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.

This week feels like it just flew by

And I accomplished SO LITTLE of what I had hoped to accomplish.

What happened? Forest fires broke out, two months ahead of our "wildfire season". A wildfire even started in my city though it was contained quickly. Once day it seemed like every time I went online, a new fire had started.

Other parts of the province are flooding. States of emergency everywhere.

I'm wondering... so was I just stressed and distracted? Is that why I couldn't settle in and do the things I wanted to do? And I remembered - well also one night I left my window open and kept waking up coughing. These days one night of bad sleep takes a while to recover from. And the burning eyes and throat every time I leave the house.

Then I had to laugh because one of the things I wanted to work on this week was a journaling kit for existential dread.... But I had too much existential dread to have the creative energy to work on it.

One thing stands out about this week:

This was just a week where I had a lot of stuff happening - all things I either wanted to do or needed to do (like a dental check up). Just a lot of things landed in one week.

One of them was a birthday lunch for my aunt, which we had in a lovely spot and to get there is a really nice bike ride. The actual bike ride I would usually take most evenings in spring. As the weather warms up and I'm excited to be out... so I usually watch the budding of the trees, etc.

This route includes one road that used to be lined in trees that flower pink in spring. I would watch that road like a hawk! Riding down there every day or every other day to not miss the peek pink flower days.

This year it was my first time riding down that street, and the flowers were already falling and it hit me. THE GRIEF.

I haven't been taking my usual spring rides because we had an unusually cold and windy spring. It would have been brutal bike rides. Then it suddenly got too hot to ride. Then the wildfires started.

I was grieving how the world has changed and how we have no control over how it continues to change. And how my simple little springtime routine feels so out of reach.

So what do I need and what does my dream need?

I need more quiet, alone time, rest and self care and LESS of everything else and I can do that.

I need to process my feelings.... my dream is tapping me on the shoulder to say it would like me to work on the existential dread project and that can be a way of me processing my feelings, too. We can work together.

So that's my focus for next week. To BE WITH my existential dread about everything while working on a journaling kit or... I don't really know where the creative process will lead with this one but I am starting with the journaling kit idea.

Co-Dreaming/Co-Working call is today!

We'll start with a short meditation for connecting with the soul of your dream (like the Dream Lab) and then have time for whatever you want to do - planning next week, working on your projects, sharing your updates, talking about something that is stuck with your dreams or just hanging out in the magic of the group.

Call details are here. Replay will be there a few hours after we're done today.

 

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