Two weeks in a row of happy Dream Status Reports!

I had another LOVELY week.

Which feels insane to say, in this world.

And is very hard earned.

Reflecting back in my Dream Status Report, I just feel so much pride and gratitude towards myself for how hard I"ve been working at all of this.

In January I let go of ALL of my routines - my self care routines, business routines, creative routines - all of it.

I'd been through so much change, and with so much change to come (Though the word tariff was not in my mind yet, I was already terrified about Trump's presidency) I feel like I need a BIG re-set.

As a highly sensitive person, habits are everything. But I knew I needed to let them all go, to find what would work better now.

And now... almost 4 months later... I have re-built and keep re-building NEW habits that fit where I am today and I am so glad I did this.

I am living in a place of deeper connection to myself, my soul, my creativity and the soul of my dream.

I AM overwhelmed by the state of the world and I am not engaging with the world in the ways I used to. I don't go out as much. I don't move as fast.

It's like - the world is so chaotic I had to go deeper into myself to not drown in it.

I remember in January sitting in my therapists office unable to stop crying about all of the suffering that Trump was about to unleash. And I thought I was further away from it than I was - when he turned his sights on Canada I froze for a while there!

I just want to say - I am not avoiding the FEELINGS of these times and I think it's important that we don't. So many healers and spiritual teachers are encouraging spiritual bypass and unconsciously clinging to your privilege to get through this and I don't want to be with them in that.

I am giving myself space to process my feelings and grieve grieve grieve and that is opening up space to be more connected to myself and my dreams.

I am OBSESSED with the Dream Lab meditation.

My dream meetings feel richer than they ever have. I feel healed each time I do it.

I am three weeks into resistance training and getting more into it each time I do it. I feel strong.

I am doing all the self care - nutrient dense meal prep, early bed times, yoga before bed, having a puzzle out, starting new embroidery projects (sitting and slow stiching is so soothing to my soul), re-decorating my living room to be the coziest nest I can imagine, drinking less coffee and more herbal tea. I AM DOING IT!

AND

Of course it feels weird to feel ok right now.

I worry I am distancing myself too much. And yet I am reaching out to people near me, I am doing what I can.

It continues to be a balancing act.

The April new moon call is today!

This is our monthly reflection + intention setting call. So good! I hope to see you there!

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

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On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts

I use these same prompts every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

This week I wrote this in my journaling and then wanted to draw it out on my iPad:

I am learning to be where I am in a way that feels delicious

I had SUCH a lovely week. I even checked off most of my to-dos!

This is after a few months of intense inner work and what felt like existential crisis on existential crisis about the state of the world.

So I am not saying - I'm just enjoying myself in the midst of the chaos and ignoring how this is impacting everyone because I, myself, still feel relatively safe.

It's more like I've really sat with it all and processed a lot and of course every day isn't a picnic but I am grounding myself so deep in the Inner Work and Dream Work that I do feel more stable in this unstable world.

I re-created the Un-Sticking Station to help us all go deeper into the Inner Work. I am now working on updating the Dream Lab to help us go deeper into the Dream Work.

And I have made A LOT of changes in the outer world just in terms of what my life looks like.

Partly being almost 51 and suddenly feeling new impacts of aging impacting me. Partly to stay in my zone of not-overwhelmed. Partly because the world is chaos.

I've slowed down in so many ways and had so much resistance to slowing down but now that I am here, accepting where I am, IT IS FUCKING DELICIOUS.

I am writing my dream status reports 2 weeks ahead of when they are posted now. So instead of doing it on Thursday so I can share Friday, I do it on Friday properly at the end of the week. And I can take all the time I want because if I don't get it scheduled today that's ok. This feels luxurious!

So, because I really wanted to, I stop mid-journaling to draw out that sentence I wrote and this feels like more delicious on top of delicious.

My dream right now is: really enjoy this day.

I think this is a dream born of all of the anxiety I've been feeling this year. Which is still a valid dream!

And really enjoying this does DOES encompass doing the things to move my goals forward with my work and creativity. But not letting productivity be the FOCUS... which off course makes productivity so much easier to achieve.

Our Co-Working/Co-Dreaming call is today.

