I want to start by saying… I could hardly get anything done yesterday. I was so distracted by current events.

And I just want to normalize this. It’s not easy to know how to keep functioning with so much happening and we’re not always going to get it right.

What I did later in the day was accept defeat, stop trying to focus, stop checking the internet so much, and do some meditation, journaling about my feelings, and then I did ART for HOURS.

ART for HOURS is my big medicine right now.

And today I woke up feeling quite inspired and kind of “plugged in” and ready to focus, which is really nice.

One thing I did do yesterday was post a video on social media ranting about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

It was on my mind and I just wanted to share and didn’t realize it would resonate so much with people.

For a while I wanted to write a long, detailed post about how the Hierarchy of Needs was culturally appropriated from a Blackfoot community and because Maslow was looking it through the lens of colonial culture instead of understanding it through Blackfoot culture, he didn’t understand it. The needs should NOT be in a hierarchy at all and the self actualization needs should be at the centre of our lives.

I have not shared this because there are so many people already doing this work. Do an internet search for Maslow Blackfoot and you’ll find tons of interesting reading!

The first article I ever read about this was this one, which contained inaccuracies which have been corrected and which has been updated to focus on: Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now? which is so good!

There is also  Blackfoot Philosophies vs Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Even Psychology Today is writing about what Maslow got wrong

This article is about how the cultural appropriation isn’t really what matters and it’s more interesting to look at what was happening in the Blackfoot community.

The reason why I am interested, of course, is that creative dreaming IS self actualization.

And WE DO NOT need to fully take care of every other need we have as humans before we can get to dreaming.

And the truth is -  when we do put self actualization and dreaming at the centre of our lives - meeting all of our other needs becomes easier. 

In my many years of doing this work, it’s become more and more apparent that the culture we live in, this colonialist/extractive capitalist dominant culture is the biggest hurdle to achieving our dreams aka self actualization.

AND the thing is… artists create and impact culture.

We can change this.

On a group call recently I talked about what I learned from Dra. Rosales Meza when I did a program with her last fall. The short version is “Don’t confuse the fall of the colonial empire with the end of the world”

It’s important to keep DREAMING in these times because this is what moves us forward. This is what CREATES a better future.

And, always, when I talk about DREAMING I am not talking about DOING. Or PRESSURING.

I am talking about sitting with yourself, processing your thoughts and feelings, understanding and tending to your needs, listening to your dreams. Your dreams are a part of you, you can’t be fully present with yourself without being fully present with your dreams.

It’s HARD to stay present right now.

So we keep PRACTICING.

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If you are in the membership and have questions about how to keep practicing right now - email me! Let’s talk about it! And we DO talk about it on our calls - the next Co-Dreaming/Co-Working call is this Friday.

 

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I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week. I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

I did sit down to do this on Sunday - but then I got a headache!

I realized that while I did have time to do it, I didn't have the mental and emotional capacity and that in the future, on weekends with a holiday or some kind of event happening in my life... it may be good to look at doing this on Saturday or Friday. Because it feels nice to start Monday with this done as it brings a different kind of clarity.

But, here I am still showing up in the ways that I CAN show up and doing this on Monday morning.

I am switching up some of the medications I've been on and bracing myself for this to go badly but so far... I just feel a bit better. So that's a win!

One thing I keep reminding myself is that it DOES NOT matter how any particular step goes, it matters that you keep taking steps.

What is really BLOWING ME AWAY right now is how good it feels to dream about STRUCTURE.

Artists need a lot of freedom! But we also need the kind of structure that feels like SUPPORT. Like a vine that can't climb a wall on it's own but with the right trellis it can reach the top of the roof by mid summer.

The weekly dream status reports and planning, and the monthly intention settings are forms of structure. But a lot of dreams need more specific forms of structure too - like the exact type of trellis that works both for the wall and the type of vine of you have.

And some of the things I've been struggling with lately really are [impacts of not having enough structure] and I have been wanting things that are [results of having the right structure] ... without seeing that working on CREATING THE RIGHT STRUCTURE was the solution.

This is totally common and even expected when we understand and remember that the process is NOT supposed to be linear.

So I am really enjoying doing the Structure Habits Routines class and re-reading everyone's comments in there. We all have such different ways of seeing this, and different needs, and it's just so inspiring to see all the different ways of approaching it.

I am still working on the first set of prompts! Each time I come back to it I have more clarity about how I would like all of this to work.

On to this week's Dream Status Report.

I did the 20 minute Dream Lab meditation to start. In the meditation I was really struck by the sensation of HOW MUCH the whole universe wants to help me make my dream real. And then when I invited the soul of my dream in... it was the hand of God handing me a piece of gum.

What? lol

It was violet gum, which tasted amazing and as I chewed I was like... oh yeah. You have to keep chewing on it!

But also.. as I chewed... this delightful violet fragrance was coming out of my mouth and surrounding me.

I don't have to keep chewing on it in a way that is annoying or difficult, the chewing can be fun and even kind of magical.

So that is excellent advice and the ideal way to go into this reflection process with the Dream Status Report prompts and then use what I learn there to map out my priorities for this week.

Happy dreaming/reflecting/planning to you!

One of our members usually comes into the forum to share things from their weekly dream status report - you can do that too, here!

 

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In a meditation with the soul of my dream, if my dream turns to me and says GUUUURL! I always know I am about to hear something I really need to hear, but that I may not really want to hear.

It happened yesterday morning.

GUUUUURL, my dream said, WTF are you even doing?????

And I said… Well I think you know what I’m doing! I am trying to figure out what kinds of routines and structures/systems would work because my old routines don’t feel right and I don’t know what the new ones should be yet.

NO, my dream insisted, seriously GURL what are you doing??!?! You’re doing this all in your head! You’re leaving ME out! You’re leaving SOUL out! You’re leaving CREATIVITY out! You’re leaving MAGIC out! Where is there ANY space for the alchemy here???????

