Dictionary.com says a BREAKTHROUGH is:

• an act or instance of removing or surpassing an obstruction or restriction; the overcoming of a stalemate.

A Creative Dream BREAKTHROUGH is about:

• life-altering shifts in perspective and vision.
• heart-melting moments that change how you experience yourself, your life and your dreams.
• energy tanks being filled-to-the-brim with Creative Dream SUPERFUEL.
• doubts turned into trust.
• obstacles dismantled.
• genius leveraged.
• excuses seen for what they are, and retired.

A breakthrough would be nice + helpful right about now, yes?

A breakthrough can help you:

Get past that inner voice of doubt. Finally start blogging, or knitting, or doing whatever it is that you really do want to do, but keep putting off.

Map out your next steps. And understand what you need to do next, to break through to the next level with your dreams.

Find sweet, delicious CLARITY! A breakthrough clears away (internal) fogginess and (external) confusion.

Step the heck out of that comfort zone (in the most comfortable way possible).

Supercharge the power, magic + infinite creative potential within.

Simply put, a breakthrough helps you get to the other side of whatever it is you’re facing right now.

How We’ll Cultivate the Conditions for Your BREAKTHROUGH:

We’ll start with a (virtual, on-the-phone) Creative Playdate: 90 minutes of focused creative treasure-mapping, creative play, alchemy, magic-making and miracle-summoning designed to open the door to your personal breakthrough.

You can attend live or use the recordings. Either way, it will be awesome.

Then you’ll get a (short!) email every day for the next 30 days. Think healing art, supercharged affirmations, heart-soaked reminders to stay in the magic of your breakthrough, delivered via email.

Imagine checking your email and being DELIGHTED by what’s there!

It’s a gleeful creative adventure and soulful immersion in the art of CREATING your own BREAKTHROUGH.

What you get:

• 90 minute Treasure-Mapping Creative Playdate, live on the phone plus a recording you can play with again and again. If you can attend live, there will be the opportunity to be coached + supported through your breakthrough process. And if you can’t attend live, you’ll play along with the recordings and discover that witnessing someone else’s breakthrough process is magically enlightening.

• Playbooks to support your Creative Dream Breakthrough Process. There is no “Three Easy Steps To Your Ideal Breakthrough” workbook or anything. There is a ton of support for cultivating the conditions for a breakthrough. There are processes that are helpful. There are gentle tools for dismantling resistance to breakthrough. And all of this can be done in a spirit of delight, play and wild creative abandon. This is what the playbooks will cover.

• 30 days of gorgeous daily messages. The emails spark + inspire the energy of the Creative Dream BREAKTHROUGH to stay with you, all month long. This helps you activate, magnify or simply revel in the amazingness of YOUR breakthrough process.

• Check-in on Oct. 17. This will be a casual group call, where you can ask questions, get additional support and be coached through whatever is you need to get coached through.

What You Need:

• Journal plus whatever art supplies you want to play with (markers, glitter glue, collage – whatever floats your boat!).
• Computer or smart phone with internet access to receive secret missions and download playdate materials.
• Phone with a long distance plan (you’ll be calling a US number), or you can play with the recordings.
• 90 minutes for your crazy-magic treasure-mapping adventure. Optional: more creative playtime afterwards for exploring and expanding your map.
• Less than 5 minutes a day for enjoying delightfully inspiring emails.

The first (BETA!) session of Creative Dream BREAKTHROUGH is on October 3.

Regular price: $99

BETA price is only: $49

There are no refunds.

Once you’ve registered, you may experience second thoughts. This is normal! A breakthrough is a big, scary thing to the parts of you who want to maintain the status quo.

Your inner critics would like you to be as stuck as possible, so they’ll try to convince you that this is stupid, and it won’t work.

Stand your ground, sugarpie. You got this. You’re ready for this. And you’re going to love it.

Tomorrow I’m hosting a Virtual Treasure-Mapping Tea Party.

For the past few days, I’ve been completely tangled up. ?I’ve spent about 20 hours writing and re-writing the plans for this tea party and it’s still not right.? I’ve spent all the rest of my hours thinking and stressing about it.

These events are primarily about energy work play.? Shifting the energy in the relationship between you and your dream, to make it easier for you to make your dream real.

So when I’m planning them, it has to FEEL right.? Like the event is a container that can hold that kind of transformation.

But it wasn’t feeling right.? And I didn’t know why.

