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Episode 17: From Near-Death to Musical Awakening with Jens Kruger
In this episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, host Britta Eskey speaks with Jens Kruger - a world renowned banjo player, and part of a trio called The Kruger Brothers - exploring his unique journey through music, family, and personal transformation. Jens shares...
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What I found in being grateful for this year’s hardships
As we complete November and this month of gratitude, we at COR wanted to shine a light on one more aspect of gratitude—gratitude for our struggles, heartbreaks, and times when we feel closed. This might be the hardest facet of gratitude for many of us...
How to drop gratitude from the head into the heart and body
Like we've mentioned in previous weeks, the holiday season is typically seen as a time to count our blessings and practice gratitude. And Thanksgiving is especially linked with gratitude—the holiday is literally named "thanks-giving." Most of us know the importance of...
Grief and Gratitude
While the holidays are often the time of practicing gratitude for your blessings, they can also be a time of grief—grief around loved ones no longer with us, grief around change in circumstances, and grief around losses in our lives. In this week's newsletter,...
Feel like there isn’t enough time? Try gratitude!
Last week, Britta introduced our monthly theme: gratitude. As Britta noted, our culture, in spite of its many gifts, doesn’t often foster gratitude, yet gratitude is so important for health and happiness. I was reminded of this a few days ago when I was on an early...
Gratitude as the most powerful antidote to the Inner Critic
It’s November again, the month of gratitude. I personally had quite a journey with gratitude. It was not my natural inclination. I had always tended to see what’s missing, how something could be more perfect and what needed healing. Even though that kind of seeking...
How letting go can lead to a new way of relating
As I have been feeling into this month’s theme of death and letting go, I recognize that I myself am in a deep process of letting go. I am letting go of a particular identity that I have carried for many years now, as well as letting go in a very specific way of the...
The liberation of letting go of old stories
Our theme this month at COR is letting go and the death of our ego self. One of our Leadership Development Training graduates, Leah, shares her experience of how letting go of old stories of herself allowed her to step into a bigger version of who she is. It used to...
The Beauty on the Other Side of Letting Go
This week’s newsletter is written by Rajyo Allen (formerly Markman). Rajyo, together with Britta, was the co-founder of Celebration of Being, out of which COR developed. This body of work was birthed out of this one courageous woman’s let go over 25 years ago, and we...
The Little and Big Ego Deaths of Letting Go
The journey of letting go and dying to our ego self is our October theme. It seems fitting as the leaves are starting to fall off the trees and the days are getting shorter. Lee and I just came home from the beginning of a year-long teacher’s training near Stanford...
Seeing the spiritual journey as a gift
Like Britta mentioned in the first newsletter this month, the spiritual journey is a subject that we hold dear at COR. It’s embedded in so much of our workshops since we aim not to necessarily “fix” people—we already view them as good...
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...
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