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Transforming Your Home with Feng Shui Expert Corrina Morris

• Stephanie Graham • Season 1 • Episode 21

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Corrina Morris is a Feng Shui consultant helping women and families create calm, balanced homes using modern-day Feng Shui. Corrina gently guides you to shift stuck energy that may be causing tension, stress, money blocks, or sleep struggles - using simple, practical remedies that really work. Corrina is here to help you move forward, feel lighter, and create a beautiful, happy space for your whole family to thrive in.

Discover how your home's energy could be secretly influencing every aspect of your life with Feng Shui expert Corrina Morris. Presented through a thoroughly modern lens, Corrina reveals how the ancient practice of Flying Stars Feng Shui identifies and remedies energy imbalances affecting your relationships, career, health, and prosperity.

Corrina shares fascinating insights into how our homes retain energetic imprints from previous residents - explaining why some properties seem to manifest repeated patterns like relationship breakdowns or financial struggles. You'll learn about the nine key areas of your home and how they correspond to different life aspects and Corrina offers practical, accessible remedies anyone can implement immediately.

What sets this conversation apart is Corrina's emphasis on discreet, modern applications. Gone are the stereotypical Chinese ornaments and radical furniture rearrangements - her approach uses hidden remedies and subtle adjustments that honour your existing décor while profoundly shifting your home's energy. Particularly valuable is her guidance on navigating the current 20-year Cycle 9 period that began in 2024, bringing transformative fire energy that can either manifest as conflict or catalyst for positive change.

Whether you're experiencing unexplained relationship tension, career blockages, health issues, or simply want to optimise your environment for greater success and harmony, this episode provides actionable insights to transform your living space into a powerful ally on your life journey. Ready to discover if your home is working for or against you? Listen now and take the first step toward energetic alignment.

To connect with Corrina, please use the links below:

Email: Corrinaedwards@hotmail.co.uk

Website: Guiding Stars Feng Shui

Instagram: @guidingstarsfengshui

Facebook: Guiding Stars Feng Shui

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Steph:

Hello, welcome back to Tranquil Topics. I'm your host Steph, and I'm absolutely delighted to welcome a truly fascinating guest today. Her name is Corrina Morris. Corrina is a feng shui expert with a modern day approach and the founder of Guiding Stars Feng Shui. I first discovered Corrina's work when I entered and won one of her competitions. The prize was a Feng Shui analysis of my home and I have to say I was completely captivated by the process. It opened my eyes as to how deeply our environment can influence our well-being, energy and even our opportunities. So I knew I had to invite Corrina onto the podcast to share her wisdom with all of you, and whether you're brand new to Feng Shui or already a fan, I think you're going to find this conversation both enlightening and inspiring. Welcome to the podcast, Corrina.

Corrina:

Hi, thank you for having me.

Steph:

You're so welcome. Thank you for being here.

Steph:

So for the listeners, are you able to tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Corrina:

Yes, of course. So, as you know, my name is Corrina. I'm based in Surrey in the UK, but I work all over the world, so I can basically do all of this remotely. I'm a mum. My whole background is actually in beauty and well-being. I was a beauty therapist for over 25 years and a makeup artist in TV. So that was my background, and this is a complete and utter change in direction with my career. But now, and actually all the way through my career, no matter what I've done, my my goal and my aim is always to help people, whether that's my friends, my clients. You know before when I was a makeup artist and beauty therapist, and obviously now to help as many people around the world as I possibly can and to give them a really calm and well-balanced home.

Steph:

Great, so I'm also part of that process because you've helped me. We'll get onto that. But what is Feng Shui for those that have never come across it before?

Corrina:

It's actually a really, really ancient practice. It's about 4,000 years old. It looks at the energy of the home. So, whilst you know, there's very traditional ways of looking at Feng Shui and some people might think it's all about moving furniture around in the right position, I don't necessarily work with it in that particular way. I've trained in a slightly different way. There's over 120 different schools of feng shui.

Corrina:

But, in a nutshell, if you think about it like acupuncture, if you're going to get some acupuncture done, basically it's there to release any energy blockings in your body which could be causing you stress, discomfort, pain, and obviously, when you go to have that acupuncture done, it releases that blocked energy within your body. And what we're doing is we're taking that with the home. So we're looking are there any blocked areas within your home of blocked energy that could be causing stress, tension. It could be causing a lot of arguments in your home, even illness. It could be even causing you to kind of have issues with your career. So maybe you're trying to get a new job or you keep losing your job. It's, it's so many things. It covers about nine different areas of your life. It's. It's so, so interesting.

Steph:

Yeah, isn't it?

Steph:

So how did it come into your life and what made you decide to train as a Feng Shui consultant?

Corrina:

It wasn't planned, it wasn't planned whatsoever. I think I had gone through a trauma in my life coming up 12 years ago and I had had some therapy for that. And, long story short, after going through such a powerful shift in my life and overcoming a lot of trauma PTSD I felt that actually I felt that there was a lot more to me than than that I don't mean it as just doing beauty therapy, because I'm not putting that down, but I just felt that I'd done that for so long and that there was more more that I could do to help people. There was some sort of shift in me after I had my therapy and I didn't know what I wanted to do. I did not know what it was, but I still had to go through a lot of processing of the trauma that I had been through, go through a lot of processing of the trauma that I had been through. And so I guess, over sort of 12 years I was sort of looking into a variety of different things whether I wanted to be a coach I was looking into that at one point and I was helping women with confidence and anxiety.

