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.

I am coming into my Dream Status Report feeling so THRILLED WITH and PROUD OF myself. After some ROUGH reflections on my habits, routines and what it is I want to be disciplined about.... I took some significant steps this week that changed A LOT of things.

(I don't want to get into specifics because it's not about that, it's about reflecting deeply, being honest with myself about where I am and what I need and doing my best with what I find out in those explorations.)

I have less brain fog and more confidence and trust and energy and this is EVERYTHING.

I was so much more organized this week and just LOVING it! Both in terms of my schedule and routines and in my home.

When my marriage ended so suddenly, I did what I could in terms of dividing up furniture and stuff and then putting my stuff on the furniture that was left, where it was... and it really didn't make sense. I've been slowly working at organizing and decluttering but I haven't had a lot of energy for it... then this week got a TON of clarity about what needs to change next which gave me more energy for it. I got one new dresser, mostly I just need to move things around and store my things in different ways (basically: things I have on shelves should be in drawers and things I have in drawers should be in shelves, lol).

I have this I GOT THIS feeling to my work and home life and this is so nice. Between divorce, perimenopause and the end the of world I just haven't been feeling that way very often.

How do I feel about this/What am I learning: I am building a whole new foundation for myself. This is a real time of letting go of what was and creating what's next.

What do I need now: To not put pressure on myself to take EVERY step on this new path instantly. To rest and ground and move slowly and intentionally.

Also, the work I am doing for Dream Book 2026 is what I need! Daily practices for showing up for your dream. I am having so much fun brainstorming and planning.

What does my dream need now: My dream showed up as... not really anything. But then I noticed that the air had started sparkling with tiny gold sparkles. It felt like... keep doing what you've been doing, nothing appears to change but it feels different. I feel so much more grounded and intentional in my life and this is what brings on the sparkles.

Taking all of this into account my focus for next week is: Be grounded and intentional.

 

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Sometimes you fall into a rabbit hole of self doubt. And you need to stay in it, to gather up all the parts of you that got buried in the self doubt.

I was showing up to do the work of un-sticking and ended up just getting more stuck. I feel like I fell into that rabbit hole and I've just been... hopping around in here aimlessly, getting caught on all these painful things with no idea how to get out.

But in hindsight I think I was gathering up a lot of buried stuff.

Because one day things started to come together and it suddenly felt like... ooh I have been gathering things up to clear things out.

This was all purposeful.

And that's something we always come back to in this work.

It rarely goes the way we think it will so it's easy to feel like we're not doing it right.

But STAY WITH IT.

Creative Dreaming is an alchemical process - it will change things. But you have to stay in it long enough to have time to change.

 

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This messy page shifted my relationship with money is such a deep and healing way.

It came after many pages of exploration with the journaling kit from the first module of the Late Stage Capitalism update to the Creative With Money program.

It melted something in my relationship with money that has been frozen for the last few years.

And in the spirit of making space for each person to have THEIR OWN insights, awareness and healings in this program - I don’t want to share any specifics about MY insights and healing.

I just want to share that: healing is possible. New perspectives are waiting.

Creative Dream Incubator Members: get the Creative With Money program here. You can to TINY BITS at a time, it will start to change things.

 

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I am doing a daily Dream Lab meditation but this morning as I was about to click onto that page on my phone...

(Membership members: I have the Dream Lab saved in my favourites so it's easy to find - at the bottom of every page on the website is a purple "favourite" button. If you click it, then it turns orange and becomes one of your favourites. Then you can go to "Classes + Faves" in the top menu on this site (which is a sticky menu so it's always there at the top) and the link will show up there. You can remove any of your favourites by clicking the orange favourite button at the botton of the page, which will turn it back to purple and remove it from your list)

... I suddenly wanted to the Dream Self meditation instead. So I did that one and as I listened to myself talk about how the Dream Self is a continuum it becomes clear that I want to meet the Dream Self who has figured out my next steps - she hasn't done them yet but she knows HOW to do them... I mean she could be wrong but she feels confident and she is ready to GO.

My dream self showed up, green and glittery and said: Girl! There is no reason to be an overwhelmed mess!

And this didn't land as criticism. It landed as deep soul guidance.

