My blog is where I share my on Creative Dream Alchemy practice. All of the tools I use are in the Creative Dream Incubator membership and I link to them often in my blog posts. Only membership members will be able to access the tools. If you're not a member yet - join us here!

On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

There are journaling sheets for doing this! These are available for everyone, not just membership members. Download them here.

Last week's report told me to: check in more often.

This week I checked in OFTEN with myself, my dreams and my projects. It was a busy week, and first I looked at what I could maybe cancel or postpone, but I wanted to do it all, so I decided to move more slowly and keep checking in about what I need.

Like - accepting that this is a busy week, how do I take the best possible care of myself in that?

And I am really proud of how I did with it. I finished a busy week without feeling depleted! That feels like a real accomplishment.

How do I feel about this/What am I learning: I think I am remembering how some parts of the creative process have always been overwhelming to me. But then the next time I forget, and feel like "something is wrong" when it feels overwhelming. At the same time, the world is overwhelming so you really do need to sit with things, and check in with things, to even know which overwhelm is which and how to take care of them.

It ALWAYS comes down to validating my experience and feelings in the moment while connecting with my deeper truth about how to move towards where I want to be. The actual definition of Creative Dream Alchemy.

What do I need now: Stay patient. Keep moving slowly.

Oh! That's another thing I am learning - how much my pace has slowed BUT this doesn't mean necessarily that outer work progress has slowed. Which is so trippy!!!

But my ways of moving fast, in the past, would also mean re-doing and re-visiting, learning as I go (I am not judging my past self it's just that I had a different process when I had more energy). So in a way I took a more winding road to get to completion. Now I am moving more slowly but this gives me time to process as I go.

I guess it's a classic turtle vs the hare story.

What does my dream need now (using the Dream Lab alchemy process): My dream show up as a sensation of deepening into my body and feeling calm and expansive. I feel like it wants me to relax into it, and play with it as in "not always WORKING ON it"

Taking all of this into account my focus for next week is:

Looking more carefully over last week's Dream Status Report, and this week's experience - I see myself learning from my own process in real time. Last week I noticed that this would be a busy week with Outer Work and that I tend to over-work when I focus on Outer Work, get depleted and also get out of alignment so everything takes MORE work and MORE time.

I didn't do that this week! What I wrote above, about working slower but more effectively - this is exactly what I was trying to do! I forgot that I had written about it but I still got the lesson and implemented!

More please 🙂

My focus for next week is to go DEEPER into the Dream Work while still having a big list of Outer Work tasks to get done.

(There is no Co-Working/Co-Dreaming call today since we just had the November New Moon call this week. If you haven't seen it yet, catch the replay here)

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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!

Law of attraction manifesting strategies typically have you choose a goal and then use spiritual practice in service to that goal, to keep yourself focused and intentional on achieving that goal.

This is a colonial approach. It's a colonization of Indigenous spiritual teachings and a misunderstanding of their actual power.

In the first place - this is you choosing a goal, generally largely based on your unconscious colonial programming about who you are, what life is, and what you are supposed to want.

And then the process leaves no space for growth, only manifestation. It’s you trying to CONTROL the universe.

And it ignores the face that who the world tell you that you are and the things you’ve been programmed to want for yourself… all of this is an insult to your soul.

Here’s how I do it differently:

You still choose a dream, and you are still largely operating out of unconscious colonial programming as you do. 

But when you bring that dream into the Creative Dream Incubator, and use Creative Dream Alchemy processes to work with you, you invite your soul’s deeper truth to co-create with you.

Instead of visualization and manifestation as the focus… we focus on developing your relationship with the soul of your dream and the version of yourself that you grow into as you move towards the dream (AKA your True Self).

When you do it this way, the dream often changes and so much healing and growth happen without even anything changing in your outer life. You make so much room for soul to help you get aligned with your inner truth, and don’t just manifest the things that the world has told you to want.

The Creative Dream Incubator approach also makes space for your thoughts and feelings, which are all clues that help you find your soul’s deeper truth AND/OR root out the unhelpful perspectives you’ve picked up along the way.

The Creative Dream Incubator makes more space for your soul to speak up and direct you.

Sometimes this looks like dreams changing form and new ideas coming into focus. 

Yes, it get messy sometimes. But we are plugging more directly and deeply into your MEDICINE, GIFTS, MAGIC and POWER.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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!

I had the most chaotic and un-focused Dream Lab meditation.

There is a lot going on in my life. My mind is bouncing everywhere. I cannot, for the life of me, actually listen to what I am saying on the Dream Lab recording.

But I stay with it. Laying down comfortably. Attention drifting in and out.

This is ok!

Some days this is what it’s like.

It counts as a step!

It counts as “doing it”!

