I am starting a new series of ✨YOU ARE THE MAGIC✨ videos to really get into the deeper concepts around how to create a Creative Dream Alchemy PRACTICE that helps you create... anything you want.

I FEEL STRONGLY THAT THIS WORK IS URGENT AT THIS TIME.

We need to hold onto our dreams... both your own dreams about who you want to be and how you want to live, and OUR dreams about a better future for everyone.

(This is based on YOU ARE THE MAGIC, the downloadable journal I give away when you join my email list. You can get it here.)

This is incredibly deep and nuanced work, so I thought that adding some videos going more in-depth would be helpful.

This first one is about shifting your INNER relationship with your dream... so that you can change what is possible in your OUTER life.

More videos are already in process and I'll be sharing one every 1-2 weeks.

 

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Over the weekend I shared the miraculous-feeling-to-me process of getting CLEAR on my new/next dream and re-starting my Dream Book and feeling FOCUSED and READY.

Now I want to make sure I keep showing up and taking little steps.

Once we get that CLARITY and feel READY - it's easy to stop doing the Dream Book type Dream Work/Inner Work because... you feel ready! You can just do the thing!

BUT

Continuing to do the Dream Book exercises will help you keep working on that inner relationship with your dream, ad keep you grounded in the process AS AN ALCHEMICAL PROCESS where you can heal/grow/change/create your way into your dream - in comparison when we focus on the outer work, where it can just become a lot of WORK work.

Often our dreams feel so big and we feel so small in comparison. This is NOT a measurement of your smallness or bigness, it's an indication of the amount of growth this dream has for you. It's an invitation.

But it can FEEL LIKE this overwhelming exhausting thing, when we're just working on the outer work alone.

I say all this to remind myself as much as anything here!

Because now I am in a place where I feel so focused I COULD just try to get this done on outer work and determination alone but I am 150% sure that will just wind up with me being an overwhelmed mess.

SO

It felt important to include the soul of my business in my Dream Book, I decided to do the Dream Lab today - the version where you also invite the soul of your business into the meeting since my new dream is a business goal.

Logistics: I turned off the meditation as soon as I got to the part where the soul of the dream and the soul of the business were with me. I didn't want to listen to the other part, I went to the video below it to turn that music back on which helped me stay in the zone.

The soul of my business and the soul of my dream interacted in ways I could not!

This was interesting, and then the soul of my business broke the dream up into 3 parts, and gave me one. It arrived in my hand as a sparkling crescent moon and I put it in my heart.

And now I feel like.. of yes focusing on this 1/3 of the thing feels even more do-able AND changes how I would approach my next steps with the outer work.

This is why it's so good and helpful to do this work, even when the outer work doesn't feel stuck!

 

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There are journaling sheets for doing the Weekly Dream Status Report! These are available for everyone, not just membership members. Download them here.

I said I was going to do my Dream Status Reports on Sundays and forgot all about it yesterday so here I am at the coffee shop with my Dream book 2026 on Monday morning.

First, I checked in with last week’s report and was kind of stunned to be able to check off ALL of the tasks I had given myself for last week.

The week before I did't check any off. Which felt so defeating I almost didn’t want to make a list for this week… but it turns out I had done enough on each task last week that finishing everything this week was easy.

And maybe I shouldn’t put a little square beside the tasks indicating that I want to check it off and be DONE.

Maybe it should just be a list of things I am holding + working with + contemplating... Because giving things more time and space can help them grow and evolve and sometimes my projects really benefit from that extra time and space.

Sometimes, of course, I should just get a thing done, sometimes it would be good for me to stop procrastinating.

So that’s what’s on my mind: how am I holding my tasks/projects/ideas?

Early in my business I would plan out at least 6 months in advance, new courses I wanted to make and promotions and all of it.

Then I would get increasingly stressed by how far behind I would get. In hindsight I know I didn’t have the experience yet to know how long all these things would take. I was planning more based on how much money I wanted to make and how much money each class was likely to bring in, because that’s what business planning taught me at that time.

Also, I had an unwieldy business model and didn’t know it. And unrealistic expectations. And so many things working against me and yet… I figured out a lot of things by just diving in and figuring it out as I went.