For me, there is a continuum from "overwhelmed mess" to "highly sensitive genius who takes such good care of herself that it's easy to access her genius".

The state of the world, stressful events in my life, difficulties with peri-menopause... a lot of things push me over to overwhelmed mess and I did not realize how much I was living inside a story about how this is who I am now.

It's so terrifying to watch your mind become anxious. To watch your capacity shrink. I do not judge myself for any of the ways I have responded.

And it didn't feel like this Dream Self judged me either. She was just saying a truth, that there is no reason for me to stay on that end of the scale.

And in the past... could be that there WAS reason to stay there. To BE there. You know?

But now I am here, today, in a place where there is not a reason to stay there.

Which doesn't feel like a "get your shit together!!" message.

It feels like a "Sweetheart you deserve to have whatever support you need" message.

It landed like a healing that I have been feeling all day.

This is the gift of really connecting to YOUR Dream Self for advice. It's not necessarily typical advice or "logical" but it's the thing you need most right now.

 

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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.

I have been doing this on the journaling sheets and then sharing bits on my blog. Today I REALLY wanted to type it out here, so I am doing that 🙂

My dream is:

I want it because:

When I have it I will feel:

So these are from the Dream Page in Dream Book which I have been working on. I have A LOT to say about each one and I am still exploring what I REALLY want because it feels SO layered right now. And on the other hand it's simple, too. When your dream is to be self employed and do the work that you feel called/inspired to do, usually keeping that dream alive becomes an ongoing dream! There is a lot I want to change about how I do things - I don't want to make changes inside the membership other than keep adding what feels needed. I want to make changes to the outer layers of it, how I talk about and share my work.

This has been an exploration for a long time as the world has been changing and the internet has been changing and I feel like I am in a brand new place with it. I had been feeling a bit lost as sea, just bobbing around and responding to external changes. Now I feel creative and powerful and ready to build something and this brings up a LOT of thoughts and ideas I am still exploring, so my dream page continues to evolve.

New moon intention: Living life as creative retreat, figuring out what this means and what kinds of hobbies/routines would help me feel this way all the time

Last week's focus: Just do your best. (I cried through last week's dream status report! Amazing how this week I feel so clear and happy!)

Oh it feels SO GOOD to sit with all of this.

It's so easy to get lost in the jumble of being in the process. To sit here with my biggest dreams and the little pieces I am focused on now... this feels delicious.

Calling my dream in: I don't do the full Dream Lab, I feel like I want to meditate later. So I just run through it quickly in my mind and my dream shows up as a jungle that pops up all around me. Surrounded me in LIFE and GROWTH and SUSTENANCE.

What happened in the last week: This week I made a very deliberate intention to STAY AWAY FROM OVERWHELM. It's my mother's 80th birthday this weekend and I wanted to go into the weekend calm and ready to celebrate in style.

At the last minute, I took a business class kind of last minute with someone I had not been thinking about taking a class with. But suddenly it felt like a really helpful thing to do. After our last Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice call I had been feeling a bit more clarity about what I want to change and I just wanted more help figuring that out.

How do I feel about this/What am I learning: I feel really clear and ready for my next steps, which technically are FIGURING OUT how to do my next steps. I feel ready to really look at the details of it and come up with a plan to TRY. (Not to pressure this plan to work perfectly)

One thing I learned this week is how much self doubt has seeped into my worldview - which also means that this week I took some big steps in freeing myself from it, so I see it more clearly, and feel ready to leave a good chunk of it behind.

What do I need now: That reminds me of another thing I started doing to address how overwhelmed I've been feeling: doing housework and stuff in little chunks most days, instead of doing it all on weekends as I have tended to do. Having EVERYTHING to do to "get my life together" on the weekend just isn't working like it used to, and instead of judging my for "not keeping up" I decided to try to break it all down into smaller steps. The idea of doing a little something each day to keep things more manageable felt good - and I actually did it this week!

So I don't need to "get my whole life together" like I usually do on Fridays, lol. Which feels so good. What I need is lots of time for journaling and exploring my ideas of how I may want to do what I want to do next.

What does my dream need now: My dream kind of buzzes with excitement about that. It is SO happy that I am taking some classes about the business parts - to get some help to create a new foundation for everything.

