We can’t stay hopeful when we are heavy with unprocessed feelings [Year of Hope Week 33]

By Andrea Schroeder / August 11, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

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.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

During Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create we talked about how creative work is helpful but that getting set up to do a project can be inaccessible in the moment, so being prepared is so important.

So I left my embroidery project, with the little bag of all the things I need with it, on my coffee table instead of having it "kind of away" in my embroidery box on my shelf where it has been languishing for about a year.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is something to be said for - doing a repetitive thing with your hands is good for calming your nervous system. There is something to be said for - creative projects are good for the nervous system.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

Membership members: if you haven't yet, make time this week to watch the replay from Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

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.

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Hope wants to explore what’s on the other side of all these hard feels. [Year of Hope Week 32]

By Andrea Schroeder / August 4, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

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.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

Membership members: if you haven't yet, make time this week to watch the replay from Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

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.

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At some point hope has to become action [Year of Hope Week 31]

By Andrea Schroeder / July 28, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

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.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

Membership members: if you haven't yet, make time this week to watch the replay from Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

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.

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It takes so much courage to hope [Year of Hope Week 30]

By Andrea Schroeder / July 21, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

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.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

Membership members: if you haven't yet, make time this week to watch the replay from Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

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.

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Showing up for healing in this dumpster fire of a world is the most hopeful thing you can do [Year of Hope Week 29]

By Andrea Schroeder / July 14, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

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.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

Membership members: if you haven't yet, make time this week to watch the replay from Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

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.

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New call! A Better World is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

By Andrea Schroeder / July 12, 2025 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

From Existential Dread (get the free Journaling Kit for Existential Dread here) to Hope (we're doing the Year of Hope Meditation + Journaling Program all year in the membership!) 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.

Since I've been exploring both Existential Dread and Hope so deeply this year, I felt called to offer this space for you to explore with me.

I know the existential dread feels HUGE these days - that's not a reason to avoid it, that's a reason to get some support for dealing with it. We are stronger together and not meant to weather these times on our own.

This healing circle will open up a portal for you to choose how you want to show up for the future you want to create - either in your life, in the world around you, or both.

Membership members: get the call details here.

Everyone else: This is worth joining for! Totally ok to just join for 1 month to participate in this. You can cancel your membership any time and it will stay active until the date when the next payment would have gone through.

(If I set it up so you could just sign up for this call and not the whole membership - it complicates the admin and tech parts of my business to the point where I would have to raise my prices substantially.)

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!

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Have I really noticed this part of me who has been fighting so ferociously for hope? [Year of Hope Week 28]

By Andrea Schroeder / July 7, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

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.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

Membership members: if you haven't yet, make time this week to watch the replay from Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

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.

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Wrestling is a part of creative dreaming

By Andrea Schroeder / July 3, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

Yesterday I spent most of the day in pretty extreme self doubt.

I have lots of tools for this in the membership:

Self Doubt Relief

Alchemy Process for Self Doubt

Your Self Doubt Is Not Yours You Deserve To Believe In Yourself (that class is also available outside the membership - here

The Un-Sticking Station)

I used the tools and the self doubt didn’t pull me under like it was threatening to.

But it kept coming back.

The thing that REALLY frustrated me about it was that it felt just like it felt when first I started my business.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

All of that “I don’t think I can really do this” and the enormity of all of the feelings around… not just failing with a business but not being able to do the things I feel called to do and live my life in a way that feels right and all the things that get sparked by that.

The way it feels in my body.

This is a feeling I never want to have again.

And it just… kept coming back.

It amazes me how deeply I want to never have certain feelings, even again. Even though I understand that our feelings are a form of inner knowing, even though I have years and years of experience of finding the gifts in the really hard feelings, even though I couldn’t have the life I have today had I not really faced that self doubt.

Even still. When that feeling comes all I want to do is run from it.

But running away is not creative dreaming.

WRESTLING is creative dreaming.