So, I guess, I am telling myself that I didn’t make MISTAKES with planning before - I just learned in kind of a messy way and that’s ok.

But these days I try to stay so far away from stressing myself out with my own plans that maybe I go too far in the other direction?

I mean, as I write that, my whole body says NO YOU DON’T!!!!

We are programmed in so many ways to work as hard and fast as we can.

Some people call the form of capitalism we live under EXTRACTIVE capitalism in reference to how we try to extract all we can from the earth in order to turn it into profit. And how unsustainable this is - it is literally destroying the future in front of our eyes and the machine isn’t slowing down in the slightest.

So, considering that extractive capitalism is a system we live inside - we can notice that the system also treats US, people, as things to extract from. Corporations extract our labour and turn it into wealth. And all of the self employment advice is either about doing that too - hiring people in other countries who will accept a very small salary so that you don’t have to do all the tasks - or about life + creativity hacks to get the absolute most and best work out of yourself.

To extract your own creativity and turn it into productivity and wealth.

Some days I do feel like a mountain that’s been overly mined.

And I have this commitment to not do any of this to myself any more, as much as I can possibly avoid it.

And yes, ALL OF THIS is what comes up as I contemplate how I feel about checking off all the boxes from last week. It’s not just about “YAY I DID IT” it’s about “Am I giving myself enough SPACE to do the work I want to do in a way that doesn’t deplete me?” And then, of course, juggling the reality of needing to make a living in the meantime.

So, yes, checking off boxes is a really complicated thing. But I am happy to have checked them, and to be asking myself in this week’s Dream Status Report: What’s next?

Because NOT being intentional about our lives is not the solution to anything!

 

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The thing about showing up for your dream, and finding the smaller ways to show up so you CAN show up, is that it puts you in the process.

And once you’re in the process - everything can change.

And sometimes this is terrifying.

Sometimes it’s such a relief and feels magical.

Sometimes you just develop a quiet confidence that you’re on the right path and have the stamina to keep going.

HOW it happens and what it looks like doesn’t matter. As in: there is no IDEAL way for this to look.

For me, right now, it’s been pretty awful.

It’s like I am trying to get moving and the train keeps derailing and it’s a huge mess every time.

But each time I clean up the mess, I figure out some things. So each time I try to get the train moving again, I make a NEW mistake.

I am laughing but… making all new mistakes IS progress. Sometimes it is the only kind of progress that is available to you and it’s either do that or be stuck.

I am feeling now like a lot of pieces are coming into place. Like there was so much value in all of this crashing and re-starting and learning as I go.

I re-started my Dream Book with the firm advice from my dream to STICK TO IT THIS TIME.

Here is the start of my new "Dream Page" in my Dream Book notebook. I put the printables in and decided to share this photo of the page before I start filling it in, because not sharing the specifics of my dream makes it easier for me to share the PROCESS more deeply.

AND, I hope, it makes it easier for you to relate... it doesn't matter what our dreams are, the process is really similar.

I am listening to what my dream said. It is time to stop starting and re-starting and re-starting and kind of going in circles while figuring out what I really want next.

It is time to pick this dream I have now, and stick with it no matter what comes from the process. When my dream said it in the Hello Day meditation, it felt really TRUE and I need to trust that.

Which means: I need to go deeper. Into both the Inner Work and the Outer Work.

Dream Book helps you be more FOCUSED about how you are navigating that (inner and outer) space between where you are and where you want to be.

Being more FOCUSED can stir up ALL the fears and doubts, but this is on purpose because once they are stirred up they are easily to see and deal with and WORK THROUGH to find the gifts, miracles and healing that are hidden somewhere inside them.

So, I feel like I’ve had this loooong arduous journey and it’s brought me to….

…. the starting point.

lol!

That’s how it feels. It’s not the easiest thing to just… get focused and really call in a dream.

But here I am. Ready to begin. I love it.

 

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Yesterday I shared how I was sitting with my resistance to doing the Hello Day practice.

