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David Sutcliffe

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"I need that" is the most common response I get when I tell people about my work. Because everyone knows they have feelings they hold back —— and talking about them isn't enough. So when I ⁣describe the physicality that allows people to access their repressed emotions, almost everyone immediately gets it. This wasn't the case 20 years ago when I started. But now somatic therapy has gone mainstream, and most people understand that to release ourselves from the grip of our emotions we must be...

Gentlemen, Emotional Mastery for Men starts tomorrow—and something unusual happened. I only have a few guys signed up. I usually get 15-20. (Not sure if it's the economy or my marketing sucks. 🤔) But that means the guys who join now are going to get what is basically 1:1 level attention from me inside a small, intimate group. Normally, my 12-week, small group cohorts are $4,000. For this training, it’s only $997. If you’ve been watching and waiting from the sidelines, telling yourself you’ll...

Hey All, I've been seeing a lot of criticism about “emotional release” and “cathartic experience” therapies. It goes something like this: It's performative. It doesn't work to heal your trauma. Big cathartic experience fools you into thinking you're "healed." It actually makes things worse because it reinforces the pattern. I get it. And it can be true—if the facilitator doesn’t fully understand the true nature of healing. Feeling your feelings is an important first step. If you have a...

Hey all, After a year and a half in Mexico, Diana and I are back in Austin. For those who don't know, we’d been living in Valle de Bravo, a quiet mountain town two hours west of Mexico City. We moved because, two years ago, I was feeling restless and wasn’t sure why or what to do about it. Our lease was expiring, I didn’t want to stay, but I had no desire to look for a new place in Austin. Then one morning, I woke up with an strong impulse. “Let’s move to Mexico,” I announced to Diana. She...

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi The purpose of my work is not transformation,because transformation implies becoming something other than what you already are.And the truth is, there’s nothing wrong with you.There is nowhere for you to get.Nothing you need to fix.Nothing you have to do. You are already whole.You just refuse to accept yourself.And when you believe there is something wrong...

Men don’t want to go to therapy. Why would they? When the American Psychological Association declared traditional masculinity “harmful.” And the majority of therapist are women who graduated from woke institutions that want to smash the patriarchy. And how does sitting around talking about your problems help you become more powerful and successful? It doesn’t. The truth is most therapy is useless for men. You’re better off taking up Ju-Jitsu or hitting the gym, working out your emotions...