Raw Conversations with Corinne Blum

Sometimes we measure ourselves by standards that aren't even our own. We can feel like a failure not because we actually failed, but because we didn't measure up to the unrealistic expectations that society has of us. I could say I failed at everything I ever did. But did I?In this episode, I give personal stories of how I failed through the eyes of society. And on the flip side, the successes and most importantly, experiences, that I had when I threw away society's manual of how to be a "good" human being. Tune in for more...Loving you from afar, Corinne Enjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you! Show NotesAfter losing a treasured earring, Corinne Blum reflects on the deeper feelings of loss it stirred and questions how we define failure. Looking back on her career in dance, choreography, acting and coaching, she challenges measures of success built around fame, money and status. What if the paths that didn’t turn out as expected were experiences to learn from, rather than proof that we fell short?Key topics and takeawaysWho gets to define failure—and whether society’s measures of fame, status and money are worth adopting.Reframing career changes, relationships and other difficult outcomes as experiences rather than failures.Letting go of comparison and linear plans to make room for a more authentic, less pressured life.Questioning whether conventional ideas of success actually lead to happiness or well-being.Timestamps0:51 The lost earring and the feelings it brought up3:08 A personal history of “failure”4:32 Who decides what counts as success?6:15 The moving goalposts of achievement7:33 Seeing life as a rich range of experiences8:33 Failure—or simply an experience?9:24 The cost of trying to fit society’s standards10:47 Looking for a different way to live11:46 “What are you going to do when you grow up?”

A lot of people might say they're seeking happiness, peace, success, comfort...but there is one thing that lies underneath all of these which I believe is the one thing we're really, truly seeking. It might even give us the answers to why we're here and what the meaning of life is. Join me in the conversation and contemplation of what we're really seeking in life. Let's talk about soul. Let's get into what this all means. And let's look at why so many of us are burnt out. Tune in for more...Loving you from afar, Corinne Enjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you! Show Notes: What Are We Really Seeking?SummaryCorinne Blum has just finished three days of silence, and she uses it to ask what people are really seeking. Her answer is that it isn't happiness or peace on their own. People are seeking themselves, a feeling of "home" within. She explains why burnout isn't a personal defect, why shame and judgment keep us from that inner home, and how to start walking back to it.Key Topics and TakeawaysSilence as recharging. Corinne spends a day without talking, phone or stimulation. For her it's bliss and a way to refill.Burnout and the seasons. In the cooler, darker months our energy naturally turns inward. Society still expects the same pace, so burnout follows."Nothing is wrong with your nervous system." Your body is wise and is flagging an unhealthy environment. The defect is society, not you.What we're really seeking. Happiness, peace and love all depend on a healthy relationship with ourselves. We're seeking the truth of who we are.Home is within. Home is the feeling of relief, of not needing to try. External "homes" only get us so close.Life as experience. Corinne's view is that the soul comes to Earth to gather experience, like traveling away from your hometown. Seeing events as neutral experiences, not good or bad, lets us weave a richer "tapestry."Shame and judgment create the distance. Childhood beliefs like "I'm not good enough" keep us from turning inward.The hero's and heroine's journeys. We over-index on proving ourselves externally. We also need the inward journey of integrating what we learned and returning to ourselves.How to start:Make time to be still and listen.Look at your shame, fear and judgment with compassion and patience.Aim to judge yourself less and less.Keep returning to love: "Just be love."Closing invitation. You can still play the game of life, but awake, "like lucid dreaming." The obstacle is the way.Timestamps0:00 Intro: what are people really seeking?1:11 Three days of silence and why it's bliss3:01 Overwhelm, Vata season and seasonal burnout4:21 "Nothing is wrong with your nervous system"8:29 The point: we're seeking ourselves10:42 Soul, source and unconditional love12:00 Home isn't outside of us15:12 What "home" feels like16:45 Why it's hard to find ourselves17:27 Why the soul comes to Earth, and the hometown/travel analogy24:08 The point of life is to remember who you are25:05 How shame and judgment create the disconnect27:44 The hero's journey vs. the heroine's journey30:47 Outward-facing culture and the fear of looking within32:37 Facing shame and judgment with compassion35:20 Self-forgiveness and "just be love"37:35 Returning home through stillness38:33 Invitation: walk back home, awake like lucid dreaming40:11 Where to go next, and the sign-off

I never really fit in. I haven't done anything in my life the mainstream way, the step 1, step 2, step 3 kind of way. I certainly didn't follow any formula and we all know that life doesn't come with a manual, right?What if life didn't need a formula? What if the formula was to be who you truly are? What if being different is a great thing because it means you're that much closer to being and living your unique Soul Self?In this episode I share a few of my personal experiences being "different" and how it felt like a greater risk for me to conform than to be my Authentic Self. I invite you onto this journey of discovering who you truly are when you're not trying to please others. Because when you take away the cookie-cutter mold, who are you, really?Tune in for more...Loving you from afar, Corinne Enjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you!