Oh wow. WTF am I doing indeed. I have been going in circles with this because I have been trying to figure it all out in my head.

This week I wrote about how all of our law of attraction and manifesting practices are culturally appropriated and therefore are missing key cultural elements.

And I wrote about how important it is to have a TWO WAY relationship with your soul of your dream. To not just treat the universe as a vending machine that will give you whatever you want as long as you order right. 

You have to learn how to engage with the soul of your dream, to LISTEN to your dream.

Because once you have established a TWO WAY relationship with it, it can send you THE BEST advice, right when you need it.

(We have a Co-Dreaming call today in the membership and we’ll start the call with a meditation for sitting with your soul of your dream, so you can bring it your questions and problems and it can help you work out your next steps. This work, SITTING WITH and LISTENING TO our dreams is so profoundly important right now and I remain grateful for everyone who is doing in with me.)

I have been in such a LLOOOOONG process with this “re-creating my routines” project.

A part of me really does think I should be able to sort this out with logic and get it done quickly. 

But really, I am doing a whole bunch of things at once:

• understanding my changing needs in mid-life, which keep changing!
• figuring out how to fit my two big dreams into my days: the Creative Dream Incubator and textile art 
• creating a whole new creative practice to create space for the new art I want to make
• processing ALL THE THINGS that are happening, or trying to

All of these things feed each other. I know they fit together beautifully. I just don’t know HOW exactly.

And if I DO use logic to figure this as fast as possible, I miss out on figuring out the best way for me to do this. Like almost everything that has to do with dreams - slower is better.

Taking MORE time to reflect helps us better understand HOW to move forward.

And then I realized … I’ve been trying to figure out the new STRUCTURE I want for my work/soul/creative life…

… and I totally forgot about the STRUCTURE HABITS ROUTINES class in the membership!  I’m so glad one of our members was doing it, and commented about something she learned, which reminded me… oh yeah that’s what I need.

It's a simple class with a set of prompts that I ask you to take several days to work through, to give yourself time to really process everything that is included when we look at structure, habits and routines.

So I spent an hour with the first set of prompts in that class and got SO MUCH clarity about how I want it all to feel and function. Like - i’ve been messing around in the DETAILS of it without a clear big picture VISION of what I want.

And that's when I made the card in the photo above: LESS STRUCTURE * MORE DEVOTION

I realized I've been so focused on looking for the right structure to hold everything I want to do and keep it all organized all the time.

And yes I do need that, dreams do need structure to be able to take root and thrive.

But structure, and logic, aren't the POWER. The devotion is where the power comes from. Your participation is where the power comes you. YOU ARE THE MAGIC.

Which is something I talk about in the creative planning and project management class. Having the right structure for you, and for your project, gives you more space to be really present with it and creates more space for magic. So there is a balance there - it can't be ALL ABOUT following through on a plan and it can't be JUST vibes.

There is a right balance there.

And I feel a lot closer to finding it.

 

Co-Dreaming/Co-Working call is today! I hope to see you there!

We'll start with a short meditation for connecting with the soul of your dream (like the Dream Lab) and then have time for whatever you want to do - planning next week, working on your projects, sharing your updates, talking about something that is stuck with your dreams or just hanging out in the magic of the group.

Call details are here. Replay will be there a few hours after we're done today.

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The law of attraction and manifesting teachings you can find online are culturally appropriated.

At this point, we have over 150 years of appropriations of appropriations, dovetailing with the “make 6 figures in 3 days” online coaching industry, moving further and further away from the original teachings.

VISIONING is an ancestral practice. It’s a very human way of relating to yourself and your life to listen to the spirits for a vision of what to do with your life and asking for courage and support to enact the vision.

VISIONING is a two way relationship. And that’s where the law of attraction and manifesting teachings fail.

When you culturally appropriate, you take a teaching or wisdom and remove it from it’s cultural context and put it into an entirely different cultural context while also cherry picking which part of the teaching you are working with, and leaving out essential elements. Appropriation leaves out essential elements because it doesn’t understand that it’s appropriating and believes it’s culture-less perspective on the teaching is right and the stuff it leaves out wasn’t relevant.

VISIONING is LISTENING for the calling and then building up the courage to act on it.

It means dreaming DEEPER. Going beyond what you want on a surface level and trying to understand what your soul wants for you. It means growing into who you really ARE.

The only book that I can recommend about this is The Native Creative Process: A Collaborative Discourse between Douglas Cardinal and Jeannette Armstrong with photographs by Greg Young-Ing. It’s not easy to find but if you live in Winnipeg, Canada - it’s in the public library.

The real teachings about intention, as all Indigenous (not colonial) teachings, happen within a living relationship with all of creation.

Within a recognition that ALL LIFE IS SACRED. Within a culture where we take care of each other.

Another book I can recommend is Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Which is not about intention or law of attraction, but it can teach you a lot about Indigenous relationships to the earth. In colonial culture we’ve accepted as truth that humans have a negative impact on the earth. As though we can’t help but destroy! In this book she shares how Indigenous ways of living actually HELP THE LAND. That the land - all the plants, waters and living things on it - DID BETTER with proper human stewardship. That our real role as humans is to care for creation, not try to profit from it as much as possible and destroy everything in the process.

Can you see how the way intention is used, in law of attraction teachings, is similar to how we treat the earth?

Individualistic and selfish. It’s only about what I want. It’s the idea that the universe should capitulate to my desires, and WILL capitulate as long as I hold the right thoughts.

Can you see a way to use intention that is within a context of…. ALL life is sacred.

Can you see a way to use intention while revering the mystery of life? Can you see a way to use intention while honouring the fact that you don’t control the universe?

This is what I have been doing in my work.

This is why I have a whole membership for making your dreams happen, with hundreds of resources, and I don’t focus on creative visualization or manifesting practices. There is ONE meditation on creative visualization in the membership and I hardly ever mention it.

Instead, I encourage the Dream Lab as a regular practice because that is where you develop a TWO WAY relationship with the soul of your dream, which is connected to your own soul which is connected to everything.

