Manifest Your Dream Life

This part is boring. That’s ok, keep taking steps [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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Note: This is a post about my daily practice with my Creative Dreams - I often link to the tools, courses and processes I use which are available to Dream Book members. 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. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

🦄⚡️Creative Dream Incubator Weekly Coaching Calls start today!!

Hope to see you there - or catch the replay over the weekend! (Call details are here, the reply will be on that page a few hours after we're done.) And after the call I"ll start a thread in the forum to share your plans for the week and as a space for accountability and support.

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE:

My dream is: I want to get an RV or camper van and travel… WITH MY CAT BEAR!!!! Create a comfy cozy home on wheels, and write + make art on the road while we have adventures. AND... I have a new creative dream which I am still not ready to talk bout.

I want it because: It feels so sweet and makes me happy. And the new dream, which is more about art I want to make, feels like it will expand and energize my whole life.

When I have it I will feel: I think I will feel so happy, free and thrilled with my life.

PART TWO:

Invite the soul of your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

My dream shows up as... it feels like warm light everywhere, it feels like a healing balm.

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: Keep showing up, trust the process.

What happened in the last week?

After SUCH a stressful week last week, this week was MUCH better. Still residual stress and anxiety but much less.

There is a level of stability and consistency I need in my business, in order to pursue this traveling-with-my-cat dream, that I don't have right now. This week I took a TON of steps with that. There are so many things, in terms of the business end, marketing and sales, that I used to do that I had stopped doing since the pandemic. And now it's like - how do I want to do them now? Because I don't want to do all the same things, and some of those things don't work now anyway, so there is a lot of experimentation here and I am actually enjoying that.

(We did a Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice call where we all shared what works and what doesn't work for us, it's a really good replay to watch!)

 

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

Again, after so much stress last week, this week I am moving slow. I don't feel like I am learning a lot - I am just taking little steps at a time. Kind of a boring week.

What do I need now?

Still: focus on self care.

What does my dream need now?

That warm light kind of shimmers, it feels like my dream recognizes that this is a big shift for me, that creating the stability it needs is a BIG job, it accepts that this will take time. It's proud of me for showing up and doing the work.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Keep taking steps. I feel like I am in a bit of a boring part with my dream and that's ok. This is the work that needs to be done right now.

Dream Book members:

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

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It’s ok to feel how you feel. Keep showing up.[Weekly Dream Status Report]

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Note: This is a post about my daily practice with my Creative Dreams - I often link to the tools, courses and processes I use which are available to Dream Book members. 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. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE:

My dream is: I want to get an RV or camper van and travel… WITH MY CAT BEAR!!!! Create a comfy cozy home on wheels, and write + make art on the road while we have adventures. AND... I have a new creative dream which I am still not ready to talk bout.

I want it because: It feels so sweet and makes me happy. And the new dream, which is more about art I want to make, feels like it will expand and energize my whole life.

When I have it I will feel: I think I will feel so happy, free and thrilled with my life.

PART TWO:

Invite the soul of your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

My dream shows up as a field of flowers in outer space with stars and nebulas (?) It feels like allowing the ALIVENESS and magic and mystery of life.

I had a really stressful week with a loved one having surgery, which triggered a lot of stress from when my step-son was in the hospital for so long, and kept having life-threatening complications. I'm so grateful the surgery yesterday didn't have complications and my loved one is at home recovering. But still, it brought up A LOT of stress and my body still needs more time to process and release.

Remembering this ALIVENESS and magic and mystery feels good.

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: Take my next steps and keep taking them. Listen to myself about what I need from moment to moment.

What happened in the last week? As I said, a very stressful week. I did focus on listening to myself about what I need from moment to moment. My anxiety was REALLY high and I did a good job of taking care of myself. I did not take as many steps with my projects as I'd hoped.

But I did finish the new page for the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership! I set up the Friday coaching calls, which start next week. I took good steps!

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

I feel tired. Still anxious. Still feeling frustrated that I can't always feel exactly how I want to feel!

AND accepting my feelings, taking care of them, taking care of me.

AND I have so many things to look forward to. This weekend my Craftivism group is doing our first Craft Bombing! I made some fabric banners, people are making whatever they want, then we are getting to together to put them up in the same place. My friend is having a "high tea" birthday and I am making lavender cupcakes for it.