In the "self-improvement" world, it's easy to get into the never-ending self-repair project. But you're not something broken that needs fixing. Instead, you're an ever-evolving being that is looking to grow. Sometimes, yes, that growth happens through healing. Through experience that sometimes launches us forwards and sometimes appears to set us back. But evolution is at the core of our soul's incentive for having this human experience. But there's often a very big missing link: Integration. What a lack of integration can mean is anything from carrying baggage over to the next relationship, to at it's worst, acts of violence taken out upon others. In this episode, I talk about why integration matters so much, why we often over look it and implement it in practical terms.Stay tuned for more...Loving you from afar, CorinneEnjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you!

We're moving out of the age of Pisces where the group follows the guru, the teacher, the organisation, and into the age of Aquarius where the individual becomes sovereign, trusting and sourcing their own wisdom and connection to Source through themselves. It's a great time of empowerment. Of reigniting our gifts. Of returning to our incredible, natural design as both human and divine beings. In this episode, I talk about how to stop outsourcing your wisdom and how to 'insource' it, instead. Learn the things that might pull you away from your sovereignty, the spiritual red flags if you will, and what the voice of your soul sounds like. Tune in for more...Loving you from afar, Corinne Enjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you!

A lot of people want to connect with their intuition, and intuition is really just having a conversation with your soul. But the only way to get through, with a clear channel to both hear and respond, is through the heart. If the heart is closed, hardened or in defence, it becomes very difficult to hear and communicate with your soul and our intuition. So the invitation is, how do we have a soft heart in a hardened world?In this episode, I talk about the importance of humility, of having a soft and open heart that can still be discerning and incredibly powerful, and how awareness leads us there. Tune in for more...Loving you from afar, CorinneEnjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you!

Growing awareness isn't so we can be spiritually superior. It's so we can be free. Without awareness, we're at the mercy of reaction. The sometimes messy, instinctual, animal brain. The tail wagging the dog, when it comes to our emotions. And much of our lives are driven by stories. In this episode, I talk about the three levels of awareness to broaden our perspective and clear the lens through which we see life. I also incorporate how to live from our embodied Soul Self. To create that space that comes in when we see our experience through both our Soul Self, and our Human Self. Tune in for more...Loving you from afar, CorinneEnjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you!

Hello beautiful people!It's been several months since I've been here, as I have been changing my entire life around. So, thank you for your patience and thank you for returning and being back in this space with me.In this episode, I talk about my journey of finding home over the past three years. Of how 'faith,' not in a biblical religious sense but in a trusting of being held and guided by a greater force, got me through the difficult times. It has been a journey of metamorphosis. Of alchemy. Of trusting. Of letting go. Of giving up and holding onto Faith, again and again and again.It's sprinkled with magical moments. With moments of real, raw humanness. With the wisdom that comes when we "live life forwards but understand it backwards."Journey with me and know that if you are in that liminal, transitional space too, and you feel like there is no end in sight, you're not alone. It gets beautiful even if right now it might seem brutal. It gets beautiful. Follow your heart. Let it be your north star. Let go. Trust. Know that you are always, always connected, held, guided and loved by that which is our true HOME.Loving you from afar, Corinne Enjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you!

It's easy to zoom so far in that we live, see, perceive only from and through our minds. The lens narrows and life becomes a task that requires figuring out, rather than an experience that invites us to simply receive. In this episode, I talk about how to live from your Soul Self. How to open the aperture from living a pinpointed logical life, to a more expansive life of receptivity, intuition and ease.First half is the talking, the second half in the meditation should you wish you follow and dip your toes into the essence of your Soul!Loving you from afar, Corinne Enjoying this podcast? I would be so grateful if you can give it 5 stars and share with anyone you think might benefit from it. If you're listening on YouTube, please subscribe as it helps me get a larger reach and be of service to more people. Thank you!

What if we redefined how we measure success? That it's not something that is defined by what we do, it's not an outside in kind of thing but an inside out experience, instead.We've been taught to measure success through external factors, but what if your state of being was the true measure. How comfortable you are in your own skin, how kind you are to yourself, how loving and accepting you are of your entire humanity. We're redefining everything and taking on a more human view. So let's dive in...Loving you from afar, Corinne