Or Hello Day as a way to help you connect to yourself - your gifts, medicine and power, so instead of sitting here waiting for the universe to deliver your dreams via the law of attraction, you are growing your ability to CREATE your dreams.

And THAT work is going to get messy.

So then I encourage you to really BE IN the mess! BE WITH the thoughts and feelings that come up, even when that seems like it’s taking you AWAY from what you want. I encourage you to NOT “stay positive” and “stay focused” and “fake it till you make it” because when you do that, you are missing the PROCESS. Which is so far from linear.

You start with whatever dream you have. If it matters to you - there will be magic there.

Your dream is your own soul calling you, showing you your path. THIS IS ALWAYS TRUE.

AND

Sometimes the dream you start with is a dream that gets you to a place where you can hear the next dream. And that one is the CALLING. Or closer to it.

AND

This is soul work! Not linear! So as you dream and move towards callings, your potential grows. So the dream grows along with you. There is no “destination” to get it.

Dreaming is a way of living more attuned to soul and creativity.

Answering a calling is about LISTENING to the universe, not trying to control it. So I work with intention more as support for my process, and not as THE VEHICLE through which my dreams will happen.

This is why the monthly New Moon Intention Setting ritual is set up the way it is. To use intention to support us is doing the things we feel called to do. And to heal and grow through the ways that we engage with our dreams. To summon the courage to create the things we are here to create.

When I started this work, I was a New Thought practitioner.

Which is to say I attended years of classes from one of the original appropriators. I was told that I was being taught “the kernel of truth act was within all of the world’s great wisdom traditions”. I was in that world.

I did not set out to do my work differently because I understood how colonized my training was. I started to learn about colonialism in 2015 when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report came out in Canada, and I had started doing this work around 2008 and it was my full time work by 2011.

I set out to do my work differently from what I was taught because I wanted people to get better results.

Of course these law of attraction teachings don’t work consistently enough to build a life on. For many people they don’t work at all and the only answer given to that is to tell those people that they are doing it wrong. “Just be positive” “Stop giving into the fears” “Fake it till you make it”

I wanted my creative dreams to support my life in a grounded and stable way and I wanted to offer better tools for my clients - so I had to find a better way.

I never want to tell anyone “you are failing with your dreams because you are doing it wrong” I want to say “Oh shit I’m sorry this is so hard. You’re not doing anything wrong! This part is just hard. But worth it. So let’s find some softer ways to engage with it”

Now, over 15 years in, and with a better understanding of cultural appropriation and colonialism/imperialism and how they relate to extractive capitalism and how all of this relates to our relationships with ourselves and the world… here is my advice about how to make your dreams happen:

GET YOURSELF INTO THE PROCESS AND THEN STAY IN THE PROCESS.
LET IT BE A MESS WHEN IT’S A MESS.
KEEP LISTENING. MEDITATE + JOURNAL MORE.

My Creative Dream Alchemy class is FREE and HELPFUL. It’s a 20 minute video class explaining what I mean about how the process of pursing a dream is ALCHEMICAL as opposed to linear. And it’s a guided meditation that helps you GET INTO THE PROCESS and a guided journal for figuring out how to apply all of this to your life and your dreams.

This is the one I link to at the top of all of the emails I send. If you're not signed up for my emails, get the free class here.

I created the Creative Dream Incubator because I believe that creative people having more support for creating their vision and pursuing their dreams MAKES THE WORLD BETTER.

Creative people create CULTURE. And we need a better culture to carry us through these times and into a better future for everyone.

I'd love to work with you and your dreams! Join the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership here.

 

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I did a LOT of journaling today, going in circles with my resistance, and was going to share it and then... decided not to.

It's so messy and hard to follow that I don't think it's helpful to share.

I think it's more helpful to say that some days, "showing up" is so messy that you think you're doing everything wrong. But you're not.

Sometimes you are actually coming up against the internal patterns that need to shift for you to be able to do the thing you want to do.

And this is valuable work!

But some of those internal patterns are so deeply engrained you can't actually see them.

You just... push up against them. And they push up against you. And it's like... everything feels like it's falling apart.

But everything is actually IN PROCESS. This is the process of you moving towards the dream.

You just have to work through this thing first.

Even though you can't quite see it yet.

How could this NOT be messy?

I feel like I am in the middle of so many transformational journeys at once and I don’t know which way is up.

And the work is NOT to figure out which way is up ASAP.

The work is NOT to understand what is happening.

The work is ONLY to keep showing up and sitting with whatever is there.

Setting an intention, claiming a dream - this puts you in the process.

Showing up moves you through the process.

The process is an absolute fucking mess sometimes. There isn't another way to describe it.

If you are REALLY confronting your limiting beliefs, unhelpful patterns, all the stuff you learned from dominant culture about who you are and what you are supposed to want - well some of the work is MESSY.

Some of the work feels good!

Some of the work is inspiring!

Some of the work moves you forward exactly how you wanted to move forward.

But those parts are not more valuable than the hard parts.

And everything happening in the world can add another layer of stuff to the mix.

So I want to encourage you to meditate and journal MORE. Check in with yourself!! EXPRESS all the stuff swirling inside! Even if it's all messy and weird and nothing makes sense - maybe ESPECIALLY then.

This IS the work that will move you forward. This IS what healing and growth look like sometimes.

 

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My heart is so full.

I am sitting down to do my Dream Status Report for this week. To check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week. I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

Yesterday I went to an all day workshop/ceremony for spring. It was led by Indigenous knowledge keepers who are also artists, we did ceremony together and they shared teachings about Indigenous protocols for making art, and teachings for this time - early spring.

And, specific to people who live where I live, Winnipeg, Canada, how this is the time of BREAK UP. Our rivers and lakes were literally frozen. We walk and drive on them all winter. Now they are starting to melt and as they do, the ice breaks up and floats down the river and it's very dramatic and beautiful for a few days.

