I am getting it together [Dream Status Report]

By Andrea Schroeder / May 24, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week.

Doing this, consistently over time, IS MAGIC.... AND... Consistency is hard for most of us these days! So - I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

*Membership members: this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

*I AM GETTING IT TOGETHER - from Monday in my Dream Book 2026 planner.*

This week I really did GET IT TOGETHER in so many ways.

The last few months I have been on a real JOURNEY when it comes to looking at my habits and routines and the structures that support my dreams.

I over thought things. I got lost in my feelings about things.

Which is good! Because I was really IN IT, exploring everything. This is what it looks like to really BE IN THE ALCHEMY OF IT. To create space for real and lasting healing and transformation.

Then this week it all came together and I knew what to do. This always happens when you stay in the process long enough to get to this part. (Remember that one of our principles of Creative Dream Alchemy is: it takes the time it takes)

BUT getting to the place where it all comes together - doesn't necessarily look like you think it will. And that's where I am now.

Looking back at this year, each week I've learned a little thing and applied that little thing and then the next week learned the next little thing...

All these little steps got me here, to a place where I feel like I AM getting it together, I love the routines, habits and structured I'm at... AND... it's just not like what I thought it would be like.

That's partly aging! I have different needs and preferences as I age and different things work.

And it's partly the ways the world is changing. And this can be a hard one to see in real time, because we're not in charge of how the world is changing, and we tend to try to hold on to the things we love, to the things that work for us, etc.

The other day I was with my mom and we drove down the street where I used to work downtown, when I worked in an office, over 15 years ago. We were saying "Oh weird" because the food carts weren't out. This particular street used to be lined in food carts every weekday from spring to fall. This particular street has a lot of office buildings on it and people would come out for lunch. EVERY DAY the sidewalks will overflowing with people at lunch time. It was like this for years.

And now it's just - not.

I thought about how a lot of office workers are working from home now. And how so many of our office buildings downtown are empty. At the same time when these buildings are empty, we have more unhoused people than ever, and keep having even more every year. There are these Downtonwn Biz workers who, 15 years ago, were out cleaning up trash, watering the flowers, etc. These days it's not uncommon to see them administer Narcan to people who have overdosed.

It was just such a stark contrast, remembering this same street how it was 15+ years ago and how it is today.

The world has changed so much, and there is this one part of me who wants to not notice this, and wants to figure out how to get me to perform and produce the same way I did 15 years ago.

Which is never going to happen. Though it's a valid feeling! It's a valid wish, for that one part of me.

It's not what I want though. I don't want to go back I want to go forward.

And I'm so grateful for all the ways I have explored my own routines and structures so that I can figure out... what really works NOW, for who I am today and the world as it is today. I feel like I have space to go deeper into my creative and spiritual work now.

I am not turning a blind eye to what is happening in the world. And I believe that seeing what is happening includes seeing all the GOOD that is happening. All of the movements for positive change. All of the activism. All of the ways we are collectively waking up and starting to shift towards better ways of doing things.

I feel so hopeful for a better future for everyone and I feel so PASSIONATE about the role that meditation and journaling and CREATIVE DREAMING need to play in the creation of a better future for everyone.

I filled seven pages journaling about my dream status report today, and all of the things that came up for me as I did that.

So much is percolating. I am going into this new week feeling intensely grateful to have ROUTINES that feel like they can hold me as I continue to explore and create.

And SO EXCITED about Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams happening this week!

Where do you want to be at the end of 2026?

Let's make a plan that gets you there - WITHOUT overwhelm or over-working. WITH self care and soul.

Spring Cleaning for your Dreams is Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Members can get the call details here.

AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!

If you're NOT a member: Get the details + sign up for Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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.

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!

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Your future self is proud of you

By Andrea Schroeder / May 22, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

Your future self is SO proud of you.

Your future self is so grateful to you for all the ways you keep showing up to create a better future for her.

Your future self is ESPECIALLY grateful that you are working through the MUCK of it all. Your own doubts and fears on top of the existential dread of living in the world at this time - this is a lot to work through and your future self is SO grateful for this effort.

This was the message I got one day this week in my practice.

It was during the Meeting Your Miracle mediation in Project Miracle, my miracle is an intense energy to work with and the meditation was so weird.

I held up my hands while they were on my lap. I called the miracle in, and the miracle showed up as me - but I could tell it was a future version of me. A full size me, the same size as me, sitting on my lap, facing me, so my upheld hands were holding my buttocks and I was like “Ummmmm I don’t know, this feels weird”

And this is why I often say “It’s ok if it’s weird or uncomfortable or you don’t understand what is happening, stay with it” in my meditations… because with this work, the stuff that feels so weird in the beginning usually has a really good thing to teach or show us.

So I reminded myself of this, it’s weird and that’s ok, and got curious about why my miracle showed up in this way.

My future self kissed my cheek and hugged me and I felt, in my whole body, her gratitude. “You stuck it out, mucking through the muck, showing up, practicing, exploring, experimenting, sitting with, creating, healing…. and I get to have all of the benefits of all of that. I can’t tell you how grateful I am.”

That sensation flooded my body and changed how I see everything.

Which reminds me of another thing I say a lot, every month on our New Moon Intention Setting Calls - as you are reflecting on your process, is there anything that needs a reframe? Like, if you feel like “I have been struggling with this for so long” could you reframe it to something like “I am so brave to keep showing up to work on this really hard thing”

And that’s what I felt in the meditation. A full body re-frame.

I’m not struggling too much, I’m not moving too slow, it’s not true that I should have figured this all out already (things my inner critic says)…. I am working through such hard stuff and doing a commendable job of showing up through the mess.

