I'm going into my practice today thinking about how PRESENCE is the most powerful tool for transformation that we have.
For a while now, when I meet my dream, I keep getting messages around ROOTEDNESS. Be more present. Be more rooted. Relax into it. Look for ways to be more open and receptive to it.
Lots of SLOWING DOWN and BEING WITH.
The work of GETTING ROOTED is what most of us need right now to properly tend to our art and creative dreams.
So it feels obvious that anyone who is holding space for people to heal, create and grow in the world as it is today needs to be as deeply rooted as they can be... and then look for ways to go deeper.
But what seems less obvious is that PRESENCE is actually a tool for CHANGE.
Over the years I have heard, when people hear about my work "Oh that sounds nice but I'm in a place where I need to be really PRESENT, you know? Not thinking about the future or pushing and working hard, I want to just really be here and enjoy the moment"...
And I just smile and say "Well it's not for everyone" but if they asked about it, I'd say:
Your dreams are not in the future, they are here in the present.
They are in your heart and soul right now, in fact they are a sacred part of you. They are here to guide you.
(If I was being REALLY honest, I'd also say that the reason why we tend to "not want to dream" is more about being afraid of our feelings, because to be present with our DREAMS mean to be present with all parts of us, including the hard parts, and most new age/holistic wellness approaches to "being in the now" involve so much spiritual and emotional bypass that of course they can't get in touch with their dreams.)
Being "in the now" does not place you outside of time. You are still moving through life. You can move to re-create the same situations you have over and over or you can move to create new ones, but we are never actually standing still.
When you are really present with yourself, where you are, you see that this includes your dreams and when you simply MAKE SPACE for that...new possibilities emerge. You never need to leave "now" to get to a dream.
Dreams can require hard work and risks, yes. How we choose to engage with those parts of the process are 100% up to us though. We can move more slowly. We can make the work more enjoyable. We can dream up whole new ways to do things that don't feel like risk and hard work! And we can break those risks down smaller and smaller and smaller.
We NEVER need to bypass our needs, safety and preferences to make a dream happen.
That's a belief we do get from living in this culture, and, if left unquestioned, it will impact your life in a negative way.
When we're REALLY listening to ourselves, which is most of what a Creative Dream Alchemy practice is, we know when to do what and how to do it. And when we don't know - we listen some more.
A lot of what we think of as "making our dreams real" is all tied up in the capitalist dreams we get sold in this culture about what we are suppose to want and what we should be willing to give up to get it.
My work is in opposition of all of that.
Your actual dreams are in opposition to all of that.
And your PRESENCE is the most powerful tool for transformation that you have.
Last week when I was talking about how you don't have to stay calm in these troubling times... I was talking about how POWERFUL you are when you are PRESENT with reality.
Which doesn't mean being upset all the time! It does mean tending to your feelings and listening to yourself about what you need. And honouring the boundaries you know you need.
So, I am here, so grateful that my dreams keep pushing me to root in more deeply. Make more art. Meditate more. Scroll less. I even started a whole new art journal that I'll share about soon.
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I am having such a lovely weekend.
So I am kind of excited to do my Dream Status Report for this week. I do the this practice (or try to!) every week because a consistent practice of reflecting + noticing is a HUGE part of how we figure out how to get to our dreams. There is so much to learn from our own process, from looking at what happens when we get an intention and try to show up for it.
We are really in the ALCHEMY of it and allowing the healing, growth and change that our dream is calling us towards, when we do what we can to really notice and BE WITH what's happening in our own process.
As I reflect on last week and dream on next week, one question comes up:
How am I RECEIVING my dream?
What am I doing to actively BE in a receptive state?
This feels like the thing to carry with me this week.
I mean this in two ways: first literally being receptive of my dream arriving in my life.
But also being receptive to LISTENING to my dream about what it really is.
For a while now it's felt like... as the world changes our dreams will likely change too.
We need to stay open to this.
Our dreams are a creative and spiritual response to the world we live in - so as the world is changing so much, our dreams may change too.
