Coming Home: An Incarnational Healing Pilgrimage

Free 5 Week Healing Pilgrimage

with Kolbe Young, MS, APCC, AMFT

We’re grateful to share this gentle, embodied healing pilgrimage created by our therapist Kolbe Young, who specializes in helping people rediscover peace and belonging with themselves, with others, and with God after experiences of trauma, overwhelm, and dissociation.
Coming Home is a 5 hour guided journey blending grounding, gentle teaching, emotional awareness, and contemplative prayer. It offers a compassionate and trauma-informed way to reconnect with your body, notice what you’re carrying, and let Christ meet the tender and overwhelmed parts of you with peace.

This program is designed to help you:

  • Widen your window of tolerance
  • Soften emotional reactivity and inner pressure
  • Soothe anxious or overwhelmed parts of yourself
  • Re-ground in the steady presence of Christ
  • Move toward deeper self-compassion and inner integration
You can move through the pilgrimage at your own pace (all in one sitting, or slowly over 5 days or 5 weeks) making it an ideal companion for Advent and the holiday season.

Access the full pilgrimage below

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What’s Inside the Journey

The Coming Home pilgrimage moves slowly and intentionally through five movements of healing. Each one blends grounding, embodied awareness, emotional gentleness, and an invitation to meet Christ within your own lived experience.

You can move through these in one sitting, or return to each movement across 5 days or 5 weeks.

Session 1 — Anchoring in Safety: The Gateway to Healing
We begin by slowing down and experiencing a safe connection with the body as a place of encounter with God, rather than an obstacle. You’ll explore why the body matters for anxiety, complex trauma, inner criticism, and addiction, learn simple polyvagal basics, and practice “resource anchoring” to feel more stable sensations. This session lays the groundwork for widening your window of tolerance and letting the Holy Spirit meet you in your embodied experience.

Session 2 — Listening to the Inner Landscape
Here we gently turn toward the “inner landscape” of emotions, sensations, and parts of the self that carry fear, pressure, or shame. Drawing on felt sense work and parts-informed language, you’ll practice noticing what is happening inside with curiosity instead of judgment, and begin to relate to these parts with kindness and compassion.

Session 3 — Tending Embodied Parts of Us in the Nervous System
This session focuses more deeply on how trauma, stress, and old wounds live in the nervous system. You’ll learn simple, repeatable ways to soothe and regulate your system, soften emotional reactivity, and slowly widen your window of tolerance, so that overwhelmed parts of you can find more safety and rest in the peace of Christ.

Session 4 — Moving through Discomfort with Presence
Rather than praying “around” your experience, this movement invites you to pray from within it. Through guided contemplative practice, you’ll bring your body, your emotions, and your parts into honest dialogue with Jesus, letting Him meet you in places of confusion, pain, and longing. This is an invitation to experience prayer as encounter in the real, lived texture of your life.

Session 5 — Living an Integrative Life
In the final movement, we gather what has surfaced and look at how to carry this way of being into daily life. You’ll reflect on what has shifted, how to notice when your system is becoming overwhelmed again, and how to return to grounding, compassion, and connection. The emphasis here is on integration: walking forward with a softer heart, a more regulated body, and a deeper sense of belonging with yourself, others, and God.

How to Use This Pilgrimage

  • move slowly
  • pause whenever you need
  • notice your breath
  • take breaks
  • let Christ meet the parts of you that surface

There is no wrong pace or wrong experience.
The journey is meant to be gentle, compassionate, and supportive, especially in seasons that feel full.

About Kolbe Young

Kolbe is an integrative psychotherapist who helps people rediscover peace and belonging within themselves, with others, and with God after experiences of trauma, emotional overwhelm, or dissociation.

His approach weaves together evidence-based psychology, neuroscience, and Catholic spirituality. Kolbe’s work is rooted in the belief that healing unfolds naturally under the appropriate conditions: through gentleness, curiosity, and a renewed experience of being held by the face of God in each other.

He supports clients in learning how to listen to their bodies with compassion, understand the deeper meaning beneath emotional and behavioral reactions, care for overwhelmed parts of themselves, and cultivate a steady inner ground where deep discovery, peace, and resilience can grow again.

If you have any questions about the pilgrimage, the companion workbook, or how to integrate these practices into your healing, you’re welcome to reach out.

Email Kolbe directly at:
letsconnect@healingwithkolbe.com

He’s glad to support you in whatever way may be helpful.