One thing about creative dreaming in a dystopia - we need to be easier on ourselves, and less focused on outcomes and deadlines, and practice TRUST.

The SPEED at which you are making things happen is not relevant - it’s the DIRECTION you’re moving in that matters. Keep showing up.

Members: the easiest way to do that is the Hello Day practice (you can do it any time of day!) And come to the Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams call next week (or use the replay!) to make a plan that meets you where you are and help you get to where you want to be.

Spring Cleaning for your Dreams is Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Members can get the call details here.

AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!

If you're NOT a member: Get the details + sign up for Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams here.

Co-Dreaming Co-Working Call Today

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.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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!

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What do you need now?

By Andrea Schroeder / May 20, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

How are we HOLDING SPACE for ourselves, and our dreams and the future we want to create?

This is the big question I am sitting with this year, and inviting you to explore with me, in the Dream Book 2026 program.

Which is also a part of the question of "How do we hold onto our dreams in a dystopia?" which I have been exploring for the last few years.

Sitting with the questions + holding space for yourself in the process is the work that creates space for dreaming and growth and possibility, which is what the Dream Book 2026 program is about (which inside the membership, here).

But if you have been doing this with me or not - NOW is a good time to reflect on how your year is going, and what you need next.

Magic does happen if you keep showing up even without a plan... AND/OR you may find now is the time to get a little more structure for your process and make some plans for how you want to get to where you want to be at the end of the year.

This is what Spring Cleaning for your Dream is about.

Technically, as in "the way I see it", this is a part of the Dream Book 2026 program but it doesn't matter if you're doing Dream Book 2026 or not.

It doesn't even matter if you set goals/intentions in January or not.

This is just a good time to check in with yourself about what you want for the rest of the year. Maybe you want to take as many naps as possible, maybe you want to make a plan to reach your biggest goals, maybe you just want to feel a little happier and more hopeful about the future.

Whatever it is, this is a good time to reflect on how things have been going, and make a plan for what you're going to do next.

So - do this with me!

Spring Cleaning for your Dreams is Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Members can get the call details here.

AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!

If you're NOT a member: Get the details + sign up for Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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!

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On trying to find my “get up and go” and ending up with this huge healing breakthrough

By Andrea Schroeder / May 18, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

I wanted to have a conversation with the part of me who loves to “get up and go”

I am deep in process with figuring out the structures, habits + routines (link to the Stature Habits Routes class in the membership) that will work best for me at this time. The self care, the support for my creative process, the structures that keep my life feeling manageable in a world that feels less stable every day and help me feel steady enough to show up for the change I want to see in the world.

For a while, I thought I could just take some time to really drill down on this and figure it all out. Ha! At this point I am accepting that this is a process. And that I am doing a lot of these things, and I will keep making little changes as I go.

Last night I said to myself: I need to get really serious about first-thing-in-the-morning-fresh-air-and-exercise.

This is something I normally do well but life changes and health issues combined with some intense climate grief about the ways our weather is changing, on top of actual wildfires and dust storms, etc, which do make harder to be out there. But this morning I did it - 40 minute walk starting around 7:45 am, and since this is a holiday Monday, there wasn’t much traffic and it was really lovely. Normally I’d like to be out earlier to miss the morning traffic.

And I did get up earlier, but I just stayed in bed. So this is where the part of me who loves to get up and go is going to jump in. On my walk I realized I needed a talk with her, and it feels like she’s been waiting to talk to me, so here goes.

OMG GIRL we know that we can’t just “stay in bed”, that can ruin the whole day! Once you’re up, get up, and get moving. Get outside. enjoy the world. Give your brain that delicious early morning time of walking or cycling outside. The way you’ve been missing “feeling like yourself”????!?!?!?! That’s because you’re not doing this!!!!

OK, I love your enthusiasm AND I need you to acknowledge the health problems I’ve been facing. It’s not as simple as you are making it out to be.

She sits down right in front of me and says: Listen, I do know how hard it’s been. I am not saying that an early morning walk will cure you. I am saying it will give you space to find your joy in the way it used to. I get that it won’t change your whole life, but you have been missing how you felt when you were doing this every day and you CAN find smaller/simpler ways to do it, way that fit with your life now.

Oh, OK. I feel seen and understood and supported.

So there is this thing where people who find a thing easy to do will be all shouty about “JUST DO IT! IT WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER!!!” and not acknowledge all the ways that this thing isn’t easy for everyone.

Those people may also create courses or sell products to help you do it, and that stuff may not work for you if this thing is just harder for you than it is for them, and then when those things don’t work you may end up feeling like YOU failed because they keep insisting that their system works and if you didn’t get results then you weren’t committed enough, or whatever. There was so much of that happening in the “live your best life” industry and then the ways it’s collided with the “get super rich online” industry in the last 10 years it’s all gotten NUTS.

(This is why I include tools and support specifically for when you struggle with my classes, I don’t want to leave people behind like that and it’s never your fault when it’s hard to show up, it just means you need more, or different, support. Members please email me any time you need more help! I am here.)

So right now I am seeing that I have such a huge aversion to this whole thing that I have been not wanting to listen to my inner self who has that kind of vibe about “get up and go”.

I felt like she would minimize my struggles, not get how hard this is for me right now, and say “It’s easy, you just make the decision to do it”.

Hand on heart and deep breath for all the times I was in circles where people did treat each other that way when they struggled. I feel like the early new thought/new age/self help movement was trying so hard, but just had so many things so wrong.