I am sharing this to cast a little spell:

That the next time you are having an experience like this, instead of feeling like you are doing it wrong or failing... I want you to remember this post and tell yourself:

THIS COUNTS. I SHOWED UP.  I TRIED. EVERYTHING DOES NOT NEED TO BE PERFECT EVERY TIME. IT'S FINE.

I AM PROUD OF MYSELF FOR SHOWING UP EVEN THOUGH TODAY IS NOT THE BEST DAY.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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.

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

One of my big DREAMS for this year is to BE the artist that I AM, and explore what this even means and what I want to do about it.

This dream has really put me through the wringer.

I did start with this strong, physical sensation that I am not BEING the artist that I AM and I have felt so many different kinds of despair over not understanding how to bridge that gap.

Creative dreaming is brutal sometimes.

One thing I knew was that BEING the artist that I AM is not about what, specifically, I am creating. It’s not about anything that anyone else can necessarily see.

Of course, you can’t say “I’m an artist” and not have the next question coming at you be about what kind of art you produce.

We are culturally programmed to focus on the product.

But for me, to BE the artist that I AM is really much more about the BEING. And a big thing I learned this year is that all the time and effort I put in to trying to describe this in a way that might make sense to another person is absolutely wasted.

Next-level creativity is not usually a linear journey.

Like you start with 4x4” paintings and next level is 8x8” and you just keep going.

(Although of course at times “next level” really does mean going big in a physical way but that’s NOT the rule.)

Next level is also not about more complicated forms of art, or “better technical skill” which makes me cringe to write.

So we are culturally programmed to focus on the product. And I am personally trying SO FUCKING HARD to un-do a lot of colonial/extractive capitalist/Imperialist programming….

… but it still keeps popping up.

I still kept wanting to KNOW what it would LOOK LIKE. What kind of art I would make if I was truly BEING the artist that I AM?

And somewhere inside I was also putting so much pressure on myself to MAKE THAT ART and have it be so amazing and compelling and marketable that it would cement my worth as an artist and a human.

I mean - no pressure or anything.

lol! sob!

So I spent a lot of this year absolutely cemented stuck in with my inner critics and self doubt.

Which is not wrong! This was my process!

Getting so deep in there did help me see things in a new light, and I think I was able to loosen up a few really tight spots.

I’m feeling less encumbered by it all right now.

I’ve actually…. made art. Like on paper, outside of my journal (for some reason my inner critic absolutely will not acknowledge the books upon books I have filled with art because they are “just journals”)

I am not interested in sharing any of that art, which is fine!

And now I do feel inspired to begin new projects. In fact I went shopping this weekend for supplies and every time I look at them I feel SO MUCH JOY. And I haven't even started the projects yet!

But what amazes me is how there is this one inner voice that just won’t stop… it wants to map out the artistic process FROM THE END.

Like, reverse engineer it to GUARANTEE SUCCESS. So the art will %1000 (extra zero not a typo) cement my worth as an artist and human being.

START WITH THE GOAL. Then make art that will SUCEED in that environment.

Like. BLEGH.

That’s not AT ALL what BEING the artist I AM is.

And I’ve been through this almost-year-long process of trying to detangle all this shit so I can be more true to myself creatively.

And it just keeps rearing its ugly head.

This is ok.

This is not a failure.

This is the process.

Artists are meant to CREATE culture. The places where we betray our souls to comply with dominant culture are places where our light is dimmed.

And it’s really complicated because we live inside dominant culture and need to collude with it in some ways to survive. Plus all the ways we need approval, acceptance and belonging and all the layers of where that gets messy!

And I am NOT saying that all forms of art that get sold are sell outs!!!!

But right now I definitely need to keep wrestling with this, and working on what it means for me to create art WITHOUT thinking of an end goal, while focusing solely on BEING the artist that I AM.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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!

My blog is where I share my on Creative Dream Alchemy practice. All of the tools I use are in the Creative Dream Incubator membership and I link to them often in my blog posts. Only membership members will be able to access the tools. If you're not a member yet - join us here!

On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

There are journaling sheets for doing this! These are available for everyone, not just membership members. Download them here.

Last week's report told me to: keep sitting with it.

I had already been slowing down and sitting with it... then last weekend I pulled tarot cards for the week that told me to... slow down, sit with it, lol.

So, I didn't take a lot of action, I kept listening to the soul of my business and the soul of the membership about what will be the most helpful in terms of how to launch/begin "Goodbye 2025 Hello 2026" and the start of Dream Book 2026.

(We have three Soul of your Business alchemy meditations: Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice, module 2 of the Creative Business Incubator and the meeting your dream and the soul of your business version of the Dream Lab.)

And then mid-week things started to come together and suddenly I was doing things without really thinking about them - like it just felt natural.

This is how it feels when Outer Work comes out of the Dream Work and Inner Work - the Dream Work and Inner Work create a new pathway for the Outer Work, you don't have to work to figure out each step.

