A self-paced, online coaching program to support you in growing your most powerful impact + joyful life.
Do you find yourself navigating packed days, setting reminders and making epic to-do lists, attempting to get everything done?
Or perhaps you yearn for some time and space to nurture the dreams and ideas that never quite see the light of day.
Or find it tough to get time away from emails, deadlines, the mental load, personal obligations and feel the stress of larger political, social and environmental changes.
Life is beyond full, in good and also challenging ways…
Behind the busyness, you sense an inner invitation to rest and recharge…
You remember how good it feels to lose yourself in your garden or on a forest trail. Breathing in the scent of nature or taking in the view with warm sun on your face…
Your renewable energy source.
If only we could bottle it.
Do these sound like you?
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You’re ready to pursue your most powerful creative, professional, and/or leadership contributions
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You care about people and the planet
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You’re done with being too busy
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You want to have more time and energy to savor the goodness in your life.
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You want proven strategies to metabolize stress and avoid burnout
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You want lasting freedom from inner criticism and wonder why your previous successes don’t always prevent negative self-talk.
Let’s work together to customize strategies to keep your energy vital and renewed so you relate well to your most precious resource: your time.
In this program I share the best material I’ve curated from over a dozen years of life and career coaching!
Three steps to boosting your energy and resiliency…
Sunshine in a Bottle includes three foundational processes for flourishing. The bulk of this teaching is something I previously shared only on retreats and with private clients. The rest of it is new content I haven’t offered in any other space!
Here are the three processes we’ll explore together:
Step Two: FIND MORE ENERGY
How do we have the fuel to keep showing up for ourselves, our dreams, and our values?
This is where we learn to pay attention to what GIVES you energy by helping you access adequate rest, pleasures, and open-ended time. Ironically, good things, when they feel new or out of our comfort zone, can actually trip our stress response and cause us to overindulge or shut down. So in this step I’ll share strategies for expanding the good in your life in a gentle, sustainable way. I’ll also offer a powerful framework about the shadow side of pleasure including numbing and overdoing it, why this happens and what we can do instead!
Step One: FIND FREEDOM FROM STRESS & INNER PRESSURE
Learn effective strategies to manage external stressors, self-criticism and negative self-talk. Make easeful progress toward your goals by integrating Positive Intelligence mental exercises into your regular routine. ID your Enneagram Type and build awareness of how to utilize this personality map to better understand your needs, embody your unique gifts, and resource yourself more wholly.
Step Three: FIND FLOW AKA HOLISTIC TIME MANAGEMENT
Here I share a step-by-step process to break out of a ‘busyness fog’ to create a schedule and rhythm to life that fits your current needs. (No more waking with mind racing & already feeling behind!) Instead open your eyes & feel supported & inspired. In this step I share practical calendar and planning strategies and tools that enable you to slow down and accomplish and savor more of what is important to you.
Celia Fernandes, MBA. Program Manager, N.E.W Venture Program: Empowering Newcomer & Refugee Women Through Entrepreneurship. Toronto, Canada
“Sunshine in a Bottle contains thoughtful content, powerful practices and regular check-ins that have helped me to cultivate a more intentional, calm, and meaningful life. Courtney beautifully weaves together nature and ancient wisdom practices into coaching modules that feel fresh, relevant, and necessary in today's hectic world. I definitely recommend this to anyone who could use a little more sunshine in their life.”
What is Included in Sunshine in a Bottle?
Sunshine in a Bottle distills coaching resources into mini recordings (like a private podcast) that make support easily accessible in your full life.
It is infused with these potent inner resiliency resources:
Guidance to create new, personalized stress-managing habits so you feel inspired and confident, clear on your top priorities in work and life.
Holistic Time Management Strategies to manage your calendar with ease (and stop feeling overly busy)
Enneagram-specific somatic practices that nurture presence and resiliency for each Type.
Coaching exercises to gain clarity and boost mental and physical health.
Written guides and journal prompts to help you implement the material into your regular routines.
Fun bonuses like guided meditation, a written resource on the four phases of the human change cycle, botanical recipes and other simple ideas to access more of the benefits of nature into everyday life.
All in audio recordings (ranging from 10-25 minutes each) that you can listen to on the go at times that work for you.
You hold (and do) so much. Let’s make it easier!
Sunshine in a Bottle gives you strategy and support so you can:
Boost your energy and clarity
Metabolize stress & reset your mood through nature-based strategies
Gain real traction toward your priorities with fresh tools that create ease in your calendar and support your inspired action.
Sunshine in a Bottle distills the best content from twelve+ years of life and career coaching experience into an online, self-paced option that includes:
Joy Cadelina, Occupational Therapist, Asheville, North Carolina
"Sunshine in a Bottle is the catalyst that helped me break through old conditioning. I was a people pleaser who always put myself on the back burner. It was encouraging for me to get OUTSIDE and remember our Mother Earth’s healing gifts. I’ve been learning to prioritize my own values with health and well-being at the core.
I loved the audio content and the hard-copy resources are gorgeous! One thing that was really useful for me was learning more about how much outside time or fresh air/nature we need for optimal health (and the research that backs this up) in measurable units per week. This content is really helpful for me and my family, as well as professionally, and I have also been sharing with my clients!"
Hi, I am Courtney!
Working in a sustainable way wasn’t always something I knew how to do.
As a sensitive, INFP, empath, and introvert with a desire to make a difference; I struggled for years to find my equilibrium. I felt a lot of personal pressure and I’d force myself forward to tackle the next thing on my to-do list without pausing to gain the clarity I really needed to take my most inspired, productive action.