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

I hope to see you there! If you can't make it you can always share some thoughts from your Dream Status Report in the forum.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts

I use these same printable journaling sheets every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

I just want to note that: I have been experimenting with how I write and schedule these posts. At this point, I am writing well in advance of sharing here. This is just to give me the space in my schedule I need. So sometimes what I share here may seem "out of time" with things I am saying on calls or on other blog posts.

Reflecting on this last week feels WEIRD.

I am in a kind of "where I am" "what is time" "who am I" "what is life" kind of place.

I am meditating more, connecting with the soul of my dream, my dream self and the soul of the creative dream incubator more and I feel some kind of deepening happening and I love it and I don't understand it.

I am really focused on: how do I want to feel? And then... what helps me feel this way?

And from that I got some clarity about re-decorating the loft! I keep re-arranging furniture, which is a thing I love to do. And somehow after living here for 12 years I found a NEW way that I hadn't tried before.

But the big thing this week is.... MOVEMENT!

*** PLEASE remember our no unsolicited advice guideline in the membership. While I am going in circles here, I am not asking for advice. I am trusting myself to find my way.

I know I talk about it a lot. Movement is SO important for my mental health, energy and creativity. AND I've been so overwhelmed by so many things OF COURSE I don't always have the energy to go for walks.

And I don't have the energy to go to the gym. Like - the energy it takes to be around the people at the gym is a HUGE ICK. Right now I feel like this is something I never want to do again for the rest of my life.

AND I know I would feel so much better if I was lifting weights.

So I've just been sitting with that for a while. Not pushing myself, and not avoiding my thoughts and feelings about it. Just being with it and trusting I would find my way through.

Well - I set up a resistance band exercise space in my bedroom. I created a little routine of moves I found online that mimic how I was using weight machines. And then I set a tiny goal - 3 minutes.

Just try a few of these things. You can stop any time. Let's take the tiniest possible steps to getting into a weight training routine that works for you.

And it worked! I think I did 6 minutes and it totally lifted my mood and energy and I feel like I have something to build on.

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On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts

I use these same prompts every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

I just want to note that: I have been experimenting with how I write and schedule these posts. At this point, I am writing well in advance of sharing here. This is just to give me the space in my schedule I need. This is why I am here talking about being in the process of working on the new Un-Sticking Station, but you already got it last week.

This week I am back with a video from the "Weekly Checks Ins From Creative Dreaming in a Dystopia" series this week, sharing more about how I got the ideas to create a new Un-Sticking Station and my process of actually creating them.

The short version is: With the outer world being more unstable, our Inner Work and Dream Work needs to go A LOT DEEPER to create stability.

So I re-did the Un-Sticking Station, I have slowed down the meditations we go on group calls, and will keep watching and shifting as needed to support this change.

There is SO MUCH POSSIBILITY still here for us. But we need to go deeper to find it.

One example is that I write my posts way more in advance now - it doesn't really change what I share here, it just gives me more space to be deeper in my process. What I do is write whenever I feel inspired, and then on Monday morning I go out for coffee, do a little journaling to start my week, then go over my writing from last week, and images from my journals, and put them together into posts that I schedule for the following week. So I am working 1-2 weeks in advance.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts

I use these same prompts every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

Last week I wrote this: I received so much insight and support from working with the soul of my dream more diligently and deeply this week.

So much has changed, in the world and in my life, sometimes I feel like I am starting fresh with my dreams and my business. Spending more time with the soul of my dream and the soul of my business helps me ground into all of the wisdom I have already gained in doing this work.

So, spending more time with the soul of my dream and the soul of my business is helping me be more grounded in my magic AND dream up a new future. I don't want to rush this.

Last year at one point I had this new dream, my first post-end-of-marriage dream - to get a camper van and travel with my cat. That still feels like a fun thing to do, but at the time it felt URGENT as a dream - not urgent to do right away but urgent to hold onto as my first dream as a single person.

Now, I feel like I want to go deeper and really look at what I want my life to feel and be like and that's just weird to do against this landscape of threatened annexation and increasing climate catastrophes and inflation that won't stop rising. The soul of my dream and the soul of my business are not phased by these things, and I am just so grateful to be more deeply connected to them.

When I asked what my dream needs I got this pressure in my lower belly and my dream asked me to take the pressure off. It felt like a turning of a wheel that increases pressure, like I could choose to stop turning it or turn it backwards.

I didn't know the pressure was there!

