We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful David Matthew Brown. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with David Matthew below.
Hi David Matthew , thanks for joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.
I was a working professional actor in commercials, TV, Film, and theater. My acting career was moving fast and up wards. After my audition for The Band of Brothers, I met my girlfriend for lunch at the Century City mall.
While we were eating I choked on a small chicken bone that was in my chicken Caesar salad.
As I was choking, I left my body and it was a dark void that felt peaceful. Like a Mothers womb. Some light started trickling in and then I was swepted back into my body.
Little did I know I had died for 15 minutes. The fire department was checking on me and the guy who got the bone out of me was gone.
After a month of being at peace with no ambition. I found myself becoming a counselor in bereavement and trauma informed counseling.
Years later I would be initiated as a Shaman in New Zealand.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
I’ve found that people get hooked on endlessly intellectualizing their emotional patterns as a way to avoid doing anything about them.
The problem is that intellectual understanding can give a sense of progress & change without progress or change actually occurring.
The best way to see our light is when it is surrounded by darkness. Our trauma, our pain, our discomfort, our stress, our lies, our hiding from ourselves and others, is the darkness, helping us see our light.
It is time to stop holding on to the broken parts of us as our identity. And see that these fractals are helping us embrace our wholeness.
Like a mosaic. When you focus on one part, you miss the entirety of it. Each of us is a vast, whole, pieces of art. Wanting to be discovered, understood, and seen. Which starts with us.
I have combined my counseling and coaching to form a hybrid called The Underground Savages. We all have a little savage in us, that we try to keep underground and suppress with our perfectionism, and people pleasing.
And so I have created a space where the wanderer, the lost, the broken, the grief stricken, the outcast, the exhausted, the unforgiven, the tired rebel, the confused fool, can stop and rest in safety and support.
This journey can begin with us. I got you.
What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?
Honesty. And results.
Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?
Understanding your nervous system. For example right not breath in for a count of 3, and breath out for a count of 6. Repeat for one minute. You’ll discover peace now.
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