There is so much good in my life, so many new things opening up. Sometimes it feels like I shouldn't have sadness or anxiety or any uncomfortable feelings because things are going so well and I have so much to be grateful for, but that's not how life works.

What do I need now?

Focus on self care.

What does my dream need now?

The flowers and stars and nebulas all want to give me a hug. They want healing for me.

Healing is a function of dreaming and dreaming is a function of healing.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Remember it's all a part of it! Self care and creativity-nourishing routines and Dream Work and Inner Work and Outer work. Keep showing up, trust the process.

Dream Book 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.

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Listen to myself about what I need from moment to moment.[Weekly Dream Status Report]

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Note: This is a post about my daily practice with my Creative Dreams - I often link to the tools, courses and processes I use which are available to Dream Book members. 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. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE:

My dream is: I want to get an RV or camper van and travel… WITH MY CAT BEAR!!!! Create a comfy cozy home on wheels, and write + make art on the road while we have adventures. AND... last week I got another new dream!! More to come but YAY! I am loving the magic of being excited about a new thing.

I want it because: It feels so sweet and makes me happy. And the new dream, which is more about art I want to make, feels like it will expand and energize my whole life.

When I have it I will feel: I think I will feel so happy, free and thrilled with my life.

PART TWO:

Invite the soul of your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

My dream is a meadow of wildflowers and it says "Your dream is NOT just those things. It's the thrill and magic of being who you are. There is so much good ahead of you!"

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: Pausing before the next step, get grounded and acclimated before moving on.

What happened in the last week? This was a weird week. I think I am more grounded and acclimated and ready for my next steps, but I didn't take as many of those steps as I thought I would. Though - I write these things on Thursday mornings, and, as of the time of writing this - I do have my schedule for Thursday and Friday mostly set aside to work on taking these steps.

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

I am really tired of learning how "it takes the time it takes" but here we are, lol. But mostly I feel accepting, I am really happy about what I am moving towards, which makes it easier to access that it's not happening as fast as I would like.

Also I had an intense therapy session this week on a day that I had a big panic attack. Definitely some new lessons coming in around not trying to control the process of life, and focusing on how I am tending to myself vs trying to "improve" myself.

I've had a lot of thoughts lately about "self improvement" being such a big part of personal growth and healing - and how it shouldn't be. And I've known that for a long time, but it's SO culturally engrained in it, that it keeps seeping in.

We are wonderful. There is nothing that needs improvement in ourselves but there is LOADS that needs tending to - our dreams, our hurts, etc.

What do I need now?

Patience. To listen to myself about what I need from moment to moment.

What does my dream need now?

The wildflowers in the meadow are just kind of sparkling. It's like - they just need to live. Soak up sun and be gorgeous.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Take my next steps and keep taking them. Listen to myself about what I need from moment to moment.

 

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Oh crap I am so stuck

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I am working on a thing that is feeling SO hard.

I can’t stay with it, I keep get distracted.

As I keep bringing myself back to it I am just… YIKES.

So - into the Un-Sticking Station.

Hello Stuck.

Stuck is tension in my shoulders growing stronger by the second. I want to cry. And run around. And never, ever do this thing.

Stuck says “Let’s go shopping. We need envelopes! We can get snacks while we’re out!”

No, not right now. Right now let’s stay focused on this thing.

"We have been working on this all day, it’s time for a break."

Well that’s the thing, we haven’t really been working on it, we’ve been avoiding it.

And that's the end.

I wrote this last week and found it this week.

And it made me realize - I only share my FINISHED un-stickings here. They don't always feel complete, but they feel like a significant step was taken and I know what step to take next, like I feel SOMEWHAT un-stuck at least.

And this one is just... one realization, that I hadn't been WORKING ON the thing all day, I had been WORKING AT AVOIDING the thing all day.

And that realization was A LOT to process.

That was the only step I could take that day.

Just showing up and saying HI to your stuck is enough. It starts to disrupt it. It makes new options possible in the future.

We constantly judge our steps as TOO SMALL. But every step counts!

Come dream with us

 

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I re-arranged the whole loft. Again

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(I wrote this post on April 1)

I started having this intense feeling, once in a while, of wanting to “go upstairs to my bed”

I had moved the bedroom downstairs about 2.5 years ago, and at that time I was really happy to move my work upstairs, where it was sunnier. It felt good to have work be separate from the rest of my life.

