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Episode 21: Trusting Your Inner Knowing – How an Ultra Runner Found Healing and Self-Love with Katie Arnold
In this compelling episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta speaks with Katie Arnold—author, ultra runner, and student of Zen—about her transformative journey following a traumatic wilderness accident. The conversation explores themes of love, healing, and...
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Two principles of the spiritual journey
We are told by our participants that the work we do at COR provides the most powerful personal growth experience many of them have ever had. Why is our work so powerful? Why do growth and transformation become an ongoing component of our participant’s lives,...
The Spiritual Journey: A Spiral Staircase to a Place Called Home
The month of September’s theme is the Spiritual Journey. BIG topic! It’s one of the topics closest to my heart. It’s an aspect of any of the work we do at COR. Even though we focus so much on emotional and mental healing—within ourselves and...
Sacrificing the Need to be Perfect
As we wrap up this month’s theme of growing up and sacrifice, I wanted to share how my journey to become a COR facilitator helped me to grow up. Like we’ve mentioned in past newsletters, growing up has requires sacrifice—sacrificing comfort, our typical patterns, our...
Growing Up out of the Loop
I graduated from the Coaches Training Institute in 2010, got a master’s in psych in 2013, but didn’t commit to coaching until the end of 2015. In the interim, I had nine jobs—from SAT tutor to sales person at a piercing shop, to starting a non-profit, to professional...
Women Hearing the Call and Stepping up
Last week, Lee wrote about men needing to grow up and show up more. This week, I’m writing about women needing to do the same. While, as Lee mentioned, most women naturally know about sacrifice by enduring pain through monthly bleedings and...
Growing Up and Sacrifice
On Thanksgiving Day 1988, PBS ran the entire 6-part series “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth” in a single afternoon. As a young man, curious about the meaning of life—my life—I sat transfixed. Campbell was a teacher and writer on myth. In...
It’s never too late to heal with family!
As we wrap up this month's theme of family, one of our COR workshop graduates and Event Managers, Jennifer Underwood, shares her beautiful story of the impact COR and our workshops have had on her family. "A lot of this month is around making peace with your family,...
How I personally found compassion for my parents and for myself as a parent
This month at COR is all about family. We’ve seen beautiful shares on both the challenges and joys of family from many of you in our Facebook groups. Thank you for your vulnerability and courage. Keep them coming! One aspect of family, of course, is parenting....
What role do you play in your family?
Last week Britta looked at the importance of making peace with our family of origin if we are going to live contented lives. I, like many of you, had a challenging childhood. My parents divorced when I was young. It was a very messy divorce and I, the only child, was...
There is no lasting peace without making peace with our family
Happy 4th of July! We hope you're having a wonderful holiday. At Cor, the month of July will be all about family. We believe our healing journey with family, especially with our parents, is one of the keys to living a meaningful, awake and loving life. In fact, I...
What do you choose to celebrate now?
Our theme for this past month has inspired a new awareness in me—that there is an inherent connection between joy and celebration. There’s a subtle difference between the two, but the relationship is certainly there. ‘Joy’ is the emotion we feel or a way to describe...
Are you afraid to be joyful?
For many of us, joy can feel just as vulnerable as sadness or fear. We see this so often in our COR workshops—feeling joy and gratitude can leave us feeling exposed, especially in front of others. Joy naturally opens your heart, which can make it feel...
Scientifically proven: Joy opens us & helps us grow!
Last week Lee introduced the COR theme of the month: Joy and Celebration. He gave you two very simple yet powerful practices to engage in. Why this focus on joy and celebration, when there is so much to “work though” with our wounds and defenses? To put it simply:...
The Importance of Joy and Celebration in Transformation
During June we’re looking at the vibrant themes of joy and celebration. At COR we’re known to “go deep.” We dive into where it hurts, what blocks us and bring our shadows to the light. Our Rites of Passage workshops always invite us to...
Right Action Doesn’t Always Feel Good!
Here at COR, we’ve been looking at taking action for the whole month of May. We used the Buddhist term "Right Action" as a way to describe what kind of action helps us to integrate internal changes, insights and awakenings into our day to day life. To wrap up...
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