Stepping back for a moment to notice all the ways that in our culture that shame is used to try to coerce people to “do better” and how ineffective it is on top of how cruel it is.

Back to my situation which feels like it is shifting so fast I can’t quite hold onto it which is so good.

This version of me, who was younger and lived in a simpler world, had her struggles too and learned about how much the early morning “get out of the house and get exercise” helped shift her whole day. So she had systems in place to help her do it - like she would check the weather and plan her outfit/layers the night before and leave that outfit out so she would see it when she woke up. Since she was going to a park or coffee shop to work or journal, she would have her bag packed and her project picked out to work on. She didn’t bring her phone into the bedroom so laying in bed and looking at her phone wasn’t an option (which is the one I still usually do).

So, me thinking to myself “Oh I should go for a walk tomorrow” and not doing any of those things really doesn’t create the same structure and support for actually following through.

BUT she doesn’t want to shame me about that, she wants to help me find ways to do this because of how good it will be for me to be inside the routine of it. Once a thing is a routine it’s so much easier to hold.

She gives me a hug and says “No I really don’t want to shame you. I understand that this was much easier for me to do than it is for you, even though it also wasn’t always easy for me.”

True, I remember that. It’s just that you had this DETERMINATION that I don’t seem to have and I wish I did.

GIRLLLLL! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!??! I had the determination to build the thing - you HAVE it. You don’t need to stay determined.

Oh.

WHOA.

WHHHOOOOAAAA.

I’ve been feeling like I am failing or wrong somehow for not feeling that determination and drive. I have so much grief that I am not still that person.

I see it now.

Those things were never meant to be long term.

In fact, holding onto them - they become toxic. Look at the world! Look at the people who can never get enough.

And it’s so interesting because I HAVE been thinking about determination isn’t the best fuel for long term work with your dreams, though having it in the mix can be so helpful… but I was thinking about that in general and not applying it to myself.

Oh WOW. WHOA! I can make peace with not being super determined.

Because without being super determined as a big part of the fuel moving me forward, what do I have?

LOVE, so much love for the people I work with and their dreams and all the ways their dreams impact the world and being in the process and inviting new people in to this magic

DEVOTION to tending to what I have built.

ENTHUSIASM to keep creating and growing.

I can think of lots of other things too but these feel like the main ingredients.

Wow.

I see how I was coming at this “how do I get my “get up and go” back” problem from the place that I AM DOING THIS WRONG and I AM FAILING TO FOLLOW THROUGH and HOW DO I FIX MYSELF???

And now it’s like… girl you have graduated to the next level. You no longer have that determination pushing you. So you GET TO create new ways to help yourself do the things that help.

And if I may remind you/me - look at how well you do with meal prepping! You know that you need whole foods, mostly beans, veggies and protein, made into soups/salads/wraps/etc, ready to go in the fridge and so you ALWAYS MAKE SURE TO HAVE THEM THERE. You’ve learned so much about cooking, you make amazing food from scratch. This part of you who keeps the meal prep going… this part of you can also get the morning walks/bikes going.

And if I may remind myself some more.. you have been pretty good at getting out for exercise, just not daily like you used to because so much about your life and routines have changed - that makes sense! Now you’re in a place where new routines can start to take root, so let’s not feel like we’re starting from scratch??

OK all of the heaviness I was feeling about this is gone. I have gassed myself up!

And starting today I promise myself: I won’t end the day without a plan for tomorrow, in terms of getting outside to get exercise. That plan will include a look at the weather and my schedule and a plan for an outfit - and I like the way I used to have my clothes out, so I saw them right away - like an invitation to get outside because it’s good for my brain.

I always forget about this, but I just remembered my SELF CARE PLANNER!!!!! This is the perfect thing to use. I just printed it out and am committing to use it for 8 weeks. It’s not a part of the membership - you can get it here.

Inside the membership, we have the class on Creating Self Care Protocols to support yourself in being the version of you who can do your dream

Where do you want to be at the end of 2026?

Let's make a plan that gets you there - WITHOUT overwhelm or over-working. WITH self care and soul.

Spring Cleaning for your Dreams is Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Members can get the call details here.

AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!

If you're NOT a member: Get the details + sign up for Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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!

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The hard parts are hitting especially hard right now [Dream Status Report]

By Andrea Schroeder / May 17, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

I've never cried while leading a meditation before.

But our New Moon Intention Setting ritual on Thursday felt intense.

Well, it wasn't the meditation itself, it was the stuff that I was SEEING. As I looked back over this last month I saw how anxiety and insecurity had been creeping in, bit by bit, and I hadn't noticed how present they were.

But the big one was: when I could clearly visualize and get into the feeling of what I want to be doing... being deep in my creative flow... it hit me how easy this used to be compared to how hard it is now.

When the world was simpler, when my life was simpler... going DEEP into my creative flow was also simpler.

And seeing/feeling that comparison just brought up so much grief. I've tried to write about it, both yesterday and Friday, and couldn't quite find the words.

I did talk about it on the call, and then the first person to share on the call started by saying she was glad I mentioned that I started to cry during the meditation, because she had been crying through the whole thing. She had a lot to grieve as well.

There was also a but of discussion around - Should I share this? Do other people want to hear? Am I taking up too much space?

The thing about creative dreaming in community... it brings up a LOT of stuff. We're all going to be in different places with it.

This can feel awkward, like when one person is in tears because their dream is falling apart and the next person to share wants to celebrate a big win.

But that's also the beauty of it. How we hold space for ALL OF IT TOGETHER.

This is the STUFF OF CREATIVE DREAMING.