I realize I've had a little self doubt story about how if I can't do everything myself then that means I'm not good enough. And that is SO not true. I know this about dreams: they benefit from external support! Because they are so... delicate and unseen... having other people on the physical plane be on the team helps in more ways than we think.

Taking all of this into account my focus for next week is: Giving myself LOADS of space to dream about how I want to take these next steps.

I want to stay in "living life as a creative retreat" as in not feeling bogged down by daily life and feeling creatively free and alive and really DREAM.

 

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I made a page in my Dream Book about this because my habits need a serious overhaul. What if it was EASY to not doom scroll because I had all these amazing things I do on auto-pilot?

What do I want to be disciplined about?

What are the habits I WANT to have?

Thinking about things like... getting out to see either the sunrise or the sunset every day.

Putting fun music on the speaker more often.

Starting every day with journaling (yikes I am at my laptop typing this with NO journal time this morning)

Things that would help me HAVE MORE FUN and FEEL MORE ENERGIZED AND PRESENT AND ALIVE.

These last five years seem to have obliterated every good habit I used to have.

I feel like I have spent a fair bit of time going in circles trying to "go back" to how I was.

And now here I am accepting that I can only go forward, and that it's not going to look like it used to, and that's ok.

I can have BETTER habits at this stage of my life than I have ever had! I need the "good habits" around nutrition and movement and sleep and all of that of course... I also want some great habits that bring me more joy and aliveness.

There are three classes in the membership that help with habits:

Habits Upgrade is a 90 minute healing circle with lots of journaling prompts.

 

Structure, Habits Routines is a series of journaling prompts for exploring this, and then the recording of a call where we had amazing discussions about what we learned and how we want to implement it.

Focus Pocus is a 21 day support system for doing what you want to do... including implementing new habits!

 

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I took my new found dream clarity to the new “dream page” I am doing since starting over my Dream Book and... whoa.

I immediately saw why it's been so hard to get CLEAR about this thing.

Because being this clear means looking at the part I want to avoid.

Keeping it all kind of vague means I don't have to look right at that part... I know it's there but I can hope that something will happen with that and it will all be ok.

With this new level of clarity about the dream comes a new level of clarity that I have to look at the part that I don't want to look at.

Which was terrifying for a minute. And then I decided to get some help with it.

And all this drama and fear just deflated.

We don't have to do every part by ourselves.

 

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I’ve been working on my new “dream page” in my Dream Book and really considering… what IS my dream?

Sometimes it takes time to really get in there and understand what it is you want.

So I’ve been circling it and feeling like… well this is pretty much what I want but somehow it doesn’t quite FEEL RIGHT like am I asking for too much or not enough or what? I couldn’t quite name my dream without all of these thoughts coming up… which is ok! That’s how it is sometimes.

Then something just clicked for me this morning as I was about to do the Dream Lab meditation, suddenly I saw a new way to define my dream that feels SO right.

So I invited that dream to meet me in the Dream Lab and it showed up as this huge drop of… I think water. It descended from above, but it was upside town, the little point of the water drop shape was facing down.

I put out my hands and the little point of the water drop landed in my hands and it felt like a healing that went through my whole body.

It also started to feel like an upside down tear drop. I've been having a lot of anxiety and with it has come panic attacks and crying and this upside down tear felt like a shift.

Yes. This is the dream. I mean yes it might change again, I think I’m still working through some stuff, but for now, THIS is the dream. 

I can hold it. Which felt like a message that I am ready to really do this thing.

 

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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.

There isn't a way to FAIL as long as you stay in the process.

This week trying to do my Dream Status Report gave me a panic attack.

I took my cat upstairs to cuddle in bed. I cried. I meditated. (The For When You Are Too Upset To Do This meditation is so good for these times!)

Being with the feelings that come up when we try to do the things we want to do IS A PART OF THE WORK.

It counts as a step!!

Right now I am working through A LOT of stuff and I DO NOT understand all of it and all I can do it keep showing up. This is what it's like sometimes.

Some days you can't take the step in the way you meant to take it and however you CAN take it is just fine.

The September New Moon call is today!

