Raw Conversations with Corinne Blum

How much do we trust the journey? Truly trust that wherever we are, whatever we’re experiencing in life, that it is in fact serving us. Sometimes what we need is not what we want. Sometimes the plateau feels never-ending and pointless and yet in hindsight, it offers great wisdom. It’s the point of stillness where everything takes place from.

We often don’t see “results” or glean the wisdom we’ve inherited until after the fact. “Hindsight is 20/20 vision.” So it’s important to pause along the way and reflect, look back and see how far we’ve come. Even if how far we’ve come is not visible in outer accomplishments but reflective of all the inner work we’ve done, instead (which in my humble opinion, has far greater value than reaching any goal).

Time moves at a strange and changing speed. Sometimes it moves at a snail’s pace and then all of a sudden speeds up and catches us up to where we were waiting, all along, to be. So the invitation is trust. Trust it all. Trust that wherever you are on your journey, you’re in just the right place for your learning, growth and wisdom.

As a collective, we’re very future oriented. We’re always looking towards the goal. But don’t underestimate the plateau for it’s where most everything happens. Remember, out of stillness comes motion. Out of silence, comes sound.

So today’s invitation is to stop long enough to reflect and notice what you’ve experienced in the past months and years. If you feel you’re in the plateau, ask yourself what are you needing to look at, sit with, feel into and learn…If you’ve arrived to where you were so long to be, feel the gratitude and take note that you did it. And of course, the journey continues on…

What would life be like if we truly, truly trusted that we are being guided? Yes, we have to engage with it and meet our Higher Selves, our Guides, God, Sprit etc, half way. This is a dance, a partnership, a shared venture. Be present and listen and you will find the next right step along your unique journey.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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Life constantly invites us to lean into it. I’m learning that what it’s asking is for us to radically trust. To recognise that it’s all just an experience that is innately neutral, but that our perception and perspective gives it meaning. So reality is totally subjective depending on how we choose to respond to it.

Life is like a river. The obstacles we create place stones along the way. The river may bend, it may get choppy and then flow smoothly again. It’s all neutral. It’s all the way.

Radical trust is trusting that our higher Self is guiding us through it all. It passes us through the places that we need to learn something from. It asks us to let go, take that trust fall into its arms and know that sometimes what we need is not what we want but that doesn’t make it any less important.

Finally, we are moving emotions. Each experience brings up a different feeling. It’s our choice whether we resist it or stay with it, feel it, listen to it and move through it. Like swimming through the sea, we get to propel ourselves forwards by moving through the water. Not fighting against it.

Leaning into life is radically trusting that what is here for you now is for your greatest good and how you choose to respond to it will create the experience and shape your reality.

So lean in, trust and perhaps even, enjoy.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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It’s all too easy to get cushy and comfy in routine and predictability. The familiar feels safe. But growth happens in the unfamiliar and the unknown. It happens when we stretch our metaphoric skin and take risks in life.

Change takes courage. Being human, takes courage. But if we want growth, if we want to feel enlivened, if we want to create positive change in our lives, we’re going to have to get uncomfortable.

Courage always arises in the face of fear. Change, whether external or internal, will scare us. Our very identity gets rattled and reality bends itself into a new perspective.

The work is knowing that no matter what, we’ll be there for ourselves. The wisdom is knowing that when we step off the ledge, we will sprout wings.

We’re learning to fly. To be free of our own limitations. So take courage, be brave and dive into life knowing that when you get uncomfortable, you will grow and reach new heights.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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Timing is a tricky one. We often want to make things happen in a way that we believe we can control everything and everyone in our lives. But that control is an illusion.

There’s a process to things and everything that life presents you with, is for you. Maybe there’s more work to be done. Maybe there’s more allowing, softening and surrendering to happen. Maybe not everyone in the scenario you’re dreaming up, is ready.

It all comes down to trust. Trust the timing. Trust the process. Trust this now moment and that it will lead you exactly to where you need to be.

Time, by the way, for all the ways in which it can drag out and feel like a long-hail flight, can equally all of a sudden speed up. So don’t worry about timing. Let it do its thing and know that everything will slot in when it’s ready.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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We all have the victim archetype within us but sometimes we can get over identified or over attached to it.

It’s the part that says, “Why me?” “Life is unfair” “Good things happen to other people, bad things always happen to me” “I’ll never get what I want.” The victim feels helpless and hopeless and therefore doesn’t work to change things.

When dealing with the victim, we have to call upon other parts of us to help us see things from a different perspective and with a clearer lens.

It’s not always easy in the moment, but at some point we have to make a choice, take self responsibility and actually choose happiness for ourselves.

It’s a process that requires compassion, patience and courage.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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We might focus a lot on doing the inner work: working through our patterns of behaviour, discovering our wounds, what our needs are, how to cultivate emotional intelligence etc. But if we don’t look at how consciousness plays into all of this, it’s kind of like studying fish in the ocean and ignoring the fact that they live in water.

We are consciousness. Consciousness is in all things. It is what is alive. Call it an energy, frequency, love, God…it is the fabric that weaves through all things, and is in constant communication with us.

This episode runs vast and deep. I encourage you to be curious, open-minded and open-hearted. We come into this world as children so curious, asking a million “why” questions. As adults we harden, we forget, our blinkers slide in and we walk a straight and narrow path. This is an invitation to be childlike again. Curious, open, receptive, moving into peripheral vision vs laser, single-pointed focus.

