Discover Why You’re Not Your Story

We all tend to get stuck in stories about our lives that inhibit us from following the path of our most authentic selves.

If you sense that something is holding you back from rising to your full potential and creating your most honest and inspired life, it may be time to release old myths, interrupt unhelpful patterns, and update your personal story…

… so you can awaken to who you really are, extricate yourself from the pressure of having to be someone you’re not, and pursue your true calling.

According to Mark Matousek, award-winning memoirist, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on transformative writing for personal, professional, and spiritual development…

… this requires entering the sanctuary of truth — the messy, human, beautiful truth — and untangling the knots of deeply programmed, outdated beliefs.

During this free online spiritual growth workshop, he’ll lead you through a 3-step practice to liberate yourself from false narratives so you can begin reshaping your identity and your life.

Why Attend “Discover Why You’re Not Your Story”

His approach involves a guided but private journaling practice as a gateway to self-liberation — giving you access to the highest truth and vision for yourself and your life.

Although Mark’s medium is writing, you don’t need any writing skill whatsoever for this practice to work. It’s NOT about using beautifully expressive words, good grammar, syntax, or elegant prose.

It’s a spiritual practice designed to unveil that part of yourself who is the Witness, who holds the ability to observe your story clearly so you can see how you’ve been programmed.

It helps you find the real you within and channel a unique type of awareness and intelligence that fuels the creative fire in your life so you can take practical steps to accomplish your deepest desires.

In this hour-long self-exploratory workshop, you’ll:

• Recognize that your story does not define you, freeing you up to question limiting and destructive narratives that block you from reaching optimal wellbeing and achieving your full potential
• Experience a 3-step journaling process from Mark’s Writing to Awaken method that allows you to see how the labels you use to define yourself were created — and consider ways to liberate yourself by reframing your story
• Discover that when you separate yourself from inherited, outdated myths from your family and culture, your personal truth can emerge and liberate your autonomy
• Realize how memories, assumptions, and expectations that have formed the framework of your personal story are not yours, but mental conditioning that’s shaped your tendencies and self-perception — an understanding that’s crucial to self-reinvention
• Start to reveal your gifts and interrupt self-defeating patterns
• Understand that spiritual awakening depends on liberation from the stories you’ve told yourself about yourself — enabling you to recognize your authentic, spiritual nature that’s already free, whole, and perfect

About Your Teacher – Mark Matousek

Mark Matousek is the author of two acclaimed memoirs, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story (an international bestseller) and The Boy He Left Behind: A Man’s Search For His Lost Father. His other books include When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living… Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life… and Writing to Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation & Self-Discovery.

A former editor at Interview magazine, he’s a featured blogger for PsychologyToday.com and HuffPost, and has contributed to numerous publications, including The New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine (contributing editor), Harper’s Bazaar, Yoga Journal, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and The Saturday Evening Post. His essays have appeared in many anthologies, including Voice of the New Millenium, Wrestling With the Angel, and A Memory, A Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer, among others.

A popular speaker and teacher, Mark offers courses in creativity and spiritual growth in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe, based on his book, Writing to Awaken. He’s on the faculty of the Esalen Institute, 1440 Multiversity, the New York Open Center, The Garrison Institute, Omega, Kripalu, Mindvalley, and other institutions of higher learning. He’s the founder of The Seekers Forum, a global online community focused on nonsectarian dialogue and exploration, and the president of Mark Matousek Media, a digital publishing company that promotes creative and spiritual excellence through online learning.

As a founding member of V-Men (with V, formerly known as Eve Ensler), an organization devoted to ending violence against women and girls, he curates the V-Men essay series, an ongoing anthology featuring personal writing by men on the subject of violence against women.

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