The Stuff of Creative Dreaming diagram

That's from the YOU ARE THE MAGIC guided journal. You can get the free version here, if you're reading this in an email the link is at the top of your email, if you're in the membership it's here.

We do tend to celebrate some parts while cursing other parts, but all parts are part of the process.

So when we have a call where some people are in the dumps and others are celebrating big wins, I think this helps us better understand the whole process.

Because the biggest enemy to dreams is giving up or deciding to "wait for the right time". The only way to make progress is to keep showing up even in the mess because that mess is 100% a part of it. How you face the mess IS the fuel for the alchemy.

It's all connected.

So when we think "Oh I shouldn't celebrate my win because this person is crying about how her dream just fell apart" or "I shouldn't cry about how scary and stressful this all is right now because I will bring down the vibe for everyone" we are forgetting how connected it is. Which we all do! All the time! And I am always trying to remember.

This IS what a lot of coaching/healing/wellness/spirituality culture has done to us.

I've been in a lot of spaces where people were subtly shamed and blamed for their "failures" to manifest while other people were held up as role models and celebrated for their success... without the slightest acknowledgment of how some people have it harder than others. Without offering real + helpful support for the people who were struggling. Just this idea that if you are not manifesting using the tools we teach - you are failing. No willingness to look at how to alter those tools to work better for everyone...

So it's important to me to not create that vibe in the Creative Dream Incubator! And there is such a RICHNESS that comes from witnessing the hard parts of people's process along with the celebrations. Sometimes I grieve for everything I missed out on from being in those spaces for so long.

The hard parts are hitting especially hard right now.

And this makes sense with everything happening in the world.

So, as I sit here, trying to do my Dream Status Report, I am acknowledging that I am creative dreaming a goddamned dystopia and could I maybe go easy on myself for the ways that the stress of these times is impacting me?

Could I stop judging myself for how hard it is to be DEEP in the creative flow in the ways I want to be, and instead congratulate myself that I keep trying?

Those questions feel like a weight lifted.

And they remind me that holding onto our dreams, holding onto our ability to IMAGINE A BETTER FUTURE, is one of the skills we NEED to get through these times.

Where do you want to be at the end of 2026?

Let's make a plan that gets you there - WITHOUT overwhelm or over-working. WITH self care and soul.

Spring Cleaning for your Dreams is Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Members can get the call details here.

AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!

If you're NOT a member: Get the details + sign up for Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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.

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!

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“Know that you deserve joy + aliveness”

By Andrea Schroeder / May 13, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

We have our May New Moon Intention Setting call on Thursday (tomorrow!!)

(If you're not in the membership: you can get the New Moon Intention Setting Ritual Kit here and do this on your own!)

I was looking through my journaling from our April call and at the bottom I wrote a message I got in that meditation:

KNOW THAT YOU DESERVE JOY + ALIVENESS.

The stuff I am working on right now, the intentions I am setting, are kind of boring things around getting some parts of my business running more smoothly. Not my favourite part of this work, but I am grateful that I get to the work that is most meaningful to me, so do want to take care of these things, even if they are a bit tedious.

It felt interesting, as I am looking at planning, systems, habits routines, etc... to receive this message about joy and aliveness.

But now, on the other end of the month, it feels perfect.

OF COURSE joy and aliveness are the things I need to do these tasks, to make these plans.

And OF COURSE, if we keep showing up to do this work, if we keep listening to ourselves, as deeply as we can, about how to navigate our lives, we're going to get the message and support we need to live our most authentic and fulfilling lives - now and in the future.

Creative Dreaming is NOT about working hard and making sacrifices to get to a better future.

It's about accessing more of our CREATIVE POWER right here right now, and living intentionally, and moving towards a better future without sacrificing today.

And also without gaslighting yourself about how you feel or what you want.

So, the work of accessing your creative power right here and now can be really different from day to day.

Sometimes people seem sheepish when they tell me they've been using the Un-Sticking Station practice more than anything else in the membership because they just keep feeling stuck all the time. BUT THAT'S GREAT! Showing up and WORKING WITH the stuck is deep healing work which transforms the whole path ahead of you.

Staying present with our actual feelings and actual needs right here WHILE ALSO holding space for our dreams can feel like a juggling act some days.

Some days there just isn't time/space for everything.

THAT'S OK!!

It doesn't matter how smooth or rough your process is on any particular day, it matters that you keep coming back to it.

Monthly reflection and intention setting "greases the wheels" of your Creative Dream Machine.

Don't skip this!

This is where you map out the path that gets you to where you want to be - not just for Outer Work, but Dream Work and Inner Work too. Doing this consistently over time keeps you more GROUNDED both in your life today and in your dreams for the future. It steadies the path.

In the membership: The May New Moon Intention Setting call is Thursday (tomorrow!!)

Not in the membership: you can get the New Moon Intention Setting Ritual Kit here and do this on your own.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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!

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You are not doing this wrong.

By Andrea Schroeder / May 12, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

Image of "Holding space for myself in the mess" from my GRIEF ANGER RAGE HOPE 2026 Sketchbook journal for the big feels

Every time I lead a meditation I say somewhere in there: even if it gets weird, even if this feels uncomfortable, you are not doing this wrong.

I say this because there is this idea out there that meditation should be peaceful and if it's not then you're doing it wrong. But that's not the way I teach meditation.

We are using meditation to connect with ourselves - we are not always peaceful and that's ok!!! And we are using meditation to connect with the souls of our dreams to get next-level advice on how to have more of what we want in our lives... that work is NOT always comfortable and almost never linear.

So, we need to be willing to let the process get uncomfortable and weird. This is the only way to use meditation as a part of the creative process of intentionally creating your life.