When I asked myself what I need, the answer is self care. All the basics - nutrition, sleep, movement water and then lots of meditation, journaling and art. And a DEEP RESPECT for my feelings. If I am anxious, don't get frustrated about anxiety - validate and care for it.

Also, I shared on last week's Co-Dreaming/Co-Working call that I am creating a whole new Un-Sticking Station! I've got the whole plan in place now and am so happy to get to work on it.

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On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

I started doing these as videos a few weeks ago - and that felt like the right thing to do but today everything about doing a video felt wrong 🤣.

So I am just going to share my thoughts in writing.

(Also: in exploring my feelings in the Un-Sticking Station I realized I do want to do videos when I want to go deeper into a topic, but not necessarily every week.)

Failed video aside - I have been feeling SO GOOD.

I was really focused on habits for self care and wellbeing this week AND I went really deep into Dream Work, connecting with the soul of my dream, and I was feeling so good.

One thing about living, healing, creating and dreaming in a dystopia is that it seems to be harder to hold onto good habits.

Like, what’s the point?

WELLBEING IS THE POINT!

Last weekend I really SAT WITH the heaviness and helplessness I am feeling. And asked myself: so what do I want to do? And in the end I decided I wanted to be more diligent about MOVEMENT.

And I hadn’t been getting my long walks in for [reasons] and it was hard to get back into it because [reasons] so I came up with a plan to get back into it.

After two days of 1 hour+ walking each day, I felt different.

(And I feel like I need to be SO CLEAR about this: I know this doesn’t work for everyone, and my point is not that we can survive these times with exercise. This is just what I know about my body and my self care. I share my journaling as a way of encouraging you to dig in to your situation and explore what works for you. Your way through can be totally different!)

I also started meditating more and more, going deeper into the Dream Work - and by the end of the week, that is over an hour a day too.

And I remembered the big sparkling magic of my own meditations!!

I received so much insight and support from working with the soul of my dream more diligently and deeply this week.

(It’s kind of funny that recently my focus for the week was “I don’t want to be diligent I want to be devoted” and this week was all about being diligent about the things that help me feel better.)

I feel like what’s been happening for me is that the heaviness of the world is in my body and I’ve been tired and overwhelmed and so…

I've been avoiding the DEPTH WORK of dream work and...

It’s in the depths that the magic happens, it’s in the depths that the healing happens and it’s in the depths that we find the things we need to help us in these times.

It’s a bit of a catch-22.

But we can start really small, and find the most easy-to-do thing that helps increase wellbeing, and then diligently increase it from there.

I think accepting that self care and wellbeing are harder right now is a good place to start. And being gentle with ourselves about finding ways in.

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On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

Because Creative Dreaming in dystopian times is tricky, I started making videos for my Friday posts to talk about things in more depth. I really want to encourage you to do this practice with me, it's a way of creating more stable ground to dream on, when the actual ground beneath us doesn't feel stable.

Here is this week's video (if you're reading this in email, you can get to the vide here.

Your dream is helping you be your most authentic self.

This week I did NOT get my "to dos" done but, in reflecting on that and what I am learning I realized... I am deep in the Dream Work of it. Exploring which version of me I need to be, to do this in the way I want to do this. And then looking at what that version of me needs.

This is the in-depth Dream Work that we need to do alongside the Outer Work and Inner Work.

And everything about my weekly check in pointed me to the fact that I need more INTENSE Dream Work right now, so that's where I'll be focused next week.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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

On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

This week we have a new Dream Status Report sheet - the same questions, but shrunk down so they all fit on one page! Thanks to the member who asked me about this  - great idea!

Because Creative Dreaming in dystopian times is tricky, I started making videos for my Friday posts to talk about things in more depth. I really want to encourage you to do this practice with me, it's a way of creating more stable ground to dream on, when the actual ground beneath us doesn't feel stable.

Here is this week's video (if you're reading this in email, you can get to the video here)

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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

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

On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

Last week I started a new video series where I talk about my Dream Status Report for the week. Here is this week's video:

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On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

I'm trying something new: a video talking about my Dream Status Report for the week

Co-Working + Co-Dreaming call is today!

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

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On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

I feel so grounded and calm.

Reflecting on this week, I am so grateful for the gifts of prioritizing my creative practices.

MAKING ART EVERY DAY.

Not for anything in particular, just to be in that space of making art. In my de-cluttering process I've found an embarrassing amount of half-finished sketchbooks, so my goal right now is just to fill them up and see what that shows me about what I want to make.