I started to doubt myself.? But this was happening beneath the frustration and stress I was feeling about not being ready for an event that was rapidly approaching.? So I didn’t realise that was the real problem.

I started listening to the voice that said:? A THREE HOUR Playdate?? That is RIDICULOUS!? Who has TIME for that?? MAKE IT MORE USEFUL!

I started working against myself.

This is what most creative blocks are.? YOU doing something that stops YOUR creative flow.

Creativity doesn’t stop flowing on its own.

Doubt, fear, listening to inner critics, trying to change what’s coming through because you think it’s not good enough, trying to control the process, lack of trust in your creative genius – this is what stops creativity from flowing.

And that’s where I’ve been the last few days.? Fun times!

Last night I had a good long meditation.? I brought myself back to my truth.

Then I looked at what had been happening over the past few days.

And when the voice came back: A THREE HOUR Playdate?? That is RIDICULOUS!? Who has TIME for that?? MAKE IT MORE USEFUL!

I giggled.

Yes, no one has time for a three hour playdate with their dream.? That’s why it’s important.

A commitment to a monthly playdate with your dream shifts the inner relationship with you and your dream, opens up possibility, creates opportunity and dissolves obstacles.

The art of MAKING time for a three hour playdate with your dream is the art of bringing a dream to life.

And that’s what I am here to teach.? How to creatively play your way to your dream.

And that booming voice started swirling around.? Like it still believed that it is right.? But it also sees that this IS what I’m here to do, and it doesn’t know know to handle these two opposing facts.

So I tried to help it.

Andrea: Listen, I KNOW that most people in this world will not make time for a three hour playdate with their dream.? You’re right that if I make it more practical and shorter, more people may sign up.

Voice perks up a bit: I am right!

Andrea: You’re right about that, yes.? But then I would have diluted my teaching in order to get more people to sign up.? And that’s just not where I want to be.

Voice: Oh, right.

Andrea: I know you were trying to help.? You want things to be easier for me and I appreciate that.? But let’s remember that happened at the last one of these events… magic!? And let’s remember how important it is that I trust myself, and that I trust what I know.

A big part of bringing a dream to life is letting go of this-is-what-people-are-supposed-to-do so you have more room to hold YOUR truth.

I woke up this morning bursting with ideas.

I could see that supporting others in the revolutionary act of MAKING time to PLAY with their DREAM is big, important work.

I know what I’m doing.

It’s ok to trust myself.

As long as I am being as true to truth as I can be – I can’t get this wrong.

And now I’m off to un-tangle all the tangles and re-plan the plans for tomorrow’s Dream-Growing Tea Party.

I am treasure-mapping my way to growing my business, and sharing the honest actual story, AS IT HAPPENS, as I fumble along this path with creativity, heart and soul. If you want to follow my adventure:

• Part One is here: What no one tells you about marketing + creative business
• Part Two is here: Be open to the adventure of being where you are
• Part Three is here: The Path to creative business success.
• Part Four is here: A plan emerges from the treasure map
• Part Five is here: Why I’ve been stuck, plus exploring EASE and JOY

I have to admit I didn’t know what to do with this and it got frustrating.

Ease is the ticket.? Ticket to what?? Do I need to figure out what it’s a ticket for, or do I need to figure out where to find it?

More than once, I wished my Treasure Map would speak in English instead of in Riddles.

I did the only thing I could think of: I explored ways to bring more ease in – everywhere.? What is the most ease-filled way to get groceries?? Where can more ease fit into my day?? What happens when ease is my guiding light?

And I learned a lot of cool things but was no closer to understanding what Ease Is The Ticket meant.

One morning I did yoga and then meditated on Ease Is The Ticket.

I looked back on the journey so far and all the other squares on the map.? Once I linked them together I could understand ease a little more clearly and then in a flash of light it all came together.

It’s like the plan is a train trip.

And there are 2 different tickets: Work Hard and Ease.? Even though it looks like they both get you onto the same train trip the journey is different with each.

And at some point the Ease car detaches from the rest of the train, rolls into a secret passage which is invisible to everyone who doesn’t have the Ease ticket and ends up at an entirely different destination.

Ease has to be my approach.

Not because easy is better than hard – sometimes things are hard and that’s ok.? And it’s not like I should be able to get what I want without working for it, or anything like that.

Ease has to be my approach simply because the path with the most ease is also the path with the most genius.? Things feel easy because the are in alignment with genius.

So: Creative Genius is the ticket.