Some of the changes your dream asks you for will be surprising.

Some of the healing will be difficult.

This never means you are doing anything wrong.

This is my experience with the Hello Day meditation this morning:

I am starting to experience the work of HOLDING SPACE FOR MYSELF in a new way.

There is that part of me, that we have in the meditation, who always believes in myself and always believes in my dreams… and that part of me is growing bigger and starting to kind of push at the part of me who is more on the surface, more tired and overwhelmed by world events.

Actually, it almost feels like that part of me who always believes in myself + my dreams is actually trying to TAKE OVER my body and run things, the way my “regular everyday self” does now. An internal takeover.

And then in the energy clearing part of the meditation - that seems to melt away the stuff that helps that “regular everyday self” hold onto control of my body and mind. So it made more space for the “me who always believes in myself and always believes in my dreams”.

This felt hopeful and strange and disorienting.

Then it got really weird.

The soul of my dream slowed up, like a sluggish kind of bug, and it was sad and I asked what’s wrong and it said “I think I am too small”

And it was sooooo sad about this. Like my dream would be soooo much happier if I could make it bigger.

But I think this just is my internalized capitalism? That “DREAM BIGGER AND BIGGER STILL” cultural nonsense. Because I don’t actually want to dream this dream in any kind of bigger way. I want what I want.

But my dream doesn’t think so, it seems to think if it was bigger, then this thing I want to do today would be easier.

Which seems absurd to me. I ask my dream: Can’t we get to you, at your current size, AKA made you real AND THEN reassess and see if we want to dream bigger? Because right now I genuinely don’t want more.

But I’m too little to lift this, my dream says.

I don’t understand what my dream thinks that I am asking it to lift?!

But I am sure not here to argue with my dream. So I repeat myself. I show it more clearly what I want to do today to work towards this plan we have.

In return, my dream shows me this lever that it needs to lift up, to do its part of this plan. And shows me how it’s too small to lift the lever.

Two things happen in my mind at once.

FIRST ONE:

Oh wow. I see it.

The answer isn’t to dream bigger, it’s actually to dream SMALLER. Like somehow (and I don’t understand any of this, this is just what is happening in the meditation) if I made my current goal within this dream smaller, then that would make the lever easier for this dream to lift, so they can do their part. Again, this seems wrong logically but felt like the answer in the meditation.

SECOND ONE:

I am big enough to lift this lever, and when I went to try to do that in the meditation, I saw how “me lifting the lever” is actually “me spending more time in meditation and then doing things from the meditations…. like making art out of the imagery and writing about it more and just generally acclimating to the soul of my dream in a deeper way”.

SO… we can do both!!!

I can narrow in on a smaller chunk of my dream that I want to focus on now (which instantly feels enlivening) (but note to anyone reading this: as a coach I have to say that sometimes dreaming bigger or freer or wilder in some way also creates that enlivening sensation so I am NOT suggesting we all think smaller) AND I can give myself more time acclimating to the soul of the dream.

It DOES feel like each time I give that work “more time” I am asked to give it more time, still.

I think this is the FUEL for making dreams happen and maybe I need to re-fill the tank more often than I know?

How do you fill your tank on the vehicle that gets you to your dream? How do you know how often to re-fill it?

After that, I went on to do my Project Miracle practice for today.

Starting with Hello Day, then moving on to Project Miracle feels so LUXURIOUS.

The message from my miracle clarified everything in the Hello Day meditation.

It said to STOP BEING IN THE ENERGY OF DOING THE THING.

My miracle asked me to notice how the energy of making a thing happen, or doing the thing, is soooo different from the energy of tending to the thing, and having the thing.

My miracle said: just stay in that energy. TEND TO IT AS THOUGH IT'S HERE.

Which isn't fake it 'till you make it. I am not pretending I already have it or saying to others that I do or anything like that. I am noticing how the work of tending to the thing already here FEELS SO DIFFERENT from the work of creating the thing and asking: how do I have more of that feeling, in how I work with this project?

And, my miracle pointed out, I have done so much work to create the thing. It's kind of saying... let that work take root now. Trust what you've done. Tend to the growing of the seeds without getting in there and trying to grow them yourself.

Maybe that only makes sense to me, but it makes SO MUCH SENSE to me.

And THAT is what you should expect from this kind of meditation.

It can get weird and uncomfortable and nonsensical and... if you stay with it... you find what you need. That perfect weird right answer that helps you with your next steps.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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Bit by bit it’s all coming into place [Dream Status Report]

By Andrea Schroeder / May 10, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

I'm still thinking about our conversations on the Co-Dreaming call on Friday.

How the theme of FREEDOM kept coming up, people feeling more free or making space in their lives to feel more free and how delicious this feels, even when we find new freedom in the tiniest of ways.

AND the theme of NEXT LEVEL SELF AWARENESS. How people are noticing these "little things they do" in new ways, like "Oh I am making up a story in my mind about why this person doesn't like me when actually I have no idea if they like me or not and I could just... not think about it" and "I'm seeing ways I hold back creatively, telling myself I'm not ready or I'm not that good at it when that's nonsense and actually I AM GOING TO DO THIS THING!!!"

There are just so many ways that our worldview and the things that run through our heads control our lives and we are not usually aware of most of them! So when we have new awareness that's such a huge opportunity/healing/gift.

And it's just really cool and amazing to see it happening in different ways with different people in the group... it really feels like the energy is shifting.

The last while has been ROUGH, there's been so much to adjust to and process and a lot of our calls felt HEAVY - that's the nature of holding space for ourselves in difficult times. It will feel heavy sometimes. AND. If we keep showing up - things will lighten. New possibilities will open up.

