Initiations in Love Podcast

Have you ever found yourself caring for someone you love and wondered how to keep your heart open when life becomes difficult, exhausting, or uncertain? In this episode of Initiations in Love, Britta sits down with author Mark Steven Porro for a moving conversation about caring for his aging mother during the final years of her life. What began as an unexpected interruption became a profound initi...

Are you exhausted from trying to hold it all together? Constantly striving, performing, managing, fixing, and controlling in order to feel safe, worthy, or good enough? In this follow-up episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta explores one of the deepest Survivor Self strategies of all: the illusion of control. Following her conversation with Dr. Ilana Nankin, who shared how a devastati...

What happens when life suddenly interrupts the identity you've worked so hard to build? What if the very thing that breaks your momentum… also breaks through the masks you didn't even realize you were wearing? In this episode of Initiations in Love, Britta sits down with educator, entrepreneur, and Breathe For Change founder Dr. Ilana Nankin for a powerful conversation about achievement, perfectio...

Do you ever feel a pull inside you… an inner knowing that something in your life is asking to change, awaken, or deepen, even if you can't fully explain it? Or perhaps life has already disrupted your familiar way of being, and you sense you can no longer continue as you once did. In this follow-up episode to Britta's conversation with John Prendergast (Episode 47), she explores the nature of "The...

Have you ever felt a quiet sense that there must be more to life… even if everything looks fine on the surface? Or found yourself cracked open by loss, grief, or a moment that shattered the familiar? In this episode of Initiations in Love, Britta sits down with spiritual teacher and depth psychologist and therapist John Prendergast to explore the path of awakening, through both suffering and the w...

Do you ever feel like you have to be better, get it right, or prove yourself in order to be loved?  In this follow-up episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta explores the deeply rooted belief that love must be earned and how it shapes perfectionism, fear of abandonment, and the way we relate to ourselves and others.  Britta reads a passage from her spiritual memoir, "Initiations in Love...

What does it mean to take true responsibility for the quality of our relationships? In this episode of Initiations in Love, Britta speaks with relationship coach, podcast host, and author Monica Tanner about the power of agency in love. Rather than blaming our partner or waiting for them to change, real transformation begins when we are willing to face our own wounds, fears, and patterns. Monica s...

Feeling underwhelmed by your own life? Holding tightly to something that no longer feels alive? In this follow-up episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta reads a passage from her spiritual memoir, "Initiations in Love," that speaks to how the extraordinary lives inside the ordinary, a truth that was revealed in the previous episode "Stop Waiting – and Follow What's Alive for You! with J...

Feeling stagnant? Looking to shift your mindset and bring light to the darkest of times? This episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is for you. In today's episode, Britta sits down with Jen Aly, business coach, TEDx speaker, and creator of the Freedom & Flow Framework™. Together, they discuss the force of trying to make something happen that is not in flow, finding grace in the worst of times...

Today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: "Coming from Love: The Urgent Call of Our Times with Miranda Macpherson." In that conversation, Miranda shared some of her own initiations, and how each one became a gateway into greater trust, deeper compassion, and what she calls Boundless Love. In this follow-up episode, Britta reads a section from her sp...

In today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta sits down with Miranda Macpherson, author and contemporary spiritual teacher (as well as Britta's longtime teacher). Miranda begins the episode with a wonderful calling in for listeners, then recounts her strong experience with boundless love as a young person, and how it propelled her into spiritual life. Together, Britta and Miranda e...

Have you ever wondered how to stay true to yourself and open to another? To behold a kind of Love that honors difference, deepens connection, and reminds us: we're not doing this alone. In this episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta guides us to see that, in fact, there are always three of us: you, the other, and the presence of Grace that holds it all. Reading "The Two Become One," a...

In this soul-nourishing episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta sits down with her longtime spiritual director, David Frenette, author of "The Path of Centering Prayer," and his wife Donna Zerner, a writer and storyteller whose wit and wonder add earthy joy to the sacred. Together, David and Donna share the grace and grit of walking the spiritual path as a couple — two seekers who found...

Today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: "The Always & Already Here of the Spiritual Journey with Neelama Eyres." In that heartfelt conversation, Neelama shared with such depth and authenticity about the evolution of her relationship with God, and how spiritual growth often moves through unseen stages of development, mystery, and grace.  In this fo...

In today's episode of the Initiations in Love   podcast, Britta sits down with Neelama Eyres — Director of Program Development at Stanford's CCARE, facilitator, author, and one of her closest friends — for a heartfelt conversation about the stages of her spiritual growth over the decades and her lifelong love story with the Divine. Neelama shares how her relationship with God began in childhood, t...

Today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: "The Threshold: How to Stay Open When Nothing Feels Clear with Christine Hassler." In that conversation, Christine shared her profoundly personal Initiation into motherhood. From freezing her eggs at thirty-three, to ultimately becoming a mother on her own terms, her story beautifully illustrated what it mea...

In today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta talks with Master coach and dear friend, Christine Hassler, who offers honest reflections on navigating uncertainty with grace and fierce devotion. She shares her powerful initiation into motherhood. From freezing her eggs at 33, to trusting her own timing and intuition, to the realization that this Initiation set off a dozen others, Ch...

Today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: "From Overdoing to Spacious Self-Love with Mary O'Connor." In that conversation, Mary shared the arc of her life: from eldest of nine children and lifelong caregiver, to someone who now lives with an emphasis on being rather than doing, and on allowing rather than striving.  As a young girl, she stepped into...

In today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta talks with entrepreneurial strategist, Mary O'Connor, who shares the powerful journey that led her from over-doing and over-giving to coming into a balanced relationship of receiving and giving, and ultimately to the gift of her own self-love. After years of raising her siblings in a household of alcoholism and neglect, Mary experienced...

Today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: "My Love Story with God with Suwaylu Adams." In that conversation, Suwaylu shared the profound story of her lifelong romance with the Divine. Over the years, her path deepened and widened - through heartbreak, family challenges, and personal reckonings - all of which became fuel for what Britta calls the Tra...

In today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta talks with minister and founder of The Lord's Chapel and The Land Celebration, Suwaylu Adams, who shares her profound journey of spiritual awakening and her eventual calling to ministry. Suwaylu recounts saying YES to miraculous experiences that shaped her path, including the establishment of The Lord's Chapel and The Land Celebration,...

Today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: "Psychedelics and the Divine Dance of Self Love with Mellie Logan." In that conversation, Mellie shared how she experienced a powerful awakening in her forties through what's often called a "medicine journey"—an intentional, therapeutic use of psychedelics to access and face aspects of ourselves typically hi...

In today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast, Britta talks with spiritual counselor and friend, Mellie Logan. Together, they explore the complexities of emotional healing, the transformative power of surrender, and the role psychedelic medicine can play in personal growth. They discuss the importance of embracing difficult emotions, the process of transformation, and the significance of i...

Today's episode of the Initiations in Love podcast is a follow-up to our previous episode: "Reclaiming the Sacred in Sexuality with Diana Richardson." In that episode, Diana shared how she experienced a powerful awakening around her relationship with her body and her sexuality, and became a lifelong student—and eventually a teacher—of the tantric approach to sexuality. In this follow-up episode, B...

In this heartfelt and eye-opening episode of Initiations in Love, Britta sits down with Diana Richardson—Tantra teacher and pioneer of the slow sex movement—for a deep dive into the healing potential of sexuality. Together, they explore themes of deep connection and awareness on the journey to understanding sexuality, and how we can move beyond performance and pressure toward a more relaxed, joyfu...