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The only way out is THROUGH so let’s go THROUGH

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During the Make Space In Your Life For Your Dream call, I felt completely inundated with self doubt.

This was incredibly uncomfortable both in my body and in my mind.

But it’s actually really common! To GET TO YOUR DREAM you do need next-level self belief, which means you need to face + heal self doubt.

So seeing your self doubt in a new way is good! Even though it feels terrible.

This is why I talk so much about the HARD PARTS of creative dreaming, because when we dig up the things that are ready for healing, it feels terrible. And it’s easy to feel like “If it feels this wrong, it must be wrong” but if you stop when it feels terrible - you leave all that stuff un-healed.

The only way out is THROUGH.

So, this is me going THROUGH.

This is another reason why you need a daily(ish) practice of Creative Dreaming! Because when you have that already established, then you have this a container and structure, so when something comes up that needs some work… you already have a container and structure for it. 

It’s easier to show up for the healing.

Right now, my daily(ish) practice is the Dream Book 2026 program, so instead of using my daily pages to do the Hello Day or Dream Lab practices as I have been, I’ve been doing Self Doubt practices.

Someone wrote in the forum about being SURPRISED by how their dream showed up in a dream lab meditation and I told them that I LOVE when the dreams come in WEIRD. Those weird ones can have a lot to teach us.

The first day I did this, self doubt came in WEIRD.

In the moment it felt weird, both sticky and also sharp. I wanted to draw my self doubt and didn’t know how to draw “sticky and sharp”.

The second day it was like “WELL OF COURSE” my self doubt IS OBVIOUSLY sticky and sharp. It sticks around so matter what and it’s sharp. It stings!

In hindsight that seems kind of obvious, but in the meditation we are NOT in that logical/linear perspective so it comes up more from a soul/feeling/creative level and we feel it in a different way. THIS IS IMPORTANT. How it feels in the moment matters. We need to be with those feelings. We don’t need to understand what is happening there, our logical/linear minds can’t heal us or make our dreams happen.

Now on the third day of doing this, I’m noticing that my awareness of my self doubt has shifted.

Like a bunch of stuff got DUG UP during the Make Space In Your Life For Your Dream session and that digging up was so uncomfortable, but now as I keep sitting with it, I am building thot new river bank, to hold the expanded perspective, so that the floor of healing and stay here and I can root into it instead of the water receding and me going back to how everything was…

And I am noticing my self doubt in a different way.

There is a little sting.

Not painful, but it FEELS DIFFERENT from my other inner thoughts now.

While before, up until last week, it sounded and felt the same as other inner thoughts and I had to do more work to get in there and untangle - What is self doubt? What is intuition? What is self belief? What is true here?

Now, this self doubt piece feels crystal clear. There is this little sting. And I feel and it’s like “ugh, no, not going to take action based on that thought!”

After a few days in to the process of sitting with self doubt I can see - I need to sit with self belief now.

Self doubt is more clear to me. I can stop myself from acting on it. 

There are lots of ways to keep working with it - this part of me still needs healing. It’s like it is no longer trying to get into the driver’s seat and derail me, but it’s still here, needing healing. Like a child throwing a tantrum.

We have a few practices for doing this work in the membership:

The Un-Sticking Station (There are a different options here, this is the deep work of healing the inner obstacles, it’s good to take a look at this when you’re NOT stuck, to get ready to do this work the next time you feel stuck)

Alchemy Process for working with Self Doubt (20 minutes, with a journaling sheet)

Self Doubt Relief (also 20 minutes, with a journaling sheet, but a bit of a different process - try them both to see which one you like best)

Your Self Doubt Is Not Yours, You Deserve To Believe In Yourself (1 hour class with a whole guided journal)

But what I want to do is focus on self belief.

I want to meet with my Dream Self who fully believes in the magic of what she has to offer as a daily practice and see what she has to show me.

The Dream Self practice is another tool available in the membership, it’s about the “other side” of the healing, ways of tending to the spiritual and personal growth that our dreams are asking of us.

And in the Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice calls we do regularly, we work specifically with the Dream Self who believes in the magic of what you have to offer the world.

So that’s the Dream Self I want to sit with now in my daily practice.

And I'll see where this takes me...

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Do a Hello Day 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 shift is only the beginning

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Your presence is your most powerful tool for creating anything.

Of course I went in to the Make More Space For Your Dream In Your Life call meaning to hold space for YOU to make more space in your life for your dream, but the shifts that happened in ME were really unreal.

I still feel the shifts unfurling inside me, shifting my perspective on how I do everything and seeing new options for how I COULD do everything.

Like, the visceral experience of shifting perspectives was really intense to the point of being uncomfortable.

This is a transformative experience.

AND

A transformative experience is like a river flooding, only as a positive instead of a negative. Just like water floods the banks of the river and gets everywhere… energy and ideas explode out everywhere in your life, into places where they don’t usually go. The whole terrain of your life becomes flooded with new possibilities.

This is what happens in any kind of transformative work. This is predictable. If you show up for it, the magic if there.

What’s not as predictable is: What are YOU going to DO with it?

You can revel in the magic and feel healed.. but if you go back to your “usual” way of doing your life, your usual hobbies and habits, then you just… shift back to where you were. You bring a bit of that expansion back with you into your usual life, but most of it is gone.

The flood recedes. The river goes back to where it was.

If you want to stay flooded with possibility and self belief and dream belief and LIVE in this place of expansion: This is where the real work begins.

The real work wasn’t the initial healing/transformation. That’s just the doorway.

So that’s where I am now.

And you know what I want to do here?

SCROLL!!!!

I keep picking up my phone.

I just want to distract myself.

Because the work of shoring up entirely new boundaries, creating a whole new riverbed for the energy to flow through so it doesn’t recede back to where it was… it feels like too much for some parts of me.

I’m grateful that the parts of me who BELIEVE IN DREAMS are taking the driver’s wheel, turning on soothing music in my headphones and then putting my phone out of reach, and pushing my journal stack and zipper pouch full of markers towards me.

I am bringing the things I learned into the call into my ongoing work with my dreams by:

Re-reading my notes from our call.

Sitting with the thoughts and feelings that come up.

Listening to myself about how to navigate it all....

And actually a new plan is starting to form. I'd been working on plans from the Spring Clean Your Creative Dreams call, and things brought me a new layer of good information for how to approach HAVING MORE OF WHAT I WANT IN MY LIFE.

I encourage you to do the same!!

Keep sitting with whatever came up for you, share in the forum if you like, and make a plan to attend (live or on replay) the New Moon Intention Setting Ritual next week.

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The answer is probably not what you wanted it to be [Dream Status Report]

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I am siting down to do 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.... this is where your dream becomes REALITY. This is where you stop and notice: How am I showing up? Is this working for me? What else might be needed? This is where we figure things out!! There is so much we can learn by witnessing our own process.

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. Do this with me!!

*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 still reeling from the Make Space In Your Life For Your Dream Call we had on Friday.

PLEASE DO THIS ONE!!!!

