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Episode 16: Processing Exercise – Opening to the Unknown Through Life’s Challenges
Today’s episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: “The Mystery of Life, Death, and Suffering with Drew Boa”. Britta reads a story from her new spiritual memoir, Initiations in Love, entitled, “Letting Janosch Go”. In this...
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Living Ourselves into a New Way of Thinking
I have been reading a lot of Richard Rohr, a Franciscan friar who is one of my favorite writers. He is on the forefront of the contemporary inter-spiritual dialogue, and is making a huge contribution in bringing the lost contemplative and mystical dimension of...
What Really Happened? Whose Perspective Is the Truth?
One of the themes that comes up over and over again in our workshops, and in our individual coaching work, is setting our relationships right. How we show up in our relationships is where the spiritual rubber meets the road, and where all our lofty and high ideas meet...
What if your life is not about you? What if you are a gift to be given?
A little over two weeks ago, we finished another very powerful Noble Man workshop. On Sunday, one of the staff women approached me. She had just a few weeks earlier completed her Celebration of Woman workshop, and it was her first time holding space for men in this...
Meditation: Practice Saying “Yes” to Life
This week’s practice is to say “YES” to everything. You may want to select an hour or, if you are really brave a day, and in that timeframe say “YES” to everything. YES, I mean everything! Don’t forget to keep breathing and remember your yes can happen on different...
What I Got from COB–Edition 1: “Self-love and working on my messed-up relationship to women.” – Aaron Steinberg
As two Noble Man workshops are coming up within a month, we felt it'd be good to speak to some personal experience about what COB means to the individuals who participate. With work such as ours, many interpretations of what is happening will exist--some will say they...
How Our Weakness Can Become Our Strength
"Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything." - Rumi When birthing a new workshop, I always experience an initiation that prepares me to...
The Posture of Gratitude
In my own life and in the work we do at Celebration of Being I’ve come back time and time again to the importance of gratitude. Often we reduce gratitude to “a good thing” to feel or express when good things happen to us. There seems to be a common idea that there are...
The Power of Real Human Connection – A Post About Love and Two Exciting Announcements
Now more than ever before we are living in a time where contact and connection seem so easy - at least in the digital realm. We can text, tweet, email, Facebook message or Skype. As I am writing this newsletter one of my sons is in India volunteering at an orphanage...
Into the Woods
Last month, Britta and I had a chance to go to Germany and, for the very first time, see our granddaughter, Norah. That's right, our granddaughter! It was a beautiful trip with lots of family visits and good German food - even for Britta, a native German, it was a...
Meditation: 3 Levels of Gratitude Evening Practice
At the end of any given day, take a moment to pause, sit down, maybe light a candle, take a few deep breaths, and let yourself relax into the present moment. In your own way, call on the presence of the Divine, and ask to review your day with the help of the Divine....
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass—it’s about learning to dance in the rain
I was sorting through old emails this morning, cleaning up my mailbox, and I came across an email from several years ago. (Yes, some of my emails are that old. That’s why I’m cleaning out my mailbox.) The content of that old email struck me just as sharply as if it...
From Sentiment to True Emotion
I’m a pretty emotional guy - but sometimes I find I get emotional at the oddest things. I’m feeling sad today. David Letterman’s last show is tonight. I’ve been thinking about it for a few days. I’ll miss him. I feel like I’m losing someone special. Actually, how...
Practice Makes Perfect
Over the past few “New Years” as I’ve looked back over my own collection of discarded new beginnings as well as the changes that have actually made a lasting positive impact on my life, I’ve discovered the SECRET that I’d like to share with you right now. Here it is:...
Meditation: Gratitude for Your Parents Practice
Find a space and a time to be undisturbed. If you have an altar or scared space in your home, sit in front of it. Then close your eyes and invoke the presence of your divine parent - the divine father, the divine mother. (If this does not ring true with you, just let...
The Passionate Heart—Burning with Love
The heat of our soul, that fire in our belly or the part of us that burns with love. All of us on the path of healing, awakening, and spiritual growth have that inner fire burning, or we would not have even started this journey. We need to be on FIRE for our own...
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