I guess I am doing a season-change report along with my Dream Status Report. If you want to do some of this with me:

What's been frozen that is ready to break up and float away?

What new possibilities may be flowing in?

I had such a beautiful winter this year - how do I want to bring the gifts of this winter into spring?

This week I feel like I am stepping into NEW territory with my creative dreams.

There's a very small current of fear of like "Are we sure we are ready to step into NEW? We don't really know what it IS, given that it's NEW"

And I think in the past that little current of fear has co-existed with larger currents of "OH THIS IS SO EXCITING" and "I WANT THIS SO BAD I'M HAPPY TO TAKE A RISK"

But right now the larger current is "I TRUST MYSELF"

This feels amazing.

Also, I am moving slower than I ever have in my life and this is MAGIC.

It feels so much easier to trust myself when I am moving so slow.

 

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Meet my new sketchbook/journal: GRIEF ANGER RAGE HOPE 2026.

This is the one I mentioned the other day.

I started this because I wanted a place to put my thoughts and feelings about everything that is happening.

I wanted to fully EXPRESS all of this, somewhere separate from the journals I am dreaming in, while also recognizing that this is "a part of the journal stack" for 2026.

It felt like a MIRACLE that I already had this nice big sketchbook still in the plastic wrap. (It's a Leuchtterm 1913 like my other notebooks, but this one is art paper so it stands up better to painting)

Of course a lot of people who journal have a stack of empty notebooks too, and know that it's not a miracle, lol. But still, that feeling of already having the exact notebook I need to start a new journaling project! Love it!

I started this journal to MAKE MORE SPACE for all the feelings I am having about the world.

I also wanted to name each and every fucked up thing that is happening that is upsetting me.

I wanted more space to express the feelings that are stirred up in me.

This feels like the most sane way to move through 2026.

And the magic is that when we make more space to express ourselves (even in the safety of a notebook where no one else ever needs to see it) we DISCOVER NEW WAYS of connecting to ourselves and our truth.

We find new ways to LIVE our values.

We find new ways to create more of what we want to see in the world. Like: re-arranging your schedule so you can take more naps, writing a book, starting a community garden, making activist art, redecorating your home to be more of a peaceful haven....

Whatever it is, when you take the time to LISTEN MORE DEEPLY to yourself, you find gifts.

And we need those gifts.

So: WE ALL NEED TO MEDITATE + JOURNAL MORE!

Obviously the Creative Dream Incubator guided meditations and journaling processes are filled with so much magic to help you be able to create more of what you want in your life that I think everyone should do these...

But you don't need to do this in any particular way.

You just need to sit with yourself. Take a breath. Notice how you are feeling. Notice what that feeling needs. Tend to yourself.

And put it on paper. Or on your phone if digital journaling is your thing. Get it outside of your head.

This is the only way to find YOUR way through all of this.

If you don't meditate and journal at all - this is the time to start.

If you already do it - find a way to do more.

 LET'S DO THIS TOGETHER!!!

We are Co-Dreaming/Co-Working today on Zoom! I hope to see you there!

There is SO MUCH MAGIC in doing this with others. Sitting and dreaming together and talking about all the things that come up for you and not being alone in it all.

Even on the replay! Having the replay going while you do your own meditation and journaling CREATES SPACE for you to go deeper into your own process.

We'll start with a short meditation for connecting with the soul of your dream (like the Dream Lab) and then have time for whatever you want to do - planning next week, working on your projects, sharing your updates, talking about something that is stuck with your dreams or just hanging out in the magic of the group.

Call details are here. Replay will be there a few hours after we're done today.

If you're not a member - join here.

 

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I am at one of those monumental moments on the path to a dream.

I cleared space in my schedule. I have the supplies I need. There is nothing stopping me.

I can… do the thing. 

So what am I doing? Drinking coffee and cruising the internet, lol.

Thinking about how I am almost out of milk and should I go for a walk to get some or put in my next grocery order right away, and if so, then I need to figure out some meal plan stuff so I know what else I need…

And then I stop and think about the miracles and hard work that got me to this place, where I HAVE A WHOLE DAY TO FOCUS ON THIS THING.

And ask myself if I want to use this precious day for scrolling and meal planning.

No… but….

This is ALWAYS a scary place to be.

Nothing stopping me. No excuses. Just me and my dream…

It’s kind of like a creative dream vacuum where the lack of external obstacles draws in every doubt, fear and bit of resistance we have.

So what am I going to do about it?

I did put down my phone. I picked up my laptop to write about it. Because when I can’t DO THE THING, writing about why I am not doing it really does help get to a place of doing it!

So, Andrea, what is the problem? Why aren’t you starting?

I don’t know where to start.

That is a good point! You don’t actually have a plan for that, do you?

Nope. Just all these ideas for things I want to do, no thoughts on how to START doing any of them.

So how about we write down all the ideas, and then put them in order?

Well that’s logical but I'm afraid I would leave something out, and that thing left out would be THE THING I am supposed to do first, and then everything will be messed up.

Wow, you really don’t want to start, hey?

I do, I just want to start RIGHT. This means so much to me, I want to get it right.

Oh honey. 

I know, you don’t have to say it. There is no such thing as getting it right and if there was, it sure wouldn’t happen as the very first step of this project!!! 

Right, but let’s VALIDATE your feelings. Remember CREATIVE DREAM ALCHEMY: you work with the thing that is there. It sounds like the thing that is here is how very important this project feels for you. Maybe we start with something that acknowledges what this means to you?

Oh that’s a good idea. But what is that?

My eyes fall on the new sketchbook I started late last week. 

Oh, maybe this new sketchbook is actually… this seems crazy but… maybe it’s the sketchbook for this project? 

Why would that be crazy?

Because I started that sketchbook for a very specific reason and I didn’t see, like not even a little bit, how that reason is quite connected to this project.

So the new sketchbook is definitely not a part of this new project.