If you're in the membership - get the replay here.

If you're not in the membership - sign up here.

I ended up spending most of last week working on this... I was creating an energy alchemy that surprised even me.

If you're used to doing calls with me, know that this is a different format. Usually we have lots of time for sharing after the meditation and journaling -  but this one was ALL meditation + journaling. So be ready to spend 90 minutes with this at once - and come out with a whole new perspective on how to make more space in your life for your dream.

I do not suggest breaking this one up into smaller pieces.

As I shared during the call, I was experiencing a LOT of self doubt - I went in there trying to make space for my dream in my life - and ended up feeling like I was being buried in mountains of self doubt.

THIS WAS SO HARD TO BE WITH.

But by the end of the session, it was more clear: Self doubt is THE obstacle for me right now.

By the end of the session we were in touch with a deeper inner truth and my inner truth actually said "Oh that? Fuck that. Who cares?" about my mountain of self doubt, lol.

So I've been sitting with that tension - the part of me who feels buried under the self doubt and the part of me who doesn't give a single fuck about it.

And I don't want to make one part of me more right and one more wrong.

(I think that is where a lot of mindset work gets it wrong)

One part is more TRUE, more connected to my truth, to my soul.

But the other part of me has weathered 52 years living the capitalist patriarchy and she's been through some shit! So who could blame her for feeling buried when a mountain of self doubt collapses on her?

To move forward trying to connect more with that brave, ready, powerful part of me and just leave the self doubt in the dust... leaves that hurting part of me in the dust. It splits me off from a part of myself.

And we can't actually leave parts of us behind, they are still there... If we don't work with them, they become weights we drag with us through life.

Though they don't FEEL LIKE weight, they FEEL LIKE reasonable reasons to not have our dreams. Our un-processed stuff does so much harm to our futures.

This is the stuff that makes our dreams harder.

Not that the outer obstacles are not real, they are. And sometimes they are terrifying. But always - you are bigger than the obstacles.

So I am taking my time to really BE WITH THIS self doubt.

I'm thinking about drawing it every day? Like, I have no clue about how to draw self doubt, but if every day, in my Dream Book 2026 pages for this week, I just... draw whatever comes to mind (no judgement, these can look like a 3 year old drew them)... well what could I learn about this self doubt?

The shape and weight and texture of it.

The stories that this piece of self doubt, specifically, is carrying.

The healing that is needed to create new stories...

I've been so unsettled by this all weekend.

I don't think this is a new layer of self doubt.

I think the only thing that's new is that I am SEEING IT.

Which is actually a form of leveling up!!

Even though it feels so hard to be with.

And I am struggling to do my Dream Status Report for this week!

It feels like too much, so I Am not doing it.

I am giving this self doubt a day to kind of settle. I am tidying, meal prepping and sewing a new outfit.

And I'm making a promise to myself to start my day with it tomorrow. This weekly reflection is VITAL for figuring out your path as you go. But that doesn't mean you force yourself to do it when you're not feeling it.

 

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Do a Hello Day 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 feel so uncomfortable sharing this

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I want to share this partly BECAUSE I feel uncomfortable about sharing it.

These are the parts of creative dreaming that feel so awkward and vulnerable that we want to hide them… and then we feel so alone in them… and then it’s so easy to start to feel like we ARE alone in it... and that this “stuck” is evidence that we can’t have our dream.

I see this play out all the time with people I work with, so I’ve always shared this stuff quite openly to help them not feel alone in it.

I've always tried to create a culture where we validate all parts of the process. You'll be scared and awkward sometimes, and you're super brave to keep going anyway.

So, I am in an awkward and weird place as I get ready for the Make Space In Your LIFE For your DREAM call tomorrow.

I hope to see you there! This one is available for free for anyone!

If you're in the membership - get the details here.

If you're not in the membership - register for free here.

I am planning then re-planning and re-planning and feeling a lot of feelings and I am starting to avoid working on this and this is a problem! This is happening tomorrow and I need to be ready!

I've been kind of going in circles with my resistance and big awkward feelings, and I decided to stop that, and use the Un-Sticking Station practice to met with the part of me who doesn’t want to look at this.

She comes to life immediately.

Oh wow. Thanks! I’m so glad to get some attention from you because I wanted to show you this recipe.

A recipe?

Yes, I want to make Rice Krispie squares with those unicorn marshmallows you got last summer and have no real use for.

Well, yeah it would be nice to use those marshmallows up and I thank you for remembering that they are in the cupboard and yes we can have a goal of using them up in sometime this summer… when we need to make a treat to share with other people because I don’t want to eat a whole tray of Rice Krispie squares by myself right now.

That’s fine you can actually just make them and share them, like go drop them off at people’s houses. Your friends would appreciate this.

Sure, they would. But I wanted to talk to you about this class that’s happening tomorrow.

But I want to talk to you about Rice Krispies and the unicorn marshmallows.

Which are highly processed so they are not going bad any time soon, but this class does have a deadline, so could we talk about this first? 

It’s AMAZING to me how this part of me wants to focus on treats I don’t even like that much.

She puts the marshmallows down and starts to cry. “I just don’t think I am ready for this”

Oh honey. Why not? 

I’m actually struggling with the whole idea of doing this class AS A CLASS because I think it’s something that is better done one-on-one. Like, how do I speak to the specific challenges that EACH PERSON faces when it comes to making space for their dream? I can’t! People may be in all different places and need all different kinds of “ways in”. 

Yeah, I feel that! I agree! There is no one size fits all, and different people have different ways of defining what it means to pursue a dream and getting into the nitty gritty like this, in a general way that would be helpful to a group of people, does feel like a challenge. 

Oh wow, I’m glad we agree, so can we cancel it?

We agree that this is the challenge, but I believe we are up to the challenge. Do you not agree with that?

Heavy sigh. 

I guess I know I can do it. It’s just, I am not sure HOW to do it.

Well that is the whole thing about creative dreaming right? We can’t wait to already know how, we figure it out as we go.

But that’s so HARD! 

Yeah. If it was easy everyone would do it. Creative dreaming is actually really brave work.

I see this part of me reach for that bag of marshmallows… and then the bag disappears!!!

WTF?

Her distraction is gone.

We both look in the place where the marshmallows were.

She starts to cry.

It’s just that, if we are going to do this, I want to do it RIGHT. I want to really reach and help the people who are wanting to make space for their dreams. This is such sacred important work. It matters.

Yeah I hear how important that is for you. But that’s how all parts of me feel about all parts of my work! Like - this is what we do, girl! Why do you have so much doubt about this class in particular?

That’s when I realise this part of me DOES NOT feel this way about this class in particular and that this part of me just resists all of my ideas because she cares so much about doing them PERFECTLY that she just freezes up and can’t do anything.

And that’s when I realise that I am giving her too much space in my creative process.

And so I call in the part of me who does know how to set this class up to be helpful and supportive and healing and magical.

And I re-read everything I have prepared for this, from her perspective….

AND WHOA!!!!

