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Belonging to the Wild

Ep. 22: The Mythic Quest to Find Your Heart with Ben Katt

Dec 10, 2024
52:57

In this conversation, Ben tells us the story of realizing that at some point his heart had snuck out the back door. In that moment he heard these powerful words: “if you don’t have your heart you have nothing.” He tells us about how this experience launched him into a mythic quest to find his heart again, a journey he shares in his book The Way Home.

 

We talk about his experiences with synchronicities, vision quests, and the power of images to guide us on our mythic journeys. We explore practices that help us find our heart and Ben encourages us to find practices that “we feel charm around” as we court our hearts back to the center of our lives.

 

Ben Katt is a meditation teacher, hospice chaplain, and coach. He is the author of THE WAY HOME: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife. Ben teaches meditation in prisons and facilitates wellbeing experiences for companies and organizations. He is a certified advanced meditation teacher, holds a Master of Divinity degree, and is a former ordained minister. He lives in Milwaukee, WI with his wife and three children.

 

website: www.benjaminkatt.com

book link: thewayhomebook.com

IG: @akabenkatt

 

Here is the episode with Cherie that I mentioned:

Sexuality, Spirituality, and Self-Belonging with Cherie Katt


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