I ended up seeing how I have these conflicting feelings:

• the fear of failure
• the overwhelming amount of vulnerability and energy it takes to take a creative risk right now
• the desire to keep going with the dream

(We have a healing circle in the membership for sitting with conflicting feelings, here)

I drew out that diagram:

And somehow felt better.

Like - oh yeah I can hold this. AND I want to explore it some more, but just putting it outside of me for now felt like enough.

What was really interesting is what happened once I was in the Hello Day meditation.

**Then I understood why I had so much resistance to it**

I did the version of the meditation that includes the soul of your dream.

And the soul of my dream said:

Start a new Dream Book.

TAKE IT FUCKING SERIOUSLY.

And you might think I do take my dreams seriously.

But there is this way that I have flip flopped with my dreams since my divorce.

Like… I am still figuring out what I REALLY want for this new phase of life. This is natural!! So I keep re-starting Dream Book and I know, in this process of starting and re-starting, I am figuring it out.

I have not been rushing myself to figure it out.

I have been giving myself lots of permission to keep re-starting and trying on different dreams. I am on page 63 of my notebook, so I can say that 63 pages in I'm still at the starting point, but actually that's 63 pages of valuable exploring...

To do anything else would be to force myself to stick to one thing before I was sure which one thing I wanted to stick with.

But now my dream, the current one, is saying. THIS IS IT. I AM THE ONE. STAY WITH ME.

So, I am shifting out of the phase of figuring out my next dreams.

And I am stepping into this next dream and figuring out how to really HOLD IT.

This is a really big step.

Of course I felt so much resistance I couldn’t even do Hello Day.

Our resistance usually makes so much sense, once we sit with it enough to fully understand it.

 

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Some days it's HARD to show up. I am having one of those days today so I decided to share my process.

I created Dream Book 2026 as a notebook where it's as easy as possible to JUST SHOW UP because that's the doorway/portal that brings you into the process... and yet... sometimes even this easier way in is still just really hard to do.

Because of all the intentions we set in the beginning of our notebooks/planners... each time we touch it, we are touching all of those intentions. So even if we're not consciously thinking about it, parts of us do pick up on that and react.

That's where my resistance came from today.

So, sitting with the resistance IS THE WORK on those days. This is what I mean when I say we have to BE WITH whatever is there. If all you have is resistance, then sitting with your resistance is your next step.

I want to do the Hello Day meditation and journal in my Dream Book 2026 to start my day.

I am not doing it.

So here I am, sitting with my resistance.

Ugh. This isn’t enough.

You mean the meditation isn’t enough?

No it’s not. It won’t fix anything.

What it will do is give me space to be with my feelings so they’re not all… flying around the way they are. It would help me be more present with myself. It would help me know where I want to focus today.

Why bother?

Because I want those things.

You’re going to get off track. Let’s just not bother trying to get on track.

That’s a valid feeling! Do you want to tell me more about it?

It takes SO MUCH to get on track, so much trust and hope and optimism to show up and do the thing… that makes it even more heartbreaking when it doesn’t work, when I just end up off track anyway.

Oh yes that’s so true. It’s actually super vulnerable to show up and some days it doesn’t feel worth the risk.

I’m glad you can see that but I feel like you want to push me into it anyway.

I would like to explore it. What feels TOO vulnerable about it?

Heavy sigh. I know it’s that thing that stops all dreams. It’s that “if I try my best and still can’t make this work - that would mean I am not good enough” I don’t want to find out that I’m not good enough.

I give my resistance a big hug.

Yeah I can feel that. It’s just…

I knew it! I knew you would keep pushing me!

I am not pushing, I am EXPLORING my feelings about why I am not doing this thing! It’s just that not doing it out of fear of failure, and what that failure would mean… puts me in the same place that failing does.

Only, when you really think of it, it’s worse! If I fail because I didn’t summon the courage to try…that would feel so crummy. If I fail because I try my best and it just doesn’t work out…. there is dignity in that, I think. Like I would rather be a person who tries, than a person who lets the fear of failure stop them.

Oh yikes. That hits home.

But again, I don’t want to PUSH myself to do this.