Corrina:

And along the way during that I met this wonderful lady who then became my teacher in Feng Shui. Again, like I say, I never meant for it to happen, we just connected. I really resonated with her. She absolutely opened up my eyes to this really modern day way of looking at feng shui. You know, it's something I'd always known about, I'd heard about it. I didn't quite understand it, um, but she, how she sort of explained it, she kind of felt the same way when she found out about feng shui. So I thought, oh my gosh, this is, this is really interesting. And I listened to a lot of her podcasts and learned a lot from her and I was really interested.

Corrina:

And then, when I met her in person, I went to Car Fest with my husband. It's a big, massive festival. For anybody that doesn't know about it, there's lots of different areas. It's obviously predominantly about racing cars, old cars, all sorts of things, but then there was a wellness area as well and that's where I was really interested. And Kimberley, who is my teacher, she was at that that area, and she was doing a talk and it was after that. She was like I'm gonna be doing a course in a few weeks and I thought I have to do it. I just have to do it, and I didn't know how I was going to make this a business, but it's all fallen into place and I absolutely love it.

Steph:

I love that, do you know I find it absolutely fascinating hearing like when you get that shift inside yourself and that pull that you know you need to move on and do something new, and then how it manifests, I just I love it. I just live for it.

Corrina:

I can't get enough so I think, I think, sometimes good or bad, I do believe that things in life happen for a reason and maybe certain things happen to shift your direction, you know, make you open your eyes and say, actually I need to be doing something else 100%.

Steph:

I couldn't agree with you more definitely. So you mentioned that there are so many schools of Feng Shui and I believe you practice flying stars feng shui, so can you explain about flying stars feng shui?

Corrina:

Yeah, sure, so, um, with, with flying stars, um, and and this is to be quite honest, this is the only school of feng shui that I know, so I can't really comment on on any other schools or practices, but this is supposed to be the most accurate way of practicing Feng Shui, because what we do is we look at everything in a very bespoke way. So a traditional Feng Shui if you were looking at the compass directions and we were talking about your north, then everybody's north would be their front door and, and then you kind of map out the floor plans um, with your front door being your north, with flying stars Feng shui, we look at your true north. So it doesn't matter where you are in the world the northern or the southern hemisphere we look. So I would take your address, I would find your house on google maps, on google earth, and I will literally find your true north so that I can map your home bespoke. So your your north might be your back door, Steph, or it could be, you know, somewhere completely different in your house.

Corrina:

We look at at dates, so the date that your house was built, whether you've had a brand new roof in that time, because the energy will change. So if you've had a brand new roof, it's like releasing the lid of a Tupperware dish it's the only way I can explain it and you're releasing all that old energy and you're placing a brand new roof back on the top and that's a brand new energy going on inside your home. So then we would look at that as your date. So it's a bit like everybody is completely individual. So we look at you know your date of birth, your time of birth, where you were born, and that's your very specific star sign and it's kind of similar to that really.

Steph:

That's really interesting.

Steph:

So if you have a new roof of like for anyone listening that's recently had a new roof, for example, could they notice changes in areas of their life potentially? I mean, like, what energy is being sealed in now?

Corrina:

Well, absolutely. If you think about it, if you're going into a home and you've had previous owners in there, then you've got all of their energy still in that home and what you can find, and what I have actually seen with certain clients, is a repeated pattern. Now, whilst it doesn't it doesn't always follow, and it's not to say this is doom and gloom and I should be frightened of moving into our home. But let's just say that the people before you lived in there and they got divorced. They had lots of tension, lots of arguments and things like that. Then there's all that tension still there in your home and now you and your partner are living there and you might feel this, you might not. It just depends. But I've noticed with certain people that there are some patterns. So there's somebody that I know who the people in there before she was in there, they got divorced, and the people before that they got divorced. Once she moved in, she got divorced.

Corrina:

Some people might be listening to this and saying, well, that's just a coincidence, and I know for a fact that this lady was just so stressed in the home she just wanted to move, but of course, the expenses of having to move home is just crazy. So she can't do that, whilst I would never say, right, you need to either knock your house down or move house. It's not like that. It's a very, very simple analysis where we just look at the energies of what's going on currently and how we can just rebalance that with some very, very simple and effective remedies. That's very, um discreet, so nobody would know that you've ever had your house feng shui'd. It doesn't look all different with, you know, chinese objects in there or anything like that. Um, it's just, it's it's a beautiful way of shifting that energy in the home.

Steph:

It's interesting when you say that, like some people will feel it like be more sensitive to the energy in a home. I feel that I am one of them people, so like there's certain buildings that I can walk in and like, for fear of sounding a bit woo-woo, I'm going to say anyway, I can sometimes feel a bit unbalanced and like in my head sort of thing, and like there's been times when I've had to like put my hand on the wall just to steady myself. And when I actually moved into the house we're in now and I moved in with my partner, I thought it was, um, generally like a really nice, nice feeling of a house, apart from three rooms that I didn't have any explanation for, but I just didn't like being in them. Um, and then I came across your page on Instagram and, uh, I was a serial lurker in the background for a bit because I was like, what is this about? Um, I don't think you knew that, do you?

Corrina:

No, I didn't.

Steph:

Yeah, that's me. Um, and I was just fascinated and I was like, well, maybe there's something going on here. So I asked my partner about, like, what was the house like when you moved in? It wasn't a happy home before he moved in. It was completely. When he moved in, he completely gutted it and redid it and like the decor was really lovely.