Being with the part of me who wants to run away. And the part of me who wants to face everything and heal. And the part of me who just wants to be “beyond” self doubt once and for all. And the part of me who doesn’t want to waste time with this and just wants to be making art.

Wrestling with this stuff is SO HARD and it’s easy to feel like you’re failing when you’re in it.

You’re not.

You’re succeeding because you’re wrestling with it.

HAVING self doubt is a sign that you are FAILING TO OBEY YOUR VOICE OF SELF DOUBT and dream within it’s parameters so you never do anything to trigger it.

This is why everyone should be in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership!

Wrestling with your dreams, on your own, is SO hard. We’ve all got so many blind spots working against us.

The membership gives you tools to wrestle more effectively but more important it gives you the support to keep going when you hit the really hard parts.

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.

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Your soul is trying to show you something

By Andrea Schroeder / July 2, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

Yesterday I spent most of the day in pretty extreme self doubt.

I have lots of tools for this in the membership:

Self Doubt Relief

Alchemy Process for Self Doubt

Your Self Doubt Is Not Yours You Deserve To Believe In Yourself (that class is also available outside the membership - here

The Un-Sticking Station)

I used the tools and the self doubt didn’t pull me under like it was threatening to.

But it kept coming back.

The thing that REALLY frustrated me about it was that it felt just like it felt when first I started my business.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

The way it feels in my body.

This is a feeling I never want to have again.

And it just… kept coming back.

Even still. When that feeling comes all I want to do is run from it.

But running away is not creative dreaming.

WRESTLING is creative dreaming.

Wrestling with this stuff is SO HARD and it’s easy to feel like you’re failing when you’re in it.

You’re not.

You’re succeeding because you’re wrestling with it.

HAVING self doubt is a sign that you are FAILING TO OBEY YOUR VOICE OF SELF DOUBT and dream within it’s parameters so you never do anything to trigger it.

This is why everyone should be in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership!

Wrestling with your dreams, on your own, is SO hard. We’ve all got so many blind spots working against us.

The membership gives you tools to wrestle more effectively but more important it gives you the support to keep going when you hit the really hard parts.

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.

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What if I forgive myself for not being great at the parts I’m not great at?

By Andrea Schroeder / July 1, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

Yesterday I spent most of the day in pretty extreme self doubt.

I have lots of tools for this in the membership:

Self Doubt Relief

Alchemy Process for Self Doubt

Your Self Doubt Is Not Yours You Deserve To Believe In Yourself (that class is also available outside the membership - here

The Un-Sticking Station)

I used the tools and the self doubt didn’t pull me under like it was threatening to.

But it kept coming back.

The thing that REALLY frustrated me about it was that it felt just like it felt when first I started my business.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

The way it feels in my body.

This is a feeling I never want to have again.

And it just… kept coming back.

Even still. When that feeling comes all I want to do is run from it.

But running away is not creative dreaming.

WRESTLING is creative dreaming.

Wrestling with this stuff is SO HARD and it’s easy to feel like you’re failing when you’re in it.

You’re not.

You’re succeeding because you’re wrestling with it.

HAVING self doubt is a sign that you are FAILING TO OBEY YOUR VOICE OF SELF DOUBT and dream within it’s parameters so you never do anything to trigger it.

This is why everyone should be in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership!

Wrestling with your dreams, on your own, is SO hard. We’ve all got so many blind spots working against us.

The membership gives you tools to wrestle more effectively but more important it gives you the support to keep going when you hit the really hard parts.

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.

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Hope says: You have to be true to yourself in order to access me [Year of Hope Week 27]

By Andrea Schroeder / June 30, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

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.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

Membership members: if you haven't yet, make time this week to watch the replay from Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

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.

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I feel like I am wasting my time going in circles

By Andrea Schroeder / June 26, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

Yesterday I spent most of the day in pretty extreme self doubt.

I have lots of tools for this in the membership:

Self Doubt Relief

Alchemy Process for Self Doubt

Your Self Doubt Is Not Yours You Deserve To Believe In Yourself (that class is also available outside the membership - here

The Un-Sticking Station)

I used the tools and the self doubt didn’t pull me under like it was threatening to.