Yes. No. I mean!!!!!! They were two totally separate things, but now that I am here, figuring out how to start, I am starting to see how they are actually the same thing. They DO work together. There's more than I have the words to share here just yet, but the sketchbook is about making space for my grief/anger/rage/hope about everything that is happening, like space to name every thing that is upsetting me and space to express every upsetting feeling in detail... all in the name of validating that THIS FEELS WRONG because THIS IS WRONG and... the main point... visioning a future that is RIGHT. Where all life on this planet is treated as sacred. So the sketchbook was place for my own process and the art project is where I create from different thoughts and feelings from the process. And now it's like - oh of course this sketchbook is a part of this art.

So then yes, it seems like listing project ideas as a way to start feels so… logical and meaningless in comparison to the deep meaning and soul that is actually in this project. And also the breadth of it - there is SO MUCH ART COMING. We need a way in that matches that depth and breadth.

Yup.

I just sit with this for a few minutes.

Something inside me, that feels like a part of my soul, is getting really excited.

I feel like I am on the right track. I can’t just…. start. Like turning on a machine and pumping out art.

There is something else that needs to happen, to honour how deep and important this project feels to me.

I’ve been thinking a lot about technique. I’ve been doing projects to practice, to get my embroidery skills back to where they used to be, knowing that this will bring back my beading skills should they be a part of this too. I’d been learning lino printing and collecting printing inks for textiles, which feels like a part of this AND... I just don’t know how they fit together. There is so much experimentation to be done in terms of technique.

But that’s not the art.

My eyes keep landing back on that sketchbook.

I think that is the only place to start.

By journaling about my intentions for this project.

And then journaling/brainstorming ideas for ways to begin the art?

No that doesn’t feel right….

Oh! Journaling/brainstorming ideas for what I want the process to be like. That’s the way to start!!!

If I get myself into the process, then the art will emerge from that.

WOW!!!! I can’t explain how exciting this feels to be at this place, ready to begin, and to see a way to begin that honours everything I feel about this project.

PS: that photo at the top was taken many hours after I wrote this - evidence that I journaled, brainstormed, and found my way in. I am doing new experiments about how to bring my other experiments together.

 

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I'm going into my practice today thinking about how PRESENCE is the most powerful tool for transformation that we have.

For a while now, when I meet my dream, I keep getting messages around ROOTEDNESS. Be more present. Be more rooted. Relax into it. Look for ways to be more open and receptive to it.

Lots of SLOWING DOWN and BEING WITH.

The work of GETTING ROOTED is what most of us need right now to properly tend to our art and creative dreams.

So it feels obvious that anyone who is holding space for people to heal, create and grow in the world as it is today needs to be as deeply rooted as they can be... and then look for ways to go deeper.

But what seems less obvious is that PRESENCE is actually a tool for CHANGE.

Over the years I have heard, when people hear about my work "Oh that sounds nice but I'm in a place where I need to be really PRESENT, you know? Not thinking about the future or pushing and working hard, I want to just really be here and enjoy the moment"...

And I just smile and say "Well it's not for everyone" but if they asked about it, I'd say:

Your dreams are not in the future, they are here in the present.

They are in your heart and soul right now, in fact they are a sacred part of you. They are here to guide you.

(If I was being REALLY honest, I'd also say that the reason why we tend to "not want to dream" is more about being afraid of our feelings, because to be present with our DREAMS mean to be present with all parts of us, including the hard parts, and most new age/holistic wellness approaches to "being in the now" involve so much spiritual and emotional bypass that of course they can't get in touch with their dreams.)

Being "in the now" does not place you outside of time. You are still moving through life. You can move to re-create the same situations you have over and over or you can move to create new ones, but we are never actually standing still.

When you are really present with yourself, where you are, you see that this includes your dreams and when you simply MAKE SPACE for that...new possibilities emerge. You never need to leave "now" to get to a dream.

Dreams can require hard work and risks, yes. How we choose to engage with those parts of the process are 100% up to us though. We can move more slowly. We can make the work more enjoyable. We can dream up whole new ways to do things that don't feel like risk and hard work! And we can break those risks down smaller and smaller and smaller.

We NEVER need to bypass our needs, safety and preferences to make a dream happen.

That's a belief we do get from living in this culture, and, if left unquestioned, it will impact your life in a negative way.

When we're REALLY listening to ourselves, which is most of what a Creative Dream Alchemy practice is, we know when to do what and how to do it. And when we don't know - we listen some more.

A lot of what we think of as "making our dreams real" is all tied up in the capitalist dreams we get sold in this culture about what we are suppose to want and what we should be willing to give up to get it.

My work is in opposition of all of that.

Your actual dreams are in opposition to all of that.

And your PRESENCE is the most powerful tool for transformation that you have.

Last week when I was talking about how you don't have to stay calm in these troubling times... I was talking about how POWERFUL you are when you are PRESENT with reality.

Which doesn't mean being upset all the time! It does mean tending to your feelings and listening to yourself about what you need. And honouring the boundaries you know you need.

So, I am here, so grateful that my dreams keep pushing me to root in more deeply. Make more art. Meditate more. Scroll less. I even started a whole new art journal that I'll share about soon.

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I am having such a lovely weekend.

So I am kind of excited to do my Dream Status Report for this week. I do the this practice (or try to!) every week because a consistent practice of reflecting + noticing is a HUGE part of how we figure out how to get to our dreams. There is so much to learn from our own process, from looking at what happens when we get an intention and try to show up for it.

We are really in the ALCHEMY of it and allowing the healing, growth and change that our dream is calling us towards, when we do what we can to really notice and BE WITH what's happening in our own process.

As I reflect on last week and dream on next week, one question comes up:

How am I RECEIVING my dream?

What am I doing to actively BE in a receptive state?

This feels like the thing to carry with me this week.

I mean this in two ways: first literally being receptive of my dream arriving in my life.

But also being receptive to LISTENING to my dream about what it really is.

For a while now it's felt like... as the world changes our dreams will likely change too.

