#21 | The Roam and the Rapture - Michael Gay (Sacred Sons)
“The healing of trauma is the capacity to be in relationship to all parts of ourselves.”
In today’s episode, I speak with Michael Gay, a therapist in private practice based in Boulder, Colorado. Michael has worked in the field of counseling for the last 14 years as a guide, therapist, and trainer. He specializes in work with depression, trauma, PTSD, grief, and families.
I first encountered Michael at the Sacred Sons Convergence last October in San Diego California, where he led the men in a group process of healing through attunement to stuck energy, ultimately unlocking the deep alchemy of transformation.
In our conversion today, we touch upon his own adolescence and grappling with the big questions of life, how he encountered the mythopoetic men’s movement and his time with Robert Bly, how emotions like anger can be powerful tools for healing, and why a culture of safety is fundamentally about coming back into relationship, with ourselves and with each other.
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SHOW NOTES
Encountering Michael at Sacred Sons
Life is intense and it needs the space to move
The soul wakes up in adolescence
Wrestling with the big questions
Finding Iron John & mythopoetic men’s movement
The rapture of meeting Robert Bly and Robert Moore
The difference between understanding and participation
The power of wilderness therapy
Experience with the Mankind Project
Understanding trauma as stuck energy
Importance of cultural ways of moving energy
Fear of the savage man versus the wild man
Anger is a misused tool
What creates safety is relationship
Catharsis is a step
Create subcultures to support experiential practice
Finding a container of meaning
Heading into the cocoon
Limit and the liminal
The Goddess of Limit and what’s worth not doing
Between Intellect and Intelligence