That was a good idea! That part of me edited my ideas a little brutally but I LOVE it now!!!!

*****

Sometimes all we need to do is acknowledge and validate how BIG our feelings around our dreams can be.

Your dreams matter.

I hope to see YOU on this Zoom tomorrow but I will send out the replay a few hours after we're done.

If you're in the membership - get the details here.

If you're not in the membership - register for free 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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6 months of HOLDING SPACE for my self + the future I want to create: Journal/Planner Flip-through

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Today marks SIX MONTHS of Dream Book 2026 which is SIX MONTHS of holding space for myself, my dreams and the future I want to create.

I just posted a video of a planner/journal flip through of my Dream Book 2026 on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. IT FEELS SO MAGIC.

(Dream Book 2026 is where I am using a PLANNER as a DREAMER - the program comes with meditations + journaling prompts to get you showing up consistently to hold space for yourself, process your thoughts and feelings and practice setting intentions. This is not about the focused DREAMING + DOING that we do in the full Dream Book program. Dream Book 2026 hold space and makes space for things to happen when you don't feel ready to "full on get out there and make it happen" like we do in Dream Book. Both programs are available in the membership)

Flipping through if I can really feel how I have become more GROUNDED in my dreams from doing this practice every day(ish).

It's easy to think of a dream as something outside of you, or something far away from you, or a change you need to make... but your dream lives inside you. This is a sacred visionary part of you. This is where your gifts and wisdom and most authentic self speak to you.

So when I say I feel more grounded in my dreams, I mean I feel more grounded in all of that. More rooted into my own soul. More connected to myself.

I feel more powerful.

Which is really saying something because I have felt so overwhelmed the last few years. And I am still struggling with some health stuff, like there is still reason for me to feel overwhelmed about my life, but I feel powerful about it. I credit that to this practice. Flipping through my planner I can see it, I can feel that powerfulness emerge from showing up consistently these last six months.

Getting grounded any our dreams and your soul and your creativity and your gifts means that when you look at the outer work of making a dream happen - it doesn't feel so overwhelming and hard. It feels do-able.

Dream Book 2026 is a program for holding space for yourself and the future you want to create - wherever you are.

It doesn't ask for any kind of commitment of taking action on your dreams, it's just about holding space.

Holding space is transformative, generative and powerful.

If you haven't done this with me - now is the ideal time to start!

You can still start from the beginning of the Dream Book 2026 program in the membership, dream up what you want for the rest of this year, set your intentions, and dive in. You don't have to feel ready to do anything. You just have to decide to show up.

A month ago we did the SPRING CLEANING FOR YOUR CREATIVE DREAMS call.

We checked in with our intentions/dreams/goals for this year and reflected on the process and said... let's take the month of June to gather up what we learned from that process and use it to make a plan for how we're going to move forward with our dreams for the rest of this year.

I thought I was going to make a really detailed plan....

Instead what I realized is that what I am doing is working!

The commitment to show up and do some kind of creative dream alchemy meditation and some journaling, every day (ISH)...

Coupled with the weekly Dream Status Report where I reflect on how things are going and listen to my dreams about it...

Coupled with the monthly New Moon Intention Setting where I really look at what is needed for the next month...

Also coupled with a new thing I added where I do a project check-in once a week, to list the things I am doing, check in with how that's feeling for me and what the project needs...

All this together adds up to me feeling like I am HOLDING ALL OF my dreams really sturdily and focusing on doing the things that feel most important each week.

I do trust this loose kind of plan to get me to where I want to be especially because I am checking in with ALL projects every week, so nothing gets left behind.

How about you? If you're doing this with me I'd love to hear how it's going - please share in the forum.

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 can’t find the magic if you won’t jump into the mess [Dream Status Report]

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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.... this is where your dream becomes REALITY. This is where you stop and notice: How am I showing up? Is this working for me? What else might be needed? This is where we figure things out!! There is so much we can learn by witnessing our own process.

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. Do this with me!!

*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!

My Dream Status report feels so vulnerable this week.

I put myself out there in a new way this week. I started the "Outfit Of The Day" videos on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

I felt so sure about it going in, and then after a few days had a HUGE vulnerability hangover, which I had a lot of resistance to really feeling because I was telling myself I shouldn’t feel this way because I have so much experience putting myself out there and being vulnerable, so why is it hard now? Get over it!

Which is NEVER a helpful way to speak to our inner selves, and actual in the moment feelings.

And I know that!

But I really wrestled with my feelings, all around. This really stirred up SO MUCH RESISTANCE to everything. I am just IN A MOOD.

At one point I decided to "STITCH AND BITCH"

A REALLY GOOD decision I made this year is that when things feels hard, to step back from them, and do some embroidery. The simple repetitive hand motions and creative satisfaction of watching a piece come together are really helpful in those moments. So I added embroidery to my Un-Sticking Station work.

And since I was doing that, I decided to turn on my video camera and talk about what was on my mind while I stitched. I enjoyed doing this, it felt kind of energizing, and I felt good about putting it out there. I knew it wouldn't get a lot of views, but I just wanted to put it out there.

But I will come bak to the "low views" thing right away...

The thing that is really staying with me from our Co-Dreaming call on Friday is the idea of taking the LITTLEST step in and how that puts you into the process and then once you are in the process so much becomes possible!

So I don’t need to figure out how to get myself ALL THE WAY TO WHERE I WANT TO BE.

I just need to find the smallest thing I can to do get into the process.

Which is exactly what I saw about how Creative Dream Alchemy works, but there are times when it is hard to trust that. When we want to figure out the whole freaking path before we step into the process because it’s too vulnerable otherwise.

So - lots of vulnerability this week. Also, irritability. And ALL OF THE RESISTANCE.

Coming back to the "low views on my stitch + bitch video this week".... I followed through on my creative inspiration and that MATTERS.

IT! MATTERS! MORE! THAN! VIEWS!

We have to value the inner work and the creative process and the growth and transformation and healing along the way MORE than we value the outer outcomes.

If you only do a thing focused on the outer outcomes you MISS OUT ON THE MAGIC. You keep yourself OUT of that alchemical process... which always brings you exactly the healing + magic you need in the moment.

Because I did it, and trusted my inner feelings and experience about it, I put myself IN PROCESS. There is lots I could do with this idea, there are lots of different outcomes I can turn into goals and work towards achieving. There are lots of possibilities there that wouldn't be there if I had just shut down the idea because it "wouldn't get views".

At the same time: of course you don't have to put every idea out there in a public way. I tend to do more of that because I am a mentor! I want people to see me fail as much as succeed because that's the reality of how you get to a place where your dreams can HOLD you.

It ALWAYS brings you the healing + magic you need in the moment.

The vulnerability hangover and irritability and HUGE MOUNTAINS of resistance I felt this week actually were the healing + magic I needed.

I needed to sit with some hard stuff. To let some feelings have space.

Some parts of the process are hard. I'm still in that part.

Last week's update was about how I felt like "I have my life together"

It makes sense. I felt on top of things - that's when we tend to feel ready for a challenge.