How do I feel about this/What am I learning: It is SO MUCH easier to trust the process when you're at the part where can do the things you wanted to do, and can see progress happening.

What do I need now: To not put pressure on myself to DO ALL THE THINGS RIGHT NOW and stay patient, stay connected to the souls of the things, and my on creative soul, as I do the work. This is quite a lot of Outer Work, this is a bigger project than I've done in a while, and it feels like patience and slow steps will help it not feel daunting.

What does my dream need now (using the Dream Lab alchemy process): My dream show up as a raft with wings. Then it turns out I am sitting in the raft, and it just gently lifts me up... not very far! It felt like "You're almost there and I can lift you the rest of the way" which is just really reassuring. My dream needs me to trust it, and keep sitting with it.

Taking all of this into account my focus for next week is: Oh! I see how I can get out of alignment when I have a LOT of Outer Work to do. Like I get tunnel vision and then work work work and get a burned out. My focus is to not do that. To breathe, stay in alignment, take little steps, and check in often.

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.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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!

I’ve been thinking about the dreams that DON’T get encouraged by this world. The artists who are not understood. The healers who can’t put a sales funnel together if their life depended on it. The dreamer who gets told to be realistic.

We carry the medicine that the world needs.

This is true of everyone. If you’re alive now, you have medicine the world needs now.

When it feels like the world doesn’t appreciate what you have to offer… remember that it’s DOMINANT CULTURE that doesn’t appreciate what you have to offer.

THE WORLD ITSELF is very much cheering for your dreams. The whole universe wants your dreams to come true!

If your dreams will challenge dominant culture in any way then you’re going to have an uphill battle there. AND because you grew up inside dominant culture you’ll have inner voices that will doubt your worth because of it.

This is why you have to be working on three different fronts at once with your dreams:

DREAM WORK: SPEND MORE TIME SITTING WITH THE VISIONARY INSIDE YOU WHO UNDERSTANDS THE MAGIC AND POWER OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING. LET THIS PART OF YOU HAVE MORE SAY IN YOUR LIFE.

INNER WORK: SIT WITH THE SELF DOUBT THAT GETS SPARKED, MAKE SPACE FOR HEALING THESE PLACES IN YOU OR ELSE THEY WILL DERAIL EVERY PLAN YOU MAKE.

OUTER WORK: KEEP MAKING THE ART! 

When you tie these three together - this is the ALCHEMY that makes dreams real.

I can show you how to do this in the Creative Dream Incubator membership.

If you're already a member - use those links above to go to the libraries of practices for Dream Work, Inner Work and Outer Work. Send me a message if you're not sure which ones to work with, or just dive in and explore.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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!

I have been struggling to write the sales page for Dream Book 2026.

First, I couldn’t figure out where to put it. Like physically, is it its own page, and then it links to the membership sales page? Isn’t that complicated? But isn’t it also complicated to add it to the membership sales page?

So many logistical questions. I couldn’t picture how this fits into the current ecosystem and thinking about it overwhelmed me.

I also don’t know how to talk about this in a way that makes sense to other people. This is something I have been exploring so deeply on my own, in the non-linear way that creativity tends to do, how do I turn around and make it make sense to people who haven’t been on these explorations with me?

I felt the way I often do writing sales pages - like I just want to give up on everything. My “sales page writing resistance” is very dramatic.

At the same time, I am exploring my capacity and the ways I work. Accepting my changing energy in mid-life and looking for ways to work WITH it instead of fighting it or trying to squeeze out every bit of creativity and productivity that I can.

And then the answer was simple.

It’s so funny to me, all these years into doing this work, how tripped up I get over my own questions… when if someone in the membership asked me that question I would give them much better advice.

But that’s hard to do when you are IN IT.

Anyway, the answer is to use the Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice meditation.

There is a 30 minute meditation there, with journaling sheets. The meditation is very general but you can go into it with a very specific question about what you are doing. It helps you really LISTEN to yourself, the soul of your business, your creative and spiritual gifts and the people that they are meant to help.

So that’s what I did.

I used the meditation to show me what the sales page needs to be. The part where you have that light that represents the gifts of what you have to offer - I was specifically making that be about Dream Book 2026 and how to talk about it.

It’s a 30 minute meditation but it took me about 90 minutes to work through it, and I didn’t actually finish the recording - I kept pausing to sit with the questions longer, to apply them to this sales page question.

Within 90 minutes, I had a good “blurb”. Good as in IT FEELS GOOD and I think it describes the program well.... AND I can keep editing/adjusting as I go, but I have something to start with.

It's not a full sales page on it’s own but enough to explain what this is and how it adds to what you get in the membership. I can put it on the current sales page, and I can use it in emails and social media posts and now I see that it is NOT that complicated.

Here is my blurb, which I will now make some artwork for and start sharing!