When my husband left me in September, I did re-arrange things, while keeping work upstairs and life downstairs, and LOVED my set up all winter. And, I guess it was time to change it. Because on Easter weekend this wish to “go upstairs to my bed” was so intense I felt I HAD to do it. Right then, that day....

Take apart 2 bed frames (I had a work/nap twin size bed in my work space) and my desk, and move EVERYTHING up/down the stairs. (My sister did come over to help move the queen boxspring and mattress, which I tried but just couldn’t get up the stairs alone) I thought, since I have been lifting weights for months this will be fine.

But I am writing this the morning after, and it’s not fine, lol! I’m sure I’ll be find soon, but Ibuprofen is keeping me going this morning.

THIS FEELS MAGICAL AND HEALING.

This feels like I am starting my new life.

This loft bedroom was the reason why I got this condo. It’s a big bedroom with huge windows looking out on our courtyard with trees outside. One of the windows is a door that fully opens to let in SO MUCH fresh air. Being in there felt like being in a retreat.

So, I don’t regret my choice to move my work into the most cherished part of my home because I do love my work. It made sense, I had ALWAYS thought about it, and it was good to do it and see how it was.

The thing is, I don’t need that much space for my work. I had 2 desks and a twin size work/nap bed and lots of space to spread out on the floor since I do like working on the floor… but lately I was mostly taking my laptop and journals downstairs and working on the floor there.

I think it’s great to try things, even if they don’t end up being what you want FOREVER

I FEEL ALIVE because of making this decision and taking this action. And I think I remembering feeling this good about the choice to move my work into this room two and a half years ago.

I just want to hold onto this - doing the thing that feels right. Giving myself the things I crave.

This morning I woke up upstairs, back in my bedroom. And I just felt so happy.

I also felt SO HAPPY when I first moved the workspace upstairs.

It’s like - there is no ONE WAY. We are living growing beings and get to make new choices whenever that feels right. That’s a big part of why I wanted a loft with no interior walls, so I could re-arrange in whatever way fits my life in the moment.

Anyway, it’s spring. I am feeling the RE-BIRTH vibes. I feel alive. I feel like I have a new home and a new life and I am really excited about my future.

I’m working on adding something new to Dream Book - to make it more of a COACHING MEMBERSHIP because I think we all need more support for our creative dreams because we all deserve to feel ALIVE and EXCITED about our futures. We can create a better future for everyone. I sent out an email about this on Monday - we’re going to do a weekly coaching call on Fridays for planning, momentum and support. This will start April 26, details to come!

Come dream with us

 

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Show up however you are. Inspired, scared, anxious, afraid, motivated, unmotivated…

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For a while I’ve been feeling really good about my divorce. I was doing an acceptance practice and felt… accepting. I was enjoying all the new possibility and freedom that I have in my life. I was looking forward to my future. I’m turning 50 in May and was just feeling so excited about this new chapter in my life.

Then that all crashed. I started feeling the HUGENESS of the loss of the emotional and financial support and stability I received in my marriage and freaking out about it. Every month I’ve had BIG unexpected expenses. And my mortgage and condo fees have increased dramatically, along with the rest of the cost of living. So, in this economy, it feels harder than ever to calm that anxiety.

There are moments when it’s SO calm though. When I feel SO sure. And then there are moments when I just want to cry.

I’m so lucky that I know so much about how dreams work. I have so many examples in my mind, of all the people I have worked with, and everything they have overcome.

I have so many tools for SHOWING UP NO MATTER HOW I FEEL AND WHAT IS HAPPENING.

I have this enormous body of evidence that says: just keep showing up.

Show up anxious. Show up scared.

JUST SHOW UP.

Dream Book members - remember the Library of Inner Work Practices for ways to show up when it's hard. And email me any time for recommendations for things to use!!

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Pausing before the next big step [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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Note: This is a post about my daily practice with my Creative Dreams - I often link to the tools, courses and processes I use which are available to Dream Book members. 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. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE:

My dream is: I want to get an RV or camper van and travel… WITH MY CAT BEAR!!!! Create a comfy cozy home on wheels, and write + make art on the road while we have adventures. AND... this week I got another new dream!! More to come but YAY! I am loving the magic of being excited about a new thing.

I want it because: It feels so sweet and makes me happy. And the new dream, which is more about art I want to make, feels like it will expand and energize my whole life.