So I want into new terrain both in the Outer Work and the Inner Work and it felt like a mess.

I'll get back to that place of feeling like I have it together.

Then I will leap into the next mess.

Before I go - how are you doing with the Spring Cleaning plan making?

We are taking June to come up with a plan for how we want to HOLD ONTO OUR DREAMS for the rest of the year. We want to make space in our lives for the things that matter and bring us joy!

If anything feels stuck - send me an email or post on the forum! Let's figure this out.

And we'll explore more on the  Make Space In Your LIFE For Your Dream call this week!

This is a 90 minute healing + alchemy circle. We'll look at everything from scheduling and practicalities to alchemy healing and magic for the shifts that need to happen for you to really believe in your next dreams.

And this one is available for free for anyone!

If you're in the membership - get the details here.

If you're not in the membership - register for free here.

 

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Do a Hello Day 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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Stitch + Bitch with me… holding onto hope for a better future in this dystopia

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INTERNAL RESISTANCE has always been a part of Creative Dreaming. It seems like we'll always have parts of us who want to sabotage our dreams and hide under the covers.

But these days the resistance seems to team up with the heaviness and overwhelm about everything that's happening and it's a lot more work to get through it. I see this in myself and in the people I work with.

So I continue to explore... how do we keep creative dreaming in a dystopia? How do we keep making space for hope for a better future for everyone?

One of the things I do, for myself, on the really bad days, when I can (ie when I don't have really pressing things to do) is I embroider. The simple repetitive hand movement and creative satisfaction are really grounding and help bring me back to center.

Today I decided to turn on my camera and talk about what's on my mind as I did this... and then after I finished recording I realized - this is a STITCH N BITCH! lol!

So I invite you to pick up a creative project and join me:

If you're reading this in email - the video is here.

Membership members: here are our tools for resistance:

For When You're In Resistance

Un-Sticking Station maybe especially For When You're Freaking Out + Can't Do This

For When You're Avoiding The Un-Sticking Station

Hope Alchemy Meditation

Hopelessness Alchemy Meditation

Hello Day Energy Clearing + Intention Setting

 

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Sometimes Dream Work is Grief Work

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After all that time of getting into a new routine of starting each day with a walk, today I just… don’t want to walk. I thought of how gorgeous the river trails are, and how it’s a 15 minute walk just to get to them, so 30 minutes to go there and back, leaving me with little time to be ON the river trails until I want to walk all morning…

So I went for a bike ride, so I could spend more time on those paths.

This brought up SO MUCH GRIEF for all the ways the world has changed.

Because one thing I have noticed since 2022 is that drivers are more distracted and impatient than ever, and then each year they are even MORE distracted and impatient. This is a deadly combination for cyclists.

So, I think of how I used to set out and just… be in the magic of cycling. I was careful, I was paying attention, but I didn’t have to be ON GUARD the way I am now, while driving in bike lanes on streets.

Once I get to a bike trail off the roads of course the magic is still there. But while on roads it’s impossible to ignore the way the world has changed and the impact it’s had on us. All of my friends who ride bikes have noticed this.

There are also more people living on the street every year. When the pandemic hit in 2020 we’d had 8 years of conservative governments here, who kept cutting away at social services, and people were falling through the cracks. And sometimes it takes a few years to see the full impact but here we are now. Most of my favourite bike paths along the river have tent cities on them.

So there is all of that grief for living in a world where we don't take care of each other.

This morning I checked the forum before I went out and there was a question about practices to help a person figure out what their new dreams are.

Which is a question that’s been coming up a lot lately and I’ve been thinking about what kind of new tools I can add to support that process and I have some good ideas but that will take a little time still.

(If you’re in that boat right now - the Dream Book 2026 program is good! It gives you space to think about what you want just this year (which is so much easier that thinking of the BIG DREAMS) and you can put “figuring out what my next dream is” as one of the things you want this year. Then the Hello Day practice is PERFECT as a practice for this, there is a lot of mindset stuff in there about getting deeper in touch with your magic and self belief and it gives you a gentle way to get into a Creative Dream Alchemy PRACTICE even before you have a dream… and once you are in process and showing up to practice - magic happens.)

But, as I was being with all of my grief about how the world is changing, I was thinking about how much GRIEVING there can be to do, in the work of finding our new dreams.

And how vulnerable this all is and how it seems to get MORE vulnerable with age and experience, not less.

Every dream or idea or thing that fell apart in your life is RIGHT THERE in that space inside you where your new dreams are. And the longer you live the more inevitable it is that are some hard feelings in there.

This work becomes more profound and more healing with age and experience and that means… it can get HARDER.

So, sometimes the work of getting at the next dream will involve a lot of grieving.

And grief is non-linear!!!!! Grief work is more about MAKING SPACE for our feelings and figuring out how to be with them and tend to all parts of ourselves in the process. We can't control the shape of the path through our grief, the way we try to control the shape of the path to our dreams (though... we don't have as much control there as we'd like either).

My marriage ended very unexpectedly (on my part). I was particularly horrified by the sensation of all of my dreams and plans for the future just... melting into nothing. I wanted a new dream to hold on to and look forward to.

For those of us who are dreamers, having a thing to dream about gives us direction. It can actually help us be more rooted in our lives. We can feel unmoored without one, as I did.

And so I wanted to find a new dream ASAP. But I wouldn't suggest this!! Some people jump too fast into a new relationship, I jumped to fast into a new dream. We're all just doing our best. But these rebound relationships and rebound dreams are a way of trying to AVOID the big feelings, and the way through is always THROUGH them.

Of course, having that new dream (in my case it was to travel in a camper with my cat Bear) did help me have a thing to focus on, it gave me something replace that horrifying blankness that was there in the space where all of my previous dreams had melted away...

But that's not the same as FACING IT HEAD ON.

It was a rebound dream.

And in time as I settled into my new life and felt grounded here, I saw that it's not something I actually want to pursue. Not now anyway.

That's fine!

I think a better decision at that time would have been to have FINDING MY NEW DREAMS be the dream, and doing the Dream Work and Inner Work on that.

Practically speaking I mean - make a Dream Book with that as the dream, and really get in there and look at what's happening there. And to face the big feelings of it all HEAD ON.

Because if FINDING MY DREAM is my dream, then I am really being with ALL of the thoughts and feelings that come up when I acknowledge that I don't know what my dream is right now.  And that can be a LOT!

So on the one hand it's very very good because when you do A LOT of Inner Work you create A LOT of shifts and new possibilities...

But at the same time, sometimes A LOT of inner work is just TOO MUCH, so going the route of grabbing onto a rebound dream makes sense too. Or just going in circles for a bit and giving all parts of you some space to breathe and process.

And in the end - it does't matter!

It doesn't matter what path you choose to navigate your dreams or which dream you focus on... it matters that you KEEP SHOWING UP.

The path is so non-linear and weird anyway. Like you can circle around a thing for a year and then suddenly everything snaps into place and it's easy to just step into the dream.

