You’re not your identity, nor are you all the beliefs and stories you’ve unconsciously made and believed yourself to be. It sounds odd because we get ‘identified’ with our identity, right? We think we are our behaviour, our beliefs, our anxieties and our fears. But really who you truly are, is an essence, the rest is learnt and sometimes even made up.

Just like we attach ourselves to our identity because it feels familiar, and therefore safe, we equally project onto our lives what life should look like and how it should unfold. I chuckle at the 5 year and 10 year plan because as the saying goes: “How do you make God laugh? You tell him your plans.”

We run into suffering when we expect ourselves and life to be a certain way. We suffer when we take things personally and over identify with our feelings. We equally meet suffering when we expect life to be a certain way and then find ourselves disappointed, ashamed or self-blaming if it doesn’t turn out in the exact way we thought it would. We wonder where we went wrong.

So much of this work is around building self-awareness so that we can differentiate what is our true essence, and what is the identify we’ve attached ourselves to that we believe (falsely) to be our true self.

It comes down to learning the map of who you are. The language of who you are. A place of self-knowing and a gnosis that allows you to truly tune into yourself and the current of life that you’re riding upon. When we can rest in that place, we trust more, let go more and ride the wave with less resistance. And the simplicity of that connection to your higher self and to life, is a beautiful, magical and liberating one.

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Corinne

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In this episode I share a story that placed me at the edge of danger, on the corners of a dark shadow, that though it did scare and shock me, also brought me great insight into, perhaps, the art of truly living. Truly trusting. Truly letting go and allowing my Higher Self to guide the way.

I’ve long since believed in, and guided individuals through, embracing our fear. The only way out is through. When we face our fears, and profoundly trust our greater being, we’re able to return home to who we authentically are. And when we cut the noose from our necks that fear holds a grip on, we’re liberated. When we break through the illusion of control that fear has on us, we’re free. And there’s nothing like being on the edge of danger that will invite you to truly trust, let go and be guided by what is greater than just your human self.

This is the school of life. A place for our soul to journey and grow through various lessons. All things, all experiences, all beings deserve the chance to be heard, seen and understood. And when we do these things with presence, we fall into greater flow, greater ease and trust, as we ride this sometimes crazy adventure, that is called life.

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Corinne

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Corinne

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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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Corinne

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