Steph:

But I just felt that these three rooms, I was like I don't like them, I don't like going in them, I don't feel comfortable in them. And then, um, obviously, because my listeners will know that I'm coming towards the end of uni now, so I thought I would love, love, love, love, to have an analysis on the home, because I'm intrigued, like I really want to know if what I feel is right and like if we can correct that and why. So then I saw one of your competitions online and I thought, oh, what have I got to lose? You know, I'll just, I'll enter and see, I don't want it. So, yeah, we went through the process of the analysis, which I will come on to in a second so you can explain to everyone. But yeah, I am now post- remedies, went through the process.

Steph:

Um, yeah, so the nine areas of the home would you give us an overview of what they are and how they impact our lives before we go on to the analysis?

Corrina:

Yeah, sure, okay. So we've got, like I say, you've got the nine areas of the home and I'll start with the north. So we've got the north, which is your career, your business and your life's journey. We've got northwest, which is all about helpful people and travel, so that that could literally just be you know that you've got lots of people around you in your life or you could find yourself in a situation but, um, there's somebody that crops up that's really helpful for you. Um, we've got northeast, which is knowledge and skill building and also, um, depending on you know the sort of person that you are this is actually a really powerful place to meditate. Um, we've got the east, which is your family and your community. We've got the west, which is fertility, children, creativity and new beginnings. We've got your southwest, which is love and marriage. And we've got your south, which is fame, reputation and recognition.

Corrina:

Now I just want to put put into place that this doesn't necessarily mean, Steph, that you're going to become famous, although you could with this wonderful podcast. What this, what I like to sort of explain about this part with the fame is um, let's just say I don't know you're, you're incredible for making cakes and everybody around you, they get right, we're going to go to Steph because Steph is the most incredible baker in wherever you live. Do you know what I mean? It could, it literally is about you. What are you famous for? People, everybody knows you for this incredible podcast, so that's I just just wanted to make that a bit clear. So, like I say, your south is fame, reputation and your recognition. Your southeast. This is a good one. This is for your wealth, so your wealth and your prosperity and abundance. So obviously everybody wants to know about that area and how to really activate it. One of the most important areas of your home is the centre, and that is your health, and this isn't just your physical health, this is your mental health as well, and it's also your self-acceptance. So there's a billion and one different things you can do in each of these areas. Um, but that's quite a lot to sort of go into and I'm not sure if you want to do that now.

Steph:

mean, do you have like, does it change what area of the home that you focus on? Is that depending on, like, what's going on in your life? So, like, if someone's looking for a new relationship, would they focus more? ? What

Corrina:

Oh, I see, I see what you mean. Yes, yes, your southwest is your love, your marriage, um, and romance. So, yes, actually, if you're talking about love and marriage, you've got actually two areas, so your bedroom being one of them. So it doesn't matter what part of the house your bedroom is, that's just an extra bonus area. Or you're going to look at your southwest and when we're looking at these nine areas, we're actually talking about every single floor that you live on in your home. So we don't talk about a garage, we don't talk about a balcony or a loft or a cellar unless, obviously, you have converted the loft into a loft bedroom or something like that, if that makes sense to you. Or like if you've converted your garage into a workspace and that is part of your home. So we obviously want to look at, um, every floor, uh, for those nine areas, if that makes sense.

Steph:

Yeah, 100%, so I'm sure a few people will have been uh peaked when you mentioned the wealth section of the home. Are you able to just give like a brief overview of how we can improve that?

Corrina:

Definitely the first thing that I would say. With every single area, the first thing to do and not to be frightened of is to have a bit of a declutter, and I know that that's one thing that you've spoken about before, Steph. But not only does it just make us feel good, because you can visually see the difference it just does something to us inside and that is the energy. And I think there's so many people that are actually putting a bit of feng shui into their home without realizing that they're even doing it. So, firstly, have a really good declutter, because if you're holding on to lots and lots of stuff, then it's holding on to a lot of energy and it could then be causing a blockage. It's like a stagnant energy, so it's not flowing properly. And obviously, if that, if we're talking about your southeast, your wealth area, then you want that flow, you want that wealth to be flowing to you. So that would be one thing that I would say. Secondly, I would be looking at anything that could possibly be chipped. So if you've got some plates or bowls, any kind of crockery, if you've got anything in there that's slightly chipped, again it's like a negative energy that you're holding on to. So try, if you possibly can, just to get rid and replace anything that's chipped.

Corrina:

Ideally, have as little on your work surfaces as possible. And another thing would be your hob or your burner. So just above your stove, that is, um, a wealth area as well. So if you, if your kitchen is your um, is your southeast, then have a good look at your hob, keep that really clear, because this is the fire, this is like the fire that's coming up, this is like the wealth coming up and into your home. So we want to keep that really clear. Um, and it's the same with your oven, because this is like um again, it's this beautiful fire energy and this is where the wealth is coming through.

Steph:

Is that, even if your oven and stove aren't in the south, let me get this right, southeast.

Corrina:

So it is. No, you're right. So again, your kitchen, um, it's like another little bonus area for wealth if you're looking at your hob and your burner, um, your oven and things like that. If we're talking about wealth in particular and we don't necessarily need to be talking about the southeast we can be looking at dripping taps, leakages, drains being blocked. All these are signs of wealth.

Corrina:

So it's like your wealth is going down the drain. So if you've got a leaky tap or a leaky pipe, then it's almost like throwing your money down the drain. So either try to get these things fixed or there's a beautiful little tip and all the plumbers out there will probably think what weirdos. If they've come to my house, I probably think here's another nutcase, because around all of my pipes, whether it be under my sink in my kitchen or around any pipes in my bathrooms I've got little pieces of red ribbon that you tie around it. The red represents it kind of stopping. So we don't, we want to stop any of that wealth going down the drain and the knot is like to to stop it, to keep it from from going down. Does that make sense? I'm obviously showing you on here, but I'm hoping that I'm articulating that properly.