I also had a new awareness during our call about my "problem" with "figuring out" my new structures, habits and routines.

It's actually not a problem! I'm actually doing quite well!

It's just that.. it doesn't look like I thought it would. (This happens SO OFTEN with this work!)

I wanted some kind of simple and always-easy-to-understand way to say (to myself mostly) "THIS IS HOW I WORK".

But how I work changes all the time depending on what is happening.

Like, when I'm doing healing circles during hard times, I need a lot of meditation and journaling and spiritually strengthening practices. After our call on Friday, I felt such creative buzz I painted for a few hours.

Being truly present, as a space holder, means being adaptable.

I do already have the routines in place to be able to do this AND yes I keep creating new ones. But I was doing that thing where I was trying to figure it all out WITH MY HEAD, as a logical project... when really I needed to just MAKE SPACE to explore and figure it out.

These weekly reports are REALLY helping on that front.

Again, this week, I see that I didn't do a lot of the things on my list.

But I did do different things! Things that are related to those things.

And I realized - the problem isn't that I am not following through. The problem is that I am trying to hold certain tasks too rigidly...

This week instead of writing out the tasks I want to complete, I am going to write out the PROJECTS I WANT TO BE WITH. Like - step back a bit, connect with the soul of the project, and see where the flow takes me instead of deciding that certain tasks NEED to be done when maybe the soul of the project has a different idea about how it could happen. (Note: all of my tasks that NEED to be done at a certain time are already organized well in Notion - without the AI! Just old school project + idea management)

This might only make sense to me - it's is just a different way of organizing and holding the projects I am working on.

And it's a way that FEELS EXCITING TO ME RIGHT NOW and that's all that matters.

(I also notice I haven't used the Weekly Planning Sheet in a while, so I am making a PLAN to use that tomorrow.)

How about you?

Can you take a few minutes today to reflect on how your week went, notice how you feel about it, see if there is anything to learn or celebrate or acknowledge in some way?

Where do you want to be at the end of 2026?

Let's make a plan that gets you there - WITHOUT overwhelm or over-working. WITH self care and soul.

Spring Cleaning for your Dreams is Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Members can get the call details here.

AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!

If you're NOT a member: Get the details + sign up for Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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.

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!

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How are you inhabiting the magic of your dream?

By Andrea Schroeder / May 8, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

This is a question that the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator asked me in a meditation: How are you INHABITING the MAGIC of your dream?

And I didn't have an answer, which illuminated all the ways I am NOT inhabiting the magic of this dream.

I’m still in this process of re-planning how I plan. I’m using the Structure, Habits Routines class and I am working through it sooooo sloooow. Really sinking into the questions and looking more deeply at how I want this all to feel and function.

This is complicated because I am also in a phase of life I've never been in before! So everything is changing and all the ways I knew about how to do this worked best for a version of me who doesn't exist anymore and who lived in a world that doesn't exist anymore.

It's actually really common, when working with your dreams, to have to figure out how to do something you have no way of knowing how to do - this is the nature of dreams! They push you beyond your comfort zone and beyond what you know. Your dreams are here to GROW you and this is where a lot of that growth happens.

But even though I have been thinking about how I want to FEEL inside these new structures, habits and routines... I see now - I have been really have been overly focused on the practicalities of this dream. Trying to figure it all out with LOGIC.

I have NOT been inhabiting the magic of the dream of what it will mean to HAVE the structures, habits and routines I want.

So: How are you inhabiting the magic of your dream? brings that into sharper awareness for me and then the question becomes more about HOW TO inhabit the magic of my dream.

When I can do that... this brings me to a better line of questioning. This brings me to a place of finding better answers and ideas!

This is really a question that is good for anyone at any stage of any dream.

What is the MAGIC of your dream? The qualities of it, the way it makes you feel, the things you love about it, that thing that makes it so special.

How are you inhabiting THAT? (Even if the outer dream is very far away) (Membership members: tools that help with this are Dream Self practice, Dream Lab practice, and Alchemy Process for Acclimating to your Dream)

If you can point to ways you ARE inhabiting the magic of your dream: then can you lean into that more, and try to look at whatever questions/obstacles you have through the lens of your most-inhabiting-the-magic-of-it self?

If you can't point to ways that you are already inhabiting the magic of your dream: then how CAN YOU inhabit the magic of this dream?

We do need logic to plan and strategize and get to our dream. But we also need the MAGIC of our dreams. What do you think about how you're balancing them right now?

Co-Dreaming Co-Working Call Today

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

Call details are here. Replay will be there a few hours after we're done today.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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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No one just wakes up feeling inspired and brave every day. But anyone can get there with practice.

By Andrea Schroeder / May 7, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

My practice this morning is the PERFECT illusion of why we need to practice every day, or as close as possible to that.

I was unfocused, disheveled, kind of cranky and feeling lazy like “Why bother doing anything?”

A part of me tried to take charge and remind the rest of me that this is not how I wanted to start my day! I reminded myself of how amazing it felt to do the miracle meditation yesterday. I got myself to my comfy chair with my laptop, headphones and journal but when I went to the next lesson in Project Miracle I just couldn’t.

My miracle feels heavy, not heavy in a bad way but WEIGHTY I guess. Intense. Solid. Real. INTENSE.

I didn’t feel up to holding it today. Which is ok!

So I did the Hello Day meditation instead.

Which was… whoa.

I saw all of this heaviness and resistance that’s been on me, like honey. Thick, sticky… but slowly dripping off of me. I saw how this resistance is actually fading away.