When I have it I will feel: I think I will feel so happy, free and thrilled with my life.

PART TWO:

Invite the soul of your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

I've been fighting off a cold all week and today it caught me. I'm not feeling up to this right now. I'm just going to do my best with the prompts.

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: Keep taking steps and also: How can I bring that feeling of CREATIVITY and ALIVENESS into more of what I do?

What happened in the last week? A HUGE new sense of creativity and aliveness via: I re-arranged the whole loft! I put my bedroom back upstairs, my workspace back downstairs, and I feel SO different. I got rid of a love seat and a desk and everything feels more spacious.

I was focused on one project and I feel really good about what I did there, even while not feeling my best and not making progress as quickly as I'd hoped.

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

Along with the whole-home-re-arrangement I feel like I shifted my perspective on my work. I am making a change to Dream Book - I am re-naming the membership "The Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership".

It's like when I moved my workspace upstairs - I LOVED THAT. And now it felt right to move it back downstairs and I LOVE THIS. Things change over time.

When I named the membership Dream Book - that felt right. (It had been called The Creative Dream Circle before) Now it feels right to change it.

I've noticed that some people don't even look at the Dream Book program, they just come to the live calls (or use the replays) and that's enough to get what they need. Other people JUST do Dream Book and not the calls, other people just do other programs... but in naming it Dream Book sometimes people felt like if they're not doing that program, they are not "doing it right".

I also want to add a weekly coaching call for planning and accountability and momentum. I am working on the format for it, I want it to be a bit shorter (I love our long calls but I want this one to be easy to do every week) and super helpful for people using the replay too. I want to do this on Friday afternoons, so that everyone can have a chance to watch the replay over the weekend and start the week feeling ready.

It feels like a step forward in how the Creative Dream Incubator can be the most helpful. I started the membership in 2012 because I wanted to offer a more affordable way of getting the on-going support you need for your dreams. And the longer I do this, the more I learn about it, and the better it gets.

What do I need now?

Well, I am sick. I need to rest. I HATE THIS. It's finally spring here and I want to go outside!!!

What does my dream need now?

It feels like INTENSE dream work and inner work got me to this place of clarity about my nest steps, and my dream needs a SHIT TON of outer work to make these changes happen and I am not up to it.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Instead of being frustrated, I want to see this as a PAUSE. Like taking a breath before a big step. A little time to reflect on everything. Get grounded and acclimated to where I am, before moving on.

 

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Creative Dreaming is SIMPLE

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To make any dream happen you need two things:

  1. To be clear about what the dream is.
  2. To show up, and then keep showing up.

*Note: No one is ALWAYS clear! If you’re not clear right now, go to the “I want to find my dream” section of the website

Pursuing a dream is an alchemical process.

It will heal, grow and change you.

Everything you need to make it happen you can find on the journey.

The hard part is to keep showing up. Even when we have no clue HOW to show up.

This can spark helplessness and frustration that make it feel too hard to show up, and then when you’re not showing up, no progress can happen.

This is where structure is so helpful.

I’m still doing the “I am worthy of and receptive to my dream” as a mantra most mornings before I get out of bed. (We had two calls to explore this more: Feeling worthy of your dream. Being open + receptive to your dream.)

After that, The Journal Sheet For Taking Consistent Steps really helps!

And then… you notice what would be helpful and do the little things you can see to do.

I’ve been re-building and re-organizing my whole business.

Because I switched my membership site to DREAM BOOK()! in January of 2020, I was making a lot of changes. In January of 2020 I was focused on adding content to the site and getting everyone transitioned to the Dream Book program. Then in February I was just starting to look at how I wanted my business to change, the promotional content I wanted to create, schedules, etc… and I got REALLY sick. I was sick for over three weeks and just got better when the first Covid lockdowns started.

The last four years I’ve just done whatever I needed to to keep things going. I’ve been more focused on creating coaching circles and guided journals than on the “business parts” of my business. And now it’s time to focus on the business.

So, as I work on this super-daunting task, I’ve been NOTICING WHAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.

At first I was writing a post every morning and scheduling it for the next day. Then I noticed that I wanted more SPACE. To write more when I felt more inspire to write, to write less when I felt less inspired. To have more flexibility.

So I noticed that I wanted to start writing things in advance.