This awakening that we’re undergoing is just a remembering of who we truly are and what this is all about. So the conversation of consciousness is fundamentally important. Because when we remember who we are and what all things are, we return home and when we’re at home we feel safe (truly safe, not the false illusion of ‘safety’) at peace and in our joy. We feel held again by life, existence and this human experience becomes less scary, less overwhelming and lonely.

I love this conversation because when you really tap into it and bring it into your daily life, you’ll see that magic returns to life again, and that is a wondrous thing!

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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Link to the podcast I mentioned: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-life-stylist/id1121467751?i=1000561776651

What I’ve learned over the past few decades, is that the only way to really come home to ourselves is to first walk through our fear. We must not only face it, but embrace it in order to move through into the deeper aspects of ourselves and return home to the lap of love and who we truly are as our Authentic Self.

Fear makes us uncomfortable, it’s scary, painful even, but it is the door we must walk through in order to find our way back home. And by home, I mean our true essence. Not our false personality nor our beliefs and identities that we built around our false beliefs.

But fear is not to be circumvented or even transcended. It must be embraced because it is in the embracing of our fears that we recognise that all fear is, is a scared child within us and all that child needs from us is our loving attention and a warm hug so that it no longer feels alone.

There are many forms of fear. In this episode I go into a few areas: primal/instinctual fear, emotional fear and energetic (frequency) fear. In order for us to return home to ourselves and in order for us as a collective to evolve and ascend, we must face and embrace our fear to reach the other side of light, love, harmony, peace and joy. To return home both as individuals and as a collective.

The light births itself from the dark. So if you want to find your light, you have to find the courage to walk through the dark first. It’s not as scary as you think. Your avoidance is the scary part. The relief comes when our fears feel less alone, when they are tended to with love and nurture. Then naturally, without any effort, our fears transform, transmute and sometimes even, vanish life a puff of smoke.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

Want to work with me 1-1? Visit my website and book your first session there. I look forward to connecting with you soon!

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All change requires transition but we often tend to skip over the transition, or at the very least, move through it unaware. Because sometimes transition is uncomfortable.

But transition is a wonderful invitation to be in the present moment. It’s a great opportunity for us to slow down, reflect, process and let go of our past, so that we can move into the future (or the next now moment) with presence, wholeness and joy.

If we skip the transition, we carry over the baggage of our past. We forget and leave parts of ourselves behind. We bypass the feeling of completion, tying the knot at the end of the thread so that the sweater doesn’t unravel.

Transitions are a wise teacher. Sometimes uncomfortable as they may carry the grief of letting go and the anxiety of not knowing what is to come. But stay with the transition and feel all the feelings that arise in it, and you will walk into your future whole and ready for all the ways in which life might choose to surprise you.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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There’s a process to awakening. First we must find the courage to look at the shadow within and around us, and the shadow is simply the parts that we don’t want to look at. The parts we deny, reject, abandon and hide away. But the shadow is the doorway, the portal, to our liberation and peace.

Once we move through our shadow, all our fears, pain, wounding, and learn to love it all—learn to love every corner of ourselves—then we come back home to who we truly are. And who we truly are, by the way, has always been there. We just forgot. Just as who we are is and will always be whole, we just feel ‘unwhole’ because we sever parts of ourselves from ourselves.

So awakening is not just about revealing the shadow, but about remembering who we truly are; which is incredibly powerful and totally magnificent. It goes beyond just being worthy, loveable and significant. It goes back to the very essence of who you are, which is an infinite, limitless being, made of love.

Right now we are going through a collective awakening. Seeing the shadow within and around us, and boy, isn’t there a lot of it!

Until we learn to include all parts of us, to stop denying and rejecting and fighting against ourselves creating an endless internal war, the world will reflect the same dynamic (as within so without) and history will repeat itself again and again. Because this is the school of life and we’re here to learn, grow and evolve.

Stop hating parts of yourself.

Stop hating others.

Come back to love and you will find home again.

Come back to love and you will change the world.

That is the true awakening.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

Interested in working with me 1-1? Visit my website and book your first session there. I look forward to connecting with you soon!

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Anything that we do entails a certain level of risk. There’s a risk in falling in love, moving to a different part of the world, starting a new job. The risk is stepping into the unknown, not knowing the outcome.

The illusion is that we can control the outcome. That we can control others. But we don’t have control of anything, really, other than the way we choose to respond to our experience.

When we want to create change in our lives, we have to be willing to take the risk to step into the unknown, to stretch ourselves beyond our comfort zone (which on a side note, our comfort zone might be familiar but it isn’t always serving us) and encourage ourselves to keep growing and evolving.

Change requires courage—courage to take that risk. Courage requires trust. Do we trust ourselves? Do we trust that we’ll be there for ourselves, without abandoning or rejecting ourselves, as we step into and through the unknown? Once we build trust we create the feeling of safety within us because safety is a state of being more than it is a space or a place. And once we feel safe, we find the courage to take the risk to create change.

It’s a spiralling in, to spiral back out again, kind of process.

Change is scary, whether it’s an external change, or an internal change like deciding to no longer play the old patterns, belief systems and habits that have kept us in a state of lack of self-worth. Either way, we are stepping into an unknown, learning to make different choices, showing up in new ways, all of which will support and create new outcomes.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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