Steph:

There's probably going to be an like an influx of plumbers noticing red ribbon round pipes now.

Corrina:

If you, obviously, when, if you start to follow me and you go and have a look at one of my reels, I'll show you and that's how I've done it. So I've taken lots of videos of me going around my home adding some red ribbons to all these pipes. But it's just one thing to sort of say is that not only is that your wealth going down the drain, but also with that and that's your negative side but we've also got that beautiful flow when we, when we turn on the taps. That's that flow of water, that flow of wealth. So if you find that the water's not coming out properly, then that's almost an energetic sign of the wealth isn't flowing properly either.

Corrina:

Lovely little things that you can add in your southeast. You can add like a money plant, you know, to really represent those big round coins. You could make a wealth bowl. That's something that's really exciting that I was talking about on another podcast just the other day. If you want me to explain that to you now, what a wealth bowl is?

Steph:

Please.

Corrina:

Yes, yes, it's something that's really fun. Um, so you just literally get like a, a glass jar. Um, it could be anything. Actually. You could clear out an old jam jar, even as long as you can sort of see through it, ideally at the bottom, have like some sort of a mirror underneath it, so what you would sometimes place a candle on top of, because what that mirror does is it's reflecting all that wealth back to you.

Corrina:

And then you have to look at what does wealth mean to you? It doesn't just mean money and coins and notes. Wealth to you, Steph, could actually mean well, if I'm quite wealthy and I've got great abundance, it could actually mean more holidays, it could mean a brand new car. So you have to look at what does it mean to you. So if for you it's going on holiday, you could put some foreign currency in there, or you could just put our own currency in there. You could write some beautiful affirmations, and when you do write affirmations, make sure that you're talking about it as if you've already got it. So don't write down that affirmation saying one day I hope to be rich. Write it and say I am so grateful for the flow of wealth that's constantly coming my way or something like that, something that resonates with you, but say it as if you've already got it. So then you just put these things inside your wealth bowl you could add a beautiful citrine crystal inside it as well, that attracts that wealth vibration and just place it in your southeast.

Steph:

I love it. I'm fascinated. I suppose could you put a like a spare car key in there if you wanted a new car?

Corrina:

Yeah, absolutely.

Corrina:

You could put a picture inside there of your dream car that you want. Just don't block up the wealth bowl too much, because you still want that energy to be moving around nicely. Look, there's nothing stopping you from having a couple of wealth bowls. There's, there's no limit to this. It's totally up to you. However, just as an example, if it was a car, yes, you could put a car key in it, but you could actually have a photograph if that helped you with a visualisation, and just have that on the side. So not necessarily inside your wealth bowl, but have that on the side. If you're desiring the wealth to attract more beautiful holidays, or even somewhere that you've already been on holiday, have a photo in that southeast area so that you're really seeing that all the time of this holiday destination.

Steph:

Corrina's top tips. Thank you so much for sharing. So I know we've like specifically talked about the wealth area of the home there, but generally, are there any simple but effective feng shui practices that we could incorporate into our daily life?

Corrina:

Yes, definitely. So like, like I say, the first one would be having a good declutter, and it doesn't have to be overwhelming. I would simply say pick one room and pick a day, and if that room in itself is overwhelming, pick one cupboard or one drawer and just put a time limit on it. Give yourself an hour, or even, if you know, even if an hour, you think, oh, my God, I don't want to do an hour, okay, just give yourself 15 minutes every now and again and start to have a bit of a declutter and you, honestly, will feel so much better and a massive shift in your home.

Corrina:

One of the other really important things that I like to talk about is the opening and closing of doors. So, firstly, all your internal doors. I would keep them all open, and I know that me and you, Steph, had this conversation because there was a particular room in your home, I hope you don't mind me saying this, that you didn't feel comfortable in and you said I just can't bear it, I need to have that door shut. Well, obviously that's blocking the energy to that particular room that you didn't like to go in and you're not going to have that flow. Now, for all you knew that could have been your wealth area and you're blocking it so that that could have been a real blockage of wealth coming into your home. Now I'm not saying that that was it because actually from memory I can't remember. I can remember the room, but I can't remember what it represented for you. But what you want is that beautiful energy flowing all equally all around your home. So if that's what we're talking about internally, your back door generally would be the door that you want to open first thing in the morning and let all that negative energy fly out the back door or out the back window and then just give it a few moments. I mean, me and you we're in the UK and quite a lot of the year it can be quite chilly. So even if it is just for a few minutes, just let that negative energy go out the back door and then close it again and do the same with your front door.

Corrina:

The front door is like the mouth of your positive energy coming in. So that front door area, one you want to keep it really clear. You don't want to have loads and loads of clutter here in your front door because your that that positive energy has got to flow through all of that. So if you've got a ton of coats, a ton of shoes, bags and whatever, it's blocking that positive energy from coming in and flowing beautifully all around your home, so obviously keep that front door area nice and clear. But just open that front door or open those front windows.

Corrina:

And even if you say to yourself in your head you don't have to say it out loud I'm now welcoming in all that positive energy and just give that a few minutes and just let that energy go all around the house.

Corrina:

Because what you might find is if you and actually before I was learning this, I was guilty of doing this because we had a puppy at the time and I would close the two downstairs sorry, downstairs doors so that she wouldn't run up and down the stairs, because I've got children and I didn't want her chewing up their toys.