Even though the world around me became more stressful, I feel grounded and calm and this is such a gift.

I'm feeling confident about my creative dreams while also feeling like I am happy to move SLOWLY with them.

Co-Working + Co-Dreaming call is today!

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Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

So I am now 3 weeks into "my new life" and remembering how dramatic and intense it felt when I made the decision to prioritize ART in my daily life.

Right now, it feels like I made a tiny shift, lol. I re-arranged my space. I re-organized my art stuff (well, that's in process). I have a pile of un-used and half-used sketchbooks that I am slowly filling up and I am making more time for art without pressure to turn it into anything in particular. Just to be in the process of filling pages.

But I am remembering how this felt just 3 weeks ago. The fact is, this isn't a huge change BUT it could open up other possibilities and my self doubt got activated. I actually really want those possibilities.

This week I noticed how much I have been JEALOUS seeing people on social media posting videos about MAKING THINGS. Anything! Even things I have no interest in making!

Jealousy is such a good guide. (My Creative Journal Prompts for Jealousy blog post is here)

I want to make things, and send them out to people. I have some ideas of what those things are, but I need space to experiment and I am giving myself that space and that leads to all of the "stuff" like "what if I do it and I hate it?" "will people care?" "will I find out that I actually really suck at this?" etc. All the things that stop us from pursuing new dreams.

And to have all of that on top of the stress of being in the world right now - it's a lot. Of course this feels insurmountable sometimes.

AND of course I can do this.

This week I learned: mental health is key.

Like - the things that support my mental health (which includes making more art!) have to come first or else everything falls apart.

In times of such change and chaos, good chance can come in, too!

What are changes I can make in my own routines and ways of doing things that would support me in feeling better?

Like when I sold my car. At the time, I wasn't sure if I wanted another one. It was fall and I decided to walk a lot that winter, and walking a lot in winter was sooooo good for me. Then that spring I got my bike and the rest is history. The joy I feel from walking and biking cannot be compared to the convenience of driving.

What other changes, maybe things I don't see right now, might bring me more joy?

Sitting with that.

Co-Working + Co-Dreaming call is today!

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

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

On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

So I am now 2 weeks into "my new life" and remembering how dramatic and intense it felt when I made the decision to prioritize ART in my daily life.

I wanted to re-structure my structure and routines to have more space for a creative art practice.

I know how vague that sounds! I know all about "SMART goals" lol. But this is a heart goal, listening to what my heart desires most and trying to translate that into something that I can see in my life.

I started with a very small sketchbook I found in my stash (it's 5"x8" but most of the pages had already been used) and made a commitment to fill this one book before my next therapy session on Feb 13. (My last therapy session being mostly about how afraid and stuck I felt about making this change)

I am already blowing way past that goal. My creativity is FLOWING and I am FOLLOWING and this is exactly what I wanted. Not to be creating anything in particular, just to be in an ART PRACTICE and follow it where it leads. I did hope that eventually it would lead to making things to put out into the world but I don't want to be focused on that part.

I am doing more art in my Year of Hope journal. I am filling that sketchbook, and working on a larger one too. I started painting some paper mache balls I had made a few years ago. I painted a whole freaking mural on my wall!

And I finished sewing a pair of cords. That felt a bit momentous because I have (99% of the time) only been wearing dresses for the last 10+ years. I have made leggings, but cords (which technically is a jeans pattern) is a really different beast and I love how they turned out.

I'm still figuring out how to balance the Creative Dream Incubator with my personal art practice(s).

This morning I woke up really wanting to take my laptop to a coffee shop and do "business type stuff". I still LOVE my work it's not like I want art to take over.

I am re-visting my routines and, as a person who gets a lot of stability and support from having good and steady routines, this is a little discombobulating.

AND I know I can't find my new right-fit routines without some experimentation.

Our next call, Co-Working + Co-Dreaming, is NEXT Friday, February 7.

Get the call details here.

This week we had the January New Moon Intention Setting call - get the replay here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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

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

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

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

On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

We had the Hello 2025 Blessing Ceremony last week!

To bless is to MAKE HOLY.  Which our dreams already are, but spending this time reflecting on what we want to do and then blessing it just feels so good. It creates a sturdier foundation to dream from over the new year.

You can watch the replay here here.

The Dream Blessing shifted something for me.

