Curing is for gods and doctors, healing is a choice.

The healing process is a return to wholeness, a reconnection to your integral nature. For healing to happen, you must be willing to release your suffering – including the narratives that bind you to the past. In this seven-week online writing course, Mark will guide you through an integrative healing process aimed at quickening the healing process in key areas of your life. Using his Writing to Awaken method, you’ll explore knots of internal resistance that perpetuate suffering, preventing you from thriving and fully enjoying your blessed existence.

"To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way."

“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.” ~ Stephen Levine

EXPERT GUIDANCE

Benefit from Mark’s wisdom and decades of experience empowering others to transform their lives.

FLEXIBLE LEARNING

Engage with the material at your own pace, from the comfort of your home.

PROVEN METHOD

Mark’s Writing to Awaken method of self-inquiry has helped countless people worldwide achieve their creative and personal goals.

Among the Things You'll Explore

Clinging and Surrender

Explore the roots of clinging in your life and how they interfere with healing your mind and spirit. Examine your resistance to surrender, a priceless tool for liberating yourself from  unnecessary attachment.

Grief and Regret

Examine the dynamics of grief and the transformative power of darkness. Explore the regrets in your life, what they teach you, and how they can the gratitude for what you have.

Longing, Wonder, and Love

Investigate the power of longing and wonder as driving forces to healing, awakening, and a return to the sacred.  Explore the legacy of love in your life, obstacles to self-love, and what remains to be healed.

"An incredibly positive transformative program."

"I feel lighter and brighter about myself and life and am not taking myself or others quite as seriously as before. This has translated into a wonderful new sense of freedom, acceptance and more creative juices flowing in my writing and daily life. Overall, an incredibly positive transformative program." ~ Anne, USA

This course will help you to understand:

~ The ways in which craving and clinging create suffering in your life ~ Why surrender is essential to living wisely, with resilience ~ The value of grief as an adjunct to healing, and how to work with grieving ~ Why regrets are inevitable and what they have to teach you   ~ How longing opens the heart to mystery ~ Why wonder is mandatory for wholeness and a sense of the sacred ~ How love heals fragmentation and separation Who this course is designed for: ~ Seekers on the path of self-knowledge, exploration, and healing ~ Memoir writers who wish to bring increased self-awareness to what they create ~ Journal writers who want to deepen their self-inquiry practice ~ Therapists who use expressive writing and/or share it with their patients ~ Caregivers who work with people in need but need more care for themselves

Meet Your Guide, Mark Matousek

Mark Matousek is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on transformative writing for personal, professional, and spiritual development. He is the founder of TheSeekersForum.com, an online community for writing and self-inquiry, as well as the author of eight books including How Emerson Can Change Your Life: Lessons From an American Stoic, Writing To Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story,  When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living, and Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life.

Healing is always possible, even when physical curing is not.

The possibility of returning to wholeness is within your reach when you take the time to inquire within. The practice of self-inquiry helps clear away obsolete beliefs, biases, fears, expectations, regrets, grievances, illusions, and attachments that keep you stuck in old ways of being, and which prevent you from savoring the beauty – and mystery – of the present moment.

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Course Curriculum

7 Chapters · 10 Lessons

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      Writing to Awaken Instructional Video

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      Writing to Awaken Guidelines

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      Healing Into Life and Death Overview

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      Lesson One: Clinging

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      Lesson Two: Surrender

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      Lesson Three: Grief

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      Lesson Four: Regret

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      Lesson Five: Longing

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      Lesson Six: Wonder

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      Lesson Seven: Love