Corrina:

So I would keep I would tend to keep those two doors shut so that she wouldn't get out. But if, if I was opening up my front door, that energy is coming in through the front door straight up the stairs and straight back down again and it wasn't entering all the rest of my home. So now I make a conscious effort that if me and the dog go out in the morning for a walk, I open all the doors so the energy can all get around. Then I might just shut another little door off when we get home so that she can't run around with muddy footprints all over the home. But throughout the day those doors are opening and closing and that energy is nicely circulating around the home.

Steph:

It makes complete sense. At what point would somebody look to have an analysis?

Corrina:

Look, you don't necessarily have to be noticing any negatives. Um, it's just something that's really nice to do anyway. Um, to just sort of clear any previous owner's energy from your home because, without you realizing it, you know you could be sort of stuck. It could be causing you could have tension and arguments in your home. The kids might be struggling with sleep, you might be struggling with sleep and we're putting all of these things down to various reasons. Oh well, maybe they had chocolate before they went to sleep and maybe the kids are a bit too hyper and that's why they're not sleeping.

Corrina:

But there could be so many issues going on with the home. It could be struggling with wealth. You might get money coming in and then it flies back out. You might keep getting unexpected bills all the time, cars failing on you all the time. This is what we were having. So I'm speaking from experience here. You know there was a lot of bickering in our home at a certain point last year. The energies were changing and, believe me, did we notice it? You just might feel that you know it could be fertility. And I'm not saying here I cannot cure people, obviously. I have to put that caveat in there, but obviously you could just be really struggling with fertility, you could be struggling with your children, all sorts of different things, and it could be down to the energy that might be blocked or stagnant within that home and you know the energies change year on year.

Corrina:

So we do need to keep having a good look every single year and you wouldn't be paying like for a full analysis every single year. We do one full analysis if you've never seen me before, and we go through all the details of your home. If you're then coming back to me again for, say, a remedy refresh, then it would be a completely different price because I'd already have all those details of your home and that's not going to change. You know the position of your home is never going to change and your address isn't changing, um, obviously, unless you're moving home. So we then just look and see, okay, what's changed within that year, and it could be something ever so slight and we just change up those remedies and I'm there to guide you through it.

Steph:

Okay, and what is an analysis like? Can you break it down for us? I know you mentioned remedies there. If someone comes to you for an analysis because I know you said that you can work remotely what would they expect?

Corrina:

Yeah, sure. So there's a couple of different ways that I do a home analysis. I either do it remotely, so that means that I don't have to come into your home and a lot of people go oh, thank God, because I've got such a mess going on on my kids' bedrooms and this and that, and I, you know, I'd have to have a massive tidy round, so I don't need to see the inside of your home. Alternatively, there are people that do want to work one-to-one with me, which means I would physically come to the home, I would buy and purchase the remedies that you need and I would go around placing them with you. So it's literally guiding you, um, holding your hand, doing the whole process. But that isn't necessarily. It's not necessary to do it that way. We can do this completely remotely. So, like me and you, Steph, we don't live near each other.

Corrina:

So I ask you for some specific details of your home. Like I said before, I would look at the dates that the house was built. I would need to know your full address so that I can find that on google earth, and the reason for that is because then I need to try and find your true north. And then, um, well, obviously I would. I would need your floor plans so that I can then map out your floor and find out exactly where the north is in your home. It's not to panic if you don't have floor plans, because you didn't have yours, did you? So we did our whole process, and there's loads of people that don't have it for various reasons, but there's always a way around it, so we don't need to panic about that part. And so then, once I have all of those details, I will take a really deep dive into the energies that's going on in your home. I can see what's going on in each area currently, for that current year, and then I work out exactly what remedy to place in each area. And then I will give you a detailed report and I will tell you the energy that is going on without having the remedies, and you might really resonate with that and say, crikey, yeah, that is going on right now. You know it could be tension, it could be illness, all sorts of different things. And then I can tell you what the energies are going to do once we place those remedies, and how we can make it calm again, how we can really help to support you in each area of your life, and I'm just there to guide you through it.

Steph:

And what are the different remedies?

Corrina:

So we've got and it does sound a little bit strange if you are completely new to this but we have metal, wood, earth, water and fire and I obviously give you a whole remedy guidebook to work from. I explain in great detail what all of those remedies are and how we look at placing those things. So, just if we're talking about metal, people go, oh my gosh, I'm not gonna have a ton of metal in my home, like that's really ugly. But it doesn't have to be on show. As I've explained to you when we did your home analysis stuff.

Corrina:

It's hidden but it's one of the most important remedies out of all because because what it does is it really neutralizes any negative energy within the home. It's almost like something that's really grounding you. It's an incredible remedy to have in your home, but as are equally all the others. So that water, it's like that beautiful flow. So whether it's like I don't know you're trying to get the flow of your wealth going or the flow of health, it's, it's very, very bespoke to you. So what you've got in your home, Steph, I certainly wouldn't necessarily need in mine. It just depends on everybody's different energies that's going on.

Steph:

Yeah, and I suppose I suppose, like homes, have their own personalities, don't they? So I mean like personalities

Corrina:

Absolutely

Steph:

They can clash, can't they?

Steph:

So you don't know, when you buy a new home, like I always think. Well, I know, when I walk into a home, I can feel like something and like sometimes it's like oh no, this is a no, and sometimes it's like no, this is really nice, this is peaceful, airy but it's just and I think that as well.