I saw this PRESSURE like a bunch of sharp shapes spinning around me. Hard work and over work and striving and following all of these ever-changing rules to keep up.

And I saw how these sharp shapes were pulling back, moving away from me.

I saw how the resistance was a response to all of that pressure.

I saw how, as they both retreated, a flame started to burn in the space between them.

The fire of inspiration. The BURNING desire to create and share on my own terms.

Whew.

My energy totally shifted.

I got 3 amazing new ideas for projects for the Creative Dream Incubator membership.

Then I got to the part in the meditation where I invited the soul of my dream in.

It showed up like a little being, floating right near my heart, reaching out to my heart, and the message was:

I AM WITHIN REACH.

Which landed somewhere deep in my heart and felt completely true.

And I thought back to how disheveled and full of resistance I was when I sat down to do this. And how everything felt too hard today. And how OF COURSE I’d rather just stay in bed than try to wade through all of that energy to try to get to a place where I could find my creative flow.

This is why I practice.

I practice putting myself into an inner state where ALL OF MY DREAMS ARE POSSIBLE so that I have the capacity, courage and trust to take my next steps, again and again and again.

No one just wakes up feeling inspired and brave every day. But anyone can get there with practice.

Membership members: please remember, any time what you had planned/wanted to do feels too hard… do the Hello Day meditation instead. OR if things are REALLY hard, use the For When You’re Too Upset To Do This meditation.

Let’s keep practicing meeting ourselves where we are, so that we can move towards where we want to be.

Join me for: SPRING CLEAN your CREATIVE DREAMS: May 27 on Zoom! Replay provided.

Where do you want to be at the end of 2026? Let's make a plan that gets you there - WITHOUT overwhelm or over-working.

Spring Cleaning For Your DREAMS

Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Check in with your dreams/goals/intentions/plans for 2026 (Or come up with some now!)
Celebrate what you’re doing well! Let go of what’s ready to go. Grieve what needs to be grieved. Process it all and clear space for CREATING what's next.
Notice what needs more attention.
Notice where you need more support.
Make an ACCESSIBLE plan WITH SUPPORTS to help make it easier to keep things on track

Members can get the call details here.

AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!

If you're NOT a member: Get the details + sign up for Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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!

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Finding the RIGHT question (harder than it seems!)

By Andrea Schroeder / May 6, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

Project Miracle Journaling Page (from my old journal - today's journal is much messier!)

I had a LOT of resistance to doing my Project Miracle practice today.

And it felt kind of weird - since I have given myself permission to take this really slow, to take more than 30 days to do the 30 days of the practice, this morning, feeing foggy headed I thought “I’ll just do it tomorrow”…

But somewhere inside me, I started to feel like.. that’s not the right move. That’s just my resistance speaking. I actually DO want my miracle. I want to be moving forward.

I was in bed still, and had my phone with me. Usually I leave my phone downstairs when I go upstairs in the evening but last night that didn’t happen so it felt like a little nudge… you have the phone, you can just go do the next lesson without even getting out of bed…

So I did.

And it was SO nice to do the meditation from bed, resting on my big pile of pillows.

Immediately I thought… what was the big deal about not wanting to do this today? THIS IS HEAVENLY. AND! It helps me get the thing I want most right now. Win win!

I did the Exploring your Miracle practice today and it was WILD, as in - it showed me something that was the total opposite from what I was thinking that my miracle was about.

Technically - that’s a miracle. That shift in perspective.

The meditation showed me that the qualities of this miracle are: presence, trust and gentleness/slowness.

And that felt stark and surprising to me because, and this is when I really noticed this, I was assuming that actually GETTING this thing I want would require: strategy, structure and hard work.

AND THIS IS WHY I HAVE FELT STUCK AND IN RESISTANCE!!

A part of me is just NOT up for more strategy, structure and hard work.

Another part of me thinks it’s necessary.

Another part of me, the wiser part of me, knows there is another way… but hasn’t seen it yet.

This is the thing about creating something NEW in your life. You haven’t seen it yet!!

Maybe you’ve seen other people have it but the view is quite different when you are IN IT. You have not truly seen what it means for you to do/be/have this thing.

So you’re in the unknown. And being in the unknown is a whole thing on its own. On top of the creative process you’re already in to create this thing.

It’s a lot!

And, as I age, I am noticing how much I have used HARD WORK to power through these parts. Which isn’t wrong!!! But it’s not really possible for me to do that in the same ways now, AND I don’t want to.

I feel deeply called to a new way of doing things AND I am still learning about what that call actually means.

So I am in three different creative processes: calling in this miracle, creating a new body work in textile art, creating new structures/habits/routines for my creative/work life.

And I am in three different unknowns with each of these.

No wonder I wonder about whether or not I want to show up on any given day. This is a lot to hold!

So the question is: HOW am I holding all of this? What’s working about that? What’s not working? How do I WISH I was holding it all?

HOW DO I WISH I WAS HOLDING IT ALL.

BINGO!

That’s the right thing to explore next.

Join me for: SPRING CLEAN your CREATIVE DREAMS: May 27 on Zoom! Replay provided.

We're under stress. We're overwhelmed. AND we're inspired to create the things we are called to create.

These times call for a different way of planning. A way of planning that includes self care and soul and healing alongside making measurable progress towards your goals.

So we're going to get together and make a plan that recognizes this. An ACCESSIBLE plan that gets you to where you want to be WITHOUT asking you to push yourself beyond what feels right in the moment.

