Raw Conversations with Corinne Blum

It’s hard to wait for anything, let alone love. We can oscillate from fully enjoying our lives on our own to falling into great impatience, frustration and even despair that what we’re wanting, is just not showing up…yet. What can we do in the emotional stew of it all? Well, as with everything, it’s how we ‘be with’ our experience that either makes the journey a struggle or more fluid. Our beliefs...

We’re shifting out of the paradigm of fear and moving into one of faith. But faith isn’t a controlled execution. We don’t say we’re taking a leap of faith and then announce our strategy to get there as if it were some mathematical equation with a particular answer. It’s a leap of faith because we’re stepping, leaping, into an unknown. When we let go of trying to control life, others, ourselves—and...

We are in a partnership with our spiritual being and our human being, looking to find collaboration, harmony and learning between both. I think spirituality often gets misconstrued for being a path that has to overcome our humanity—as if our human was something bad or wrong or something to transcend because it isn’t “spiritual—but I believe our humanity is the vehicle for our spiritual growth. The...

Hitting rock bottom can come about for many reasons and there are many gifts in it, too. It might come from an accumulation of stress, overwhelm, struggle, or it might come as an invitation to truly trust, surrender and let go. And too, sometimes, even though they say that the Universe will only hand you what you can handle, we get to say, “Enough” and draw a line in the sand. Sometimes it all can...

We’ve strongly been indoctrinated to believe that there is something more powerful than us outside of us. Whether it’s the voice of authority, our parents, peers, God or even the Universe. We can have the tendency to believe something outside of us knows better, will praise or punish us, is teaching us lessons sometimes kindly and sometimes cruelly. What we don’t realise is that we are not separat...

For millennia mystics, poets and spiritual teachers have been talking about love. But now more than ever, in times of both crumbling and awakening, the choice to follow the path of love seems all the more prevalent. Choosing love vs fear will change your life. It will also change the world. But it isn’t to say that we won’t still experience fear, but what I mean here is, will you let fear rule or...

We are an instant coffee kind of culture. We want to fix and make things better instantaneously, and often strive to getting rid of symptoms vs looking at the core. Our emotional world needs time. It needs patience. It requires us to be present, stay and be with our experience for more than a millisecond. It can be a tall order in a society that vies for our attention all around the clock. So more...

You’re not a never-ending project. You’re not imperfect as you are. You don’t need fixing because you’re not broken. You don’t even need to change how you’re feeling or what you’re experiencing by somehow “making it better,” if it means that you have to deny the truth of where you are in this moment. The only way to truly “change,” evolve and grow is to first be where we are, here and now, and hon...

We often think of progression as something akin to climbing steps: upwards and higher. We aspire to reach a higher place that is “better” to where (and who) we currently are. I see progression, on a spiritual or personal evolutionary level, as a spiralling into ourselves so that we can spiral back up and out. We have to go into our humanity to reach our divinity. The progression might look similar...

Our culture still holds so much shame around our humanity. I see even in the “self-growth” and spiritual community, this language around ‘getting rid of,’ ‘competing against,’ ‘winning over’ certain aspects of our human selves. From my experience, I don’t find this helpful nor productive. There are no parts to get rid of. If we’re fighting against, or competing with, certain aspects of ourselves,...

It’s not easy to change and evolve ourselves because when we evolve, we might find ourselves outgrowing the old and familiar. It’s one of the reasons people don’t do the inner work, or are afraid to, because maybe they begin to resonate less with their friends or environment. Or maybe they go home to their family and their parents trigger all the old ways, patterns and habits. They’re afraid of lo...

We often have ideas, concepts and expectations of what we think life should look like. It’s often in those hard defined ideas that we experience suffering because most every expectation is followed by disappointment. We create ideas because it gives us a false sense of safety. That we’re taking the undefinable, unknown that is the future, and trying to make it known by predicting what it should be...

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...

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....

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 i...

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...

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 g...

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...

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...

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...

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 wa...

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 prese...

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 ev...

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...

Nothing changes when we are in a state of resistance and yet sometimes we have to go through the resistance state to clarify what it is that we want to change. But in order for change to occur, we must stop resisting what is. We have to allow, accept and feel into what is happening right here, right now. Only then can we make a choice as to how we want to respond to our current reality. We have to...