We need to stay open to this.

Our dreams are a creative and spiritual response to the world we live in - so as the world is changing so much, our dreams may change too.

It's easy to hold onto a dream, even when it wants to change, and to not notice how tightly you are holding on.

Am I doing that? Holding onto a dream that wants some space to change? Yes, it feels like I am in some ways but I can't quite put my finger on it.

When I REALLY sit with it...

It feels like my dreams are not quite what I think they are, and like I am trying to hold them into something smaller and more logical than they actually are.

It feels really uncomfortable to sit with this. I'd like some predictable dreams/goals to work on!

But I've been meditating on this a lot and it's getting really trippy...

What we allow ourselves to dream about and how we allow ourselves to dream about it are both HUGELY culturally informed. The part of us who makes these decisions is rooted in the world we live in.

So much of the ugly rotting roots of our culture are currently being revealed, which impacts culture itself. Culture is changing quickly.

So this creates an opening, a space where we can hear our dreams without so much of culture's influence.

For me, I am hearing this as new directions to take my art, new goals for my art, and a new sense of myself as an artist.

And it's so much weirder and bigger than what I think I want.

My dream is asking me to engage with my dreams - which means engage with my creativity and my soul and my self - in different ways than I ever have.

So if the part of me who has made these decisions about my dreams is rooted, in a particular way, in the world I live in.... what would these decisions looks like if I allowed a part of me who is more deeply rooted in soul to be in charge?

Which is not at all black + white like that. A lot of the ways we are rooted into the culture we live in are so unconscious. And a lot of the ways we are rooted into soul are also unconscious!

But if I could strip back another layer of cultural conditioning what would that mean for my dreams?

This feels important to listen to.

It's not what I had planned to be my focus for this week, but after this reflection... it feels like the thing I need to focus on this week.

So I am making space for these explorations this week, I want to do lots of Hello Day and Dream Lab meditations. I want to make art WITHOUT trying so much to decide what it is - I want to let the art tell me what it is and let me show me something new about who I am even.

 

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I am still thinking about all the things that were shared during our New Moon call on Tuesday ...

And about how we balance the reality of what we are facing and the reality that our dreams, creativity and healing still really matter?

Of course there is no “right way” to navigate any of this, we all need to listen to ourselves about our right way. And then keep listening.

(I had such a great discussion about this yesterday with my friend Chris Zydel from Creative Juices Arts. The LIVE aspect of it didn't go as planned, but you can watch the video here)

I’m just so grateful for the people who keep showing up to dream with me.

To meditate, reflect, journal and dream together.

To set intentions and then BE IN THE MESS of what happens as we practice holding these intentions even with everything happening in our own lives and the would at large.

And I’ve been sitting with my experience from our New Moon alchemy meditation.

It was really weird… my intention turned into an octopus, all these tentacles reaching into me and then kind of pushing ME out of me, like the octopus intention wanted to take over.

And then the tentacles started to turn into roots, rooting in.

And it was like “you need to root into who are are becoming and shed all the things that are in the way of that becoming”

Which is, in one way, what we’re always doing as we grow.

But, in another way, this felt intense on a level I haven’t experienced before.

I felt this in my body, my old self being pushed out to make room for the new.

So yesterday I drew it out in my journal and wrote about it some more, which helped me see new ways I can support this shift.

Healing/shifting is one thing. HOLDING ONTO IT so you can LIVE FROM IT is a different thing.

That’s why all of my work is about helping you stay in process, to keep practicing, and to practice more often. This is the work that roots the healing and shifts in place.

So, I am working on it. I am practicing.

Maybe I will just keep drawing this intention turning into an octopus and taking over my body, every day, until I really understand all parts of what it is asking of me.

I said recently that I want more space to BE WEIRD.

I think I am succeeding, lol.

I just want more space to really BE WITH whatever is happening in me, and express it more fully.

This intention-turned-octopus seems to have things to teach me and I want to show up to learn.

When we try to hold intentions in a more logical/linear way, when we focus on getting the outcome we want as fast as possible, we can miss out on all this healing and growth and joy that can come from being more deeply in process. Letting it get weird is so healing.

I’ve also been thinking a lot about everything that was shared on the call.

I am always looking at “what’s happening in the group” and “what are my dreams telling me” and “what is the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator telling me” about adding new stuff to the membership.

As someone said on the call "Here I am, trying to dream in a difficult world"

And I was wondering… do we need a group call on hopelessness? But now that I have thought about it- no, I don’t think so.

What we do need is a reminder that we have a 14 minute Meditation for Sitting With Hopelessness which is really great for when you’re IN IT.

And we have an Alchemy Meditation for Holding Hope In Your Body which is such a healing practice, I feel like this is what helped me put myself back together in my divorce, and create a new foundation to dream new dreams from.

There is also Hello Day: Energy clearing and checking in with yourself. This is really THE PRACTICE for these times - giving yourself space to know how you’re feeing and what you want and need. The meditation also has stuff in it for SEEDING FUTURE POSSIBILITIES FOR DREAM WORK in the times when dreaming feels like too much. That's what Dream Book 2026 is for - holding space.

Having a practice and showing up consistently means having space in that practice to be where you are.

It’s ok if you don’t feel super excited to DREAM BIG right now, it’s still worth practicing sitting with yourself, shoring up your resilience and self belief, making space for processing and healing and all of this good stuff.

This IS the work that tends the soil where new dreams will bloom.

 

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I am going LIVE on FACEBOOK with my friend, intuitive painting goddess Chris Zydel, today at 2:00 Central.

We’re going to talk about why your dysregulated nervous system is NOT the problem.

I am doing this from my personal Facebook account - you can send me a friend request here and I'll accept it, you can also watch the video there if we're not friends, it will be public.

We mean absolutely no shade to anyone who wants to regulate their nervous system or is out there doing good work helping others regulate!!

What we want to talk about is how “YOU NEED TO REGULATE YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM” is being used prescriptively, as though it is the ONLY answer to what is happening in the world.