Dream Book 2026: Holding space for your self, your dreams + the future you want to create

These are the times when artists, healers + visionaries need to get to work… and these are the times when it’s the hardest to get to work.

I’ve been sitting with this dichotomy, and asking the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator what to do about it.

Dream Book 2026 is the answer.

What it looks like: Filling a 2026 planner with dreams AKA turning a planner into a DREAMER!

What it is: A dailyISH practice program… in that we are playing with SIMPLE ways to show up so you CAN show up every day… but you don’t HAVE TO do it every single day. First, we'll set up the planner to hold your intentions for the year, then each month we'll experiment with a different way of doing this.

What it is also: a way of HOLDING SPACE for yourself and your process of connecting more deeply to yourself, your spiritual and creative gifts, your inner knowing and your power. Your magic.

What it does: Helps you take SMALL steps more consistently, making it more creative + playful to get engaged… so it’s easier to plug in more deeply to your own soul, your creative and spiritual gifts, your medicine. 

And also is a creative way of documenting your process of showing up for yourself during these difficult times.

Who it's for:

• Anyone who thinks filling a PLANNER with DREAMS sounds fun!
• Also anyone who likes the idea of having simple little steps to take, but doesn't want to get a planner just for this - you can use any notebook for this.
• When I say "These are the times when artists, healers + visionaries need to get to work" you know that I am talking about YOU
• People who want some structure + support for being more intentional and powerful... while also being really free to do it their own unique way. In this program, everyone's planner will NOT look the same.

Dream Book 2026 happens in the Creative Dream Incubator membership. You don’t need to “be political” but know that on our group calls, when it’s appropriate, we address the state of the world, and it’s impacts on us, from a progressive worldview. You can’t get around an obstacle that you can’t name - so naming racism, colonialism, extractive capitalism, ableism, sexism, etc help us find ways to free ourselves and others.

For people who are already doing the full Dream Book program and the people who are thinking of doing it:

Dream Book 2026 works in tandem with the full Dream Book program!

Dream Book itself is a deep dive - a full on guide for navigating the space between where you are and where you want to be. Dream Book 2026 is a daily(ISH) companion to that work.

Dream Book 2026 makes creative dreaming easy enough to do when you have no energy for it… Dream Book gives you the support to go deeper as your capacity allows.

You can do one or the other or both or switch back and forth between them. 

Dream Book is a BIG step to take into your dream. and sometimes we can’t take such a big step! So Dream Book 2026 is like putting smaller steps in between you and the full Dream Book, steps you CAN take.

Your Dream Book 2026 Planner will hold space for you to take tiny steps, keep showing up in whatever way you can, and keep listening to yourself.

Dream Book 2026 is starting on January 1 in the Creative Dream Incubator membership.

Can't wait to do this with you!

Our next Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice call is TODAY!

Get the call details here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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!

Dream Book 2026 will start on Jan 1.

These are 2 promotional videos I made talking about it (any course videos for Dream Book 2026 will come with transcripts, but these don't have them).

You can see I laugh when I say... turn your PLANNER into a DREAMER. I hadn't thought of it in that way until it came out of my mouth in this video and I really love it. We are turning our planners into dreamers in 2026!

Dream Book 2026 is a daily(ISH) practice for 2026. We're going to fill a daily planner with DREAMS.

This was inspired by my Year of Hope project for 2025, I shared more about that in this video. Showing up every day ISH to fill this planner with hope really shifted things for me, and though I want to shift from HOPE to DREAMS as the focus - I never want to be without this practice.

For the people who hate the idea of using a daily planner: That's ok! You can use anything!

A binder or other notebook or random loose papers - anything will work.

Getting a daily planner to do this in is an intentional act of saying: I commit to showing up all year. I already have pages with every day of the year written on them, and I commit to filling them up with dreams.

This also will work with a weekly planner if you want less space for journaling! And there are more details about the planners I use in our classroom in the membership. (That page will be updated over the new few months as I get the content together)

How it will work:

In January we'll set up the planner/notebook to be intentional for what you want to create and call in in 2026.

The Goodbye 2025 Hello 2026 journal, and the Hello 2026 Dream Blessing Ceremony will feed into this. (More details on those coming - membership members - get those details here)

By daily(ISH) I mean: this is a SMALL, SIMPLE + FUN practice that you CAN do every day. If you miss some days - that's fine!

As I said in the video, my goal with my big planners this year was to fill them by the end of the year. Sometimes I get a bit ahead of myself, sometimes I've been 2 weeks behind. It's ok, it will even out in the end.

This is a simpler more playful way of engaging with your dream, than the full on Dream Book program.

I think of it as a companion to Dream Book. But you can do it without ever having done Dream Book!

The beauty of Dream Book 2026 is that it's a simpler way to engage with your dreams...

And when you engage your dreams... you create a portal into the MAGIC.

So excited to start this in January!!

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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!