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28/08/2023

I rarely get ill but when I do it always reminds me of the art of surrender. Of letting go. Not trying. Not fighting against. Trusting. And ultimately recognising that we’re not so in control as we believe ourselves to be—at least not in the way we perceive “control.”

I really surrendered this time. It was testing at times, let me tell you. It was 41 degrees outside. I was shut in a darkened house. I kept getting hit with one thing after the next. It was a far from ideal situation after a recharging holiday. But I accepted. It was what it was and I could be nowhere else other than that present moment.

I take this lesson into life. It’s how I approach emotions and our human experience.

* You can’t get anywhere if you don’t accept where you presently are.
* Resisting your current experience only makes it worse.
* Surrender makes way for life to flow through you rather than against you.
* Trusting in ourselves, life, the Universe, God, whatever it is you bow down to with respect as a conscious part of who you already are but have merely forgotten, is what takes you through the moments. The hard ones, most especially.

We try too hard. We expect too much. This isn’t about mediocrity this is about knowing that in this moment, you’re good enough as you are. You’re worthy. You’re loveable. Your being is enough. Your existence is enough. Don’t worry so much. You can’t get this wrong.

You can only turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to your heart and the calling of your soul and then it is that, that will cause the most suffering and the greatest loss of opportunity to be who you truly are. But there’s no proving required. You’re good. Just listen. Love. Allow.

One step at a time…

Loving you from afar,
Corinne

Ps.I’m grateful for my returned health.A practice (gratitude) that invites me into the now.

04/08/2023

The joy of learning about we humans…

I’ve been immersed this week in deepening my knowledge of the enneagram. I was introduced to it twenty years ago but something inspired me this week to dive into it more fully.

It’s not just the information that I find interesting and the mental stimulation that I find energising, but it’s the compassion that it evokes. It’s the feeling that arises when you expand your mind, perception, beliefs and perspectives and begin to place yourself in the shoes of another. There’s a warmth. A gentleness. A humility and a care.

We all see differently but we can learn to see through the eyes of others. But perhaps first there’s the invitation to understand ourselves better. To take the journey inwards and explore not only our personality but our essence.

Beatrice Chestnut said something along the lines that it’s interesting that we’re so curious about exploring the universe, but what of our inner worlds?

I find it a cosmos unto itself. One that reminds me of how complex and paradoxically simple we are.

Some are scared of opening the door and looking inside, and I get it. Yet I’d respond by saying that it’s so worth mustering the courage to brave the journey in, because ultimately knowing, accepting and loving ourselves is the way to self-liberation and peace.

So today I feel grateful that I get to learn these things, better understand others and myself and cultivate greater compassion for this human experience.

Loving you from afar,
Corinne

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19/04/2023

Can we allow? Can we return to love, over and over again, even when we forget? Even if and when we feel triggered and hurt? When we resist and fight against?

The invitation to return to love is always there. Our human self will wander off. It will get bruised and hurt. It will cope and defend, protect and seek safety. But eventually we remember that home is where love resides. Where love holds our sweet and tender humanity in its lap and says it’s all ok.

It’s when we meet the resistance and allow, soften and surrender, trusting the process of our human experience, that we find peace. That’s when love enters and reminds us of who we truly are. Reminds us, that it is an amazing gift to be uniquely YOU in this lifetime!

Stay tuned for this week’s podcast on meeting our resistance.

Loving you from afar,
Corinne

17/04/2023

You are love and you are loved.

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04/04/2023

Yesterday the field at the back of my house was in flames. I shared a post about it. The words that kept coming through to me yesterday and again today have been: The phoenix rising from the ashes.

The burning of things is a powerful ritual. It can be a cleansing, healing and letting go.

The spring for me is always the start to the new year and with it comes a freshness of energy. So in a way, the timing of my field burning felt somehow ritualistic.

What am I wanting to burn down in the flames? What am I wanting to have rise from the ashes?

