I was re-reading my Dream Book and it was SO weird.

I mean yes - I haven't bene using it really consistently in the last few years because of [reasons] and now I am really excited to get back into it so I started by re-reading it.

What was shocking is how I was talking about my dream - it just does't reflect how I feel about it now.

It felt like it doesn't reflect ME now, at all. And I kept re-reading and trying to figure out what I could still work with... And then I realized it was futile.

And I wrote this page: START THE FUCK OVER.

It felt so freeing to just LET GO of everything and start fresh.

Sometimes this is really good to do! Sometimes the things you've learned and the ways you've grown stay with you in the new adventure...

And sometimes it's a way of avoiding the hard stuff, like if I just let it go and start fresh maybe the hard stuff won't fine me in my "new" process?

We can't always know for sure.

But when you FEEL LIKE you really want to start over, I think starting over is the right thing to do.

What I mean by starting over:

Permission to disregard everything I have in my journal. Crossing out everything that doesn't feel relevant in the Table of Contents and putting my new pages in there. (I have said before, my Table of Contents are often a huge mess!)

If I run out of space on the Table of Contents page, I could glue a new piece of paper over it to start fresh.

Then, go through the Dream Book checklist from the top and re-do the pages completely.

And most importantly: TAKE MY TIME

The content you get in the first month of Dream Book is pretty dense. The questions may seem small but you are setting clear intentions and creating a container for your process in the Outer Work, Inner Work and Dream Work of making this thing happen.

Re-doing these pages is really good! Each time you do them for the same dream you get a bit clearer. If you've been working with this dream for a while, and you re-do Dream Book, you will usually notice things you haven't noticed before.

So I do encourage people to start over whenever they feel like they want to start over. If you are doing it just to avoid the hard stuff... the hard stuff will find you in the new Dream Book, so you're not really avoiding anything by starting over.

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