It’s not.

Chris and I believe in the wisdom of our bodies, including our feelings.

And we believe in the magic and alchemy of BEING WITH WHAT IS.

If you are dysregulated - that’s your body’s wisdom. Let’s listen to it.

YES we want all the self care right now. YES we love understanding how our nervous systems work and how to help ourselves stay calm.

But we don’t go into this work with a “one size fits all” approach that says that regulated is better than dysregulated.

In the venn diagram of “existential dread” and “dreaming a better future into being”…

ALL of the magic is in the intersection.

BEING WITH what is there always includes being with dreams, magic - your real POWER to create what you feel called to create.... alongside "all the feels".

TENDING TO the existential dread and intense feelings we’re all feeling helps you be able to connect more deeply to your magic. Trying to avoid it DULLS your magic.

I think this will be a fun conversation, and the replay will be on my Facebook when we're done.

(I have a free journaling kit for existential dread! Get it here)

 

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Today is our New Moon Intention Setting ritual for March.

(Members: get the call details here <--- the replay will be on that page a few hours after we're done)

I've been reflecting on the intention I set last month because I didn't do it. Not just that I tried and wasn't successful... I didn't really try. I didn't DO anything with it.

And I've been wondering why.

(Members: get the zine for sitting with questions here)

That photo above, me holding my planner/journal open to a page that says THIS IS A SACRED PROMISE TO MYSELF is a reminder of what New Moon Intention Setting Ritual is all about.

This is a SACRED PROMISE we make to ourselves, to show up for ourselves.

It's not about goal setting or achieving, there is something much more important happening here, in this process of, month after month, REALLY sitting with ourselves and REALLY listening about how to navigate the next month

So, if I believe that my deepest truth was to do this particular thing this last month... why didn't I do it?

Which is a question that reduces this whole process down to black and white. You said you'd do this. You didn't do it. You failed.

Not the best question to sit with, but it's the one I had.

It opened up a few different "cans of worms" of thoughts and feelings...

And I followed all these different rabbit holes...

Just to remember the things I already knew.

It's NOT RELEVANT if you achieve your goals or not each month, the only thing that matters is that you stay in the process over time.

There is SO MUCH HAPPENING when we set intentions in this way. So many layers of inner and outer healing, shifts, growth, magic.

We have to stay in the process long enough to let the alchemy do it's thing.

And while we're in the process, we have to treat ourselves as living human beings whose needs, energy and capacity fluctuate.

And mostly: that this work is VITAL and SACRED and NEEDED right now.

I am doing exactly what my soul tells me is the right thing for me to be doing at this time.

And I am inviting others to do this work with me, to hold space for them to know and live their own truth in the same way.

The magnitude of this made me cry.

The fact that I didn't quite "hit my goal" this month felt so inconsequential in comparison.

And then I realized... it's not true that I "did nothing" with my intention this month.

I held onto it. I wrote about it every week in my Dream Status Report practice. I thought about what to do with it each week.

I INCUBATED IT.

And then this Sunday when I did my Dream Status Report practice... I actually did get an idea for HOW to do this thing.

I feel ready to do it now!

There are ways to work with intention that are helpful and ways that are NOT helpful.

It's SOOOO important that we HOLD ON to our dreams right now. It's equally important that we lower our expectations of ourselves. We can't push and over-work to get there. We can't steamroll our actual feelings to think positive about it and be confident.

We need to be IN PROCESS. In the alchemy. Letting things morph and change and heal and grow. We can HEAL, CREATE and MAGIC our way there.

We can't judge what we do or don't do in a given month - and it's not even relevant in the long term! What we need to focus on is STAYING IN THE PROCESS.

It IS helpful to dig in there and look around HONESTLY about why you didn't. Do you need more support? A different approach? To face a big fear? What would be helpful?

It's not helpful to RUSH your dreams.

It IS helpful to look at ways to give yourself the support you need to keep dreaming LONG TERM.

It doesn't matter if I accomplish this thing in 4 weeks or 4 months or 4 years.

It matters that I DON'T LET GO of it because our dreams are sacred, our dreams are showing us our path and we deserve to make space for them in our lives.

I hope to see you today on the call! Or if you work with the replay do feel free to share your thoughts in the forum.

If you're not in the membership, you can get the New Moon Intention Setting Ritual Kit to do this on your own!

 

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I am THINKING ABOUT my Dream Status Report for this week.

I encourage us to all do this every week or so. I try to write about mine every week to remind you to do yours!

I have a lot of resistance to doing it this week. So I've been thinking about all the reasons why I don't actually need to do it. And I can come up with lots of reasons... AND... the more I think about it the clearer it got: I was IN resistance.

There was something I didn't want to face.

The WHOLE THING about Creative Dream Alchemy is to face the thing that's actually there.

We dance in so many ways in so many circles trying to avoid the thing that's actually there. We look too far ahead of where we are and try to take those steps and end up falling flat on our faces, or we say "Oh I'm not ready for that yet" and do nothing.

All of your POWER and MAGIC are related when you face the thing that is ACTUALLY there.

AND this is a practice. It's hard.

We all avoid the things we want to avoid, and a lot of this avoidance is unconscious so it can take time, and attention and, mostly, PRACTICE.

So the thing is, to actually DO my Dream Status Report for this week, I'd have to face the thing I am avoiding.

GROAN.

I thought about this most of the day yesterday.

I've had some health problems for the last 4-5 weeks. We can't predict the future but I have every reason to believe this is temporary. It's something that I've always had, there are not a lot of treatment options. It comes and goes so I've been waiting it out.

And that's fine when it's short term.

But 4-5 weeks in, "waiting it out" starts to look like "avoiding how I feel about this disabling thing that is happening to me".

And I didn't notice when it shifted, you know?

So, to reflect HONESTLY on how last week was, in order to do my report and know what is best to focus on for this coming week... I would have to include ALL of what happened last week which would include the health problems and how they impacted things which would have to include how I feel about them.