When you actively choose to work on yourself, to heal and let go of old patterns so that you can fully step into your truest, fullest Self, life presents you with opportunities, signs, affirmations that you are on the path. As within, so without…

I believe we always have an invitation to crack ourselves a little bit more open every time. To burn away what no longer serves us, to peel off another layer, all of which lead us closer to our true selves. All of it leading us closer to a more open and loving heart.

But we must be willing. It is always a choice. In fact, nothing in life is never NOT a choice. The victim might not see it that way (it’s blind spot is not recognising that it has the inner authority to make that choice and change its life), but we always have the freewill to choose how we show up in life.

How willing are we to do the work?
How willing are we to be honest with ourselves?
How willing are we to be courageous enough to be vulnerable, open-hearted, loving?
How willing are we to receive the very thing(s) we’ve been yearning for?

The invitation is there. The choice is yours.

Loving you from afar,
Corinne

02/11/2022

Your behaviour doesn’t have anything to do with your worth. Your self-worth is inherent. You were born with it, you’ll die with it. You might forget or get disconnected from it in-between, but it’s always there.

Your behaviour on the other hand might need evolving and can be changed in a productive, loving way. But if you make your behaviour about your worth, you won’t actually ever grow because the stakes will be too high. The judgment too great. You’ll take everything personal and your patterns will repeat themselves because it will feel too painful to look at them because you believe they have everything to do with who you are, aka your worth.

The key is to become the witness. To assume your worth is intact and then become the observer of your thoughts, feelings, triggers, coping mechanisms etc and understand WHY they are happening because there is always a deeper reason.

Listen in for the analogy I offer to explain what the witness/observer is.

Loving you from afar,
Corinne

20/10/2022

It’s so exciting when I get to see how a client has grown over the years. That a concept what once felt abstract, seemingly all of a sudden is a felt experience.

One of my long term clients finally began to really get what self love is. Listen in to see how she explained it. It’s beautiful…😊

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19/10/2022

Yesterday I spoke about the difference between unconscious anger that we act out and lash out on others, and conscious anger which is the communication of the feeling of anger as an emotion.

Today I go deeper into our triggers, wounds and the stories we make about ourselves as a product of our wounding.

The most important thing to know is that our wounding isn’t our fault. Even though we can point to what initiated our pain, there really is no original culprit because trauma gets handed down generationally until we make it conscious and do the inner work to heal it and stop the line of trauma and wounding.

It’s not our fault and yet it is our responsibility to heal it and I say that as a good thing. We deserve to take responsibility and do the work and heal it because the gift we receive in return is a happy life where we can fully receive love without sabotaging it and perpetuating unnecessary suffering and pain. Doing the work offers us liberation.

It takes effort but it’s worth it…

Watch to learn more and if you feel you need guidance along your healing journey, feel free to be in touch or take a closer look at the work I do at www.corinneblum.com

Loving you from afar,
Corinne

18/10/2022

Let’s talk about anger.

We haven’t learned how to express anger in a healthy, constructive way in our society. So we vilify it and suppress it and then when it eventually comes out, it comes out sideways.

But we’ve also misinterpreted what expressing anger means.

Enacting or acting out unconscious anger in a reactive way, isn’t really expressing our anger.

Learning how to sit with, hold and feel our anger and then communicate it from an “I am feeling” place, is making the emotion of anger conscious. Once it’s conscious, we can communiate it in a way that can be heard.

It’s not about enacting anger but about communicating the emotion of anger because anger is just that: an emotion.

What communicating the emotion of anger requires however, is the curiosity to find out what’s underneath the anger because anger is always the symptom at the surface and not the deeper feeling that triggered it. Anger is therefore the messenger pointing us towards our often, unseen pain and wounding.

In order to resolve our anger, we have to go through the pain, to the wound and give ourselves the loving attention we’ve been needing all along.

Ok I’m too tired to say more and my tummy is grumbling with hunger🤪 so watch the video to learn more and if you’re interested in my work, feel free to visit www.corinneblum.com

With love,
Corinne

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