How to Relate to Unwanted Feelings

Tami Simon, Founder of Sounds True, in her conversation with Dr. Matt Licata who is the author of the book, “A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times.”

TS: You write, “We can hold our experience while allowing ourselves to be held by something greater than ourselves,” and I wanted

to understand more about that. How can we be held by something greater as we hold what’s difficult in our own experience? …

ML: Yes, … this is where there’s that transition line between psychological or conventional therapeutic work and what we might call a more spiritual … dimension; that there’s all sorts of things we can do to train ourselves to be able to sit with very difficult experience.