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“Know that you deserve joy + aliveness”

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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.

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You are not doing this wrong.

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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]

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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.... 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.

*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?

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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!

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.

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

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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!)

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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

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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.

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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)

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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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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.

*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.

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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.... 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.

*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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I am judging myself for not being ambitious enough

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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.... 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.

*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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My meditation was an aggravating mess this morning. How are you doing?

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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.... 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.

*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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Turns out I wasn’t sick! What else am I wrong about? [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.... 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.

*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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This is a sign. You’re ready.

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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.... 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.

*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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This is vulnerable AF

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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.... 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.

*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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What makes a dream seem so impossible that we call it a fantasy?

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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.... 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.

*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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