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How to Love Your Wounded Self
We all have a Wounded Self - a part of us that feels as though the world didn’t meet us with love and compassion, an experience that hurt us during one of our most vulnerable points of life - early childhood. It’s a normal part of being human on the earth and it’s...
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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...
The Commonly Celebrated Quality That Actually Leads to Failure
And the Three Counter-Intuitive Tools to Rebalance It Perfectionism is something that plagues many of us. In a lot of ways, it comes from a good place of wanting to do well, to hold up high ethics and values, and an overall desire to do good in the world. However,...
How to Get Out of Survival Mode
Get Nourished & Thrive Again With all that's happened this past year, many of us are living in a constant state of fight, flight, or freeze. It’s been months since the pandemic has impacted our lives, and the effect of prolonged stress and disconnection is taking...
The Impact of the Shadow Feminine on Men
All human beings have many different aspects of shadow in themselves. The shadow feminine has a particularly cutting and demeaning impact on men.
The Holidays: Five Teachings
No matter what you celebrate, how you celebrate –or don’t celebrate– the holidays are an opportunity for reflection, integration, action and new beginnings.
Why Being in Service Fills Us Up
I believe when any of us find a way to be compassionately active, when we participate in a cause we believe in, whatever form our service takes, it takes our inner process to a whole other level. I myself have experienced this so many times. Old wounds or limiting believe systems just simply relax by holding space for another in need.
An Ongoing Struggle with My Body
When I was 8 years old, I picked up a black permanent marker and wrote all over the things in my room, “I hate myself”. And I really did hate myself. I hated what I looked like, who I was, my limited view of the world around me. I thought that I was disgusting and that everyone else thought so too.
Creativity and your Three Selves
Creativity is one of those ‘things’ that we are in relationship with and do not fully realize it. We have to cultivate and foster that relationship in order for it to grow.
The Joy of Full Self-Expression
Whatever happened to those days of being completely self-expressed? You know what I am talking about…. when we were little and ran around doing really weird things like jumping over imaginary animals, laughing out loud, making ridiculous faces and screaming at the top of our lungs?
What if Creative Blocks are Just a Part of the Process?
Winter turns to Spring which turns to Summer and then Fall. The process of being creative, of living, often reflects these same cycles. What if this is not something to fight against, but something to learn to value and work with as part of our creative journey?
The Voice of Our Creative Stories
As a recovering type-A overachiever who values hard work and accomplishment, I have spent most of my life battling against the constant loop in my head that tells me creativity is a waste of time. The tape has a variety of different messages for me, some of which you might relate to…
Would you like some Help with Letting in the Good?
At COR, the July theme has been Joy, Celebration and Letting in the Good. On the transformational journey, we are often so quick to dive into the pain, but joy is just as important, has just as much to teach us, and is in fact a deep part of our true nature.
It’s Time to Let in the Good!
COR’s theme for the month of July is another important aspect of the transformational journey: Letting in the Good! So what does this even mean? Essentially, letting in the good is the ability to recognize when something positive or good is happening and to actually...
What are you ready to commit to?
At COR, the June theme has been Commitment and Integrity, two very important pillars of the transformational journey. We’ve had two people take on this subject, from Freida’s Introductionto this theme, about how she learned a lesson in integrity as soon as she signed...
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