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.
Answering these same prompts every week is magic.
This week I added a new one to how it will FEEL to have my dream: MORE ALIVE.
Which just feels so affirming of all the things I am working on - I do feel alive now, and appreciate feeling alive, and can see how this project will help me feel even more alive.
This week we had cooler temperatures (for summer) which was such a relief - I had so much more energy. I saw a friend and said "I am really living my life!!!"
This week I volunteered for an organization I used to volunteer for, and haven't had the energy to do so in a long time, so getting back to it felt great. And hanging out with other people who care about the things I care about felt so good too.
Looking back on what I did, I feel a lack of pressure.
So much of my work with my dreams this year has been re-establishing my routines and structures and figuring out... how do I take care of myself properly while showing up for my dreams? This feels so complicated in mid-life with all of the physical and mental health challenges of fluctuating hormone levels.
But this week I feel like... I am doing such a good job of supporting myself to keep showing that I really deeply trust I will keep showing up and so... no pressure. Some weeks it may feel like nothing happens and som weeks it may feel like a lot happens and it doesn't really matter how the outer outcomes and coming in, as long as I have this steadiness in how I am showing up.
My dream needs more structure.
The Dream Lab meetings this week have been pointing to it and I've been slowly learning what this means.
Again with the no pressure and newfound levels of patience. A few new moon calls ago the message I got was to remember that there are MANY STEPS on a path and to focus on the ones right in front of me because I keep looking too far ahead and tripping myself up.
It's taking a while but I feel like I am really doing that. Enjoying the tiny steps, understanding that they don't get me exactly where I want to be immediately - but I am moving towards it and I am trusting the process.
Trusting the process has felt really hard for a long time.
There was a time where my perimenopause symptoms felt debilitating and then the divorce I didn't see coming on top of that made the ground beneath me feel really uncertain.
But it's almost 2 years since my husband left and 1 year since I went on hormonal birth control (not for everyone but it makes a huge difference for me at this point) and this year I've been focusing on BEING the artist I know I AM now.
Which, when I started this in January, I knew nothing about. And now, half a year into making more space for art and just giving myself time to sink into... what do I want now... things are shifting and nothing concrete yet but I have this delicious ability to trust the process right now.
And as I've been appreciating this I've also been thinking about how we don't need to trust the process we just need to stay in it. And that we cannot always be in a place where trusting the process is even possible. But being in one of the places where that trust is accessible - I am just appreciating the heck out of it.
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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