The fear of failure is valid, the overwhelming amount of vulnerability and energy it takes to take a creative risk right now is valid, and the desire to keep going with the dream is also valid.

How am I holding all three of these things? 

I mean… doing the Hello Day mediation would help! lol It would help me makes space for the feelings to settle so I can process them a bit.

Which is what I ended up doing, by exploring my resistance. Because they don’t feel like they are “all flying around inside me” like it did when I started this. Now I see these three feelings that are conflicting with each other and kind of each vying for power inside me. They’re all fighting so fast I couldn’t tell what anything was, all I knew is I was overwhelmed.

My resistance to the Hello Day mediation is still here.

My desire to do it is still here.

But both of them are interested in drawing a diagram of:

• the fear of failure
• the overwhelming amount of vulnerability and energy it takes to take a creative risk right now
• the desire to keep going with the dream

And just see what happens once I am exploring that way.

And… if my resistance doesn’t mind… could I play the Hello Day audio while I do this without pressure to engage with it in any particular way?

My resistance doesn't mind this idea!

Oh wow. This feels do-able!!

This actually feels like a miracle. I am going to make a second cup of coffee and some breakfast then spread out on the floor with my Dream Book 2026, markers... AND my laptop with the Hello Day meditation playing and I actually feel kind of jazzed about this.

Co-Dreaming/Co-Working call is today! I hope to see you there!

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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Yesterday we had our Marketing As A Creative + Spiritual Practice call for February.

(Get the replay here)

I've been thinking about it ever since... what it means to show up and share our gifts in the world as it is now.

How some people  do want to focus on facing the darkness, and see this as an opportunity for the kind of reckoning that could help change the culture going forward.

And some people want to focus more fully on bringing in more SOUL.

And how all of us felt like... we need to be more deeply grounded and rooted in our own medicine, magic and gifts. Which makes a lot of sense to me, the world around us feels less stable for many of us, so we need to root in more deeply.

And many of us are looking at different ways of working with other people and organizations.

Like - things are changing. And the change is showing up in all sorts of ways.

Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice calls start with a 40-ish minute meditation where we go deep into how we are sharing our gifts and how they are being received and the energy of everything that is going on there.

In my meditation, when I looked at how I feel about sharing my gifts more loudly... the feeling that came up was SAFETY.

Which is wild to me.

Safety is not anything close to how this has ever felt for me.

Not that danger was a big player... but fear, uncertainty and overwhelm certainly have been.

But right now, I feel more safe to share my gifts because I feel more certain about where they are needed.

Which is just interesting to me.

As things change, things change.

I am saying a little prayer that things continue to change.

That we ALL feel solid and capable about sharing our gifts with the world, in the ways that feel right for us for where we are. 

Sharing our gifts can be so loaded. It can become more about business training, chasing after conventional definitions of success, compromising your values to "get results", over-working, pressure, exhaustion, pushing ourselves, endless striving to get ahead, and trying to EARN worthiness through success as an affirmation of your value as a person.

I do these calls every month so we can explore how to share our gifts in the ways that feel right for us for where we are... without any of that nonsense, or with as little of it as possible because sometimes we do have to make compromises to make a living in the systems we currently live in.

It does't have to be about many money at all. It's about how we feel when we are doing the things that light us up, and then sharing that with others. There are so many ways to do that.

 

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(That's Bear and I doing one of our favourite forms of dreaming... I am sitting in my new comfy chair working on an embroidery project and Bear is sitting on the back of the chair, looking out the window, watching the world go by)

These are times for DREAMING.

For believing and embodying that a better world is possible for all of us.

This is not easy!

These are times when your dreams need you to go DEEPER.

Going deeper is pretty much always very scary and very difficult to do. We almost never understand how POWERFUL and LAYERED our resistance to going deeper can be.

Over the last 15 years, I have been exploring this dynamic and looking for ways to engage with it. Looking for how to create the smallest and most accessible ways in.

Now that I have come to this place where I have all this experience and have built entire libraries of tools to support this work… now we come to a place where everything just got harder.

We have arrived at place where our dreams, our souls, and our futures need us to go so much DEEPER still.