As long as you are IN PROCESS you'll work through the stuff you need to work through. The feelings that need to be processed will make themselves known. The ideas you need will come through. Clarity will find you.

None of that happens when we just... wait. All of it happens when we are IN PROCESS.

The Dream Book 2026 program is the one that helps there, you can do it without a specific "big dream" that you are making happen.

And yes that one is just for 2026, but you can absolutely still start it now!

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I have a lot figured out but I am still in process. ALWAYS. [Dream Status Report]

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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.... this is where your dream becomes REALITY. This is where you stop and notice: How am I showing up? Is this working for me? What else might be needed? This is where we figure things out!! There is so much we can learn by witnessing our own process.

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. Do this with me!!

*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!

My bedding is in the wash, I have veggies roasting in the oven, and chickpeas cooking in the instant pot, later today I am going to make some mason jar salads for dinners for this week.

I"m feeling like... I am getting my life together!

I just took a deep breath, followed it into my body, and felt my whole chest release and expand and feel LIGHT. There is this way I feel when I feel like I have my life together - like mason jar salads in the fridge, house cleaned, errands done, fresh sheets on the bed, etc.

And I have been asking myself “Hey can you just feel that way while life is in process? Can we make a little space for that?” 

I am so inspired and excited about so many things right now and keep reminding myself to BREATHE and GROUND.

Let’s hold this excited energy in a gentle way.

Which is also connected to embracing my mid-life experience, accepting I am where I am, and working WITH my energy as it now instead of trying to figure out how to coerce my energy into being what it used to be so I can live the way I used to live, you know? There is a lot of MAGIC and POWER I have now that I didn’t have 10 years ago but I can only access it if I am living in tune with who I am now. 

As I reflect on my week I see: I am figuring a lot of stuff out AND I am in process. Always.

Earlier this year it felt like I was dragging my tasks and projects and ideas from one week to the next with little progress.

Now it's like every week more pieces come together, and more new pieces are revealed.

The thing is to TRUST THE PROCESS and KEEP SHOWING UP when you're in that little visible progress phase. Quitting at that point can do a lot of damage to vulnerable dream seeds that are just starting to sprout.

Triangle Dream Compass

Remember the ALCHEMY of it all.

When we feel like we're not making any progress that usually just means we're not making measurable OUTER WORK progress. But incubating is a big step where you can't really see what's happening while it's happening. And alchemy works in mysterious ways.

And if you want to get there faster - GO DEEPER. Which means: go deeper into the Inner Work OR Dream Work. (Membership members - click those links! They lead to the Creative Dream Alchemy libraries of tools. Pick ANYTHING that feels appropriate for where you're at. Doing ANYTHING is always a bazillion times better than waiting to figure out "what's the right thing to do")

So - my Outer Work is really coming together and ideas are expanding and I feel energized and excited... BECAUSE I spent a lot of time going deeper into the Dream Work mostly, and Inner Work when I felt stuck.

I'm starting a new thing this week!

There's a thing on social media called OOTD - Outfit Of The Day. People just make a video sharing their outfit and talking about it.

Making my own clothes was a huge lifelong dream of mine and now that I am fully IN IT,  with a wardrobe that is 99% hand-made, and making more stuff all the time - this feels really fun to share.

AND creates a container to talk about self-expression, dreams, self care, authenticity, self doubt, healing, becoming the version of you that you know you really are on the inside even when you also feel afraid....

You know, everything we do here!

I did start this work by doing workshops, healing circles and spiritual counselling 100% IN PERSON, about a million years ago. Then in 2008 I started blogging and making videos and in 2011 I went full time with this internet business. So... I know how to share my work online... AND... how to share things online IN A WAY THAT THEY ARE SEEN BY PEOPLE is NOT the same in 2026 as it was in 2011.

The things that helped me get to where I am don't help at all now.

I keep experimenting with ways to show up on social media to create visibility for my work. Most of these experiments are just showing me more about what DOESN'T work but that's a good thing to learn too!

And right now these OOTD videos feel like an amazing idea to try next and I am excited about it. Like I feel like I am FINDING MY VOICE in 2026's social media landscape, as a 52 year old.

I am hoping to share my first one later today. We'll see how it goes, lol.

I'll share these on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

Before I go - how are you doing with the Spring Cleaning plan making?

We are taking June to come up with a plan for how we want to HOLD ONTO OUR DREAMS for the rest of the year. We want to make space in our lives for the things that matter and bring us joy!

And we'll explore more on the  Make Space In Your LIFE For Your Dream call next week!

This is a 90 minute healing + alchemy circle. We'll look at everything from scheduling and practicalities to alchemy healing and magic.

And this one is available for free for anyone!

If you're in the membership - get the details here.

If you're not in the membership - register for free here.

 

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My dream for this year is not possible but it is ALIVE, TRIPPY and full of things to heal and teach me.

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I did not sleep well last night.

I kept waking up, my mind wouldn’t stop racing… but in a good way. I am SO excited about the projects I am working on. I feel so LIT UP with creativity and inspiration. This feels so different from when I can’t sleep because of perimenopause, though ether way I am still really tired the next day.

We unearthed so much in the Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams session. It’s like spring cleaning, some parts of the process are UGH you’re just making a bigger mess than you started with but then you end up so glad you did it.

I had a dream for this year that I have realized/accepted is NOT possible.

The timing doesn’t work. It can’t happen this year. But maybe next year?

Because our dreams are so vulnerable, this kind of thing can stir up a LOT of feelings and those feelings can trigger even deeper feelings and we can decide to just abandon dreaming completely as the solution to all of the feels.

It’s not a solution.

Abandoning our dreams turns down the volume on the discomfort temporarily but it pushes everything deeper down inside you. It doesn’t heal or solve anything, it just masks it.

What heals and solves is to stay in the process.

So, my big dream for this year is not possible. After I can sit with the little volcano of feelings that erupt in response to that, I can see:

Dreams are so TRIPPY and ALIVE though. 

It’s like the soul of this dream is liquid… the magic of it seeps out everywhere to offer it's medicine to everything it touches.

Some of my other dreams of this year are MORE ALIVE. The creativity and joy and meaning of this dream has seeped out and it’s everywhere. Some of my other dreams for this year are SPARKLING and SHINING. Some dreams I didn’t have in January, I have now. I am failing to implement some of my plans... but I also holding onto the essence of them and finding different ways to get there.

When you are dreaming WITH creativity and soul, the path will always be non-linear.

Whatever you imagine “non-linear” means, it’s going to be at least eight times LESS linear than that. It’s going to be WEIRD and also DEEPLY HEALING in ways you can’t anticipate.

During the alchemy meditation on yesterday’s Co-Dreaming call, my dream came to me and said “Girl! That dream isn’t even impossible for this year. Just do this…” and showed me exactly how I could still get there on time… but then it said you CAN do that IF it’s that important to you. My dream also reminded me of all the other things I have going on, all the ways I feel a million times more alive and inspired today than I did in January, and said… maybe pushing yourself to hit that goal THIS YEAR isn’t the right move.