It's easy to hold onto a dream, even when it wants to change, and to not notice how tightly you are holding on.
Am I doing that? Holding onto a dream that wants some space to change? Yes, it feels like I am in some ways but I can't quite put my finger on it.
When I REALLY sit with it...
It feels like my dreams are not quite what I think they are, and like I am trying to hold them into something smaller and more logical than they actually are.
It feels really uncomfortable to sit with this. I'd like some predictable dreams/goals to work on!
But I've been meditating on this a lot and it's getting really trippy...
What we allow ourselves to dream about and how we allow ourselves to dream about it are both HUGELY culturally informed. The part of us who makes these decisions is rooted in the world we live in.
So much of the ugly rotting roots of our culture are currently being revealed, which impacts culture itself. Culture is changing quickly.
So this creates an opening, a space where we can hear our dreams without so much of culture's influence.
For me, I am hearing this as new directions to take my art, new goals for my art, and a new sense of myself as an artist.
And it's so much weirder and bigger than what I think I want.
My dream is asking me to engage with my dreams - which means engage with my creativity and my soul and my self - in different ways than I ever have.
So if the part of me who has made these decisions about my dreams is rooted, in a particular way, in the world I live in.... what would these decisions looks like if I allowed a part of me who is more deeply rooted in soul to be in charge?
Which is not at all black + white like that. A lot of the ways we are rooted into the culture we live in are so unconscious. And a lot of the ways we are rooted into soul are also unconscious!
But if I could strip back another layer of cultural conditioning what would that mean for my dreams?
This feels important to listen to.
It's not what I had planned to be my focus for this week, but after this reflection... it feels like the thing I need to focus on this week.
So I am making space for these explorations this week, I want to do lots of Hello Day and Dream Lab meditations. I want to make art WITHOUT trying so much to decide what it is - I want to let the art tell me what it is and let me show me something new about who I am even.
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I am still thinking about all the things that were shared during our New Moon call on Tuesday ...
And about how we balance the reality of what we are facing and the reality that our dreams, creativity and healing still really matter?
Of course there is no “right way” to navigate any of this, we all need to listen to ourselves about our right way. And then keep listening.
(I had such a great discussion about this yesterday with my friend Chris Zydel from Creative Juices Arts. The LIVE aspect of it didn't go as planned, but you can watch the video here)
I’m just so grateful for the people who keep showing up to dream with me.
To meditate, reflect, journal and dream together.
To set intentions and then BE IN THE MESS of what happens as we practice holding these intentions even with everything happening in our own lives and the would at large.
And I’ve been sitting with my experience from our New Moon alchemy meditation.
It was really weird… my intention turned into an octopus, all these tentacles reaching into me and then kind of pushing ME out of me, like the octopus intention wanted to take over.
And then the tentacles started to turn into roots, rooting in.
And it was like “you need to root into who are are becoming and shed all the things that are in the way of that becoming”
Which is, in one way, what we’re always doing as we grow.
But, in another way, this felt intense on a level I haven’t experienced before.
I felt this in my body, my old self being pushed out to make room for the new.
So yesterday I drew it out in my journal and wrote about it some more, which helped me see new ways I can support this shift.
Healing/shifting is one thing. HOLDING ONTO IT so you can LIVE FROM IT is a different thing.
That’s why all of my work is about helping you stay in process, to keep practicing, and to practice more often. This is the work that roots the healing and shifts in place.
So, I am working on it. I am practicing.
Maybe I will just keep drawing this intention turning into an octopus and taking over my body, every day, until I really understand all parts of what it is asking of me.
I said recently that I want more space to BE WEIRD.
I think I am succeeding, lol.
I just want more space to really BE WITH whatever is happening in me, and express it more fully.
This intention-turned-octopus seems to have things to teach me and I want to show up to learn.
When we try to hold intentions in a more logical/linear way, when we focus on getting the outcome we want as fast as possible, we can miss out on all this healing and growth and joy that can come from being more deeply in process. Letting it get weird is so healing.
I’ve also been thinking a lot about everything that was shared on the call.
I am always looking at “what’s happening in the group” and “what are my dreams telling me” and “what is the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator telling me” about adding new stuff to the membership.
As someone said on the call "Here I am, trying to dream in a difficult world"
And I was wondering… do we need a group call on hopelessness? But now that I have thought about it- no, I don’t think so.
What we do need is a reminder that we have a 14 minute Meditation for Sitting With Hopelessness which is really great for when you’re IN IT.
And we have an Alchemy Meditation for Holding Hope In Your Body which is such a healing practice, I feel like this is what helped me put myself back together in my divorce, and create a new foundation to dream new dreams from.
There is also Hello Day: Energy clearing and checking in with yourself. This is really THE PRACTICE for these times - giving yourself space to know how you’re feeing and what you want and need. The meditation also has stuff in it for SEEDING FUTURE POSSIBILITIES FOR DREAM WORK in the times when dreaming feels like too much. That's what Dream Book 2026 is for - holding space.
Having a practice and showing up consistently means having space in that practice to be where you are.
It’s ok if you don’t feel super excited to DREAM BIG right now, it’s still worth practicing sitting with yourself, shoring up your resilience and self belief, making space for processing and healing and all of this good stuff.
This IS the work that tends the soil where new dreams will bloom.
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I am going LIVE on FACEBOOK with my friend, intuitive painting goddess Chris Zydel, today at 2:00 Central.
We’re going to talk about why your dysregulated nervous system is NOT the problem.
I am doing this from my personal Facebook account - you can send me a friend request here and I'll accept it, you can also watch the video there if we're not friends, it will be public.
We mean absolutely no shade to anyone who wants to regulate their nervous system or is out there doing good work helping others regulate!!
What we want to talk about is how “YOU NEED TO REGULATE YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM” is being used prescriptively, as though it is the ONLY answer to what is happening in the world.
It’s not.
Chris and I believe in the wisdom of our bodies, including our feelings.
And we believe in the magic and alchemy of BEING WITH WHAT IS.
If you are dysregulated - that’s your body’s wisdom. Let’s listen to it.
YES we want all the self care right now. YES we love understanding how our nervous systems work and how to help ourselves stay calm.
But we don’t go into this work with a “one size fits all” approach that says that regulated is better than dysregulated.
In the venn diagram of “existential dread” and “dreaming a better future into being”…
ALL of the magic is in the intersection.
BEING WITH what is there always includes being with dreams, magic - your real POWER to create what you feel called to create.... alongside "all the feels".
TENDING TO the existential dread and intense feelings we’re all feeling helps you be able to connect more deeply to your magic. Trying to avoid it DULLS your magic.
I think this will be a fun conversation, and the replay will be on my Facebook when we're done.
(I have a free journaling kit for existential dread! Get it here)
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Today is our New Moon Intention Setting ritual for March.
(Members: get the call details here <--- the replay will be on that page a few hours after we're done)
I've been reflecting on the intention I set last month because I didn't do it. Not just that I tried and wasn't successful... I didn't really try. I didn't DO anything with it.
And I've been wondering why.
(Members: get the zine for sitting with questions here)
That photo above, me holding my planner/journal open to a page that says THIS IS A SACRED PROMISE TO MYSELF is a reminder of what New Moon Intention Setting Ritual is all about.
This is a SACRED PROMISE we make to ourselves, to show up for ourselves.
It's not about goal setting or achieving, there is something much more important happening here, in this process of, month after month, REALLY sitting with ourselves and REALLY listening about how to navigate the next month
So, if I believe that my deepest truth was to do this particular thing this last month... why didn't I do it?
Which is a question that reduces this whole process down to black and white. You said you'd do this. You didn't do it. You failed.
Not the best question to sit with, but it's the one I had.
It opened up a few different "cans of worms" of thoughts and feelings...
And I followed all these different rabbit holes...
Just to remember the things I already knew.
It's NOT RELEVANT if you achieve your goals or not each month, the only thing that matters is that you stay in the process over time.
There is SO MUCH HAPPENING when we set intentions in this way. So many layers of inner and outer healing, shifts, growth, magic.
We have to stay in the process long enough to let the alchemy do it's thing.
And while we're in the process, we have to treat ourselves as living human beings whose needs, energy and capacity fluctuate.
And mostly: that this work is VITAL and SACRED and NEEDED right now.
I am doing exactly what my soul tells me is the right thing for me to be doing at this time.
And I am inviting others to do this work with me, to hold space for them to know and live their own truth in the same way.
The magnitude of this made me cry.
The fact that I didn't quite "hit my goal" this month felt so inconsequential in comparison.
And then I realized... it's not true that I "did nothing" with my intention this month.
I held onto it. I wrote about it every week in my Dream Status Report practice. I thought about what to do with it each week.
I INCUBATED IT.
And then this Sunday when I did my Dream Status Report practice... I actually did get an idea for HOW to do this thing.
I feel ready to do it now!
There are ways to work with intention that are helpful and ways that are NOT helpful.
It's SOOOO important that we HOLD ON to our dreams right now. It's equally important that we lower our expectations of ourselves. We can't push and over-work to get there. We can't steamroll our actual feelings to think positive about it and be confident.
We need to be IN PROCESS. In the alchemy. Letting things morph and change and heal and grow. We can HEAL, CREATE and MAGIC our way there.
We can't judge what we do or don't do in a given month - and it's not even relevant in the long term! What we need to focus on is STAYING IN THE PROCESS.
It IS helpful to dig in there and look around HONESTLY about why you didn't. Do you need more support? A different approach? To face a big fear? What would be helpful?
It's not helpful to RUSH your dreams.
It IS helpful to look at ways to give yourself the support you need to keep dreaming LONG TERM.
It doesn't matter if I accomplish this thing in 4 weeks or 4 months or 4 years.
It matters that I DON'T LET GO of it because our dreams are sacred, our dreams are showing us our path and we deserve to make space for them in our lives.
I hope to see you today on the call! Or if you work with the replay do feel free to share your thoughts in the forum.
If you're not in the membership, you can get the New Moon Intention Setting Ritual Kit to do this on your own!
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I am THINKING ABOUT my Dream Status Report for this week.
I encourage us to all do this every week or so. I try to write about mine every week to remind you to do yours!
I have a lot of resistance to doing it this week. So I've been thinking about all the reasons why I don't actually need to do it. And I can come up with lots of reasons... AND... the more I think about it the clearer it got: I was IN resistance.
There was something I didn't want to face.
The WHOLE THING about Creative Dream Alchemy is to face the thing that's actually there.
We dance in so many ways in so many circles trying to avoid the thing that's actually there. We look too far ahead of where we are and try to take those steps and end up falling flat on our faces, or we say "Oh I'm not ready for that yet" and do nothing.
All of your POWER and MAGIC are related when you face the thing that is ACTUALLY there.
AND this is a practice. It's hard.
We all avoid the things we want to avoid, and a lot of this avoidance is unconscious so it can take time, and attention and, mostly, PRACTICE.
So the thing is, to actually DO my Dream Status Report for this week, I'd have to face the thing I am avoiding.
GROAN.
I thought about this most of the day yesterday.
I've had some health problems for the last 4-5 weeks. We can't predict the future but I have every reason to believe this is temporary. It's something that I've always had, there are not a lot of treatment options. It comes and goes so I've been waiting it out.
And that's fine when it's short term.
But 4-5 weeks in, "waiting it out" starts to look like "avoiding how I feel about this disabling thing that is happening to me".
And I didn't notice when it shifted, you know?
So, to reflect HONESTLY on how last week was, in order to do my report and know what is best to focus on for this coming week... I would have to include ALL of what happened last week which would include the health problems and how they impacted things which would have to include how I feel about them.
This slowly dawned on me over the course of the day yesterday.
ASIDE: This is what I mean by how POWERFUL and TRANSFORMATIVE this kind of practice is. It directs your thinking to what needs thinking on and helps create space for the breakthroughs you need. I would not have kept exploring this thing so deeply if I didn't have the consistent Dream Status Report Practice within the Creative Dream Alchemy Practice. These structures HOLD SPACE for your process.
Suddenly I felt like I was sitting on layers of calcified feelings.
And I could no longer sit on top, I need to BE IN THEM. I sunk into all of the sadness and frustration and fear about what's happening with my body.
I panicked. I cried.
And then I started to feel lighter.
It was like I could feel the ground beneath me again.
That all these feelings had been gathering, collecting, building underneath me. Kind of forming a block between me and.... well, me.
It was so HONOURING OF MYSELF to acknowledge all of these layers of feelings. It helped me come back to myself.
And I hadn't noticed how this accumulation of unfelt feelings was impacting my vision.
So often I say, about all of the things I teach, it doesn't matter that you "do the thing" perfectly or answer the prompt in a linear way. It matters that you dive in and be with what is there.
So, "working on my Dream Status Report for this week" looked like noticing my resistance to it, thinking about why it might be there, circling it for a bit, then finally noticing all these unfelt feelings, feeling them, and re-connecting to myself.
No I haven't even looked at the prompts yet, lol.
But this has been SOOOOO helpful already.
And yes - now I will make anther cup of coffee, sit down with my Dream Book 2026 planner/dreamer and do my prompts.
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I love this new imagery I found to describe creative dreaming, the dream as a ball of light and the stuff of creative dreaming orbiting it.
(This is from the updated YOU ARE THE MAGIC guide + journal from the new class on Creative Dream Alchemy) (Members can get it here, everyone can get it here)
Like how the moon is a part of the earth, these things are just a part of it. They are connected.
We don't need to judge any of the things, we just recognize that they are there. This is the STUFF of Creative Dreaming. We learn to work with it by PRACTICING Creative Dreaming. And then we keep practicing to go deeper.
Some things are in slow orbit, they can seem gone but they’ll probably be back.
It’s always changing - in terms of which parts are right there in sight when you pick it up.
Also, all of this is happening inside the alchemy so the stuff can change as it orbits.
All of our work is about really listening to what happens inside us when we hold our dream. What comes up? That's the next thing to be with.
(I lead you through this in the Creative Dream Alchemy Meditation that comes with the new course! Try it this weekend!)
Today, as I pick up my ball of light, I feel roots growing out of my feet.
Growing SOOOOO SLOWLY.
Which also feels like… I need to give myself more support for the rooting.
It feels like… I’ve been in process with many things that are coming to fruition and/or moving to “next levels” and it makes sense that I need some time to acclimate to being where I am. I need to get rooted.
Someone shared a similar thing in the forum in the membership this week, about taking some significant steps into the new life they’d been creating, and then, while reflecting in their weekly Dream Status Report, noticing how they didn’t actually feel rooted in their new life… and that maybe there were places they were bringing their old “ways of being” into the new life, and that they had hoped to leave some of those things in the old life.
And I thought “Oh wow, same”
This is such a common thing. We do the outer work to create a new thing, we step into our new life but then… where is our new inner self?
IT TAKES TIME to acclimate to our live lives, it takes time to acclimate to any change, even when it’s a wanted change that we worked hard to create.
It reminded me of a dream I had while I was still in the divorce process.
One thing I started doing immediately when my marriage ended was sewing. I made myself so many nice things for my new life. One of them being a gorgeous sexy nightgown. With a sewn in super comfy soft bralette. It was soooo comfy and I felt so alive wearing it.
So, in my dream, I went into my kitchen in the morning to make coffee, wearing the sexy nightgown. It took me a new minutes to realize… all three of my step-kids were there. They were relaxed on the couches, on their devices, not noticing me, so I just put a cardigan on over my nightgown and just felt a little exposed and weird.
Then I looked at my one step-son, who in real life does do a lot of lucid dreaming, and he looked me in the eye and started telepathically communicating with me “NONE OF THIS IS REAL! NONE OF US ARE ACTUALLY HERE! WTF?!”
And then I heard the water running upstairs and thought my husband must be having a shower.
And then I was like… wait… am I still married? Am I back in my old life? But in my new nightgown?
It really described how it feels to step into your new life and how it takes time for your inner self to catch up with your new outer life.
So what helps?
Practicing the Dream Work of connecting/attuning to the soul of your dream, and sometimes Inner Work for processing and releasing the stuff you want to get of.
Creative Dream Alchemy process for Acclimating to your dream
Releasing Ceremony for letting go of the stuff you don’t want to bring with you
And mostly… keep dreaming. Keep holding the dream and being with the things that show up.
I spent 5 minutes today feeling into those roots. Noticing the sensation of ROOTEDNESS in my body.
I am also LISTENING TO WHAT HAPPENED as I did that, which was a feeling that I need to slow down in the Outer Work.
So I am slowing down.
Co-Dreaming/Co-Working 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.
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These times are stretching, pulling, pushing and calling us in all sorts of ways.
I think it's important that we stay away from prescriptive "everyone has to ______" ways of seeing it... and listen more deeply to our own selves about what we need.
My creative callings are getting a lot louder. My soul's wish for me to be deeper in my healing/growth process is also louder. I see so many ways for these to coincide and I am excited to explore that.
One thing I wanted to do was to re-create the Creative Dream Alchemy course and the You Are The Magic guide + journal for creative dreaming. I wanted to explain the Creative Dream Alchemy framework in a clearer way, since the content I had created for that in 2019 kind of felt stale in 2026. And I wanted to offer both of them for free because everyone needs more support for dreaming in these times.
And I did share that course! (Membership members, get it here. Email subscribers, the link is also at the top of the email. Everyone else can sign up here)
And I was doing the final steps to getting it ready, I had this question pop in:
ARE YOU READY TO REALLY BE YOUR NEXT LEVEL SELF?
And I stopped what I was doing to write it in the big planner, and paint around it, and really think about it.
Because this new course explains my work in a clearer way, which is a next level for me. And there is more I want to do with promoting this, which is another next level.
And do I feel ready for any next levels right now? NO. 100%.
But in general, what I have seen working with people, is that when we DO feel ready we often are NOT ready, and when we DON'T feel ready, we often ARE.
Over-confidence can block us from our actual feelings. And a lot of the ways that we've been taught to "make things happen" are actually trying to PUFF OURSELVES UP with false confidence, fake it 'till you make it style. Which would be fine if it didn't mean cutting yourself off from your actual feelings and experience and body which means you are cut off from your magic, power and wisdom.
Positive thinking and hard work can only get you so far.
Your actual magic, creativity, power and wisdom can get you much further, but the way there will be so much weirder.
So, here I am not FEELING 100% ready, and knowing that not feeling it is a good sign that I actually AM ready.
Not trying to resolve it or feel any way in particular, just noting how I actually DO feel and what this tells me.
This actually gives me a bunch of Inner Work and Dream Work things I could explore next:
- Which part of me feels afraid of my next level and what kind of care does it need?
- Which part of me feels authentically ready and what are they excited about and what do they need from me?
- Where is that part of me that always believes in me and always believes in my dreams and what does she think? Or the Dream Self part of me who is already a few 'levels" beyond this "next level"?
- What kind of practices would help me feel GROUNDED and STABLE as I shift into my "next level"? (Doing the HELLO DAY practice more often would be perfect!)
- Am I trying to rush the progress in the Outer Work and maybe steamrolling over needed Inner Work or Dream Work in the process? Am I missing something?
Good questions to sit with.
How about you?
Are you ready for your next level of creative dreaming?
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I started my day with 1 hour of embroidery. That slow rhythmic movement and slowly watching colour spread was soooo grounding.
Then I did the 20 minute version of the Dream Lab meditation to sit with the soul of my dream.
It was very trippy! The field of Creative Dream Alchemy was rainbow coloured energy flowing all over, and my dream showed up as more energy, swirling and guiding me.
The message was: KEEP LISTENING. KEEP GOING DEEPER.
And this sense that I am re-calibrating.
My dream, right now, is to re-structure some things in how I run my business. I've been dreaming about how I want to show up online and how I want to promote my work and who and how I want to be right now.
This involves a lot of outer work!
And this is the tricky thing about doing outer work with our dreams: we can easily end up with our the perspectives of our "current self" "logical self" guiding the work instead of allowing our DREAM SELF to guide the work.
This means sometimes the steps ARE NOT LOGICAL in the way we currently see it, because our Dream Self is seeing from the other side of the journey so they know the REAL way to get there (both internal and externally).
And it's natural that we want to do what seems logical from where we're looking it.
So there can be a bit of a tug-of-war there.
And I am in a place where I want and need to let my Dream Self have MORE power. To let go of what I think is the right way to do this, to surrender to what my Dream Self (and my own soul!!!!) say are right.
I AM RECALIBRATING.
Not that I've been a super "logic focused" kind of person, but it's time to be even weirder about how I approach things.
Maybe... one of the things that is happening as the world changes... is we are being asked to look at how we balance the practical with the dreams, and to look at new ways of finding that balance?
I think our souls are trying to step in and take more control. Or probably more accurately - our souls have a good opportunity to step in and take more control, so they are taking it.
The unconscious ways we are taught to conform to culture start to become more apparent as that culture shifts. Going from capitalism to late-stage capitalism and towards wherever we are going... things are changing fast and in all of that change, truths that were hidden become obvious.
I think it's good that we listen to ourselves more deeply and let those truths emerge.
This is what the Hello Day practice will help you do, if done regularly.
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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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If you're not a member - find out more + join us here!
I share my own Creative Dream Alchemy practice on my blog + often link to the tools I use which are only available to Creative Dream Incubator Membership members. If you're not a member, those links will take you to the sign up page to join us!
I am working on my Dream Status Report for this week.
But I want to share my page from yesterday in my Dream Book 2026:
Taking Care of Myself
vs
Letting The World Break My Heart
What is where? Like, where are the boundaries?
How do I balance these? felt like the main question as I did this.
But just a few minutes sitting with it I could see that EVERYTHING needs to be in that overlapping space between them.
I do recognize that some people are in a situation where they MUST take care of themselves and being present in the world would be too overwhelming for them. I am not saying that this is for everyone! This is MY truth.
So, I'm taking this into the Dream Status Report, I want to reflect on last week + plan next week from this intersection.
I have been in such an INTENSE period of inner growth lately and at the same time I've had pretty intense health problems - not something serious as in life threatening, and not something new, but something that is worse than it's ever been to the point I haven't been able to leave the house much for the last three weeks.
I kind of wonder if I triggered health problems with such intense inner stuff. Like my whole body needs to recalibrate.
Or, I am just getting older and a small health thing I've had my whole life may become more bothersome with age.
Either way - I am in a recalibration phase.
Recalibrating my relationship with myself, with my work, with WHO I want to be.
I re-did the Creative Dream Alchemy videos in the membership - the ones that explain how it works. I am also getting ready to offer that for free, along with the new You Are The Magic guide + journal.
I really love the new stuff, it feels more simple and clear. Actually navigating ALL of the inner and outer work you need to do to make a dream happen is anything but simple and clear, so it was a LOT of effort to try to create a simpler way of explaining it.
Actually, reflecting on this, I am emotionally and mentally exhausted from doing that. More than I realized.
As I filled in my Dream Status Report it became clear: I need much more DREAM WORK this week.
As I do the final Outer Work parts, I need deeper Dream Work to help me navigate it.
Dream Work can support Outer Work, like it can hold us so much deeper in the process that the Outer Work becomes less stressful.
Sometimes I can be all "Well this is easy enough, I just want to get in there and get it done" and then I can get all tangled up in my creative process.... and I'd be less tangled if I spent more time on Dream Work BEFORE going into the Outer Work.
That's what I want to carry with me this week.
Which is ALSO how I stay in that intersection of taking care of myself AND letting the world break my heart. Slow down a bit. Make more space for the SOUL of my dream which connects me to everything else.
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!