Once I was writing in advance, I noticed I really wanted to be able to see the posts in a calendar. I wasn’t sure what this meant or could look like, at the time I was writing the posts right in my WordPress (the website back end).

But I kept noticing that I wanted to see them in a calendar and eventually realised I could do this in Notion, my project management app. I set up a view with a calendar, and gave each post a “post date”. I see the posts titles in the calendar and can click on them to read the whole post. I can write posts in there. I can move them around to different dates. I can click a checkbox once the post is scheduled in WordPress. I can click another checkbox once it’s posted, and that post disappears from my calendar so I am only looking at upcoming content.

Now, I don’t know how to use Notion all that well, I learned this things by trial and error and couldn’t even tell you how to set this up.

All I am ever doing is noticing what I wish was different, and the fooling around to see if I can have that thing I want.

I trial and error and make mistakes and get frustrated and eventually things fall into place.

I know I can hire someone to set things up for me, someone who understands all the options and can see how it “should” be and sometimes I have taken options like that. Right now, I like being in the mess of this approach because it tends to bring me to RIGHT FIT FOR ME solutions instead of THIS IS HOW PEOPLE DO THIS solutions.

Now, after months of “being in the mess” with this I have such a beautiful (to me) system.

Taking tiny little step after tiny little step - I have created calendars for my blog and for my email newsletters. I have lists of ideas for social media posts (those I don’t want in a calendar, I like having a bunch of ideas to grab from if I ever want to share something but don’t have a thing to share in the moment).

I have OMG SO BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED lists of future project ideas, with everything I know about the project contained within the lists.

I have business goals and maps for how to get there. I have protocols that keeps things as simple as possible.

I have a whole calendar for my ROUTINES AND RITUALS!!!!

So, when I start the day, I am not starting with “OMG what am I even doing?” the way I was so often in the last four years.

I go to the ROUTINES AND RITUALS calendar and it shows me what I am doing.

All of this to say - getting organized, in whatever way that means for you, helps you STAY IN THE PROCESS.

It makes it SO MUCH EASIER to show up, and keep showing up.

Resources:

Dream Plan Kit, Including the class on Creative Planning + Project Management 

Focus Pocus - you could use this to help you get organized, because there are SO MANY PLACES in the process of getting organized where it’s hard and uncomfortable and you’d rather just give up

Habits, Systems + Structures: there are 2 calls on this in the Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice series

Structure, Habits, Routines

Creative Genius Planning Sessions

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Letting your dream come to you instead of chasing after it.

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Letting your dream come to you instead of chasing after it.

This is a zoom call open to all Dream Book members, happening on April 9th.

When I say “zoom call” I mean it’s a cross between a healing/alchemy circle, a group coaching call and a community spellcasting.

These are powerful rituals and I should stop calling them “zoom calls”.

This topic was suggested by a Dream Book member who is looking for more EASE and I thought it was such a great idea.

I talk all the time about SHOWING UP CONSISTENTLY and DAILY PRACTICE and YOU ARE BRAVE! KEEP DOING THE HARD THINGS and that can start to feel like a slog and that’s not how I mean it.

Showing up… to chase after a dream that is outside of you and very hard to get to

Is different from:

Showing up… to meet with a dream that is very much coming to you, and wanting to be with you just as much as you want to be with it.

Remembering that your dream actually is NOT outside of you, it’s INSIDE of you, helps immensely. This is a calling. It’s already in you.

This is one of the places where we have to re-wire our brains a bit, because they take on so much cultural conditioning about how things happen.

Your dream IS real. Spiritually, it exists. Otherwise you couldn’t dream it. It’s got it’s own energy signature which you can draw on.

Yes it IS your work to do the bulk of the physical work. But your dream can be your PARTNER in that work, to make it so much easier.

And on this call we’ll do some healing work around allowing the ease and support of truly partnering with your dream so it can COME TO YOU instead of you feeling like you are chasing after it.

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Feeling CREATIVE and ALIVE [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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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. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE:

My dream is: I want to get an RV or camper van and travel… WITH MY CAT BEAR!!!! Create a comfy cozy home on wheels, and write + make art on the road while we have adventures. AND... this week I got another new dream!! More to come but YAY! I am loving the magic of being excited about a new thing.

I want it because: It feels so sweet and makes me happy. And the new dream, which is more about art I want to make, feels like it will expand and energize my whole life.

When I have it I will feel: I think I will feel so happy, free and thrilled with my life.

PART TWO:

Invite the soul of your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

I am really feeling the CLARITY TRUST AND KNOWING part of the meditation today. I feel like I am inside a sparkling crystal. And when I invite my dream in, a path unfolds in front of me. Like literally folds...like there was a box of blocks that were all connected and it rolled out, leaving this perfect path behind it.

These dream don't feel far away or like I need to cross impossible chasms, the way every other dream I've ever had felt in the beginning. Now it feels like I am building on what I have.

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: TRUST my dream. Keep showing up.

What happened in the last week? Another week that felt kind of boring, in terms of just showing up and doing the next thing. Unsticking the stucks and taking the steps.

The exciting thing is that I did find a new dream... I wrote a whole post about it I will share next week. But I am savouring the magic of feeling really inspired and excited to start down a new path.

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

I feel a bit frustrated, but I think that's more about winter coming back, after spring was here in February.

I also still feel a bit in awe of the process, of how when you SIT WITH A THING and KEEP SITTING WITH IT new ideas and possibilities emerge. I am feeling so creative and ALIVE.

What do I need now?

I am still just "sitting with" this new dream of mine, and I think I need to start taking some STEPS. There is a LOT of stuff to buy if I am committing to doing this thing, and that's where I am holding back -but I could look for a smaller way to begin.

What does my dream need now?

It reminds me of that magical unfolding path and just wants me to trust it and keep taking steps.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Keep taking steps and also: How can I bring that feeling of CREATIVITY and ALIVENESS into more of what I do?

 

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TRUST your dream. Keep showing up. [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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Note: This is a post about my daily practice with my Creative Dreams - I often link to the tools, courses and processes I use which are available to Dream Book members. 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. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE:

My dream is: I want to get an RV or camper van and travel… WITH MY CAT BEAR!!!! Create a comfy cozy home on wheels, and write + make art on the road while we have adventures.

I want it because: It feels so sweet and makes me happy.

When I have it I will feel: I think I will feel so happy, free and thrilled with my life.

PART TWO:

Invite the soul of your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

My dream shows up as a warm light in my heart. Like it's here to guide me to my best life, the one where I feel most like myself. It feels reassuring.

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: Be more intentional about being more intentional.

What happened in the last week? I played with a new start to my morning journaling - I wrote out my current goal and why I thought it was possible. And then journaled with whatever thoughts/feelings came up. This is helping me be more intentional with my goal.

It was a pretty boring week, which is good! I took steady steps towards getting to where I want to be.

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

Remembering that last week was brutal with anxiety and self doubt, just having a nice week, making steady progress towards my goal feels a bit like a miracle. I am remembering the magic of MAKING SPACE FOR IT ALL and STAYING IN THE PROCESS.

What do I need now?

Nothing new is coming to me. Just keep going!

What does my dream need now?

It says: TRUST.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

TRUST my dream. Keep showing up.

 

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Be more intentional about being more intentional [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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Note: This is a post about my daily practice with my Creative Dreams - I often link to the tools, courses and processes I use which are available to Dream Book members. 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. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE:

My dream is: I want to get an RV or camper van and travel… WITH MY CAT BEAR!!!! Create a comfy cozy home on wheels, and write + make art on the road while we have adventures.

I want it because: It feels so sweet and makes me happy.

When I have it I will feel: I think I will feel so happy, free and thrilled with my life.

PART TWO:

Invite the soul of your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

My dream shows up as this gorgeous white flower - maybe a magnolia? It’s big and beautiful and smells amazing.

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: Be more intentional about focusing on my goals. How can I make more fun + interesting to be more intentional?

What happened in the last week?

The time change really did a number on me! I was distracted and anxious… well I think the anxiety was peri-menopause. I was not focused but I was thinking a lot about intention.

I had an amazing therapy session, for the first time since my husband leaving and then his son almost dying - I did not cry once. We went deep, I wasn’t avoiding anything, I just didn’t feel sad. (Until now, even when I was feeling good in my life, I would walk into therapy and immediately start crying, which has been so healing and helpful)

I am really focused on the life I want to create now. I turn 50 in 6 weeks. I feel so ready for a while new chapter AND there are some changes I need to make and things I need to do, to give myself what I want for this new chapter.

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

I feel really accepting of having a not-so-productive week. I am remembering that growth is not linear, and last week was SUPER productive in outer stuff, this week felt more like internal growth, dreaming and acclimation time. This is all a part of it. What I mostly feel is proud of myself for how I’ve been handling everything, and excited/optimistic about my future.

What do I need now?

I started an art project, just for me, and I want more time for it. It’s not so much about the project, but about the feeling I get when I work on it - creative and free and happy. I am really feeling SPRING IS HERE and want to enjoy it.

What does my dream need now?

The flower has this kind of rainbow energy around it, I get the sense it needs to be ACTIVATED. I think this is related to the message from last week about being more intentional, and finding ways to enjoy being more intentional. My dream wants me to be more intentional about being intentional, lol.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Be more intentional about being more intentional.

 

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I am pushing myself and it’s uncomfortable

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I am pushing myself. Pushing is maybe the wrong word. I am making a BIG commitment. Like… not to something big but big as in an UNBREAKABLE commitment to myself, to do this thing consistently that I have NOT been consistent about at all…

So I am doing the thing…

And my stomach is getting all knotted up.

And I think of the life coaches online who say that this is fine. Who talk about THROWING UP from feeling so anxious about what they are doing, but pushing themselves to keep going. JUST KEEP DREAMING BIGGER! WHO CARES WHAT YOUR BODY SAYS?!?

So - no, I am not doing that.

I’m noticing my stomach knotting up, and saying “Oh, hi there, knot in my stomach.”

The knot says: I feel like this is moving too fast.

Yeah? Yeah, I can see that.

I feel like, you just made this decision this morning and now you’re already taking so many steps! Like WTF? Can we just have lunch?

Well, yeah we’re going to have lunch. But - I didn’t just make this decision suddenly this morning. Do you not see how long I’ve been thinking about this? This morning I decided to move forward, but it’s not a sudden decision.

It feels sudden.

I can totally see that. What would help you feel more comfortable with this?

I don’t want to take this step TODAY.

What would you rather do today?

I want to acknowledge we did a whole bunch of stuff today! And we can take this next step tomorrow. I want to make art. I want YOU to respect your body’s needs and capacity! We did a lot today, now let’s have lunch, make some art, rest, go to the gym later…

So you will agree to do this tomorrow?

I mean I don’t know how I’ll feel tomorrow I just know that today we took enough steps. And if you keep trying to take more steps it WILL feel like pushing beyond what your body is telling you is right and I don’t think that is the choice you want to make.

No, it’s not. But I also won’t make the choice to keep delaying this step because parts of me are uncomfortable with it. So if you get knotted up tomorrow at the thought of this, we need to have a longer discussion.

Yes, that’s fair.

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I have tried so many times. What makes this time different?

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This is something EVERYONE experiences on the path to a dream.

If you’ve never experienced it, it probably means you’re not really showing up for your dream. You’re not stretching and growing.

If you are experiencing it, you know it’s ROUGH.

Here are 2 prompts I am using to make it easier:

How do I make this time different?

How do I resolve my feelings about how this has gone in the past, and feel free to pursue this wholeheartedly, without past “failures” weighing me down?

These are the kinds of questions that need a lot of time and space to ponder. Don’t go with the first answers that come to mind.

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Remember what you used to struggle with

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For a while, I was struggling with SHOWING UP online.

I was writing a daily post in Dream Book, thinking about sharing those, or parts of them, on my public blog and/or social media, and not knowing HOW.

I started experimenting.

It was hard! Like, the inner part was hard. Wrapping my head about what I share where. And who I am writing to when I write. It is a MILLION times easier for me to write to the people inside Dream Book (these are my peeps! We are working together on this stuff! I know they get it!) than it is for me to write and put it on my blog.

EVEN THOUGH I know that the people who read my blog also get it, I know the general public is not cruising through here, still it feels fraught and that’s valid!

So. It took a while to work through stuff and now…

I love the way I am SHOWING UP online. All of those tangles are smooth.

And this morning I got all of my blogs scheduled for a week and felt like “UGH I haven’t gotten to the things I wanted to do, I was just doing the blogs”

AS THOUGH this is a small task.

Because once it’s not fraught anymore, it’s like I take for granted that I can just DO IT.

So instead I want to say “HEY THAT’S AMAZING!!! YOU DID IT GIRL!!!!!”

And it’s not just me.

Where are you discounting all the stuff you’ve worked through, and all the ways you’ve grown?

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