Yes, my the SOUL OF MY DREAM referred to this DREAM I have for 2026 as a GOAL. Interesting.

The soul of my dream also showed me how this particular dream is NESTED with other dreams and that it’s the big encompassing nest that matters, and the dreams inside it are the details. And that I have actually moved towards that larger nest of a dream in different ways, and it feels pretty solid. Like I WILL DO THIS. It’s just a matter of time.

When I see that, I look back at this goal for 2026 and I can see that setting that intention in January, and HOLDING ONTO IT even though I can’t physically make it happen this year, helped move me in a good direction.

This feels like SUCCESS. 

AND it feels true that… I don’t want to do the work this dream will take RIGHT NOW to get it done by the end of this year.

I think I may want to do that work this winter. 

But some other projects feel more alive RIGHT NOW. 

This feels like the right decision.

At the end of the Spring Clean for your Creative Dreams I talked about taking the month of June to figure out your plan for the rest of the year. Some of your planning might look like this. Tabling some dreams. Choosing which dreams to have in the forefront. Being realistic about your capacity. Making space for new dreams. Re-categorizing dreams in your own mind. Making some nests? This is the process.

If you’re in the membership and weren’t at the Co-Dreaming call yesterday - watch the replay this weekend! We had powerful and profound conversations about all of this - tabling dreams and having them come back to you, holding onto dreams for decades through thick and thin, how deeply healing it is to keep coming back to the soul of the dream.

This conversation will help you with your Dream Plans for the rest of 2026.

 

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The answers, when they come, come out of NOWHERE

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I finished my post yesterday with: Your dreams needs your PRESENCE and that includes being present with the hard parts and the questions and all of it.

This morning I received the most amazing answer to this incredibly hard question I've been sitting with for a very loooooong time.

STAYING PRESENT in the process of bringing a dream to life is so wild because it's not only non-linear it's multi-dimensional.

You are healing, growing, breakthrough-ing and creating emotionally, spiritually, mentally and out in the world all at once. You are healing past selves to change future timelines while staying present in the present.

The path you take to get to the dream only ever makes sense in hindsight.

As long as you keep showing up, keep sitting with and HONOURING the questions and ideas and obstacles... all of the stuff of Creative Dreaming...

Remember this page from the YOU ARE THE MAGIC Guided Journal:

(which you can get for free here, or if you're reading this in an email it's at the top of your email or if you're in the membership it's here)

The stuff of creative dreaming

The work is to hold onto the dream WHILE all of the Stuff of Creative Dreaming orbits it... so we also have to hold all of the stuff.

A daily-ish Creative Dream Alchemy meditation and journaling practice is the best way to do this. It MAKES SPACE for all of this stuff while also helping you root deeper and deeper into your magic and medicine, via soul and creativity.

When you are doing this - magic happens. Answers come. But they hardly ever come how you expect them to.

So today I had a new idea just fly in that is both SO unexpected and also SO perfect it's like... WTF?!?!?!

How did I not see this before?

And also, how did I come up with such a great idea? Like where did it come from?

Like I am just sitting here getting my day started and suddenly this genius idea floats in that actually is the perfect answer to several of my hard questions...

These incredible genius perfect ideas do exist. They are always there.

But we almost always have to stop looking OUTSIDE so much, and make more space for what's happening inside, which makes space for that GENIUS IDEA to make it's way through to the surface where you can see it.

The answers come when you STAY IN THE PROCESS so please keep showing up.

For members, at the bottom of my posts are links to ways to get support to stay in the process. If you can't pick one - do the Dream Lab.

And you can email me any time, let me know where you're at, and I can make suggestions of what kinds of things to do for your practice.

Co-Dreaming Co-Working Call Today

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

We'll start with a 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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Doing the Inner Work on “getting distracted for no reason”

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I was quite surprised to find out that it’s Thursday today! I have been deep in the creative process this week.

I am working on the Make Space In Your Life For Your DREAM call which started out being a part updating the Dream Plan Kit.... and is growing and expanding and becoming sometimes that feels much bigger than coming up with a plan...

The reasons WHY it can be hard to fit your dream into your life exist in the Dream Work (the soul work of becoming that version of you who does this thing)...

AND in the Inner Work (the healing work of facing the places in you that would hold back or not believe in yourself)...

AND in the Outer Work (the practical considerations)...

All at the same time. So stuff is colliding there and it's hard to know what is actually happening.... while your brain is trying to figure it all out in a linear way when this is NOT a linear process but how do you map out a non-linear process...

And then your internal resistance comes into play, and it shows up in all sorts of costumes, distracting you from what it really is until your dreams seem impossible.

But they're not.

And I want to put this part in all caps: YOU DESERVE THE HEALING, MAGIC + FULFILLMENT THAT YOUR DREAM HAS TO OFFER YOU.

You deserve to have that right now.

So as I have set out to create this class to help us all have more of this… it keeps growing. Deepening.

All week I've been in this expansive place with it, brainstorming and writing and exploring and now today… I don’t know what to do next.

When this happens I start to get distracted… I keep bringing myself back to this project and then I keep finding I am focusing somewhere else. This whole morning has been a "battle between distraction vs focus".

So, I am using the Un-Sticking Station process to call in the soul of this project to explore what’s going on in my relationship with it and why I am not able to stay focused.

This is what happened in the meditation:

The soul of the project shows up as a HUGE pack of seeds and there are flies buzzing around it, like NOT in a good way.

But as the project was coming into view, it was like a 7 storey building that “landed” in front of me, when I first saw that it was a HUGE seed packet I was all “Oh yay!”.

I felt how excited I am about the seeds this project can plant. I felt so hopeful. This felt so vulnerable.

By the time the full seed packet had landed and the flies were there and it was like… well this was a pack of seeds and now it’s a pile of shit? Like, what?

I sit with this. What’s going on?

Then I see - not it’s not a pile of shit, of course. My own fears and how scary it is to be vulnerable in this world as it is now, are the “shit” in this scenario.

Creating a 7 storey tall pack of seeds - things to plant to grow a better future - does feel delusional, given the state of the world.

And it feels like exactly the thing I want to do and exactly the thing the Creative Dream Incubator NEEDS to do. 

I zoom my attention in on the flies. What’s happening there?

Close up, the flies look more zombies. Their eyes look dead, they are not focused, they are just buzzing around. It feels like… being on autopilot. This is not a new fear sparked, not something with any life to it, this is an engrained way of responding to the terror of vulnerability.

I pour out some honey and the flies buzz over to it.

Now it’s just me and the seed packet WITHOUT my engrained terrified response to the vulnerability of doing my creative/soul work out loud where other people can see it and call me delusional…

And here it is… this feeling come back that I had earlier this week when I was working on this….

A sense that it’s bigger than I think.

Like a seed packet showing up the size of a 7 storey building. That’s how much MORE this project is from what I thought it was when I started.

This can really PLANT POSSIBILITIES.

This can really DO SOMETHING.

This can really HOLD SPACE for more people to hold onto more dreams. Which in turn HOLDS SPACE for more magic to come out of each of those dreams.