Corrina:

I think you do everybody will tune in um without realizing it. So if you're going to buy a new home, or or not even buy one, but you're going to look at renting a space, you can instantly feel whether this is your place or not. It's just, it's just a feeling, because we can't see energy, it's like we can't see air, but we know it's there because we can breathe it in. But let's say, if you walked into a room with, with a couple, let's say you know they're your friends, but they're a couple. Maybe you've you've got there a little bit later than them, but they've had a big old barney on the way there. Okay, their faces, you know their faces might tell the picture, but it's a feeling and you think, oh god, this is a tension going on here. It's that feeling and some people are more, um, sort of susceptible to that than others. And I think you're really in tune, Steph, really really in tune. But you can just sometimes feel it and sometimes you can't and you're thinking why is this going on in my home? Why can't we shift this?

Corrina:

And actually somebody asked a really great question the other other day is um, I can't think where I saw this, but somebody said everything is fine when we're out of our home as a family, we get on really really well. And you know, I resonated with that because that was me, that was me, my husband and my kids, and we would get on really really well. When we were out, we would have the greatest time, and as soon as we would come back home, it was this tension. Then there was arguments and I think, oh, I just don't want to be her anymore, don't want to be in this home. Um, and I think it was pre me doing any of this uh, feng shui, I didn't know about any of that and things have changed massively in our house.

Steph:

Wow, so you were really impacted by it, like to notice yeah, when you're all out as a family, you're absolutely fine, and when you come home, you're not.

Steph:

One of my questions was actually going to be can you share how feng shui made a significant impact in your life? So maybe we can go to that one?

Corrina:

Yeah, definitely.

Steph:

Because you've kindly shared your own personal experiences and, like your family, but how did it change for you?

Corrina:

Well, we've we've been in this house for about 12 or 13 years. Um, my husband has been in his current position for about 25 years. Um, he's a teacher, a PE teacher in a private school. Um, there's sort of been opportunities along the way to try and get to head of sport and, for whatever reason, he's not quite got there and um it's. There's always been some sort of blockage. There's always been some sort of a money block for us and unable to really shift forwards. Um, and since um, because we we put in all the new remedies, we start a brand new feng shui year in the February. So for us we place the brand new remedies this February and there's been so many shifts and changes since we've done all of that. There's been a brand new position come up in my husband's work. He has now got the head of sport along with a pay rise. He's got other opportunities within the senior leadership within his school. So there's lots and lots of beautiful, exciting shifts and changes that have happened in that side of things.

Corrina:

I know that there's a lot of shifts and changes that are going on with myself just even doing this feng shui, I've had so many opportunities come my way, which I'm so grateful for. But I think one of the most important things is I've seen how the house has really, really calmed down. And it's not just me that's noticed it, it's my husband as well. So it's not just, oh well, you're probably, you know, you probably feel like it's changed because you know you've put some remedies in there and it's like the placebo effect. It's not, it's it's physical, it's really changed.

Corrina:

There was so much tension going on in the house before and it's just really massively calmed down. I can tell you I was dreading every weekend at one point and we've never been like that. We, we're a couple, we've been together for nearly 20 years. We've never really had like massive, massive rows. You know, obviously every couple goes through a bicker and a disagreement, but we've never been a massively rowing couple until last year and there was, you know, a lot of stress and rows between us two and the children.

Corrina:

And I would just get to the weekends and dread it because I'd know then we would all be in the home at the same time and I would be dreading half terms holidays because we would all be together. And that's sad, because I love my kids so much and I love my husband so much. I adore the time that we have together, but at that point I dreaded it and it was awful and I hated it. Um, but now we're back to where we were before.

Steph:

And when you said that the energy shifted last year because I know from following you on Instagram that we went into cycle 9 last year do you think that that played a part in it? Can you explain to the listeners what is cycle 9 and what it means for us?

Corrina:

Yes, yes, absolutely. So we go through these different cycles and it's an energy cycle. So we are in that cycle for 20 years at a time and last year we entered what's called Cycle 9 and that came with a fire energy. Now it's not all like oh God, this is really scary, but what it could do with that fire that could potentially cause a fiery tension. So a lot of um arguments in the home, tension in the home. Alternatively, you could have just been on this sort of plateau of you know not really doing anything with your life for ages. You know feeling like you're not having a shift and then all of a sudden, this fire energies come in and it's like that fire inside your belly to go. I want change. I want to have a new career or people that actually. I've got a client actually who is the opposite. She was like a career, constantly, non-stop working, and she had this shift sort of last year and thought, no, I don't want this anymore. I want to spend all the time with my children. I want to be more of a stay at home mum. So it's a lot of excuse me, there's a lot of shifts and changes that were happening.

Corrina:

You might have found that there was a lot of breakups with relationships because maybe that female um, because it it was bringing in a lot of feminine energy and it was almost like there's a lot of women going I'm not staying in this relationship anymore, I deserve better.

Corrina:

Or there's so many different things that this energy was bringing in and it's not negative. There was so many different things going on, um, and we just needed to know how to work with this fire energy because obviously we haven't had this for so long, so this is a brand new thing that's come in in the last year. So we used a lot of salt cures last year to try and absorb a lot of that fire energy. But actually we found it's not so fiery as we were maybe expecting and it's okay. But one of the things was obviously that fire energy is coming in through the south and so if you have a big water source outside, this is so maybe you have a pond or a hot tub or you've got a lake and it's at the end of your garden or you know the south of your home, you wouldn't want that water outside to be putting out that beautiful fire energy that is coming in So we were having to look at remedies for that.

Steph:

Okay, and I know you mentioned to me, um, after my analysis, that I can include a flying phoenix.

Corrina:

Oh, the rising phoenix.

Steph:

Oh, yes, the rising phoenix. Sorry, I got mixed up with flying stars and rising, yeah, the rising phoenix. What's that about?