It's scary. AND we are ready for this.

Here’s HOW to go deeper:

Instead of working with your dream as a thing to manifest or achieve - work with your dream as your PARTNER. Listen to the soul of your dream and let it lead you sometimes (or even most of the time, if you're ready for the advanced work of dreaming).

Have a commitment to SHOW UP for that work in the smallest possible way as consistently as you can.

(This is already what we're doing in the membership! Especially The Dream Lab, Dream Book and Dream Book 2026 are all working from the perspective of PARTNERING with your dream)

And then:

Be checking in regularly to reflect on how this is going and notice what your dream is asking of you next.

Weekly: Dream Status Report

Monthly: New Moon Intention Setting Ritual

And at the same time:

The space between where you are and where you want to be is an alchemical process. Treat it as such!

This means: every time you are working with your dream... BE WITH whatever is there. Don't try to deny or avoid the hard parts. Just BE WITH whatever is there, if that's an idea or motivation or fear or exhaustion. Whatever it is, tend to that, and this brings you deeper into that alchemical process.

For example:

I know what I want to do this morning, and I feel a little lost.

I am tempted to push through and “just do it”

But I know that I need to go deeper into the ALCHEMY of Creative Dreaming which means I need to be with myself, where I actually am, which is lost. So I need to use The Un-Sticking Station process to BE WITH it.

Ok.

Hi Lost.

I see myself. In a meadow/field/maybe the foothills of mountains.

So there sure is a lot of empty space here, hey?

Yeah, so many ways I could go! I have no idea which path to take.

Is that true?

What do you mean?

If it REALLY true that you don’t know which path to take, or is there something else going on?

My lost self bursts into tears.

No, it’s not true. I know which path to take. It’s kind of lit up over there. But… I’m so scared I just freeze and then when I freeze I forget what I know.

Yeah I get that. 

This is so stressful! Like I have the fear about the path, but I am kind of pushing that down to keep it away from me. And then I have the freeze. And then I have fear that I’ll never un-freeze. I’ll never know how to act.

I am tempted to offer some advice about how “pushing things down” isn’t an effective way to deal with them but that doesn’t feel appropriate here.

What do you need? Is there anything I can do?

I just want to lie down and cry.

Let’s do it! I spread out a blanket.

Lying down on the soft blanket in the meadow, now it feels like a meadow, now I am in the perspective of my lost self instead of engaging with this part of me.

And now the meadow is in the foothills and I am worried about Nazis marching over the mountains and finding me.

Now I am thinking about all the people in danger, everywhere in the world. The sheer terror of the capitalist/imperialist machine and it’s unending greed and depravity.

I know the path ahead and I see how fully valid my fears are, and how fully valid it is to freeze in the face of them.

And I know how brave it is, to face them anyway. To accept the freeze that will inevitably happen. To know I will thaw. To trust that I I’ll gather what I need to walk the path anyway.

I feel all these different terrors roaming around in my body. 

I’m safe here, in this meadow, for now. I don’t know when the Nazis might come over the mountains and bring the terror here. And I do know that everyone isn’t safe. I feel my values pushing back against my fear… not wanting me to give in it.

Suddenly I am back in myself as in the me who is trying to engage with the lost part of me, instead of being embodied in the lost part of me.

I want to know more about the path that is lit up. What makes that path scary? I mean, given that everything everywhere is scary, what is particularly scary about this particular path?

I offer my lost/scared self some tea from a thermos and a cupcake. (ALL parts of me respond well to treats)

There’s just no place to hide on that path. And not as many places to stop and rest as I would like.

Oh. That does sound scary. I’m also curious about not being able to stop and rest. Do you see everything I am doing to really respect my actual capacity and move at a human pace, trying to detangle from all the ways I have adopted colonialism/capitalism’s pace and find my actual pace?

Yeah, I appreciate that. This is different. It’s like I need to BE who I really AM, like… I don’t know how else to say this but ALL THE FUCKING WAY.

Oh. Yes. I get it. 

That’s actually what is on the other side of all of the work I have been doing, understanding what it means to decolonize my relationship with myself. As a white/settler person there are all these ways I can just… check out. I’d have to stop doing that. 