But Creative Genius is a hard approach to take because it gets complicated – understanding what really is your genius, and how that is different from what you wish was your genius, and where you shy away from your genius and where you’re listening to what other people are telling you your genius is….. a little complicated.

Ease is simple.? (Shhhhhhh….. Ease is like a secret shortcut to genius.)

So, with every decision I have to make as I work, I ask myself: which direction is the direction of ease?? And then that’s where I go.

And, slowly, things are coming together.

Tangible, workable ideas are coming to me out of these inner explorations.

This is something that I want to be really clear about: this inner work stuff does lead to actual outer work.? There is a flow there that translates into Dreams Come True.

Focusing just on the outside stuff doesn’t work.

Focusing just on the inside stuff doesn’t work.

It’s that flow, starting inside, flowing outside in it’s own time, that does work.

On Friday I hosted a Facebook party where I answered people’s questions about creative business.

A few themes that came up:

• Your INTUITION has your answer.? Pay attention to how things feel and follow the juiciest feelings (even when this is the opposite of that “The Experts” say to do).
• EVERYBODY fumbles.? There is no way to build something totally new without some trial and error.? The one way to do something without ever fumbling is to do a paint-by-number follow-the-plan kind of thing, where you’re not really creating.
• If you are a coach/healer/helper-person-of-any-kind: Be your own best client.? So often coaches are not doing the things they’re telling their clients to do.? Walking your talk is always the smoothest path to success.

I’ll be going back to my Treasure Map this week to see what it has for me next and I’ll report back…

PS: YOU GUYS!? EXCITING NEWS!

I’m going to be a part of the 2014 21 Secrets LIVE (Streaming Video) Art Journaling Workshop!

You can get in on the earlybird discount this month only.

Clickity Click Click to read all about it!

This week I’m kind of quiet, for 2 reasons:

1. I’m on the computer less and JOYing more, in preparation for our Creative Dream HOLYday with JOY happening on August 3 in the Creative Dream Circle.? (HOLYdays are creative play, transformative energy healing and creative dream manifestation mojo all rolled into one.)

2. When I am working – I’m working on something super-special that’s happening here (on my blog) next week.? (It starts Monday and you’re going to love it – especially if your Creative Dream includes making a living from your creative joy)

Creative Dream HOLYdays are also known as How To Fill Your Life With So Much Magic It Actually Sparkles.? It’s a 3 hour tele-retreat/playdate that we do in the Circle.

HOLYdays have transformed my life in more ways than I can describe.

I always come out of them with a giant, lasting energy shift and a big goofy smile on my face.

It?s the best energy healing you could ever receive AND you get to play all the way through it!

If you can be there live you can even get coaching/advice/help from me while we?re on the phone!

If you can?t be there live everything is recorded and we?ll be playing with the material all month long.

Whether you attend live or work with the recordings, it’s a fun and easy way to experience an energy healing/shift that will help you move forward with your dreams with more EASE and JOY.

Let’s play!

If you want to play with me at the Creative Dream HOLYday with JOY, join the Creative Dream Circle.

Otherwise I’ll see you back here next week…

Just as I was putting the final touches on the New + Improved Creative Dream Circle? – she demanded a whole new website.? She’s all “Oh no you’re not putting me on that old thing!”

My old website was cute when I made it, but no longer reflected who I am or where I’m at or just how much magic you can expect when you play with me.? It’s like my old website was dimming the light of the Creative Dream Circle, so I needed to fix that.

So here it is.? My new website.

And – even better – here’s my new Creative Dream Circle.

(Please check it out!)

Happy Sighs All Around.

The new Circle is amazing.? A huge improvement over the old one (which I loved very much too!) and….

drumroll please….

it’s even more affordable now.

The Creative Dream Incubator is no longer the pre-requisite for the Creative Dream Circle.? (Though it’s still amazing and highly recommended, of course)

When I started the Circle is was a space to play with the tools of Creative Dream Incubation – so it didn’t make sense to open it up to people who didn’t have the Incubator.

The new Circle is, well, new.? Totally different.? And filled with its own amazing tools for living your magic.? So you can use them with or without the Creative Dream Incubator.

These new tools?? HOLY CRAP I am still a little stunned by how amazing they are.? Happy happy sighs!

PS: The new Creative Dream Circle helps dreamers make their dreams real – easier, faster + funner.? If you know of any brilliant creative geniuses who are ready to make their dreams REAL – please send them this page!? Thank you.