This is a lot.

And I am absolutely grounded enough and ready to hold it and create and offer it...

As long as I stay out of my engrained responses to things…. and stay present with what my dreams are calling me towards.

So I just sit with this a while.

Savouring the sensation of feeling grounded and strong enough to hold this. The sensation of HAVING THE CAPACITY and TRUSTING MYSELF.

I look over at the flies and they are really happy with that honey so I pour more out to keep them distracted for longer.

And now I know what to next on this project….

++++++

I say this all the time and I will keep saying it.

As soon as you feel stuck, or not sure what to do, or just like me today - finding yourself getting easily distracted and not knowing why - do the Inner Work.

GET IN THERE. Explore it.

Your dreams needs your PRESENCE and that includes being present with the hard parts and the questions and all of it.

Make More Space In Your LIFE For Your DREAM Healing + Alchemy Circle Live on Zoom July 3 1:00 pm Central

WIL BE FREE TO ATTEND!

And the replay will be available for free outside of the membership… but only for 3 days. (The replay will stay in the membership, as a part of the Dream Plan Kit)

Membership members: get the call details here. You are already registered.

Everyone else: register here. You do need to register to get access to this one even if you are already signed up for my emails.

 

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New Free Class: Make More Space In Your LIFE For Your DREAM

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Last week I shared the new Make Space In Your LIFE for Your DREAMS class which I was adding to the membership. Today I am letting you know that this class is actually going to be free for anyone to attend! And the replay will be available for free for 3 days after.

This is a 90 minute healing + alchemy circle for doing this deep work. We’re going to explore this from all angles, from the practical scheduling stuff to the healing and transformation that will help you find unexpected ways to bring more JOY, HEALING and FULFILMENT into your life right now.

Even if you are signed up for my emails, you need to register for access to this one. You can register here or read on to find out more about why I made this change.

(Membership members: you are already registered!)

I am LOVING my new morning routine.

Yesterday I started my day with a walk around the neighborhood and then a meeting with the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator (from the Hello Day meditations)

This is RELLY working for me - I have so much more energy + clarity and am in such a good mood lately because I feel like I am HOLDING everything, I am not overwhelmed by trying to juggle too many things.

In the meditation, I had time, with the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator, to look at everything we have going on AND to consider the day I have ahead of me - lots of disruption with a call in the afternoon and some NOISY yard work being done - sidewalks being broken up and replaced - the kind of day that doesn’t lend itself to deep work.

Having a DAILY meeting with the soul of my dreams and the soul of my business means we can better adjust to what’s happening and I don’t end up as frustrated as I used to, when life throws me inevitable curveballs.

(If your dream doesn't include a business this works just as well with just meeting the soul of your dream! If your dream does include a business it's best to include both in your daily meetings.)

Today the Creative Dream Incubator said: focus on this one project. It’s all lit up, the energy is here.

And I’m so embarrassed to share that I had forgotten all about this project!  Like, that’s just what Monday mornings are like for me in mid-life, it takes some time to get back into the swing of things...

And then, with the directive to focus on this one project, looking at what’s happening in my day…. I saw the best way to start my day....

Cook beans! lol!

But taking good care of myself is vital. And I like how it feels to cook most of my food from scratch. And I like having a jar beans ready to go in the fridge, and more waiting for me in the freezer.

First: I thought about my project and did some journaling and planning for it. I even did a few “action steps” for it.

Then: I started chopping veggies for this dish I made up from mashing together a bunch of different recipes, which I call Smoky BBQ Molasses Baked Beans which includes a bunch of veggies…. while thinking more about my project. And lots of details did come into place while I was chopping and getting everything into the Instant Pot.

When it comes to Creative Dreaming, we can get a lot of stuff figured out while doing other things, when we stay present and intentional about our days. This is one of the ways that we can actually do more than we think we can, by giving our dreams this space to INCUBATE. By allowing our dreams to be a part of our days in ways that fit.

Your dream IS a part of your life because it IS a part of you.

Your dream is a sacred part of you. This is your visionary self! Connected to your soul. And your creativity. And your most authentic self. 

To live severed from these parts of you is harmful. To be severed from ANY part of you is harmful! We are meant to be whole.

But everything about dominant culture is encouraging that disconnection. And then it gets really hard to see how it can work, how to fit it all in.

It's really easy to think that pursuing a dream, on top of an already full life, just means working harder.

But that's not true. Pursuing a dream means pursuing your HEALING and GROWTH and MAGIC and CREATIVITY. It's generative and giving.

This is why we need draw on the power of MAGIC and ALCHEMY, alongside our practical approaches to how we manage our lives and our dreams.

So the PROJECT I was thinking about while making beans is: Make More Space In Your LIFE For Your DREAM Healing + Alchemy Circle Live on Zoom July 3 1:00 pm Central.

This is a part of the work I am doing to update the Dream Plan Kit in the membership…

But I realized, as I was chopping veggies, that this one needs to be offered for free, too. We ALL need this. URGENTLY.

I think this is what the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator was asking me to see in my meditation, and I just needed a little time before I could see it.

So:

Make More Space In Your LIFE For Your DREAM Healing + Alchemy Circle Live on Zoom July 3 1:00 pm Central

WIL BE FREE TO ATTEND!

And the replay will be available for free outside of the membership… but only for 3 days. (The replay will stay in the membership, as a part of the Dream Plan Kit)

Membership members: get the call details here. You are already registered.

Everyone else: register here. You do need to register to get access to this one even if you are already signed up for my emails.

 

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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Your dream has the medicine you need now. It’s right here for you. [Dream Status Report]

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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.... this is where your dream becomes REALITY. This is where you stop and notice: How am I showing up? Is this working for me? What else might be needed? This is where we figure things out!! There is so much we can learn by witnessing our own process.

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!

If you don't know what to DO with your dreams, or everything feels impossible - make a commitment to do this with me weekly.

THIS is where you'll figure it out. Probably not the first time or even the second or third. But in the process of making space to show up consistently and to check in with your process with the intention of learning what it is your dreams need, you DO figure it out.

This week I am marvelling at the intensity of the MEDICINE our dreams have to offer us and how deeply we need this medicine right now. This is the stuff that helps us create a better future.

That healing, restoration, energy, upliftment - the exact thing you need right now is right there. Taking your dreams seriously means taking your SELF seriously (OMG did you listen to the conversation we had about that on the June New Moon Intention Setting call? MAGIC!)

Taking your SELF seriously means taking your MEDICINE seriously. Your dreams are showing you who you really are, what you are actually capable of and they are showing you the magic/healing/medicine that you have to offer the world.

This medicine is meant for you, first. It heals you FIRST as you take the dream seriously.

Committing to your dream NOW is an act of self healing.

As I reflect on my work with my dreams this week and things I am hearing from people in the membership - it's like this WAVE of "let's go deeper" has gone through us.

Let's make that next level commitment to ourselves and our dreams.