But it kept coming back.

The thing that REALLY frustrated me about it was that it felt just like it felt when first I started my business.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

The way it feels in my body.

This is a feeling I never want to have again.

And it just… kept coming back.

Even still. When that feeling comes all I want to do is run from it.

But running away is not creative dreaming.

WRESTLING is creative dreaming.

Wrestling with this stuff is SO HARD and it’s easy to feel like you’re failing when you’re in it.

You’re not.

You’re succeeding because you’re wrestling with it.

HAVING self doubt is a sign that you are FAILING TO OBEY YOUR VOICE OF SELF DOUBT and dream within it’s parameters so you never do anything to trigger it.

This is why everyone should be in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership!

Wrestling with your dreams, on your own, is SO hard. We’ve all got so many blind spots working against us.

The membership gives you tools to wrestle more effectively but more important it gives you the support to keep going when you hit the really hard parts.

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.

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This is not new information

By Andrea Schroeder / June 25, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

Yesterday I spent most of the day in pretty extreme self doubt.

I have lots of tools for this in the membership:

Self Doubt Relief

Alchemy Process for Self Doubt

Your Self Doubt Is Not Yours You Deserve To Believe In Yourself (that class is also available outside the membership - here

The Un-Sticking Station)

I used the tools and the self doubt didn’t pull me under like it was threatening to.

But it kept coming back.

The thing that REALLY frustrated me about it was that it felt just like it felt when first I started my business.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

The way it feels in my body.

This is a feeling I never want to have again.

And it just… kept coming back.

Even still. When that feeling comes all I want to do is run from it.

But running away is not creative dreaming.

WRESTLING is creative dreaming.

Wrestling with this stuff is SO HARD and it’s easy to feel like you’re failing when you’re in it.

You’re not.

You’re succeeding because you’re wrestling with it.

HAVING self doubt is a sign that you are FAILING TO OBEY YOUR VOICE OF SELF DOUBT and dream within it’s parameters so you never do anything to trigger it.

This is why everyone should be in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership!

Wrestling with your dreams, on your own, is SO hard. We’ve all got so many blind spots working against us.

The membership gives you tools to wrestle more effectively but more important it gives you the support to keep going when you hit the really hard parts.

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.

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Journal Prompts for when you feel behind

By Andrea Schroeder / June 24, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

Yesterday I spent most of the day in pretty extreme self doubt.

I have lots of tools for this in the membership:

Self Doubt Relief

Alchemy Process for Self Doubt

Your Self Doubt Is Not Yours You Deserve To Believe In Yourself (that class is also available outside the membership - here

The Un-Sticking Station)

I used the tools and the self doubt didn’t pull me under like it was threatening to.

But it kept coming back.

The thing that REALLY frustrated me about it was that it felt just like it felt when first I started my business.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

The way it feels in my body.

This is a feeling I never want to have again.

And it just… kept coming back.

Even still. When that feeling comes all I want to do is run from it.

But running away is not creative dreaming.

WRESTLING is creative dreaming.

Wrestling with this stuff is SO HARD and it’s easy to feel like you’re failing when you’re in it.

You’re not.

You’re succeeding because you’re wrestling with it.

HAVING self doubt is a sign that you are FAILING TO OBEY YOUR VOICE OF SELF DOUBT and dream within it’s parameters so you never do anything to trigger it.

This is why everyone should be in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership!

Wrestling with your dreams, on your own, is SO hard. We’ve all got so many blind spots working against us.

The membership gives you tools to wrestle more effectively but more important it gives you the support to keep going when you hit the really hard parts.

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.

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Bear the Life Coach wanted to offer his thoughts on practicing hope. [Year of Hope Week 26]

By Andrea Schroeder / June 23, 2025 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

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.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

Membership members: if you haven't yet, make time this week to watch the replay from Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create

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.

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