Raw Conversations with Corinne Blum

I just came off of a Brainspotting training and it was remarkable to experience and witness the body/brain’s ability to self heal.

Just having someone to hold the space and be held by their sheer presence, was/is healing in and of itself.

We have the ability to self heal but healing doesn’t happen on the surface. It’s not a snorkel trip but a deep sea dive. From a scientific perspective, healing doesn’t happen in the neocortex but in the subcortical brain or brainstem.

Don’t under estimate the power of presence and being held in the container of love and when held there, your ability to self heal.

I am merely the guide, the one who holds the torch to shine light upon the path back home to your true, Authentic Self.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

www.corinneblum.com

The greatest journey you’ll ever take is 9 inches: from your head to your heart.

In this episode I talk about our society’s over focus on the mind, how dropping into our heart and felt, emotional, experience and aligning our mind, heart and gut, is what brings us into wholeness, harmony and equilibrium.

In an over-masculinised society (but unfortunately a wounded masculine), in a society that deifies the mind over all else, we’ve become fragmented versions of ourselves. We are innately whole. We are inherently collaborative and compassionate but we’ve been severed from our true Selves and true nature.

The journey from head to heart, from fragment to wholeness, is the greatest journey we’ll ever embark upon.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

We all want love but we’re equally good at keeping love at bay because by nature, we are vulnerable beings and can easily feel hurt.

To open up to love we have to look at our fear of love, the pain that drives it and the wound that created the hurt of our pain.

In order to open up to love we have to hold our pain and give it love so that it can feel safe enough to open up to love.

It’s often a process of holding sometimes contradictory feelings or experiences-the longing for love and the pushing it away because of the fear of how love may hurt us.

In the end, it’s about creating an inner safety and power that we experience when we fully embrace our vulnerability and our entire human experience-which means loving our shadow too.

So how do we open up to love? Listen to your fear, your pain and your unmet needs and pour love into them. Then you’ll be able to not just yearn for love but to invite it in and receive it when it does arrive. And if you’re in a relationship, you’d be surprised how even couples can withhold love and keep love and vulnerability at bay.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

The greatest journey you’ll ever take is 9 inches: from your head to your heart.

In this episode I talk about our society’s over focus on the mind, how dropping into our heart and felt, emotional, experience and aligning our mind, heart and gut, is what brings us into wholeness, harmony and equilibrium.

In an over-masculinised society (but unfortunately a wounded masculine), in a society that deifies the mind over all else, we’ve become fragmented versions of ourselves. We are innately whole. We are inherently collaborative and compassionate but we’ve been severed from our true Selves and true nature.

The journey from head to heart, from fragment to wholeness, is the greatest journey we’ll ever embark upon.

Tune in for more…

Loving you from afar,

Corinne

We are in a powerful time of transition and that goes for us as individuals and as a collective.

As we’re attuning and evolving, the shadow is coming to light and we’re recognising our true nature once more. But the path requires awareness.

How do we move from victimisation into self-responsibility? Which leads us to self-empowerment and the full embodiment of our true nature.

How do we move from the analytical mind into the heart? And how can creating equanimity between our left and right brain, act as a passageway to living in heart?

I explore these questions and more in today’s podcast.

I’ll leave you with one image before you tune in….

I remember hearing about an indigenous elder that likened our society to a bird flying with only one wing. A bird with one wing cannot truly fly for there is no balance. It flies in circles, you could metaphorically say. This has been the consequence of living in a primarily left-brained, masculine (not divine masculine, however) society. We have lost one wing and we need to restore its counterpart: the divine feminine.

To me, the divine masculine is presence and the divine feminine is heart. When the masculine is in true presence, the feminine feels safe enough, held enough, to open her heart. With presence and love it becomes a natural choice to walk the path of love. And it is my belief that in order to change the world and create the new world that awaits us through our creativity (as we are the makers of the new world), we must walk the path of love.

This means stepping off the path of fear. Alchemising the victim into the self-responsible, mature, sovereign, adult archetype. Bringing equilibrium to our mind, calling back in the divine masculine and feminine, and dropping into our hearts.

Loving you all from afar,

Corinne

In this very non linear episode, I talk about the concept of letting go when it comes to the narratives, coping mechanisms, defences and blocks that keep us from receiving love.

At the root of our coping mechanisms, or at the core of why we hold onto resentment, anger and blame, is fear.

Love is deeply vulnerable and so fear inevitably arises within it because we don’t want to get hurt and feel pain.

