I wrote this post about how I am coping with the state of the world, and then I looked for a photo to put with it and this one from a while back was PERFECT. If you look at my journaling under the paint, it starts with "I am so fucking depressed..." Not expressing our feelings about the state of the world is not good for us!!!!

I was asked recently: How are you coping with the state of the world?

This person shared that they had kind of freaked out about something and were feeling like they need to figure out how to cope better.

I told them that it sounded to me like they had appropriate feelings and behaviour to the situation.

Things are fucked up.

Staying calm all the time isn’t actually a healthy or necessarily helpful response.

Of course we don’t want to be super reactive, we do want to try to give ourselves space to sit with and sort through our thoughts and feelings before choosing how we’re going to act.

This is actually what I’ve always taught about Creative Dreaming. Even when the world was a simpler place, creatives always had a lot of feels! And dreaming is scary! So we always had a lot of anxiety and doubt and thoughts and things to sort through in order to be able to act from a clear, powerful and aligned place.

So, to me, the work hasn’t changed. There’s just more of it. And it’s harder work. And we’re more exhausted than ever. It’s creative dreaming in late stage capitalism.

So, I have been sitting with that.

What do we need, to help us keep doing the work of healing, growing, creating, being our true selves and living in alignment with our souls… in these times?

As I've been exploring what I need, I've also been shifting and adjusting things in the Creative Dream Incubator membership to better support YOU in these times too.

As creatives, healers, activists and visionaries - our work is needed now more than ever and we can't do our work effectively from burnout and overwhelm.

So, what I've been doing:

I re-created the Dream Lab, my most beloved practice for Dream Work, for helping you connect with the soul of your dream to get a deeper level of answers, advice, inspiration + support about how to navigate your path.

I realized this meditation needed to be much slower, given the state of the world. We just need more time to get into it!

I used try, when possible, to create tools that were easy to use in as little time as possible. Like - people were very “I want my dream but I have no time” and I was trying to address that. You don’t need to give it a ton of time, if you can devote the time you have to Dream Work, things will start to shift.

But now, we actually need to give things more time. To address overwhelm and root more deeply into our power.

So I created 2 versions of the Dream Lab alchemy meditation, because a shorter version is really helpful from a practical life perspective and a longer version is NEEDED - this gives you space to really get into this meeting with the soul of your dream, to go deeper into your process, and get better support.

The previous Dream Lab meditation was about 5 minutes long. The new long version is 20 minutes - THAT is how I am coping with these times.

I also re-created the Un-Sticking Station, my most beloved tool for Inner Work. It was one short meditation, now it is broken down into three steps, with three separate 20 minute meditations so you work through the un-sticking so much more slowly and can go so much more deep into it and get so much more healing and insight from it.

There is also an option to do all three steps in one 35 minute meditation.

And I added an 18 minute v ideo for when you’re actively freaking out and just need to calm down - a loving process for sitting with and tending to your most difficult feelings.

All this together helps you to:

SLOW DOWN. GO DEEPER. GET MORE SUPPORT FROM SOUL.

Then I created a late stage capitalism update to my Creative With Money program with space to explore and process (because there is NO TIME TO PROCESS IN LATE STAGE CAPITALISM!!!) how late stage capitalism has impacted you, make space for those feelings, make space for listening to your inner wisdom and work on developing a whole new relationship with the soul of money, one that can navigate these wild times.

The Creative With Money late Stage Capitalism update is a THREE MONTH long meditation and journaling program.

Again: SLOW DOWN. GO DEEPER. GET MORE SUPPORT FROM SOUL.

Then I added the Dream Book 2026 program.

This is an additional layer of “holding space for your process” to go with the Dream Book program.

This is where we do SMALLER MORE DO-ABLE steps so you can show up more consistently, which makes space for the deeper work to be able to happen.

Dream Book 2026 includes Hello Day Energy Clearing and Intention Setting Meditation as a daily practice (another Dream Work practice) which has two versions which are 5 and 9 minutes long - both come with 15 minutes of music playing after the meditation so you can sit with the questions for as long as you choose.

Doing the 5 minute daily practice and connecting with yourself, your soul, your creativity and your dreams in this way DOES start to shift things - even when you don’t h ave space (either time wise or emotional capacity wise) for the deeper work that your dreams need from you.

Your Creative Dream Practice is, above all else, GENERATIVE.

It will CREATE SPACE for more magic to happen.

So, personally, to cope, I am using these tools more faithfully.

I know it's easy to say "I'm overwhelmed I don't have time for that" and I would say in response "This is the work that tends to the overwhelm, do you want to be burned out or do you want to tap into your deeper magic and creative power?"

AND at the same time I am validating the shit out of my feelings about the state of the world.

FASCISM, WAR, GENOCIDE, ECOCIDE AND UNFETTERED GREED ARE BAD FOR EVERYONE’S MENTAL HEALTH.

I mean this on top of the physical destruction that is happening. It’s hard just to be here with all of this even if nothing is impacting you directly. We need to acknowledge that.

It may mean you are more stressed out, having more panic attacks, sleeping more, or barely sleeping, eating more, or barely eating, etc, etc, etc.

YOU ARE NOT TO BLAME FOR HOW YOU RESPOND. YOUR RESPONSE MAKES SENSE.

You probably need to give yourself permission to spend more time/energy tending to your feelings, holding space for yourself AND holding space for your dreams.

Because if you do… then you connect with your soul, your values, your truth, your courage, your creativity, your power… and your inner knowing about how you want to respond.

This is how we create a better future.

Practically speaking, like how do you do that - we need to go much DEEPER into our Inner Work and Dream Work practices, and then move SLOWER with the Outer Work.

So that’s why I re-did the Dream Lab and Un-Sticking station, to help you do that. Doing those practices regularly will show you what you need to know about your Outer Work.

Spend more time on the Dream Work and Inner Work, move slower and more purposefully/powerfully with the Outer Work.

I suggest starting the Dream Book program and working through it at your own pace, this guides you through the process of the Inner Work and Dream Work that your dream needs, and helps you organize your Outer Work. (And Dream Book includes the Dream Lab and Un-Sticking Station)

So that's how I am coping with these times AND how the Creative Dream Incubator has shifted and adjusted to better support YOU in these times too.

As creatives, healers, activists and visionaries - our work is needed now more than ever and we can't do our work effectively from burnout and overwhelm.

If you're in the membership and have questions about how to apply this to your life and your dreams - email me! I'm here! I want to help you get what you need from this.

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