One of the things we do to set up the Dream Book 2026 notebook is to make a page for your 2026 Dream Self.
This is who you are at the end of the year. All the ways you've grown and changed from the way you showed up this year.
As I was connecting with my 2026 Dream Self I wrote:
✨HOURS AND HOURS OF CREATIVE TIME DAILY✨
And I could instantly feel the HEART ZING feeling of how it feels to make things for hours and hours every day AND to see those things growing into a satisfying body of work.
And with that HEART ZING came the clarity that I was not set up, in any way, for hours and hours of making.
That’s how it works a lot of the time!
When you open up and let yourself really feel how much you want the thing you want, that feel can be tied to new perspectives, and/or it can be tied to some really uncomfortable feelings like not being sure you can do it, or fear or what you would have to give up to really make this happen.
Feeling into your desire opens the door, and then all of the uncomfortable parts of creative dreaming can come through it just like the magic, inspiration and clarity can come through.
What I saw is that: I already to make art every day in one form or another. Usually in my journals. Sometimes embroidery.
But there is a lot of stopping and starting when it comes to my larger creative projects. And there just isn’t any way of staying engaged for hours and hours with it… or in my overwhelm, I just end up too distracted to go deep in the way I want to.
I’d been slowly getting a few BIG embroidery projects together. Once the project is ready… I can easily spend hours and hours each day embroidering. In fact - try and stop me from embroidering for hours every day when I have a good project set up. I start to wake up earlier, and go to bed earlier and I just find the time. I am ENGAGED.
Once I have a big project going it is DEEPLY AND WILDLY GENERATIVE. I have more energy. I have more motivation. I have more enthusiasm. Everything changes. You know what I mean, right?
PLUS when I am spending even 1 hour a day embroidering, that physical act of moving the thread with my hands is MAGIC. It grounds me in my creativity in a way that creates new possibilities.
It is GENERATIVE in every sense of the word. It generates magic and creates so many new possibilities.
Given that I know all of this about how amazing it is for me to embroider every day, can you believe I hadn’t embroidered in months?
Isn’t that wild?
But this is what we all do.
Every time I’ve spoken, deeply, to a creative person who was stuck in any way - they had the same kind of story to share. There was a creative practice that LIT THEM THE FUCK UP and there were barriers to getting themselves set up to go all in.
Everything happens in cycles.
I was genuinely doing my best to get some new projects set up and I was tired and overwhelmed and moving slow.
And even though I knew that BEING IN THE PRACTICE would be the solution to being tired and overwhelmed… I just couldn’t get into it.
Until I could.
Now that I am here, inside the magic of the practice, I see so many ways to set up new projects that would be so much simpler than the two projects I had been trying to set up since fall. Like, these particular projects are just incredibly time consuming to get to the embroidery stage.
(One is a big, puffy and very long artists’s smock which I had to find the fabric for, then cut it out, then sew it together enough to start embroidering, which means buttonholes, a collar - the kind o detailed sewing I don’t always have the capacity for. The other is a motorcycle jacket made out of twill which also needed layers of interfacing attached to the fabric pieces, and quite a bit of re-cutting because it’s asymmetrical and I ended up cutting some pieces backwards.)
But when I was there, exhausted and overwhelmed and moving so slow… the truth is that moving slow was the medicine I needed at that time. That’s where I was.
Permission to know how great it would feel to be really DOING IT and permission to know that I just wasn’t quite there yet and this was a time of resting and contemplating and feeling and… there is just so much inner work happening in the times when the outer work is stuck.
We cannot stay in that 100% ON AND LIT THE FUCK UPPPPP!!! mode all the time.
This is actually why I added the Dream Book 2026 program to the membership - it’s a way to connect with your dreams without having to be on or ready to work on them in any way.
It’s a way to receive clarity and knowing and gently be supported no matter where you are in the process… because you are SHOWING UP.
Since we spend time at the beginning setting intentions and remembering that this is an ALCHEMICAl process and so - as long as we keep showing up things can change we don’t necessarily have to know how to change them… each time we open up our notebook/planner, we tap into all of that intentionality.. just by showing up.
We actually are connecting with our dreams, even just to show up to sit with the Hello Day prompts: How do I feel? What do I want? What do I need? This is how we tend to ourselves and our gifts WHERE WE ARE within a container that helps us MOVE TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE.
This is the magic.
Keep showing up.
Membership members, if you haven't started your Dream Book 2026 notebook yet - start 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.
Check out Dream Book 2026 or do the Hello Day Energy Clearing + Intention Setting Practice!
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Check out the calendar of upcoming calls. Make a plan to join us live or catch a replay. Especially the New Moon calls - that's where we make a plan for how you're going to work on your dream over the next month.
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