Pause + Reflect

Intention Setting

Alchemy Meditation

Our goal for this call is to help you craft the right intention for you as the thing to focus on for the next month that will be supportive of you and all of your dreams - AND - have some practices that will help make it easier for you to follow through and do the thing! If you can't be there live, I can still help you with this in the (private!) forum on the website.

Get the call details + workbook download here - the replay will be on that page later today.

If groups aren't your thing - you can also get the New Moon Intention Setting Ritual Kit and do this on your own!

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I’m so embarrassed I’ve been journaling about this for so long but I think I figured it out.

My pre-pandemic self used to get up every morning, get dressed and walk or bike to a coffee shop with a journal and laptop. This routine kept me quite consistently productive and motivated.

It took me a long time to sort out my habits and routines as a creative entrepreneur - to mix self care and structure to support myself in being as productive as I could AND do my best work. This particular routine just WORKED for me, as a way to get my work day started.

I felt like the pandemic steamrolled over that. And then a lot of other steamrolls have joined in, in the years since.

And this year I’ve been exploring my routines from new perspectives and this month I tried to REALLY come back to this. I made a commitment to get up, get dressed and show up in the world every day.

This has not gone well.

But this is exactly how creative dreaming works. There is even a section on this in the Dream Plan Kit about planning for when you have no clue how to do a thing. I had an idea, I made a plan to implement the idea, and I did it, I noticed what happened and now I am learning from it so I can refine my plan and try again.

I don’t need to make judgements about how it went, I can just learn from it.

While this routine used to help motivate and energize me and get my days started… these days, this alone can take so much energy I don’t have enough left for my work.

What used to energize me now depletes me! This is good information! Not just to know where I am at now but to know how dramatically these things can change for me.

So I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on this. Even though I feel so embarrassed that something that seems to small is frustrating me so much. As a self employed person I do need to have a routine, or some way of doing my days, that works for me.

I do LOVE to go to a coffee shop with my journal. I see now that my old routine relied on this for motivation and productivity… it’s like I was plugging into this joyful thing to extract whatever I could from it. I was trying to extract the best quality and quantity of productivity that I could from myself.

And I don’t want to make my past self wrong! I am grateful for everything I did when I had the energy to do it. It’s just time for a new way.

I feel like this might not make sense to anyone but me and that’s ok.

I guess… I am breaking up with life hacks! And appreciating the magic of honouring my actual capacity.

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I have been having the WILDEST Un-Sticking Station sessions lately.

This is an inner work practice to un-stick the stuck places inside like fears and doubts.

I wrote somewhat recently about feeling a shift in my relationship with my critical inner voice, how I notice it more quickly and am able to tune it out from other parts of me...

That has changed!

Lately I feel like I keep getting lost in my inner critic's voice, and I am mistaking it for my inner wisdom. I'm listening to it too much. I am doubting myself. I am really going deeper into my fears than I want to.

My aim is to be with my feelings and validate them - tend to them without letting them take control of the driver's seat. So - not believing their stories or doing what they say.

Lately, I am getting caught up in the stories.

And it's making the Un-Sticking work harder.

And I'm just... doing my best. All we ever need to do is keep showing up. Sometimes the inner critics and doubts will win. That's ok.

I've never gone through a hard time with the inner work and not come out of it feeling grateful on the other side.

Things tend to get harder in the inner work when we're really onto something, or being especially brave, or are working on something that REALLY matters... this doesn't tend to happen for no reason.

So if you're feeling this too... keep going.

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This is connected to last week's post about starting over with my Dream Book.

This page is from the journal I've been using this year as an experimental Daily Creative Dream Practice Journal which is becoming the Dream Book 2026 program!

And as I have said many times - circling around a thing is so good! So I am circling around this.

Having a plan helps you stay on track.

Having a plan makes it easier to get on track!

But there's also the emotional component... having a plan makes me MUCH less overwhelmed with my creative dreams.

I even plan out my sewing projects, even though I know what I want to make with each piece of fabric I have - I also have a page for sewing projects in my project management app! It just FEELS less overwhelming than looking through a pile of fabrics to decide what's next.

A lot of the time when I feel overwhelmed and don't know what to do next - the answer is to MAKE A PLAN.

Planning resources from the membership:

Dream Plan Kit including the creative planning + project management class for making the big overall plan

Creative Genius Planning Sessions for weekly planning

 

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