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Episode 22: Processing Exercise – Listening to the Body, Trusting the Heart
Today’s episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: “Trusting Your Inner Knowing - How an Ultra Runner Found Healing and Self-Love with Katie Arnold.” In this episode, Britta explores the themes of healing, resilience, and...
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The Importance of Self-Compassion
Something a lot of people forget is that self-compassion is a good thing. It makes us happier, healthier, and more effective human beings. But we don’t often practice self-compassion because we don’t think we deserve it, or because we think there’s someone else...
New Beginnings: Four Practices for Rebirth
Throughout our lives, we are offered many opportunities for rebirth. These occasions of renewal are essential for growth. They allow us to let go of habits and behaviors that no longer serve us, and step into a life that’s more healthy, more mature, and more joyful....
Initiations In Love: What Relationships Teach Us About Ourselves
We all have a perfect vision of what love is, but there is also a lot of pain and worry about not fulfilling that vision. We never enter into relationships with a blank slate; we enter with a strong survivor self that ensures our defense mechanisms protect the wounds...
The Four Domains of the Healthy Self
At COR, we believe that every one of us has 3 selves: the Healthy Self, the Wounded Self, and the Survivor Self. When we’re born, we enter into this world innocent and connected to grace. As we grow, we experience major or minor trauma that forms our Wounded Self....
How to Deal With Being Triggered
We all get triggered every now and then. If you want to be a leader, either in your relationships, workplace, or life, then we’ve developed an easy, 4-step process to help you deal gracefully with getting triggered. We may have the belief that leadership - either for...
Overcoming Overwhelm: Reset Your Nervous System & Learn How to “Be” Again
From a global pandemic to racial and social turmoil, financial problems to divisions between family members and members of the country, the last year has been very difficult at all levels: socially, spiritually, mentally, and even physically. It can be tempting to try...
Making Healthy Resolutions From a Whole You
It’s a universal condition that we make New Year's resolutions that inevitably lead to failure. When they do, we find ourselves sometimes swinging back even further in the opposite direction. It’s a painful and disappointing experience, which is only made worse by the...
Why Men Get Emotionally Derailed By Women
Many men have experienced being emotionally thrown off balance by a woman, either in their workplace, family or intimate relationship. When we experience an emotional trigger in the presence of a woman, this tends to stem from a past wounding that was never fully...
The Anxiety of Uncertainty & How to Combat it
This year has been the test of a lifetime for many of us, with a cycle of constant change and uncertainty. Human biology doesn’t react well to change—it often triggers us into believing we’re in danger and engages our survivor selves, who immediately begins making a...
Mastering Your Life Purpose As a Man
Purpose is a very abstract and elusive concept. What does it mean to have a purpose? Are we born with it, or is it created? How do we know when we’re living in alignment with our purpose? And most importantly, what can we do to live more purposeful lives? These are...
The Commonly Celebrated Quality That Actually Leads to Failure
And the Three Counter-Intuitive Tools to Rebalance It Perfectionism is something that plagues many of us. In a lot of ways, it comes from a good place of wanting to do well, to hold up high ethics and values, and an overall desire to do good in the world. However,...
How to Get Out of Survival Mode
Get Nourished & Thrive Again With all that's happened this past year, many of us are living in a constant state of fight, flight, or freeze. It’s been months since the pandemic has impacted our lives, and the effect of prolonged stress and disconnection is taking...
The Impact of the Shadow Feminine on Men
All human beings have many different aspects of shadow in themselves. The shadow feminine has a particularly cutting and demeaning impact on men.
Intention Isn’t Enough
Is setting up an intention enough? Is creating a word, a resolution, or a whole list of goals going to get you where you want to go in this new year? Probably not. The first step is always to set an intention, but it’s just the first step. In order to live out your goals in 2020, you’ll need to do more than intend.
On Reflecting
What are your end of year rituals? Taking the time to reflect on the year past can unlock vital lessons to building a better year going forward
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