Corrina:

Yeah, because the rising phoenix if you picture that, the, that phoenix is rising from the ashes and it's evolving and that's about us, that's like our life.

Corrina:

So we would place that picture in the south of our home and, again, it can be placed completely discreetly. If you came to my house, you wouldn't even know where it was because it's hidden, um. Alternatively, you can have that rising phoenix on show, so it's, it is visible to you, um, and it's a kind of a great reminder of all these goals that you want to set for 2025. So you basically write down all these goals and beautiful affirmations, and one of those things on there was to help with my husband's work. So you don't have to just be writing about yourself. You can be writing about your partner, your children, but whoever is in the home, because that's the energy that it affects. So you know, if you're here and you've got grown-up children, but they live elsewhere. Whilst obviously you can put nice thoughts out into the universe, it, the, the energies, are only going to affect the people that live within your home.

Steph:

So for me, I just went on google, typed in rising phoenix and found one that I was most drawn to printed out, and I printed two. So I put one in my podcast folder and I put one in the south. So we'll see, we'll see what happens.

Corrina:

That's, that's perfect, I've I did something similar. I put one on the front of my diary and I put one in my south as well yeah, I love it.

Steph:

So all these little things that we can do to just help ourselves through life. I'm interested about testimonials. So for me, when I had the analysis, I didn't know what to expect. I mean, part of the process was, um, we didn't have any floor plans. I didn't know when the new roof had been put on or when the extension had happened, because that was all pre I was moving in and then I thought, oh no, I've won this competition and I can't provide Corrina with any of the information she needs. But then you were so patient with me, so thank you for that, and I know it was a process of us getting the floor plans. I know our house was, I needed a lot of metal and Facebook marketplace was an absolute dream for that. So and I know you said before that every house is different and the remedies will be different but can you share any testimonials or interesting stories because I'm fascinated by this um that you've had from any of your clients, from analyzing their home?

Corrina:

Yeah, so I've actually got um, I've obviously got mine, which I've just shared, so there was all that tension that was going on. And then we've, you know, we've got the new job for my husband.

Corrina:

Um, I've got um another lady, uh, well, her and her husband. So when I analysed their home, I could see that there was like a whole chunk of their north that was missing from the grid, because I have to almost place like this square or rectangular grid over your floor plans and so if your floor plans don't quite fit within that, then there's like a whole area that's missed, it could be missing and we need to remedy that. So I could see that there was a whole chunk that wasn't quite fitting into their north area. And your north represents your career, your business, and when I, when I asked her, you know what is this room in your home? And she said, oh, that's, that's really interesting, that's my husband's work office. And I had no idea. I mean, and I know this couple, but I didn't realise that he had lost his job. He was going for interviews, he wasn't getting the jobs, he was struggling with that, and so once we placed all the remedies within their home, there's a certain thing that we can do. I can't really go into it over a podcast, it's too difficult, but we will remedy the way that that area is missing in your home. So it's not doom and gloom. There is a fix for everything. Um, and I think it must have been about a month later he got a job. So I you know we've remedied that.

Corrina:

And there was a lot of accidents going on in that home. I could see that, I could, without them even telling me. I could see that from what the um, what the energies, was telling me. So I could see that it was showing lots of accidents in the home, illness in the home, and then I knew that he was um. In particular, her husband was suffering a lot of illness and, um, a lot of accidents, quite serious accidents that had gone on in that home as well. And we were looking quite specifically at things because they've got a little boy I think he's about six. He was really struggling as well. So we've looked at a lot of different things to put in place for them as a whole family and we've seen some really, really great shifts within a short space of time.

Corrina:

But there's somebody else that I'm working with at the moment and we haven't quite got all the remedies in just yet, so I can't tell you an after side. However, what we were looking at within their home and she kept saying to me it doesn't feel right. I've always, always dreamt of having a home that looked like this. Since I was a child, I've always dreamt of having a house like this, and now we've got it, but it doesn't feel right and it's this feeling and she can't put her finger on it. She's great at doing design, but no matter how much they spend putting beautiful designs in, it doesn't feel right and there's clearly something major going on in that home. And so we're kind of halfway through doing this. We've got to the point where we've done the whole analysis.

Corrina:

And when I was talking to her about which room was her north and again, this is all to do with her husband's work and there's a lot of blockages around his career and it's not really moving forward I said, and she's got three levels to the homes, to the ground the first floor and the second floor and I said we were looking obviously specifically at the north because that's representing the career, and on two floors in particular, she said oh my God, that is my junk room. We're using it and that's on the top floor. The door is always shut. I can't bear that room. The windows are never open, the door is never open. She took a video for me and she was like, oh my God, there's stuff you couldn't even see the carpet.

Corrina:

And I said we have to get onto this decluttering process ASAP because suddenly he was having a job interview coming up and we wanted to really really support him and we wanted to support those interviews. So before we were even getting the remedies in, we were really going to town on decluttering and opening the doors, opening the windows. We were using sage and candles to really cleanse any negative energy. Um, she was going getting her kids to go around the rooms clapping, because clapping, um, is like a I know it sounds crazy, but it's like a vibration, it's like the like sound bowls, anything like that, because sound is breaking up that vibration, it's moving that energy around. So I can't wait until we actually get those remedies into her home and see some big, big shifts. But yeah, there's some really great things that's going on right now.