And I think logistically this makes sense. We're coming to the halfway point of the year. We did the big work of SPRING CLEANING OUR DREAMS and we are still doing that work.

Possibilities are sprouting up all around.

And I am really vibing with that energy right now. As I reflect on my week I am so proud of myself! And SO excited about what I want to work on next.

I love what I did with the updated Dream Plan Kit and have plans for more to add there, to create more of a supportive structure for getting to the next level of taking our inner gifts/medicine/magic and using it to create everything we want.

And, as I keep sitting with... how do we hold on to our dreams in this dystopia and even feed our dreams and lean into that magic and medicine that they have to offer because this is literally the stuff that will create a better future for everyone... my plans for the rest of this year AND 2027 in the membership are shaping up and I am SO excited.

WE! NEED! OUR! DREAMS!

Our own dreams, which come from this powerful place at the intersection to our values, our souls, our uniqueness/authenticity and our creativity, ARE THE SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM WE FACE.

Like, my dream can't heal the whole world.... OUR DREAMS can heal the whole world. Together.

We need to live from our values, souls, unique selves and creativity... this is what puts us on the path of creating a better future.

This works individually in how our dreams light up our lives, and it works collectively which means... everyone's dreams are needed. I have a lot on my mind about diversity and inclusion and how dreams are inherently anti-capitalist and there are so many different ways that our dreams are here to help, heal and grow us.

I am feeling the magic and possibility of that these days.

The Dream Status Reports, done consistently, will bring up EXACTLY the thing that you need to look at.

Sometimes you just take some time to feel proud of yourself like I am today. Sometimes you dig up something that is really hard to be with. Whatever it is, doing a weekly (or bi-weekly if once a week is too much) Dream Status Report will help you shine a light on it and better understand what you and your dreams need in this process.

I have been through a lot of MUCK this year. Or - reframe - I have CLEARED OUT a lot of muck this year.

Like, I spent the winter dreaming about which seeds to plant. I spent the spring planting and weeding and clearing things out and moving things around and getting to know the seedlings as they emerged from the soil.

And now here I am - wow! The garden is starting to bloom!

This does need a new round of planning for how to tend to everything - mature plants need different care from seedlings. But I am taking a moment to really marvel at where I'm at and give thanks.

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This magic is REAL

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Two things before we dive in:

There was a question left in the forum for people in the membership who have jobs: How do you balance working and dreaming? We’d love to hear your thoughts!

I updated the Dream Plan Kit and I am adding more to it! I’ve been sitting with the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator and it keeps feeling more and more clear that holding onto our dream is VITAL for so many reasons and it’s harder than ever and we need more support and structure. I went through the Dream Plan Kit and made some updates to make it more helpful for these times. And I”m not done! Next we’re going to do a call on SCHEDULING on July 3… Making More Space For Your Dream In Your Life.

This is a sacred promise to myself.

This message is from a New Moon Intention Setting call a little while back when my dream explained this to me. This work of practicing being intention BUT ALSO listening to the deeper parts of me about what intentions to set and practicing following through in my daily life.. this work is a sacred promise to myself.

(June's New Moon Intention Setting ritual is TODAY! Get the details here)

This magic is real.

This is your MEDICINE.

This is your real POWER and CREATIVITY.

This tremendous force lives in you.

But we tend to live disconnected from it, and live more aligned with the outer word and dominant culture, than our Big Inner Magic.

So this tremendous force lives in you along side all of these ways you conform to dominant culture’ expectations, and also alongside all of the fear and doubt and limiting beliefs you have picked up. So, the work of tapping into your magic, which is the work of truly deeply madly pursuing a dream, includes an awful lot of digging around in all of that stuff.

Which can just be so unappealing! I get it! But we are doing this in service to making more space for your MAGIC to UNFURL. It’s so WORTH IT.

I’ve been thinking about the conversations we’ve been having around BEING ACCOUNTABLE TO YOURSELF AND YOUR DREAM.

And looking at the ways that I am, and am not, really fully accountable to myself and my dreams.

I think when we say “Oh I just want to be in the moment, I don’t want to be focused on achieving things” ABOUT OUR DREAMS… I think it’s a lot more complicated than we make it out to be. I think in those moments we’re feeling like it’s a spectrum between “enjoy the moment” and “create a better future by forcing yourself to do things you don’t want to do right now and not enjoying the process one bit”.

I don’t think that spectrum exists, I think that’s a story our resistance made up to keep us from reach into our magic.

I think OF COURSE parts of us are afraid of how powerful and amazing we really are, and so they team up and create this resistance inside us.

I think we can move SO slowly and SO joyfully and SO intentionally and SO POWERFULLY that never have to choose between “enjoying the moment” and “building that big dream”.

And I think this is impossible without consistently showing up for the DREAM WORK of Creative Dreaming.

Today is our New Moon Intention Setting ritual!

So I have been looking through my journals from the last month. This last month I went much deeper into the Dream Work… and STAYED THERE. I was consistent! I had a really great routine! Everything came together! I am really proud of this. I love the way I wake up in the morning CRAVING that meditation and journaling with the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator and the soul of my dreams.

Last month, at the New Moon Call and then again at the Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams call (both of which are longer meditation + journaling practices) my dreams were asking me to stop putting the cart before the horse. And also: stop focusing so much on your goal, what about the Creative Dream Incubator’s goals? 

And I didn’t know what to do with these messages. Like what’s the cart and what’s the horse? And what are the Incubator’s goals and how are they different from mine?

But then another part of me DID KNOW. And said YES.

And I could go on for a very long time to try to explain what that means but if you’ve done those longer meditation and journaling processes with me you get it.

Energy shifts. Deeper inner wisdom is revealed.

It’s like “you” are your “surface level self” and there are a million layers of depth within you, and the depths come up to give you guidance but you all speak different languages. But there is something there, you feel it.

So no I didn’t know what to DO about it, but I did FEEL IT.

And I just… took it to my practice. Sat with it. Wrote about it in my journal. Kept inviting the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator and the soul of my dream to show me. I did the meditations consistently.

(This is also why I added the new Hello Day meditations to the membership this month, which I was planning to add more slowly over the year - I needed them now!)

And, over the course of this month, by showing up consistently and staying with the questions… I have figured out the message form last month’s New Moon Ritual. It just needed time and space to sink in.

BUT that time and space need to be… inside a Creative Dream Alchemy PRACTICE. Like - doing meditation and journaling. ACTIVE LISTENING to your dreams.

These kinds of answers do not come if we’re not sitting and listening for them. If you're not MAKING SPACE for them in some way. 

We can’t keep living our lives at the pace of late stage capitalism and really attune to our magic. 

But we don’t have abandon our lives completely. We do have obligations and all sorts of things and people we are accountable to.

What we need to do is INCLUDE YOUR DREAM IN THAT LIST. Give it top priority. Along with all of the other top priorities in your life.

Again, we’re doing a class on this on July 3: Making More Space For Your Dream In Your Life. This is happening in the membership and it would be worth it to join even just for 1 month if you're not a member 😉

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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