This slowly dawned on me over the course of the day yesterday.

ASIDE: This is what I mean by how POWERFUL and TRANSFORMATIVE this kind of practice is. It directs your thinking to what needs thinking on and helps create space for the breakthroughs you need. I would not have kept exploring this thing so deeply if I didn't have the consistent Dream Status Report Practice within the Creative Dream Alchemy Practice. These structures HOLD SPACE for your process.

Suddenly I felt like I was sitting on layers of calcified feelings.

And I could no longer sit on top, I need to BE IN THEM. I sunk into all of the sadness and frustration and fear about what's happening with my body.

I panicked. I cried.

And then I started to feel lighter.

It was like I could feel the ground beneath me again.

That all these feelings had been gathering, collecting, building underneath me. Kind of forming a block between me and.... well, me.

It was so HONOURING OF MYSELF to acknowledge all of these layers of feelings. It helped me come back to myself.

And I hadn't noticed how this accumulation of unfelt feelings was impacting my vision.

So often I say, about all of the things I teach, it doesn't matter that you "do the thing" perfectly or answer the prompt in a linear way. It matters that you dive in and be with what is there.

So, "working on my Dream Status Report for this week" looked like noticing my resistance to it, thinking about why it might be there, circling it for a bit, then finally noticing all these unfelt feelings, feeling them, and re-connecting to myself.

No I haven't even looked at the prompts yet, lol.

But this has been SOOOOO helpful already.

And yes - now I will make anther cup of coffee, sit down with my Dream Book 2026   planner/dreamer and do my prompts.

 

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I love this new imagery I found to describe creative dreaming, the dream as a ball of light and the stuff of creative dreaming orbiting it.

(This is from the updated YOU ARE THE MAGIC guide + journal from the new class on Creative Dream Alchemy) (Members can get it here, everyone can get it here)

Like how the moon is a part of the earth, these things are just a part of it. They are connected.

We don't need to judge any of the things, we just recognize that they are there. This is the STUFF of Creative Dreaming. We learn to work with it by PRACTICING Creative Dreaming. And then we keep practicing to go deeper.

Some things are in slow orbit, they can seem gone but they’ll probably be back. 

It’s always changing - in terms of which parts are right there in sight when you pick it up.

Also, all of this is happening inside the alchemy so the stuff can change as it orbits.

All of our work is about really listening to what happens inside us when we hold our dream. What comes up? That's the next thing to be with.

(I lead you through this in the Creative Dream Alchemy Meditation that comes with the new course! Try it this weekend!)

Today, as I pick up my ball of light, I feel roots growing out of my feet.

Growing SOOOOO SLOWLY.

Which also feels like… I need to give myself more support for the rooting.

It feels like… I’ve been in process with many things that are coming to fruition and/or moving to “next levels” and it makes sense that I need some time to acclimate to being where I am. I need to get rooted.

Someone shared a similar thing in the forum in the membership this week, about taking some significant steps into the new life they’d been creating, and then, while reflecting in their weekly Dream Status Report, noticing how they didn’t actually feel rooted in their new life… and that maybe there were places they were bringing their old “ways of being” into the new life, and that they had hoped to leave some of those things in the old life.

And I thought “Oh wow, same”

This is such a common thing. We do the outer work to create a new thing, we step into our new life but then… where is our new inner self?

IT TAKES TIME to acclimate to our live lives, it takes time to acclimate to any change, even when it’s a wanted change that we worked hard to create.

It reminded me of a dream I had while I was still in the divorce process.

One thing I started doing immediately when my marriage ended was sewing. I made myself so many nice things for my new life. One of them being a gorgeous sexy nightgown. With a sewn in super comfy soft bralette. It was soooo comfy and I felt so alive wearing it.

So, in my dream, I went into my kitchen in the morning to make coffee, wearing the sexy nightgown. It took me a new minutes to realize… all three of my step-kids were there. They were relaxed on the couches, on their devices, not noticing me, so I just put a cardigan on over my nightgown and just felt a little exposed and weird.

Then I looked at my one step-son, who in real life does do a lot of lucid dreaming, and he looked me in the eye and started telepathically communicating with me “NONE OF THIS IS REAL! NONE OF US ARE ACTUALLY HERE! WTF?!”

And then I heard the water running upstairs and thought my husband must be having a shower.

And then I was like… wait… am I still married? Am I back in my old life? But in my new nightgown?

It really described how it feels to step into your new life and how it takes time for your inner self to catch up with your new outer life.

So what helps?

Practicing the Dream Work of connecting/attuning to the soul of your dream, and sometimes Inner Work for processing and releasing the stuff you want to get of.

Creative Dream Alchemy process for Acclimating to your dream 

Working with your Dream Self

Releasing Ceremony for letting go of the stuff you don’t want to bring with you

And mostly… keep dreaming. Keep holding the dream and being with the things that show up.

I spent 5 minutes today feeling into those roots. Noticing the sensation of ROOTEDNESS in my body. 

I am also LISTENING TO WHAT HAPPENED as I did that, which was a feeling that I need to slow down in the Outer Work.

So I am slowing down.

Co-Dreaming/Co-Working is today! I hope to see you there!

We'll start with a short meditation for connecting with the soul of your dream (like the Dream Lab) and then have time for whatever you want to do - planning next week, working on your projects, sharing your updates, talking about something that is stuck with your dreams or just hanging out in the magic of the group.

Call details are here. Replay will be there a few hours after we're done today.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts or start a conversation about whatever you're working with.

Do the Hello Day Energy Clearing + Intention Setting Practice (from Dream Book 2026)

Get your next Dream Book lesson or get a weekly journaling + alchemy kit.

Go the Library of Creative Dream Alchemy to find a practice that fits for where you are or use the Dream Lab if you're not sure where to start.

Check out the calendar of upcoming calls. Make a plan to join us live or catch a replay.

If you're not a member - find out more + join us here!