Raw Conversations with Corinne Blum

We all have intuition and both an inner and outer guidance system that supports us. We’ve just been living in a culture that has pulled us so far away from ourselves, our centre and therefore our amazing abilities that we innately have. We have incredible tools and support systems to lean upon—or better said: engage with—within and around ourselves. But we’ve got to start getting curious and be wi...

You want to get life “right.” You’re afraid to make a mistake and make a wrong turn And end up in a place you didn’t expect to arrive to. But life doesn’t happen along one road There is no destination And there are no wrong turns. Because life is a series of experiences Like one bead strung after the next. You cannot get this wrong. There are infinite roads and infinite opportunities And it is you...

The pressure of purpose… I kind of wish I had never been told that I was special, or talented, or that I would do great things on a grand scale because expectation gets tied into that and pressure comes out of expectation. But what creates pressure around purpose? Is it our lack of self-worth trying to prove something? Is it society’s constant dangling of the carrot in front of our noses saying we...

I almost didn’t want to record today as I was feeling tired, a bit low, periody and like I wasn’t sure what I could even offer from that place. But then I thought, there is no better moment to talk about self-worth when I myself am feeling down and having a conversation with my self-worth. When we’re feeling down, many of us feel (or have felt in the past) alone with our experience. Because our so...

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 d...

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 deif...

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 pro...

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...

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 pa...

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 loo...

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 pros...

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 conc...

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 b...

I sang in front of an audience this past Saturday and I want to share my personal story about my experience; which involves vulnerability, stretching ourselves beyond our comfort zone and connecting to the essence of who we truly are. What makes all of that possible is allowing Love to be the container for our experience. Because love (self-love) said to me as I was nervous as all hell and wonderi...

I want to share what came through for me as I was meditating this morning and journaling just now. Every year a word spontaneously comes up for me as the theme of the year. Now I don’t really follow the calendar new year, but my birthday falls just after the new year so that’s probably where I draw the inspiration for this new cycle. This year my word is Love. Which seems so obvious because I talk...

I will refer to this New Year as the calendar new year because if we follow the rhythms of nature, the true new year would be the Spring equinox. Based on that, I want to talk about how sometimes resolutions become more of a pressure and expectation that we end up falling short of, and which therefore leaves us feeling rather shitty, rather than setting intentions that truly support our growth. Al...

What are our associations with love? Why do we associate love with pain? Do we mix up attachment and love, or various feelings and emotions that we’re experiencing, with love? In this podcast I dive into the essence of love and all the various aspects that we associate with love and how we sometimes get them all tangled up. I also talk about how to be the source of love as well as how pain acts as...

In our society, December is one of the busiest months. There’s shopping, social events (that include lots of sugar and alcohol), family get-togethers (which for some are stressful) travel etc. It’s busy! But if we look at nature, everything is slowing down. It’s the darkest time of the year and therefore a very inward time of year. What society is doing, is in complete opposition to what nature is...

I wish I could give you a formula but really, to me, the practice of giving ourselves love is more of an experience. Firstly, it’s a practice and what any practice requires is consistency. Second, loving ourselves is an act of generosity: it’s self-giving. We are learning how to give ourselves love by showing up consistently (so that we can build trust), accepting our entire experience and self (l...

What is the shadow? Why do we avoid it? And why does it run our lives until we make it conscious? In this episode of Raw Conversations with Corinne Blum, we’ll look at these three questions and why doing the shadow work is so important for our happiness and well being. A preview into this episode: The shadow isn’t the sum of all the “negative,” bad parts of who you are and should aim to get rid of...

Struggle is an invitation to go deeper within ourselves. It forces us to dive beyond the surface, our coping mechanisms and habitual behaviour, down into who we truly are in our essence. There is always a point of tension in life. Not because life, or the universe, or whatever else you may believe in, is punishing you, but because that point of tension invites us all to keep growing. When we refra...

Society has taught us that our worth is measured by what we do, how productive or successful we are. If our worth is measured by what we do and not by who we inherently are, self-care becomes really hard because if you rest, you’re considered lazy or unworthy. We’re called selfish if we take time for ourselves but rest is vital for our wellbeing. What would it be like if you reframed everything? I...

We’ve heard a lot of language re awakening and much of it is believed to be a beautiful thing. But what about the trauma of awakening? Sometimes truth is harsh, right? I want to start a conversation and a space to support this, at times, hugely challenging transition. Whether you feel you don’t belong in this world, you don’t know how to be here, or are frustrated with not knowing how to make this...

We’ve been told that the darkness is scary, that the shadow is bad, and that pain is something to avoid. But what we’re doing when we run away from our own shadow, is we’re running away from our ability to truly receive love. In the dark is where we find light. In the pain is where we find healing. In staying with our entire experience, is where we find love.

We’re living in crazy times. In times that are requiring so much courage and courage requires care.