Do I close myself off from receiving when I am overwhelmed in an effort to keep myself safe?

And does this actually do anything to create more safety?

When did I learn to equate lack of change with safety?

What if staying open to change is the most dynamic, creative, safe and pleasurable way to live my life?

These questions came out of my meditation with the soul of my dream, using the Dream Lab practice which helps you explore the soul of your dream and understand all that it has to offer you.

This get really trippy sometimes!

Today my dream wanted me to see all of these layers of … stuff… that I put between me and it. And how they’re not serving any REAL purpose. They don’t even protect me from the things I would like to be protected from, they just make it harder for me to have what I want.

As a creative - I feel pretty alone in this.

I look around at how other creatives share their work and I don’t see anyone else struggling with it the way I do.

I am comparing their outsides to my insides.

As a coach - I know it’s pretty much universal.

It’s such a gift to me, to be able to see so deeply into other people’s process and after doing this for so many years, I see all the ways that we are the same.

The ways we betray ourselves to feel safe are cultural. 

They are learned, they are not an inherent part of being alive.

We can unlearn them.

This is why we PRACTICE.

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