I did not sleep well last night.
I kept waking up, my mind wouldn’t stop racing… but in a good way. I am SO excited about the projects I am working on. I feel so LIT UP with creativity and inspiration. This feels so different from when I can’t sleep because of perimenopause, though ether way I am still really tired the next day.
We unearthed so much in the Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams session. It’s like spring cleaning, some parts of the process are UGH you’re just making a bigger mess than you started with but then you end up so glad you did it.
I had a dream for this year that I have realized/accepted is NOT possible.
The timing doesn’t work. It can’t happen this year. But maybe next year?
Because our dreams are so vulnerable, this kind of thing can stir up a LOT of feelings and those feelings can trigger even deeper feelings and we can decide to just abandon dreaming completely as the solution to all of the feels.
It’s not a solution.
Abandoning our dreams turns down the volume on the discomfort temporarily but it pushes everything deeper down inside you. It doesn’t heal or solve anything, it just masks it.
What heals and solves is to stay in the process.
So, my big dream for this year is not possible. After I can sit with the little volcano of feelings that erupt in response to that, I can see:
Dreams are so TRIPPY and ALIVE though.
It’s like the soul of this dream is liquid… the magic of it seeps out everywhere to offer it's medicine to everything it touches.
Some of my other dreams of this year are MORE ALIVE. The creativity and joy and meaning of this dream has seeped out and it’s everywhere. Some of my other dreams for this year are SPARKLING and SHINING. Some dreams I didn’t have in January, I have now. I am failing to implement some of my plans... but I also holding onto the essence of them and finding different ways to get there.
When you are dreaming WITH creativity and soul, the path will always be non-linear.
Whatever you imagine “non-linear” means, it’s going to be at least eight times LESS linear than that. It’s going to be WEIRD and also DEEPLY HEALING in ways you can’t anticipate.
During the alchemy meditation on yesterday’s Co-Dreaming call, my dream came to me and said “Girl! That dream isn’t even impossible for this year. Just do this…” and showed me exactly how I could still get there on time… but then it said you CAN do that IF it’s that important to you. My dream also reminded me of all the other things I have going on, all the ways I feel a million times more alive and inspired today than I did in January, and said… maybe pushing yourself to hit that goal THIS YEAR isn’t the right move.
Yes, my the SOUL OF MY DREAM referred to this DREAM I have for 2026 as a GOAL. Interesting.
The soul of my dream also showed me how this particular dream is NESTED with other dreams and that it’s the big encompassing nest that matters, and the dreams inside it are the details. And that I have actually moved towards that larger nest of a dream in different ways, and it feels pretty solid. Like I WILL DO THIS. It’s just a matter of time.
When I see that, I look back at this goal for 2026 and I can see that setting that intention in January, and HOLDING ONTO IT even though I can’t physically make it happen this year, helped move me in a good direction.
This feels like SUCCESS.
AND it feels true that… I don’t want to do the work this dream will take RIGHT NOW to get it done by the end of this year.
I think I may want to do that work this winter.
But some other projects feel more alive RIGHT NOW.
This feels like the right decision.
At the end of the Spring Clean for your Creative Dreams I talked about taking the month of June to figure out your plan for the rest of the year. Some of your planning might look like this. Tabling some dreams. Choosing which dreams to have in the forefront. Being realistic about your capacity. Making space for new dreams. Re-categorizing dreams in your own mind. Making some nests? This is the process.
If you’re in the membership and weren’t at the Co-Dreaming call yesterday - watch the replay this weekend! We had powerful and profound conversations about all of this - tabling dreams and having them come back to you, holding onto dreams for decades through thick and thin, how deeply healing it is to keep coming back to the soul of the dream.
This conversation will help you with your Dream Plans for the rest of 2026.
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