Suddenly both my lost self and the part of me who is trying to engage with the lost self come together and see it clearly.

That path is not about what I DO next, which I thought it was.

It’s about how I BE next.

My dreams and my soul and my life are all asking me to BE my next level self.

I’ve been doing all this Inner Work and Dream Work and this feels safe. It’s all happening in the comfort of my own world.

The question, the real question, now is: how to I bring that into how I AM, in the Outer World?

It feels like there is something that I’ve been working on, on the inside, that needs to be embodied on the outside. And I can’t quite put my finger on WHAT it is.

My mentor/witch/coach self steps in to offer some next steps to explore:

Dream Self meditation

Maybe even the Dream Self Challenge from Dream Book (this is further into Dream Book in content that is released in month 6)

And... just sit with the question.

 

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I just added a new tool to the Dream Book 2026 program, a booklet called I HAVE QUESTIONS

Your dream comes with at least a million questions.

Some of these questions are so uncomfortable to sit with that we avoid them, and so we never find the answer we need, and so over time this makes us abandon our dreams.

Some of these questions… are actually the wrong question to ask.

Some of these questions…. you already know the answer, you just need to give yourself permission to really trust yourself.

Sitting with the questions is a nuanced process. 

Giving your questions MORE SPACE will help you find better answers.

The I HAVE QUESTIONS booklet will help you do this.

Print it out, fold it up (I made a video showing you how) and tuck it into your Dream Book 2026 so it’s right there when the questions come up.

 

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Things! Are! So! Scary! And! Triggering! Out! There!

AND

The magic is still here.

This morning I sat with the immensity of everything that is happening and the immensity of how my own soul is asking me to respond.

I sat with how this feels too big and I feel too small.

And like, how I have felt that way about EVERY DREAM I HAVE EVER HAD and how this feels TOTALLY DIFFERENT and it is actually THE SAME.

I sat with how I feel like, 15 1/2 years ago I felt the push to make the Creative Dream Incubator my full time work… so that I could be ready for these times. That I would need 15 years of experience to feel ready to do this work in these times.

And then I used the Un-Sticking Station to meet with the fear I had.

And it went on and on.

I shifted between being my scared self and being my wiser self trying to engage with my scared self and having other parts of me crash the party to try to derail things.

And in the end… it all came together. I found my answer inside of my fears. I know what to do next.

The magic is still here.

Show up.

Be with the thing that is there. (Even when that thing is a fear or an obstacle)

This will move you forward.

Just remember that the path won’t look like you expect.

Membership members: Use the Creative Dream Alchemy libraries of Inner Work, Dream Work + Outer Work practices! Or send me an email and let me know what you're working with and I can suggest something.

 

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your Dream Status Report or start a conversation about whatever you're working with.

Do the Hello Day Energy Clearing + Intention Setting Practice (from Dream Book 2026)

Get your next Dream Book lesson or get a weekly journaling + alchemy kit.

Go the Library of Creative Dream Alchemy to find a practice that fits for where you are or use the Dream Lab if you're not sure where to start.

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Successful creative dreaming needs a lot of reflection as you go.

Successful just meaning you are happy with how you're engaging with your dreams, your life, your soul + your creativity.

We do this every month on the New Moon Intention Setting Ritual calls.

I do this every week with these Dream Status Report prompts, which I wobbled with a little this January.

And I am adding a new monthly reflection and goal setting process for business stuff for 2026 as I am approaching marketing in new ways so I want to give myself this space to check in, reflect and evaluate as I go.

So today is my Dream Status Report day AND it's the first of a new month.

Also last week I overdid it on a few fronts (verrrrrry easy to do right now!) so I canceled plans yesterday AND today to give myself more quiet recovery space. I think this is crucial for sensitive people right now -NOT to "stay regulated and good vibes only your way through late stage capitalism and fascism" but to recognize that you need to take EXTRA care of yourself right now.

So this morning I stayed in bed an extra hour reading a book, then I had a sudden burst of energy so I put my bedding in the laundry, sorted through my clothes to figure out my other laundry, and cleaned the bathroom.

