This year I’ve done so much exploring of habits and routines and how to structure my life and work and dreams.
This stuff doesn’t necessarily come easy. Your dream is here to CHANGE your life, not fit comfortably inside it.
You do figure it out WHEN YOU STAY IN PROCESS but staying in the process when things don’t fit is sooo uncomfortable, and a lot of people give up before they get there.
I had a big chunk of it figured out, things had been smooth in that department…
And then during the Make More Space In Your Life For your Dream session it felt SO OFF.
During the alchemy meditation - there was enough space in my life for my dream, but it wasn’t the right kind of space. So it didn’t fit.
THIS. FELT. TERRIBLE.
Especially after working on this so much this year, still seeing that my life isn’t a good fit for my dream is like WTF????!?!?!?!?!?! I felt distraught and heartbroken that I'd been working steadily at this all year and the space I'd created is WRONG.
I was also so confused.
!!!?!!????
I had to remind myself that in this alchemy work - you WON'T always understand what is happening and THAT IS GOOD, even when it is distressing in the moment. Your emotional response is showing the inner work that is asking for attention, it's not showing you the truth.
So, after giving it some time, sitting with the feelings, holding onto the message… I saw it.
I’s like I was trying to create a structure based on what I already know about structure…
But my dream needs a structure that is beyond what I know about structure…
(which is not that unusual, our dreams are our spiritual + creative callings, so they don’t want to help us stay inside what we already know, they are here for EXPANSION)
This dovetails with my life changes and physical/mental/emotional changes of midlife…
It’s been a real time of letting go of what worked to find what can work next. Which is so great in theory but in practice it means letting go of what worked and having NOTHING, stepping into the abyss and trusting you’ll figure it out…
And, in the end, I saw how my dream was right. The stuff I already know about structure isn’t helpful right now.
There is a new form/shape to how I can structure my time/energy that is a better fit for where I am now.
Less linear, more presence.
If you remember earlier this year I got the message “less structure more devotion” and I made a focus card to stick into my Dream Book 2026 planner as a way of holding onto that message and figuring out how to implement it.
(Those focus cards are SO HELPFUL! They are a physical way of reminding yourself of the lessons/gifts/healings/insights you are sitting with. And a physical way of marking when you are finished with a particular journey.)
Now I can see that the “less structure more devotion” WAS the right message at the time, but from where I am now I can see that it’s not necessarily LESS structure but DIFFERENT structure.
It’s all in process.
Each step you take changes where you are, changes how you see things, and sometimes the steps you take CHANGE WHAT YOU NEED to take your next steps.
What got you here, to this point, isn’t always the thing that will help you get all the way to your dream.
So much re-configuring needs to happen en route.
So much magic and insight can be found in really digging into your reaction to the different prompts from the Make More Space For Your Dream In Your Life call.
So today I am taping my “less structure more devotion” card to this date in my Dream Book 2026 planner and journaling about how this message helped me, and what’s next in this journey.
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