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Truth and Honesty: Getting to the CORe
A key aspect of our relationships, no matter which kind, is the foundation of truth and honesty they are built on. We, as a society, depend on the ability to trust each other, and to be able to speak our truths and trust that they will be received. However, many of us...
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How to Create Resilient Relationships
My wife and I spend a lot of time together. We live, work, travel, and facilitate with one another. And, as you’d expect, that’s come with occasional disagreements, diverse opinions (we don’t always see eye-to-eye on things - imagine that!), and conflict. So, we’ve...
How the Three Selves Impact Your Relationships
At COR, we look at a healthy relationship through a paradigm we call The Three Selves. It’s a beautiful way to view the human condition—and to view one another. The human condition is developed by our Three Selves as follows: We have our Healthy Self—which is the...
Am I feeling Empathic Distress or Compassion?
There’s so much pain and suffering in the world that demands our compassion. Yet it’s easy to be resistant to feeling compassion, because we’re afraid it might overwhelm us. But there’s a distinction between compassion and empathetic distress that’s important to...
The Key to Healthy Leadership: Becoming the Custodian of Your Own Needs
One of the essential qualities of leadership is to be the custodian of your needs—and it’s an overlooked quality. We all have needs for security, love, affection, honor, and connection, among other things. Just like the physical needs for food and shelter, when we...
Shifting From Body Shame to Body Power as a Woman
One of the biggest causes of shame in a woman’s life is her body. Somewhere around 90% of women feel - or have at some point felt - shame regarding their body. Although saddening, this is not surprising, as many of us are taught from a young age that even just being...
The Importance of Self-Compassion
Something a lot of people forget is that self-compassion is a good thing. It makes us happier, healthier, and more effective human beings. But we don’t often practice self-compassion because we don’t think we deserve it, or because we think there’s someone else...
New Beginnings: Four Practices for Rebirth
Throughout our lives, we are offered many opportunities for rebirth. These occasions of renewal are essential for growth. They allow us to let go of habits and behaviors that no longer serve us, and step into a life that’s more healthy, more mature, and more joyful....
Initiations In Love: What Relationships Teach Us About Ourselves
We all have a perfect vision of what love is, but there is also a lot of pain and worry about not fulfilling that vision. We never enter into relationships with a blank slate; we enter with a strong survivor self that ensures our defense mechanisms protect the wounds...
The Four Domains of the Healthy Self
At COR, we believe that every one of us has 3 selves: the Healthy Self, the Wounded Self, and the Survivor Self. When we’re born, we enter into this world innocent and connected to grace. As we grow, we experience major or minor trauma that forms our Wounded Self....
How to Deal With Being Triggered
We all get triggered every now and then. If you want to be a leader, either in your relationships, workplace, or life, then we’ve developed an easy, 4-step process to help you deal gracefully with getting triggered. We may have the belief that leadership - either for...
Overcoming Overwhelm: Reset Your Nervous System & Learn How to “Be” Again
From a global pandemic to racial and social turmoil, financial problems to divisions between family members and members of the country, the last year has been very difficult at all levels: socially, spiritually, mentally, and even physically. It can be tempting to try...
Making Healthy Resolutions From a Whole You
It’s a universal condition that we make New Year's resolutions that inevitably lead to failure. When they do, we find ourselves sometimes swinging back even further in the opposite direction. It’s a painful and disappointing experience, which is only made worse by the...
Why Men Get Emotionally Derailed By Women
Many men have experienced being emotionally thrown off balance by a woman, either in their workplace, family or intimate relationship. When we experience an emotional trigger in the presence of a woman, this tends to stem from a past wounding that was never fully...
The Anxiety of Uncertainty & How to Combat it
This year has been the test of a lifetime for many of us, with a cycle of constant change and uncertainty. Human biology doesn’t react well to change—it often triggers us into believing we’re in danger and engages our survivor selves, who immediately begins making a...
Mastering Your Life Purpose As a Man
Purpose is a very abstract and elusive concept. What does it mean to have a purpose? Are we born with it, or is it created? How do we know when we’re living in alignment with our purpose? And most importantly, what can we do to live more purposeful lives? These are...
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