Every Monday in 2025 there will be a new journal prompt in the Year of Hope classroom in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Leave them in the comments at the bottom of that page so we can discuss this as a group. Practicing hope in community is MAGIC.

At some point hope has to become action.

We all see it in the US with the Republican politicians who offer thoughts and prayers after school shootings and refuse to take action on sensible gun legislation.

Here in Canada our politicians keep saying they want to respond to climate change and protect us from climate collapse… but we need to keep building MORE pipelines (and passed a bill to override Indigenous consultation to put new pipelines through Indigenous territory quickly) and extracting all we can… to fund the green economy of the future.

At some point real hope requires real action.

If you cannot or will not back up your hope with action - it’s worthless.

It’s very easy for us to see this in our politicians and other scenarios…

… it’s harder to see it when it comes to our own dreams.

But that’s where my Year of Hope daily journal practice has landed me now.

Hope isn’t just…. like a nice feeling or idea. It needs legs. It needs to have the power to act or else it becomes something else.

Holding onto hope for something but not taking any action to support it turns toxic.

When it comes to issues like climate change and the fascist takeover of your government and watching democracy crumble before your eyes… of course these things feel “too big”. Of course any steps you might be able to take feel like too little.

But taking them matters.

Same thing with our dreams.

I’ve been in this weird intersection of getting a divorce I didn’t see coming, while turning 50 and suddenly not being so sure about who I really am or what I really want, while my closest neighbours are becoming fascists and launched a trade war that threatens to become a war war as in they want to take us over, while being self employed during a chaotic economy, while checking the air quality monitors to see if it’s ok to go for a bike ride because wildfire season is completely out of control in my province (in a place where floods are usually the bigger problem!), while worrying about all of the wildfire evacuees, while being terrified about the ongoing genocides, while trying to re-discover myself as an artist in all of this.

And most days it’s easier to just say… this is too much. I don’t know what steps to take but if I did I’m sure they would be too much. So what if I just don’t.

But the NOT DOING adds up over time just like taking little steps add up over time.

This is just really hitting me.

THE

NOT

DOING

ADDS

OVER

TIME.

And the doing… well it doesn’t even matter how big the steps you take are, it doesn’t matter how relevant they feel or what the immediate results are.

Doing creates movement. Doing creates possibility. Doing builds the path that leads to the better future.

(Not to be confused with over-working, pushing, striving, etc. There is a balance.)

Let's work together to figure out what little steps we can take!

A Better World is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create is happening this Wednesday!!

Healing Circle + Community Spell * June 30 1pm Central * Live on Zoom, replay provided

From Existential Dread to Hope and everything in between.

This is: Space to sit with everything that is happening and tend to your feelings about it all and move towards knowing how you want to show up for the future you want to create - either in your own life or in the world at large or both.

This is the work right now and I am so grateful to get to do this work in such an incredible community.

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