It was so great... but then with each new piece of clarity and inspiration that came in, some self doubt popped up to be all "Really??? You're going to do THAT?"

So I had a bumpy ride.

I went to therapy on Monday feeling sure of a big change I want to make AND being deep in despair about it not being possible.

It was an intense session and the thing I remember most is saying "I want to give myself a chance"

I think I meant a lot of things by this. Mostly - I want to give myself a chance to be the artist I know I am. But then also I want to give myself a chance to survive these times and even thrive in them.

I want to give myself a chance to stop being so overwhelmed.

I realized this week that I am BURNED OUT.

At first this felt like a revelation, like it explains so much. And then it felt ridiculous... like who ISN'T burned out right now?

AND labels are not usually helpful. Like "I am not A burnout"

I am having intense deja vu writing this, maybe I have written this before.

SO I focused on... how do I feel? What do I want? What do I NEED? Which I am always doing in some way anyway. And if I want to call it "overwhelmed" or "in burnout" or "super sensitive and introverted in a very loud overstimulating world" it doesn't matter - I had been doing all the self care things.

This feels like it could ramble on for a while but this is my point: I made some big changes to better support me in being who I want to be.

Instead of wishing I wasn't overstimulated and burned out, I am just recognizing what I need: A LOT of alone time. A LOT of creative time. A LOT of self care.

And then: I need to re-arrange my schedule and routines. The whole relationship I had with my work and how I spend my days. I want to write more in-depth about that, hopefully next week.

I have shared about how I am prioritizing art. This also means making art out of Dream Book, which has always been my intention, and I have done to some extent, but there is a way I have not been able to do it that I want to do it now.

All of this feels SO HARD to articulate. This is the nature of being in the process of change, and really listening to that inner voice. It's MY inner voice and won't necessarily make sense to anyone else.

Looking back, I see how I have been moving towards these changes for a long time. I've been reflecting, circling, exploring, experimenting and then BAM suddenly I knew what to do.

Today is our Friday Co-Dreaming + Co-Working call!

We don't have themes for these calls, they are a more casual get-together for co-working, co-dreaming, chatting, planning next week or... whatever you like! 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.

Get the call details here.

Get the calendar of upcoming calls, and links to replays of past calls, here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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

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

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

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

On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

Looking back, it actually feels like I started the new year this week.

Personally and professionally, I have some goals and some sense of how I want to approach them.

"New Year" just feels like "looking ahead" to me and I love this.

Even though I'm in a VERY quiet and hibernation-y time and really enjoying that, I love that it feels like I am putting things together.

I REALLY love HOW I am doing things right now.

I especially love the way I am holding dreams and plans.

Before "everything changed" (the way the worst of peri-menopause and the pandemic hit my life at the same time and left me so overwhelmed my brain has not been working like it used to, plus nothing in the world is like it used to be either) I was a PLANNER.

I had been exploring ways to be more flexible about how I IMPLEMENT, to give myself more space to be where I am on any given day without losing the plans completely.

Plans are important to me. They are a form of security and stability. (I know this is not true for everyone!) So, looking ahead to 2025, I feel pretty secure and stable right now. Which is fascinating to me, especially since, if all goes as planned, this is the year I will legally get divorced.

We define Creative Dream Alchemy as "meeting yourself where you are and moving towards where you want to be"

The part where I meet myself where I am feels... I don't know, deeper or more powerful or more important. Like I am giving that more SPACE. And not being all "but I have to cheer up and get to work or I'll miss my deadlines"

It's a real sense of trusting the process, and trusting myself and my creativity.

When I am on, I am ON. I can get so much done in a day when I am on... and sometimes the next day I can't really get anything done.

This is where my brain is at right now, and I am accepting this and working with it and even.... enjoying it(!) Resting, journaling, meditating, making art, sewing, going for a walk... these things are so helpful and restorative and they help create that next magical "ON day".

I've always been this way to some extent, but it's more dramatic right now and it fees like I am shifting my relationship with how I get things done and I just feel really good about it.

We have the Hello 2025 Blessing Ceremony today!

To bless is to MAKE HOLY.  Which our dreams already are, but spending this time reflecting on what we want to do and then blessing it just feels so good. It creates a sturdier foundation to dream from over the new year.

Get the call details here.

Get the calendar of upcoming calls, and links to replays of past calls, here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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

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

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

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

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