not about healing for its own sake, and it is not just for you. It is a journey to continuously uncover what your particular life is really for. When you know what you are here for, you can help others to unfold into what they are. Here is me performing Geneen Marie Haugen's, The Return, about this, with the drum:

Upcoming group spaces:

A Space for Rage: Introduction to Your Conscious Anger, Friday June 23rd at Firefly Gathering in Asheville, North Carolina

Life is outside the Drama Triangle: how to really be with yourself and others, Saturday June 24th at Firefly Gathering in Asheville, North Carolina

Click the links above to learn more about these spaces. I've just posted a short video of my own big Rage, here, so you see what it looks like. This is a part of a practice that I do, derived from the 333 Initiation in Possibility Management. This video is unrehearsed, and it is not acting. I am consciously feeling and expressing the Rage inside of me. Your big Rage is in you, too. Part of Rage Space is to feel your anger consciously, to whatever level you are currently capable of, for no reason, in a safe space where you will not hurt yourself or anyone else. Your anger, and other feelings, can only be 100% big. When you experience high percentages of your anger, you see that you are bigger than your anger, and that you are OK if you feel it. Your anger has energy and information for you. If you can't make it to a space soon, lie down on your bed, and let your anger speak. You can also do this with your joy and fear and sadness. If you want support with this, reach out to me at site@matthewcolombo.com.

And, I offer Clarity Coaching and Emotional Healing for individuals and couples/partners at all times.

I am on fire about bringing my work to people in relationships and in groups (communities, cooperative working environments, groups of all kinds). Is your relationship on the brink of collapse, are you hiding what's really going on for you with your partner, are you finding it impossible to hear and be heard? Do you have the sense that your group is so fragile that the slightest wind will blow it all down? Are you walking on eggshells around people, trying not to "upset" them? I am in, and have been in, such groups and relationships. I've brought jewels of learning from these experiences. Reach out to me at site@matthewcolombo.com if you want to bring this work to your people.

I've started bringing feelings work to kids, holding space for them to feel their feelings, say them, draw them, dance them, act them. I've been reckoning with my own insanity in not providing feelings tools and more intentional space to the kids that I work with 3 days a week. How could I do this after not going through emotional healing and trauma healing processes for the past 2 years, feeling the pain of not having space held for my feelings as a child? I can get caught in the story, "I don't know how." That story, plus the clear necessity for the thing "I don't know how" can be a wake up call for me to do the thing: to make messes, and clean them up. The absence of the space does more damage than an imperfect space. Here is some of the work from that space:

Much more to come, and I hope to see you and hear from you soon,

Matthew