Spring Cleaning For Your DREAMS

Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Check in with your dreams/goals/intentions/plans for 2026 (Or come up with some now!)
Celebrate what you’re doing well! Let go of what’s ready to go. Grieve what needs to be grieved. Process it all and clear space for CREATING what's next.
Notice what needs more attention.
Notice where you need more support.
Make an ACCESSIBLE plan WITH SUPPORTS to help make it easier to keep things on track

Members can get the call details here.

AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!

If you're NOT a member: Get the details + sign up for Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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!

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It was my birthday yesterday but I didn’t feel up to celebrating

By Andrea Schroeder / May 5, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

I love to decorate my own birthday cakes and I did make one this weekend - but this photo is from the big one I made for my 50th, my sister baked the cakes (5 layers) and make 3 batches (!) of icing so I had lots to play with. The layers have a rainbow of icing swirled between them.

Usually I post some reflections on my birthday, and I meant to yesterday, but I wasn’t feeling up to it.

There are so many reasons, both for me personally and for us collectively, why it’s just SO EASY to not feel up to being as present, engaged and creative as we’d like to be. So many reasons why we just can't do the things we really do want to do.

I have been, as always, looking for ways that we can hold onto the things that bring us joy, meaning, healing and fulfilment, even when we feel too tired for them. Finding ACCESSIBLE ways to access the magic.

Self care is a big one. Adjusting expectations. Like not posting the birthday reflection yesterday because it felt like too much, and taking a nap instead.

PLANNING is another big one. Planning in a way that takes pressure off of your brain in the moment, breaks things down into smaller steps and makes it EASY for you….

For example, I’ve been embroidering a snake all over a motorcycle jacket that I am sewing.

For a long time, I knew I wanted to do this, but that’s all I knew. So even days when I had time to start - how was I supposed to start? What was I supposed to do? There were so many things to figure out and plan for before I could even begin to trace out the outline of a snake onto the pattern pieces. And then there were so many experiments I had to do before I could know HOW I want to embroider this snake.

But once that was done, once a really good plan was in place, yes I could pick it up and embroider even on my most overwhelmed and exhausted days - and the act of creating combined with the repetitive hand sewing were actually SOOTHING. It brought me so much joy in a way that was ALWAYS accessible to me.

With the right planning and prep, you can find ways to give your CREATIVE DREAMS 10 minutes a day, even on the really exhausting days. Even when you don’t feel like. And DOING IT ANYWAY can really help shift your energy.

I’m doing that with ALL of my projects, and I am inviting you to do it with me!

Spring Cleaning For Your DREAMS

Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.

Check in with your dreams/goals/intentions/plans for 2026 (Or come up with some now!)
Celebrate what you’re doing well! Let go of what’s ready to go. Grieve what needs to be grieved. Process it all and clear space for CREATING what's next.
Notice what needs more attention.
Notice where you need more support.
Make an ACCESSIBLE plan WITH SUPPORTS to help make it easier to keep things on track

This is happening in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership - if you’re not a member, it’s fine to join just for 1 month to do this.

Members - get the call details here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your thoughts 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.

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!

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Re-Frames + Making Space for the UNKNOWN [Dream Status Report]

By Andrea Schroeder / May 3, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

I've spent the last hour reflecting and journaling.

I had so many thoughts about this that I decided to just turn on my video camera and talk about it:

Notes from the video:

Structure Habits Routines: I am still working on this class, very slowly, and getting excited to think of how I could do all of this so differently!

Some thoughts on being in THE UNKNOWN and how important it is to NOT limit ourselves by always wanting to KNOW and to feel like to know what we're doing. We have to NOT know what we're doing sometimes!!

On feeling like I am "dragging" a task from week to week and that I was ready for a REFRAME on that! I'm not FAILING to get the task done, it's just AMAZING that I have this idea for a thing I can do than to not have an idea.

AND wanting to GET THE THING DONE instead of making more space for reflection, inner work, soul work, etc... IS A TRAP. There is NOT a way to speed up the Outer Work that doesn't come from giving the Dream Work and/or Inner Work MORE TIME AND ATTENTION.

I bought out the little Compass of Creative Dream Alchemy (from the Dream Book 2026 printables) to talk more about how important it is to be doing ALL THREE and not just focus on outer progress.

Membership members - I'd love to hear what you are learning in your Dream Status Report or planning for this week - come to the forum to share!

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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.

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!

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We deserve to be fully immersed in the magic of our creative flow. But getting there sometimes is like DAMN.

By Andrea Schroeder / May 1, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

I've spent the last hour reflecting and journaling.

I had so many thoughts about this that I decided to just turn on my video camera and talk about it:

Notes from the video:

Structure Habits Routines: I am still working on this class, very slowly, and getting excited to think of how I could do all of this so differently!

I bought out the little Compass of Creative Dream Alchemy (from the Dream Book 2026 printables) to talk more about how important it is to be doing ALL THREE and not just focus on outer progress.

Membership members - I'd love to hear what you are learning in your Dream Status Report or planning for this week - come to the forum to share!

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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.

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!

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I am judging myself for not being ambitious enough

By Andrea Schroeder / April 29, 2026 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

I've spent the last hour reflecting and journaling.

I had so many thoughts about this that I decided to just turn on my video camera and talk about it:

Notes from the video:

Structure Habits Routines: I am still working on this class, very slowly, and getting excited to think of how I could do all of this so differently!

I bought out the little Compass of Creative Dream Alchemy (from the Dream Book 2026 printables) to talk more about how important it is to be doing ALL THREE and not just focus on outer progress.

Membership members - I'd love to hear what you are learning in your Dream Status Report or planning for this week - come to the forum to share!

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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.

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!

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