Steph:

Interesting. I love hearing other people's stories and journeys. I love it for me when, uh, you did our analysis, we needed a lot of metal, as I've said, but our decor you you pointed out was very fire heavy, so there was lots of reds. And one thing I said to you, for a reason for the analysis, was I'd noticed since moving into in with Alan that I'd lost a lot of friendships through no reasons whatsoever. And he hadn't. And I was like what, what has changed from me living with my mum to me moving here? And then suddenly I've lost loads of friendships. And obviously I wanted not necessarily to go back to those friendships, because I do think you know you fall away for a reason. You know they might come back in at some point, but I'm not, it's not my main focus, um, but I thought I want to meet more people. I want to meet people who are the same vibe as me, you know, interested in the same things and just really interesting people, and it was the east of the home that you said to focus on and, um, we needed plants. That is that wood. Would that come under the wood?

Corrina:

That is correct.

Steph:

Yes, yes, it's right and I was like, oh, we already have plants there, brilliant. And then a few weeks after, when I got the metal completely in, I was going up the stairs and I was like, oh no, I have plants, but they're all in red plant pots. So I was thinking, is that essentially burning away the efforts of the wood, the plants?

Corrina:

Yeah. So when I do, when I do an analysis for you or anybody, I will explain the remedies that you need to put in. But then I will tell you so once you've placed all those remedies and just concentrate on doing that part first. Then, when you've got all of that in, you then want to go around and I will tell you the remedies that you need to almost avoid in that area because it could be weakening your remedy, if that makes sense. We don't want to get too deep in because otherwise we could really confuse people.

Corrina:

But there are certain remedies out there that will either strengthen something or it's going to weaken it. And yes, you do have a lot of red in there, but you did need a lot of fire remedies. So because you already had a lot of red curtains or red walls, we had to really look at limiting, I guess, the amount of fire remedy that we were placing, because if we have too much of it it could go the opposite way and that could then be, like you say, weakening that friendship, impacting your health, causing tension and arguments and stress. So you don't want too much of something. So if you had, say, a lot of blue and a lot of water fountains in the home. It could then be a feeling of I'm drowning. I'm drowning in debt, I'm drowning with the health, my mental health. So there's there's lots of things to look at.

Steph:

And one of the things from our analysis was you mentioned that we had quite positive energy in terms of it's very supportive for males in the home uh, which is pretty bang on for Alan, like he's doing really great, but for females it wasn't the case and I remember you saying that the relationships around females will be strained and it absolutely was 100%, so I could really relate to that.

Steph:

A lot of things for me in terms of what I wrote on the back of the Rising Phoenix as well is post-uni, so maybe we can have a catch-up call towards the end of the year to just like dive into you know, the changes that have been happened, whether that's on your socials or mine.

Corrina:

Oh, I would love that. I would absolutely love to.

Steph:

Yeah, I'm fascinated, but I'm so excited because now I'm at the point where next week uni is done for me. So, yeah, I just I'm excited for what comes and like the house supports us now and like I can definitely feel a change in it. It is calmer. I feel more, more in control essentially of my direction now, whereas before I sort of felt like I was floundering about about a bit, not really knowing what to do and what not. But I can definitely feel a change, so yeah.

Corrina:

That's incredible.

Steph:

Yeah, yeah.

Steph:

I think until you try it and give it a go, you won't understand the difference.

Corrina:

And the thing is, I think, what have you got to lose you know, at the end of the day, you're you're not putting a tattoo on yourself that you can't really get rid of.

Corrina:

You know, and I don't tell you to necessarily change your decor, this isn't about that whereas for you, Steph, you, you, you did have a lot of red, or you do have a lot of red, um in the home, and all I can do is is advise.

Corrina:

So what we were talking about and especially because you have red within the center of your home, um, and that is that was part of your kitchen, which is already a very fiery, fiery energy. If you've got a lot of, then, red walls or red carpet or, you know, curtains that could potentially be having too much fire within that area, and for you, that was your health, mental health and self-acceptance. So what we were sort of going with is I'm not going to tell you to change that, but let's place those remedies and see how you go over the coming months, and if you're still struggling in a certain area, then you might then want to look at maybe calming that colour down a little bit, neutralising it ever so slightly. But that's certainly not for me to say go, go and knock a wall down, go and move your bedroom into your lounge because it isn't working. That's not the way we work with Flying Stars. We work in modern day way. We work with what you've got and all we can do is help and advise the best that we can.

Steph:

Yeah, so, from our conversation today, Corrina, what's one piece of advice that you hope our listeners take away?

Corrina:

Um, I would just love for everybody just to have a little declutter. Um, just maybe just take one room at a time, one drawer at a time, and just start to get things moving and shifting around in their home and, if they can just start to excuse me, open and close the doors. As I said, start with the back door, let that negative energy flow out the back. Open the front door and let that positive energy come in through the home and and just really go from there. And obviously, if anybody wants my help, then I would love to help them. There's no silly question.

Steph:

And how can people work with you? How can they find you?

Corrina:

I'm on social media um I'm on Instagram. I'm on Facebook as well um under Guiding Stars Feng Shui, um alternatively, they can email me. I'll leave all my details with you, steph

Steph:

Yeah, I will put them all in Steph. show notes so we can find you. Thank you so so much, Corrina karina, for coming on and talking about it. It's definitely changed my life. I'm intrigued for anybody that goes down the route of Feng Shui, let us know,. let Let us know the changes that are happening for you in your life and I just hope that more people find it and find you and that you can just calm people's homes, because it is wonderful. Thank you so so much.

Corrina:

Thank you so much.

Steph:

Thank you so much for listening. You can follow me on instagram at Tranquil Topics and if you have enjoyed this episode, please do leave a rating or review, as it will help me to reach more people and I'll be back in two weeks time with another episode. Bye.