Canceling plans 2 days in a row felt shitty, like I can't keep up with the life I want to live. BUT/AND giving myself the extra "empty space" was exactly what I needed.

Keep Your Heart Fire Burning

One of my mottos for this year and beyond is to keep my heart fire burning. And I am embroidering this in BIG letters on the back of the artists smock I am sewing myself, and covering in embroidery as I go.

Once I felt my heart fire was extinguishing on Friday evening, I stopped doing things and rested until I could feel it come back to life. So I am proud of myself for this.

I am doing my Dream Status Report and the February Creative Dream Incubator Business Planning slowly throughout the day while also tidying, doing laundry and cooking up a bit batch of tofu noodle soup for dinners this week (like chicken noodle soup style with grated tofu that you fry in a bunch of herbs and it tastes amazing).

This feels like such a good way to start a new week and a new month. Like a big day-long deep breath.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your Dream Status Report or start a conversation about whatever you're working with.

Do the Hello Day Energy Clearing + Intention Setting Practice (from Dream Book 2026)

Get your next Dream Book lesson or get a weekly journaling + alchemy kit.

Go the Library of Creative Dream Alchemy to find a practice that fits for where you are or use the Dream Lab if you're not sure where to start.

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If you're not a member - find out more + join us here!

I found this post in my draft folder... it's from last summer. And today feels like the right day to finally get it ready to post!

 

I don't need to figure this out.

That's all it said. I don't remember what it was about but it feels so liberating to look back in my journal and see it.

We spend a lot of time figuring things out and in a sense yes of course we need to do that.

WE NEED TO STAY ENGAGED WITH OUR DREAMS.

AND

We don't usually figure things out with our heads, you know?

The answers come by staying engaged, open and curious. Engaged above all else.

And sometimes we can get kind of rigid about wanting to understand what we are doing.

But we never actually have to figure anything out.

Keep showing up and possibilities appear.

 

It's so interesting to me that I found this post today.

Today I had my first therapy session of the year, and my therapist showed me an index card she had made of all the things I was working on in 2025. She said I was being so intentional about how I wanted to start the year that I she wanted to keep track.

For me, 2025 felt like an important year for figuring things out.

I did the Year of Hope project, to try to figure out how to feel hopeful which felt necessarily to me to build the foundation for my new dreams.

I sat with the question... How do I BE the artist I AM? which took so many twists and turns over the year.

And then I had lots of goals around creating new ways of relating to my work, new business systems, routines - all of it.

2025 was the year I went from "going through a divorce" to "being divorce" and ready to be in my new life. In 2025 I took the time to re-set my home and my life in every way I could. I de-cluttered and re-organized and got so many lamps and created a more cozy right-fit space of this next chapter.

But also: all the stuff of being in the thick of midlife, being self employed while new trade wars get started every day, increasing violence and political turmoil everywhere in the world and here in Canada.

I am looking back at myself from the other side of all of that "figuring it out"

I sat with so many difficult feelings and big, impossible-feeling questions last year.

I didn't make myself figure it out. I didn't rush to answers. I sat with questions. I let the questions multiply and get bigger. I kept showing up.

And then, over the last month, as I've been setting my intentions in my Dream Book 2026... answering the prompts and digging into what I really want next and why and all the feelings that get sparked in that... so many things have fallen into place.

I am making SO MUCH ART.

That permission to NOT figure it out, coupled with the commitment to keep showing up... brought me to where I wanted to be.

This is how it works.

Keep showing up.

I suggest using the Hello Day practice and/or the Dream Lab practice to help you keep showing up and moving through the process.

Co-Dreaming/Co-Working is today on Zoom!

I hope to see you there.

 

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your Dream Status Report or start a conversation about whatever you're working with.

Get your next Dream Book lesson or get a weekly journaling + alchemy kit.

Go the Library of Creative Dream Alchemy to find a practice that fits for where you are or use the Dream Lab if you're not sure where to start.

Check out the calendar of upcoming calls. Make a plan to join us live or catch a replay.

If you're not a member - find out more + join us here!