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New call scheduled: Sitting with Uncomfortable Feelings

This is some extra support for Inner Work. Call details are here.

New community features update:

I did get our new community forum installed on the website on Friday… but there were a few unexpected issues getting the forum to plug into the rest of the site so I have removed it for now.

And I forgot that the people who help me with this have shifted to a 4 day workweek so they weren’t available on Friday. And it’s a long weekend in the US so I don’t hear from them until Tuesday. But I am hoping we can get it sorted out this week.

This forum will replace the private blog where I’ve been doing the daily posts.

The difference between a forum and a blog is that on a blog only I can write posts and everyone can leave comments on my posts. On a forum everyone can post and start discussions as well as respond to each other. There are also some notification features (like you have on social media sites) that make it easy to keep up with conversations you are in.

So, once it’s operational, the forum will replace the blog and will be on the same page and have the same name - the daily miracle masterminds.

It also means I’m going to stop sending these weekly updates.

I started doing these weekly updates, over a year ago and it made sense at that time with what we were doing in the group, but as things have shifted, it’s not quite feeling right now.

Instead, I will send quick updates when something is happening - when a new call is scheduled, reminders of calls, etc. And we’ll do most of our connecting on the forum.

What are you up to this week?

Read this on our website to leave a comment and share your intentions for the week with us! And if you need some help figuring out your week remember the Creative Genius Planning Sessions.

 

(This is the "Monday post" from the daily posts, which I send out to everyone on Sunday as a general update so you can catch up with us)

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Recent replays: Feeling worthy of your dreams | Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice | Being OPEN and RECEPTIVE to your dreams | May New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call

 

I recommend you watch the May New Moon call if you haven't yet!

We had such rich discussion topics this month! The one that is really staying with me is about when your dream sends you information, like for a looong time, but you don't act on it or fully process it. And then when it really HITS you, it can feel so intense to see what you weren't seeing.

I think it's easy to forget how DEEP your dreams take you. Using the Creative Dream Alchemy processes can give you really rich intuitive information but ACTING on that information is a whole other process! You have to really digest and process the information before you can know what to do with it or feel ready to do those things.

This is the biggest part of the work, the PRACTICE. The part where you keep showing up and taking microscopically small steps. You take enough of those and you will hit upon these big moments when your perspective really changes and now all sorts of new things become possible.

That's why I keep sharing my daily posts from my practice, to hold space for all of the complexities of staying in the process. To be an example of how some days it all sucks, some days everything is stuck, but we can still move through it all as long as we keep showing up.

Today was actually a FANTASTIC day in my practice where I had a big breakthrough:

I have two things demanding my full attention today:

Marketing

The Book(s) Project

I meditate, going into the Field of Creative Dream Alchemy, and then invite each of them to join me there. My plan is to notice which one is bigger, and assume that the bigger one is actually more important.

Marketing is bigger, but it feels like… a fake “bigger”? Like it’s artificially puffed up.

I ask it what it’s real size it and it talks about how important money is. How I have some big expenses coming up, and I need to be practical. And how I have never been as QUIET, marketing-wise, as I have been this year and that this is WORRYING!!!! And, as much as Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual practice has helped me figure out so many things, why am I giving myself so much space to explore and process QUIETLY ON MY OWN???  Where is the urgency to get out there and be seen???

OK but you did not answer my question. It feels like nervousness about the upcoming expenses and judgement about how I am doing things right now is puffing up marketing to make it seem more important to work on.

What is actually TRUE here?

Then both of them become the same size. This feels true, and also feels like I’m not sure what to DO with it.

How do I do both when I feel I only have energy and mental clarity for one?

And then it hits me! The idea I had to beta-test not the book so much but the ideas in it. To get people working with it.

When it comes to marketing, I just need to be out there doing something related to my work. VISIBLE. I don’t need to create a strategic marketing campaign or anything.

And, by putting a rough draft out there to people who want to work with the ideas around developing a Creative Dream Practice - and then my idea is to offer to help them come up with some practices that are right-fit for them to make that easier - I would be generating more ideas for my book.

It’s something I DO do for Dream Book members, if you have something you are working with and aren’t sure how to work with it, just let me know and I will suggest practices.

I can do this for people who are not in Dream Book, it’s just that that practices would be simpler as I don’t have meditations and classes to give them. AND I am sure out of that I will come up with loads of marketing content ideas.

Yes. This feels like the idea that grows both projects at once.

What are you up to this week?

Read this on our website to leave a comment and share your intentions for the week with us! And if you need some help figuring out your week remember the Creative Genius Planning Sessions.

 

Good news: new community features are coming to the website!

When I moved this website in 2020, the forum wasn't being used very much on the old site, so I decided to not include those kinds of features on this site. At that time, it felt right to keep things simple, and just have the private blog for the daily posts.

But lately more and more people have been saying they are wishing for better ways to communicate with other people here, so that's what we're going to do. We will have as simple forum and we will do the daily posts in there, plus you'll be able to start conversations in there any time and it will be easier to manage your notifications, so you can keep up with what's happening in there.

I'm hoping to get this set up in the next few weeks.

(This is the "Monday post" from the daily posts, which I send out to everyone on Sunday as a general update so you can catch up with us)

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Recent replays: Feeling worthy of your dreams | Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice | New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call  | Being OPEN and RECEPTIVE to your dreams

THIS WEEK: May 18: May New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call

 

In my practice: I used the Dream Self meditation to meet with my Most Prolific Self.

This is what happened:

She is startlingly chill.

Why would I not be chill?

I guess I imagine being my MOST prolific self would mean I’d be… focused, hard-working, all of that. 

Ewww. No. I am prolific like a meadow of flowers. Blooming.

Wow. You are. So how do I be you?

Be the meadow and allow the blooming.

Hmmm.

Look at all of the ways that you don’t trust the blooming.

Ugh.

Yeah! I trust the blooming to the point that I AM the blooming.

And then I guess - the work just happens?

Yup. I mean, I do tend to it but not, like, WORK MY ASS OFF. I don’t need to STAY FOCUSED because how could the meadow not bloom, if it’s properly tended to? Girl, you are so much closer to this than you can see. Your mind is just a little behind. You’ll get there.

This felt SO HELPFUL in the moment but now that I am trying to implement this it's like.... what?

I'm supposed to be the meadow? How?

Combined with what I learned from last week's Dream Status Report, that I could use more structure, I feel lost.

A little voice is saying: Yeah well I could take the advice my Most Prolific Self gave me, to look at the ways I don't trust the blooming. I could make a Dream Book page about it and give myself some space to explore the questions that come from that. I could bring in "what kind of structure do I need?" as one of those questions.

When we're in a shift, listening to these intuitive nudges can help us move through AND it can be very, very difficult to interpret and act on that advice.

The whole thing about following our intuition is that sometimes it IS about getting in touch with that next-level self and that version of us doesn't necessarily speak in the same way that we do.

It times time and attention to interpret and figure out what to DO with these messages.

You're not ever "wrong" for not knowing what to do right away!

The work is to keep showing up for the process, keep making space for the questions. Sometimes you WILL have PILES AND PILES of questions and no answers in sight. As long as you keep showing up, it won't always be this way.

(note to self)

What are you up to this week?

Read this on our website to leave a comment and share your intentions for the week with us! And if you need some help figuring out your week remember the Creative Genius Planning Sessions.

 

(This is the "Monday post" from the daily posts, which I send out to everyone on Sunday as a general update so you can catch up with us)

Get the calendar of all upcoming calls here | Get your next Dream Book lesson here.

Recent replays: Feeling worthy of your dreams | Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice | New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call  | Being OPEN and RECEPTIVE to your dreams

Next calls:

May 8: Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice | May 18: May New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call

What are you up to this week?

Read this on our website to leave a comment and share your intentions for the week with us! And if you need some help figuring out your week remember the Creative Genius Planning Sessions.

I'm continuing my practice of drawing my dream meetings and un-stickings.

I try to do the Dream Lab first, to get myself into the Field of Creative Dream Alchemy, connected to that part of me who always believes in me.

This makes it easier to meet the anxiety I am feeling almost every day.

But this day, that wasn't working. Anxiety was so THERE I started with that, and drew of the little whirling thing while breathing, and sitting with the sensations in my body. Then when I invited my dream in after working with the anxiety, it helped ground me and bring me back to the love and enthusiasm I have for things... but the anxiety stayed to. It felt like a little miracle to have space for everything to co-exist.

(This is the "Monday post" from the daily posts, which I send out to everyone on Sunday as a general update so you can catch up with us)

Get the calendar of all upcoming calls here | Get your next Dream Book lesson here.

Recent replays: Feeling worthy of your dreams | Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice | New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call  | Being OPEN and RECEPTIVE to your dreams

Next calls:

May 8: Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice | May 18: May New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call

What are you up to this week?

Read this on our website to leave a comment and share your intentions for the week with us! And if you need some help figuring out your week remember the Creative Genius Planning Sessions.

As for my week, I am feeling really excited.

Warm weather for early morning bike rides. And lots of space in my schedule to work on the book. And I'm at a place where the work is flowing.

(This is the "Monday post" from the daily posts, which I send out to everyone on Sunday as a general update so you can catch up with us)

Get the calendar of all upcoming calls here | Get your next Dream Book lesson here.

Recent replays: Feeling worthy of your dreams | Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice | New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call <--- we had such a gorgeous conversation on this call, definitely worth listening to even after the new moon.

Next calls:

April 27: Being OPEN and RECEPTIVE to your dreams | May 8: Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice | May 18: May New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call

What are you up to this week?

Read this on our website to leave a comment and share your intentions for the week with us! And if you need some help figuring out your week remember the Creative Genius Planning Sessions.

Last week my dream sent me a new idea: to draw out the dream meetings I have in the Dream Lab, and to do this every morning. It's been such a gorgeous way to start the day. I've been sharing these drawings in my daily posts and will keep doing that.

It says: My dream is spaciousness sparkling all around me. I feel grounded + free + like everything is possible for me.

It has been such a gift to do these drawings every morning, takes the Dream Lab practice to a new level. And as you can see from my drawings, you don't need to "be good at drawing" to do this. I am using the approach I explain in this intuitive art-making video.

Wishing you the magic of connecting with your dreams in the way that best fits your life right now.

(This is the "Monday post" from the daily posts, which I send out to everyone on Sunday so you can catch up with us and see upcoming calls)

Get the calendar of all upcoming calls here | Get your next Dream Book lesson here.

Recent replays: Feeling worthy of your dreams | Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice

Next calls:

April 19: New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call | April 27: Being OPEN and RECEPTIVE to your dreams | May 8: Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice

Remember Your Magic. Remember You Are Magic.

I wanted to send out a link to the Library of Creative Dream Alchemy. If you are newer here, start with that link - there is a class there that shows how Creative Dream Alchemy works.

And then check out the libraries of:

Inner Work | Dream Work | Outer Work

This week I was stumbling around in resistance to my new project, and then when I finally sat down with the "For When You're In Resistance" video from the Inner Work library - my resistance disappeared.

Knowing about the work and understanding the work are different from DOING THE WORK.

But when we're IN IT, it's hard to see what work needs doing.

That's why the libraries are there, because the times when we need this work the most can be the times when it's the hardest to guide ourselves through it.

Creative Dream Alchemy means:

• your dream is here to HEAL and GROW you and will keep nudging you towards the inner and outer work that needs to be done
• your dream is a part of you, it's not something outside of you to chase after and it's not a fantasy it's your calling, so you ARE ready, you DO have have what you need to keep taking your next step.

And remember I am here!

Hit reply to this, let me know what you're working on with your dreams and I can send you links to the practices or courses would be the most helpful for where you're at.

(This is the "Monday post" from the daily posts, which I send out to everyone on Sunday so you can see upcoming calls)

Get the calendar of all upcoming calls here | Get your next Dream Book lesson here.

Recent replays: Feeling worthy of your dreams | Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice

Next calls:

April 11: Slowing Down! (Second call for Slow the fuck down! BE as powerful, creative + magnetic as you ARE)

April 19: New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call

April 27: Being OPEN and RECEPTIVE to your dreams

I have two big hanging plants in the window of my studio.

It's a floor to ceiling wall of south windows - a lot of light! But one of the plants misses the late-day really bright sunshine and it would do better with that extra light. The other one does get hit directly by that late-day super bright sun but it would do better with a little less light.

Because hanging plants are hard to move (I don't want to move the hangers I drilled into the wall) I'd been making adjustments with the sheer curtains to give more light and more shade but sometimes this means not having the privacy I want and then I suddenly saw it...

THE ANSWER WAS SO OBVIOUS.

Switch the plants! I mean in hindsight it's embarrassing that I didn't see it before now.

Embarrassment aside, I love this feeling of making a small shift and suddenly everything works better.

While we're in times of SO MUCH CHANGE around us, it feels like the possibilities for SO MUCH MORE CHANGE are heightened.

I am excited for Tuesday's call on Slowing Down. Like we can slow down to find these new ways.

What's happening for you this week? What are you working on with your dreams?

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Get the replay: Feeling worthy of your dreams

Next calls:

April 7: Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice

 April 11: Slowing Down! (Second call for Slow the fuck down! BE as powerful, creative + magnetic as you ARE)

April 19: New Moon Intention Setting + Coaching Call

April 27: Being OPEN and RECEPTIVE to your dreams

I picked a prompt for us for this week: How are you nurturing your dream?

Click here to leave a comment on the website with your response.

Since I've been sick, I've really just been sending my dream loving thoughts and not much more.

But how I want to nurture my dream this week is with LOTS of journaling/processing/planning. I am feeling the SPRING energy!

What's happening for you this week? What are you working on with your dreams?

If you're reading this is email, click here to read it on the website where you can leave your comment.

 

This is the daily post for Monday, which I send out to everyone on Sunday because some people have more time to check in with us on Sundays. The daily posts are on our private blog - so this is the place to leave comments, thoughts, questions, ideas - where no one outside of this group can see them.

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Next calls:

March 30: Feeling worthy of your dreams

April 7: Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice

 April 11: Slowing Down! (Second call for Slow the fuck down! BE as powerful, creative + magnetic as you ARE)

We've got to keep following our inspiration

There are times when I feel really inspired to draw out my dream meetings, un-stickings, etc.I mean little scribbles and doodles that probably I am the only person who could understand. But still, it feels different to see them outside me in this way.

Today my dream showed up as a star with a number on it that represents my business goal. The star is shining light, it’s hanging in a small-ish room that feels like a sacred space.

I did my doodle and then described it in writing beside it...

Then I remember something I just wrote for my “Creative Dreaming is a practice” book - you must consider your dream your sacred calling.

And I noticed the places where I do NOT consider this particular dream sacred - the parts where it’s connected to a business goal.

I've shared about this before - how my "business goals" support my dreams but aren't my dreams. This is just how it feels for me right now, there are no rules, we all go by how it feels for us...

BUT, in my book writing this week, I was insistent that all of your dreams and desires are valid and sacred. That they are a part of you. And that the only real rule to creative dreaming is to not judge your dreams...

And here I am, judging my dreams!

So then I thought specifically about my business goal as a sacred thing.

And it just LANDS.

I felt parts of me who resist money dreams or get all weird about it, melting away.

I want to keep doing messy little  drawings of my practice this week.

Update: later on, I felt ambivalent again.

I am thinking about royalty, and the "divine right of kings" and that sense that they felt entitled to colonize the rest of the world, commit genocide, and take all of the world's resources as their own. They felt that was their SACRED RIGHT (!)

A bit of "my business dreams are sacred" does feel like it's in that vein, and I want to stay very far away from that...

But when I think it through more fully, the purpose of my business is to help EVERYONE succeed. To make space for EVERYONE'S sacred rights. So it's really not in that vein at all...

So I see: I have a lot of un-sticking to do. I will check in with this in a few days. (Putting it in my planner now to remind me)

What's happening for you this week? What are you working on with your dreams?

If you're reading this is email, click here to read it on the website where you can leave your comment.