Oct. 6

by | Oct 6, 2017 | Coffee With Cory

We all have things we’re working on. “Baggage” if you will. As you enter the stream of personal growth, there may be a feeling like you need to fix everything, change all of your negative conditionings, fully heal from all of your trauma before you can really start...

Oct. 5

by | Oct 5, 2017 | Coffee With Cory

New research in psychology, specifically by Dr. Stephen Maier, shows that Learned Helplessness is not learned. Instead, the state of helplessness is our default response to a threatening situation—curl up in a ball, protect ourselves, get quiet, and do nothing. As...

Oct. 4

by | Oct 4, 2017 | Coffee With Cory

People often ask: “How do I practice non-attachment?” Well, non-attachment is actually not something that we can practice. If you want a piece of cake, trying really hard to not want it, isn’t going to serve you much, nor will pretending that you don’t want it. You...

Oct. 2

by | Oct 2, 2017 | Coffee With Cory

There’s a story made popular by Jon Kabat-Zinn about how hunters used to catch monkeys in India. They would cut a coconut in half, hollow out one side, and drill a hole in the center that was just big enough for a monkey to put its hand through. After this, they...

Oct. 1

by | Oct 1, 2017 | Coffee With Cory

Wendell Berry wrote: “It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. And when we no longer know which way to go, we have come to our real journey.” If you’re at a point where you no longer know what to do or where to...

Sept. 30

by | Sep 30, 2017 | Coffee With Cory

Live in alignment with your personal ethics, whatever they may be. If you don’t, it’s impossible to find real peace. You can lie to other people about who you are, but you can’t lie to your heart.