5.13 Marrying Yourself: Committing to Self Love and Self Presence with Deva Joy Gouss & Panel

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Today we will be talking with Deva Joy Gouss, LCSW, and a panel of her students about the practice of marrying yourself. Marrying Yourself has been referred to by others as sologamy. This panel will be speaking about their experiences with Deva Joy’s program and about the broader changes they have seen in their own life when they chose to marry their own Selves.

The Marrying Yourself Journey begins with engagement to one's Self so that Self-care becomes the priority. The course moves through different modules, step-by-step, geared to help the student learn to anchor, partner, and cherish their Selves.

Upon the wedding day, Deva Joy's students commit to love, honor, and obey their multidimensional Self, expanding in presence with the vows they to their Self.

The Marrying Yourself Journey is not really a workshop or course. It is a passageway that changes your relationship with yourself for the rest of your life. 

You can sign up for it at themarryingyourselfjourney.com. 

The Panel

Devajoy Gouss, LCSW, is an experiential psychotherapist for over thirty years. She works with individuals, couples and groups, integrating psychomotor therapy, the power of sacred ritual, energy medicine and trauma resiliency methods. She has given monthly experiential workshops for over thirty years. She is author of two books, Re-arranged Never The Same: The Nature of Grief and Toolbox of Hope: For When Your Body Doesn’t Feel Good, as well as an online interactive year-long program called The Marrying Yourself Journey, based on years of guiding people through deep inner work in preparation for making vows to themselves in a group wedding ritual.  Devajoy is not only married to herself for the last thirty years but is also married to her man with whom she is also madly in love and committed to. They live with six fur babies, do animal rescue work and focus on how to live with more reverence for all beings who share Mother Earth.  

Healing Heart Communications, Inc.

 www.devajoy.net

Wren Breen is a graphic designer and artist based out of Atlanta, GA. He is a dog dad, live music nut, mental and spiritual health advocate, and lover of life.

Lindsey is a director at a consulting firm focused on helping greater Atlanta nonprofit organizations attract resources, accomplish their missions, and serve our community. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she has lived in Atlanta for 18 years. Lindsey holds bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies and a master’s in public administration.  She is an avid runner and thrives off fresh air and sunshine.  

Sonata Woodard is a resident of Atlanta, Georgia. She has spent the last 14 years learning about the importance of how relationships influence our lives. Specifically, she has focused on growing her knowledge on how to create and experience the best possible relationship with herself, her family, her friends, and everyone else she encounters.

Atoro is a 40-year old UX designer currently living in Washington state. He has been a part of the Marrying Yourself Journey for nearly a year and will be marrying himself in just under a month (as of time of recording). He deeply values Deva and her work - it was instrumental in helping him recover from an extended period of depression and inefficacy. It's through that work that he recovered himself, regained his sense of empowerment, and became a better man. His time in the engagement process has helped him to further anchor in his self-love and self-trust.

Frances works in IT, is a mom, and dabbles in art projects. She is working on retrieving herself.