I often felt behind and would end up drained but struggled to adequately unplug and recharge. In my thirties after an early career of direct service as a domestic violence advocate, Peace Corps volunteer, and non-profit leader as well as four years of rigorous graduate study, I burned out.
Things had to change in terms of how I related to myself, my work, relationships, and pacing and I engaged in a multi-year research project to help me forge a new, sustainable approach. Luckily, I had a friend who introduced me to her coach and invited me to a transformational retreat as well as an Enneagram teacher who helped me see the patterns that were keeping me stuck. Together these mentors helped me build powerful skills and opened up a new career for me. As a coach I try to pay forward what I have learned and to make it easier for others do their best work and enjoy vibrant personal lives.
I have been a trained coach since 2012, but it wasn’t until I integrated the resiliency benefits of nature WITH the power of coaching resources that I unearthed the most powerful results, for myself and clients.
I’m committed to sharing these frameworks, tools, and practices more widely because they work to liberate us from old energy-expensive habits and unlock our most potent contributions.
A little more about me:
I spent four years studying the intersection of spirituality and leadership at Harvard, earning dual master’s degrees from the Divinity and Kennedy Schools.
I’m a Certified Wayfinder Coach through MBI, an experienced Enneagram mentor, trained in Positive Intelligence and the author of The Flourish Formula: An Overachiever’s Guide to Slowing Down & Accomplishing More.
I’ve been married for over twenty years to my husband, Rich and we live with our three teenagers, four cats, and fourteen chickens on our Apple Balm Tiny Farm, near Asheville, North Carolina.
Robin Marie Younkin, Herbalist, Writer, Entrepreneur
“If you’ve felt the icy tendrils of burnout creeping in, this is the path for you. When I started this journey, I was in the throes of depression, in a messy house, working 50+ hours a week. After three months of working with Courtney, my life has CHANGED! My mental health is now nourished, nurtured, and stable; my house is organized and tidy; and I’ve dropped a full workday from my weekly schedule for self-care and passion projects. Courtney brought magic back into my life. I find joy in the small things and have discovered a way to slow down and really savor the precious moments.”
Accomplish AND Enjoy More
If you are:
Feeling burned out or close to burned out in your work
Wanting to launch a new creative endeavor, project, or dream
Looking to deepen your relationship with the natural world
Curious about coaching but want to dip your toes in first
Addicted to podcasts and want something more targeted and actionable
Ready to learn mindbody practices that help you slow down, savor and accomplish more
Sunshine in a Bottle is for you!
Course FAQ
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Yes! Sunshine in a Bottle has a beautiful online learning space. Once you purchase the program you have ongoing access to all the lessons so you can take your time with it and return again and again.
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The Enneagram is an ancient personality map. Just as we see patterns in nature there are patterns to being a human. Of the nine different personality types, three types lead with their "head," three lead with their "heart" and three lead with their “gut” or body intelligence.
The Enneagram helps you identify those hidden or subterranean habits which guide your thinking and actions. If you have ever found yourself in a tight spot in your relationships or your work and wondered "How did I get here again?" The Enneagram can help you understand what is going on and give you freedom to make fresh choices.
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I am committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable business that benefits all and to working to ensure that everyone in this community feels welcomed.
In support of these values I am offering two kinds of awards for Sunshine in a Bottle.
Climate Action awards are open to anyone whose work centers on climate action/planetary healing. Climate grief and anxiety are a significant burden, especially for those who are working in this sector every day looking for solutions and consuming lots of information about our planet. This program offers many resources to avoid or heal from burnout and simple, accessible nature-based healing strategies. Climate award participants could include, organizers, non-profit workers, and activists, sustainable businesses and those working in international or governmental agencies to pursue conservation goals and inter-sector solutions to climate change.
Expansion Awards invite the involvement and perspective of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Plus) participants - as well as folks with disabilities, immigrants, those from under-resourced/low-income communities and refugees. Coaching has historically centered white and economically privileged voices. For this reason I would like to partner with diverse community members to make the Enneagram and coaching resources more widely available.
I hope both the climate action and expansion award recipients will share the resources from this program with others so that together we can create more ripples of resiliency.
These awards cover 100% of the cost of this coaching program and also include the option of celebration and promotion to my coaching community of 2300 + people committed to personal growth.
If you would like to apply please complete this quick questionnaire https://forms.gle/gmvhQbrYMxKPavbv9 or reach out to support@courtneypinkerton.com.
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Yes! This program will be a wonderful refresher on core Flourish frames but also contains brand new content I haven’t taught anywhere else. If you have specific questions to see if this is a good fit for you, just reach out to me at cp@courtneypinkerton.com. I’d love to hear from you!
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This offer is for everyone. For years I have focused on women in my coaching practice and am definitely still inspired by the ripples that are created as women heal and center themselves in a patriarchal culture. However, the last couple of years I've been approached by men who are interested in coaching. I've worked with some AMAZING, soulful men looking for a guide and would like to support more of them. Also I want to be intentionally inclusive to nonbinary and trans people. Sunshine in a Bottle is a coaching journey open to everyone!
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Reach out to cp@courtneypinkerton.com if you have additional questions and I’ll be happy to clarify or answer any particular questions you have and to share more!
Ready to Get Started?
Sunshine in a Bottle distills the best content from twelve+ years of life and career coaching experience into an online, self-paced option that includes: