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

​Get this week's journal prompt here.​

Get the hope alchemy meditation here.

Get the hopelessness alchemy meditation here.

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.

Self Doubt Erodes Hope.

I woke up kind of swimming in self doubt, and instead of working with it in any kind of constructive way I've just been annoyed with myself for even feeling it.

Not a great situation!

Hope is so much easier to hold onto when I am feeling.. not quite self CONFIDENT necessarily but self TRUSTING.

I am getting ready to stop sharing my weekly Year of Hope journal blog posts.

I have LOVED doing this journal this year and sharing bits of it here.

And there will still be a new hope prompts in the Year of Hope classroom every Monday until the end of the year. And the Year of Hope classroom will still be accessible.

Starting December 1, I am doing GOODBYE 2025 HELLO 2026 31 days of mini-meditation + journaling prompts, which I will share on the blog and social media (Instagram + Facebook).

There will be one prompt every day in December, for reflection on 2025, gathering up the gifts, releasing what is ready to be released, and setting intentions for 2026.

Goodbye 2025 Hello 2026 Bonuses for membership members:

• Get the 31 prompts (with a hand-written mini meditation for each one) as a printable journal.
• New RELEASING CEREMONY alchemy process for working with all the things from 2025 that you want to release before 2026
• Hello 2026 Dream Blessing Ceremony, on Zoom with replay provided, on Saturday January 10

Members: Get the details here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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

​Get this week's journal prompt here.​

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.

This is from a while back. But I've felt it quite regularly this year.

I think this is an inevitable part of healing.

It doesn't necessarily always feel like "I want to go feral" - it feels like hitting a HUGE wall of resistance to the process, which we can experience in a lot of different ways.

For me, this year, the intensity of feelings is higher than it's ever been which sometimes leaves me with no clue how to sit with a feeling. At the same time, I am making more space for "sitting with my feelings" than I ever have. It's a strange dichotomy.

(Membership members: I re-did the whole Un-Sticking Station this year, with 4 new alchemy mediations to support you in this work)

And also. Our feelings are valid. Our feelings are forms of intelligence.

Dominant culture wants us cut off from our feelings, and betraying ourselves to conform to it's values and ways of being.

Our feelings, our ACTUAL feelings even when they don't make sense or are hard to deal with - bring us back to our truth.

This makes me sad. That makes me angry. This makes me nervous. These are important things to know, even though feeling your feelings is awkward AF sometimes - they help us navigate by our inner truth instead of dominant culture's values. And that is the only way we can create a better future.

It's easy to feel like you are failing when you feel this way. YOU ARE NOT FAILING.

You're being incredibly brave to be facing the hard things and coming up against your edges. You are growing.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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

​Get this week's journal prompt here.​

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.

There is this part of me that gets so scared when I don't see a clear path in front of me.

And then there is the part of me that knows that SOMETHING WILL ALAYS EMERGE if I just... do something. If I step on the path and put myself IN the process.

This Year of Hope project has given me a new understanding of this.

SOMETHING

WILL

ALWAYS

EMERGE

I'm taking the magic I felt in my Year of Hope project and using that to create the Dream Book 2026 project.

It's the same general idea... filling a daily planner with DREAMS (instead of HOPE).

But Dream Book 2026 has a lot more structure - it will be a daily companion for Dream Book but also robust enough to use on it's own for the times when Dream Book is too much... it gives you a way to engage with your dreams and invite the magic of creative dreaming into your days.

AND we'll play with a different way to do that every month in 2026! So you can try a different way every month, or if you find a way you really like you can just stick with that.

So much magic happens when you JUST SHOW UP.

But it's also SO HARD to "just show up"

This will make it easier! I can't wait for January 1!

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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

​Get this week's journal prompt here.​

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.

This page is from a while back.

I remember the intense feeling of it. As I was sitting with hope... well it's hard to just sit with one feeling and not make space for others, too. So this other feeling came in - this sudden sensation that something in me wanted to change... AND I didn't know what it was or what to do about it.

So I just tried to stay with it. Without figuring it out

I really like knowing. I don't like not knowing. But nothing can grow or change if we can't give it space... and WE can't grow or change if we can't even be in a space of not knowing.

So, I am still just being with the knowing that something inside me wants to change. And being with all of the layers of frustration and annoyance and fear that come up around the not knowing part. And... slowly... some new ideas are starting to come into focus.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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

​Get this week's journal prompt here.​

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.

Last week I wrote: this year of practicing hope has been so subtle and deep and healing.

It's really changed things for me, in the way that SHOWING UP EVERY DAY always does.

ALWAYS!

IF!

You keep showing up when it's hard/boring/annoying.

I have a lot of love, enthusiasm and excitement for the planner I bought for this project, and for the idea of finishing the year with this planner FILLED.

That was what kept me going, to be honest, when I felt bored/frustrated/stuck with my relationship with hope. It's also easier for me when I offer it as a program in  he membership, which I did with this because then I have a reason beyond my own needs/interest to keep showing up.

At this point, my practice has come full circle. I am back to just... hoping for things.

On Monday I sat down, after my meditation and journaling, and took out my Year of Hope planner and I wrote THIS WEEK I HOPE FOR: and filled the page with my hopes.

The first thing that came to mind surprised me so much.

But my hope felt genuine, so I followed it and it re-arranged my work schedule, or the way I saw a few projects going.

It was this tangible view of: HOPE CHANGES THINGS.

Hope, wish, dream... they are all kind of the same. Beautiful things! Time spent dreaming is never wasted, this can be a healing practice.

CREATIVE DREAMING... that's different. There is this intention behind it that you are CREATING this dream. You are bringing it into the physical world and giving it life. This becomes mystical and powerful.

Not all things we dream of are things for us to CREATIVE DREAM.

It's still valuable to dream. It's perspective-expanding and can be very healing to give yourself space to DREAM without any intention of DOING.

When we ALWAYS approach our dreams as "things we better make happen" we can end up limiting what we dream of to what we feel capable of doing in the moment.

And dreams are meant to GROW us.

Our dreams are meant to GUIDE us.

So, in addition to all the ways we are being these mystical powerful creatures birthing dreams into this dimension... we ALSO need to make space to just... listen to the dreams our souls want to offer us next.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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

​Get this week's journal prompt here.​

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.

This year of practicing hope has been so subtle and deep and healing.

Last November I just felt a deep sense of hopelessness about the future. Which is a really completely natural and valid feeling to feel in response to what was happening in my life and in the world.

Hope was a far-away dream, so I dreamed about it.

And now I feel I have a different relationship with hope, somewhere deep down inside in my inner world that doesn't necessarily impact me day-to-day but does feel like it strengthens the foundation that I live and dream from.

And it feels like a healing and a blessing to see that hope does not judge me for the times when I just can't.

The relationship has strengthened enough that this is ok. The relationship can hold it.

Hope can still believe in me. Hope can still believe in us, and what we can do together.

And it's just like with all dreams, we know what we want to create and how we want to feel and the times when we have and feel the opposite - these are portals of learning and healing. They're not mistakes.

We're not meant to always hold onto hope or optimism or positivity. Trying to do that will only lead to trouble.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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

​Get this week's journal prompt here.​

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.

One thing the Year of Hope has shown me is how much hope needs CAPACITY.

When “it’s all too much” hope becomes nearly impossible to find and that doesn’t mean something is wrong... It means you need to rest, slow down, and look at what you can take off your plate so you can have the capacity to be hopeful.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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

​Get this week's journal prompt here.​

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.

Entering the tail end of the Year of Hope, practicing hope and practicing creative dreams are starting to really converge for me.

Which is what I had HOPED for, for this project!

Being intentional is so good... and... sometimes we can get kind of hardened in our intentions. We become so focused and hard working that we kind of shift into this "I have to do this all by myself" and "I am making this thing happen by sheer determination and hard work"

And we forget that that the whole universe is out there, supporting you in the process of being who you really are, which includes this dream.

And you can relax into that.

Of course finding the right balance between showing up for the work/not avoiding the hard part and relaxing and trusting is a nuanced and ongoing process. But this was the right message for me for 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.

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.