If we approach love unconsciously, we will be at the mercy of our triggers, fears and wounds. And if we don’t deal (lovingly) with our pain, it will surely come out sideways both within a relationship and most especially if/when we breakup from that relationship.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

Mental Health: the term has come up in more mainstream speak over the last several years and although I acknowledge and respect that having the term helps people de-stigmatise the taboo of therapy (which still exists in some countries and cultures), I want to talk about how staying in the realm of the mental, keeps us in the perspective of viewing ourselves as fragments vs a whole.

It keeps us looking at the symptom vs the root cause, the superficial vs the profound, the mental vs the entirety of our human experience which includes the emotional, physical, energetic, spiritual, intuitive, instinctual…I think you get where I’m going with this.

We are whole, expansive beings and when we get stuck focusing on just one part of our big and vast beings, we’re limiting our opportunity for true healing and transformation.

We have to look at the whole and looking at the whole means that we have to go into the source of our pain and suffering rather than trying to logically or analytically figure out how to get rid of, or make better, the symptom of our experience.

Healing happens when we go in and go in deep. It doesn’t happen on the surface and it certainly doesn’t happen when we only focus on resolving the symptoms.

Your mental health is a part of your WHOLE health and often our mental state of being is a byproduct of—or at the very least simultaneously experienced vs preceding—our emotional and energetic experience.

So from where I’m standing, to call it mental health and mental health alone, is far too limiting a term to encompass what is required for our true health and wellbeing…which requires that we sit with, hold, love and accept the entirety of our whole experience, on all levels.

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You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or on my website. See individual links below.

Loving you from afar,

Corinne

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EnCaRRaVXIDfjyuaT1MYg?si=RyB1y5huQ-Korhw-sBrN5g

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/raw-conversations-with-corinne-blum/id1573623946

Website: https://www.corinneblum.com/resources/podcast/

What does healing actually mean? There are so many modalities and what works for one might not work for another. But the angle I’m offering is that healing requires us to sit with our pain, and in a pain avoidant society/culture, this is sometimes a big ask. At the very least it’s something we need to learn, and be supported, to do more often.

There is no circumventing our pain and though the prospect of sitting with it might be scary or uncomfortable for you, I have seen and felt myself that it often always leads to relief because what we’re finally doing, is acknowledging our own existence.

We’re no longer pretending to be ok, or acting like someone else that might be deemed more acceptable to society. We get to be in our authentic truth and that is a very liberating and empowering feeling to reside within.

You’re not going to fully heal until you pull the thorn out from your wound and pulling the thorn out requires that you go on a journey within yourself.

We have to walk into the forrest where all the shadows that scare us are. We need to get to know them and become comfortable with them and recognise that what we were afraid of wasn’t our pain but the unknown, itself. Because once we get to know our pain we get to know ourselves, and once we get to know ourselves we feel less alone because we realise that when we connect to all the various parts of ourselves (like putting the pieces of the puzzle together or gluing the broken fragments of a vase back together again) we feel whole.

Healing is a catalyst for growth. It’s an open door that invites you to get to know yourself better. It’s a journey and an awakening. It will require courage, which requires heart, but the journey will lead you to the state of peace you have been seeking. It will guide you back home.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

It all comes down to our inner child. How we get triggered, why we get defensive, the emotional reactions we find ourselves repeating. The core of our patterns and reactions is our wounding which is when the child within us felt hurt, abandoned, rejected, unloved etc.

Doing the inner child work is what leads to our healing. It’s the most direct path but it’s a process that is experiential not conceptual. It doesn’t happen in the mind but in the body.

And it takes time….It may seem like nothing is happening and you’re not getting anywhere but because it’s experiential, you have to move through the experience for the penny to eventually drop. It’s not something you can just read in a book and then shelf it, as a dear friend of mine said. You have to live it, embody it, practice it again and again and you will reach a marker when you can FEEL it and then it all of a sudden makes sense not just intellectually but experientially. And that’s when you’re whole life begin to change in a more visible way because now your patterns are conscious, you understand how to take care of yourself and you know that no matter what, you’re there for yourself and you can get through anything.

It’s an ongoing journey of getting to know yourself more deeply, continually showing up for yourself with love, gentleness, patience, acceptance and kindness so that you begin to trust yourself and therefore feel safe within yourself.

You are cultivating a lifelong long relationship until death do you part.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

I want to piggyback off of yesterday’s episode (Vulnerability, Stretching Beyond our Comfort Zone, Connecting to our Essence) and talk about perception.

How we perceive ourselves, others and our experiences, creates the reality we live in. If our perception is not coming from a clear, as objective as possible, lens, we can paint a very different reality that is based on a false story and limited belief vs the truth that is before us.

Basically, if we’re not perceiving things from a place of love, kindness towards ourselves and self-worth, we may create a lot of unnecessary suffering.

The invitation is to be curious about how you perceive yourself and how that may differ from the feedback you’re receiving from others. And that goes both ways btw.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne