I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week. I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

THERE IS TOO MUCH HAPPENING AND THEN MORE HAPPENS.

I found that written in my GRIEF-ANGER-RAGE-HOPE-2026 sketchbook journal and it really sums up the vibe.

I feel like I was swimming in oceans of resistance this week. With a heavy serving of judging myself for being in resistance.

And I've been thinking about it A LOT. Or maybe it's more accurate to say that I've been trying to think AROUND it.

Because - have I watched the FOR WHEN YOU'RE IN RESISTANCE video in the Creative Dream Alchemy Library of Inner Work?

No. I am resisting my resistance which is perfectly understandable behaviour.

Also, as I reflect on the week, I actually wasn't in resistance earlier in the week. I made some really great progress - I faced a fear I had about a thing I want to do and I had a few days of feeling really connected to myself and in my creative flow.

So really, this week was a mixed bag.

I don't trust anyone who is out there saying that they have the secret for how to stay calm, happy, productive and wealthy in these times.

I mean if that's what you truly want then I want you to go for it... but everything I know about dreams and how they are connected to our soul callings tells me that this isn't a real dream, it's an escape fantasy.

AND WE DESERVE OUR ESCAPE FANTASIES!!!

And BEING WITH THIS DREAM, even if it is an escape fantasy and not your "real dream", will lead you to a deeper connection to yourself and open up that channel for you to hear your next dreams more clearly.

I remember on a call someone was talking about what they wanted, but she had a LOT of shit going on with people in their life behaving terribly, and I still remember the sound of her sighing and saying "Maybe this is just an escape fantasy"

And I encouraged her that even if this is an escape fantasy - dreaming of escape is valid. It IS your soul saying "This isn't right I deserve something better" and that IS worth listening to.

Sometimes we DO need to escape where we are before we can ever hear our "real" dream.

Dreaming is completely nonlinear. Remember the YOU ARE THE MAGIC journal where I talk about how the path is actually an egg? (Members get that here. Email subscribers it's at the top of your email. Or sign up for emails here)

So I am not saying we should JUDGE our dreams. Or our escape fantasies. EVER.

I am saying I don't trust the people who are out there selling guarantees of consistent calm happy productive wealthy days in these times.

Because one of the big things that needs to shift culturally is for us to... be human.

We're not cogs in the capitalist machine. We're alive. We have needs. We have feelings. Our feelings have wisdom. Our needs have wisdom. We need space for all of this. There is just so much that we steamroll over when we insist that we should ALWAYS feel "good".

SO much of our healing, medicine and magic gets squashed in that steamrolling that we end up not able to even know our real selves or our real dreams. This is what makes us go along with what the world tells us we should want... basically to keep buying more and more and more.

So all of my resistance this week, and my resistance to dealing with my resistance, is valid.

I AM IN PROCESS. Sometimes that looks like a mess.

And while being so stuck in the muck with it this week, new clarity has come in about what will help me create the structure that will help me do more of what I want to be doing.

This feels so much more complicated and overwhelming than it's felt when I have done this in the past.

I've been slowly working through the Structure Habits Routines course and really enjoying DREAMING UP new ways to create structure, habits and routines that can make space for all the things I want to be doing. It's a very short class, but I keep going over the questions over and over.

Also, I've had a NEW set of health challenges to add to the mix of what I've been juggling. I dislocated my kneecap!! But then in the treatment I discovered that favour 2 of my quads over the other 2 and this is pulling bones out of place and creating an imbalance all over. A lot of little aches I get are going to go away as I go to physio and learn how to balance these quads better.

Which feels SO GOOD because prior to the dislocation things had been slowly getting worse and so some days some of my preferred forms of exercise have been off the table and it will be good to have everything back on the table.

Daily exercise actually makes me less resistant in my creative process. I learned this from lots of reflection and trial and error and noticing what works to help me feel my best and do the things I want to do.

BUT it's not realistic to expect myself to exercise ENOUGH to always feel good with all of these horrifying things happening in the world.

You know?

I AM WRITING ALL OF THIS TO MYSELF.

This is what I need to hear and remember as I reflect on how stuck I have felt since Thursday.

I had 3 great days this week. I felt lost in my resistance the other 2 days.

Is that maybe just what it looks like to try to keep showing up for ourselves, our healing and our dreams in this shitstorm of world events?

After giving myself ALL THIS SPACE to be with in my feelings of all of this...

While answering the Dream Status Report prompts in my journal I had this insight:

Every week after the Dream Status Report I write out THIS WEEK on the other side of the page and put the things I want to do there.

BUT

I do monthly goal setting in my business and have also been putting ALL OF APRIL'S GOALS on that list, because - I don't want to forget these so let me put them on a page I look at every day...

But then when I am already overwhelmed, looking at that list - a month of things but it's written under the heading "this week" - I think I should do it all by Friday and I feel so behind and like I can't catch up and THIS FUELS RESISTANCE.

Side note: Some parts of our resistance are out of our control and some parts and in our control and it's very hard to know which is which when we are in it. But when we notice something like this "Oh here is a way I make things harder for myself when I am overwhelmed" it's important to WRITE THAT DOWN somewhere where you will see it again, so you can work with it and find ways to make things EASIER for yourself when you are overwhelmed.

So I just made a simple change to my weekly page:

I wrote THIS WEEK:

at the top of the page, and then halfway down I wrote: APRIL GOALS:

So this way I am not forgetting anything, it's all on his page but my overwhelmed brain won't confuse my monthly goals with my weekly goals and feel impossibly behind.

I'm also sitting with the question:

These are the times when artists (including healers + activists!) GET TO WORK. These are the times when it is the hardest to be hopeful and optimistic enough to get to work. HOW AM I HOLDING THIS?

More to come on that...

It's ok and maybe even EXPECTED that your process is a mess right now. KEEP GOING.

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I am trying to do a thing but a part of me is so scared that, if I do it, I will upset people that I don’t want to upset.

This fear is a brick in my heart. It’s rough on my tender heart and it hurts.

Using The Un-Sticking Station practice, I am not sure if I should work with the brick or my heart, so I try working with both of them at once.

i’m just sitting with this, wondering how to work with it, and a big eyeball appears in the sky and beams rainbow beams down onto my heart and the brick.

And somehow I know… the eyeball can see something I can’t.

What is it?

While I wonder about that, the rainbow beams melt away the rough edges of the brick and soften the whole thing so there is still a heavy object blocking my heart but it’s not actually painful.

I float up to the eyeball and ask “Are you not afraid of this thing I am afraid of?”

The eyeball acknowledges that my fear is legitimate but says that no, it’s not afraid of that happening.

Is it because, even if that happens, the benefits of doing this thing outweigh the potential problems that could happen?

The eyeball says: “I want you to think through this fear more deeply. You are afraid of people being upset with you… for doing something you need to do to take care of you.”

Right. That.

That thing where we hold back on our dreams and we hold back on our needs because the people around us want us to be different that we are and we don’t want to upset anyone…. and we forget that all of this holding back is upsetting to US.

The eyeball hands me a mug of tea and says “It’s a classic! A huge part of creative dreaming is getting comfortable with not prioritizing other people’s needs and preferences, to make some space for your own needs, preferences and dreams”

Well shit.

So my choices are: 

1. DO the thing I want to do, feel inspired to do, and will help me meet my needs.
2. DON’T do the thing, squash my inspiration and leave these needs unmet so that no one else gets upset.

The brick pops out of my heart. My heart starts to cheer for option 1.

The brick falls to the ground and says “My bad”

And it’s like… this shouldn’t have felt so scary.

AND let’s validate our feelings… without agreeing with them of course but invalidating them isn’t helpful.

It felt so scary! Of course I hit the brakes to sit with the fear! And now, having thought through it a bit, yeah I am not going to let this stop me. People might get upset, I have to accept that as a part of this.

So what does that mean?

As I plan how I want to do this thing, I need to recognize that people might get upset about and so… I may need some time to process my feelings about that and have some uncomfortable conversations with them.

Which means… I need to leave space in my schedule for this. Not have this overwhelming thing happening while I have other things to focus on.

So: HAVE SPACE TO DEAL WITH POTENTIAL FALLOUT is a step in the plan.

That feels really liberating.

Yes people might get upset and yes I can handle it.

My heart opened up a bit and took a deep breath and I feel like… yes I can move forward coming up with the rest of the plan.

(for people in this situation: you can also make TALK TO THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE UPSET AND EXPLAIN THAT YOU LOVE THEM AND DON’T WANT TO UPSET THEM AND YOU REALLY NEED TO DO THIS FOR YOU a step in the plan that you do BEFORE you take action, in my situation it makes more sense to do it after)

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Tomorrow is our New Moon Intention Setting Ritual on Zoom!

The replay will be up a few hours after we’re done so if you can’t make it live, you have time to do this before or right after the actual new moon on April 17.

I was looking at my journaling from the March call and WHOA.

I met my goal in a bigger/better way than I was hoping for.

This feels amazing! 

AND!

It’s actually pretty rare.

If you are truly living intentionally…if you are taking the time to do deeper work regularly like we do on these calls, to listen to your soul and your inner wisdom and your creativity more deeply, to do some alchemy work around shifting into your next-level self, to set soul-aligned intentions…

… it’s NOT going to go the way you’d hoped most of the time.

MOST OF THE TIME!

This is the reality of it.

This is the reality of consistent and intentional creative dreaming.

This is the reality of what it takes to create and maintain change in your life.

This is the reality of BEING IN A NON-LINEAR PROCESS.

To make space for the magic, to make space for the growth, we have to have space to have things NOT go as planned.

We have to be IN PROCESS and not TRYING TO CONTROL the process.

We can’t live in the highlight reels, we have to be present in each moment.

And we need support and encouragement to keep going (which is why I offer all of my work via an ongoing membership, so we can dream together).

What’s also interesting is that I had an intention that was hard to put into words in a clear way.

This happens a LOT!

We can’t always put into worlds BECAUSE we are listening deeply to our souls and soul doesn’t speak English.

So sometimes there’s a vibe and a feeling and sensation of expanding magic in your body, but there isn’t a clearly defined and stated goal.

That’s what I had last month, my intentions was about feeling into and INHABITING my next-level self.

Meaning the me who is firmly on the other side of my divorce and all of the transitions and changes of the last few years.

The me who is firmly rooted in the magic of doing what I do.

The me who is not “in process of figuring things out” anymore.

Yes, I am still figuring out some health stuff but I feel so grateful and excited about my life.

Mostly - inserted of feeling like I am “juggling it all” I feel like I am “holding it all”.

It’s been a long road to get here! And interestingly, the thing that helped the most was giving myself space to be in process and NOT trying to accomplish things as fast as possible

And lately helped the most was to spend more time with the Hello Day practice, sitting with myself and processing my thoughts and feelings and being really gentle about being intentional.

And because of that, I am doing the Dream Lab practice more often than the Hello Day, for a daily-ish practice.

Hello Day is for when you want to HOLD SPACE for yourself, if you have a lot to process or are overwhelmed. In time, it helps bring you back to a place where you can really dream.

Dream Lab is for when you are ready to DREAM and create.

Both are really good daily-ish practices that build the foundation for your dreams to grow.

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I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week. I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

THESE PRACTICES CREATE THE STRUCTURE/CONTAINER FOR YOUR DREAM TO GROW IN

Written in all caps because this morning I am noticing IN A BIG WAY how important this is.

I gave myself lots of space to do my Dream Status Report this morning - meditating, journaling, even just sitting and thinking and looking out the window.

Our dreams need this structure and S P A C E in our lives for the multi-dimensional and multi-faceted shifts that need to happen to make a dream viable.

On to this week's Dream Status Report.

I did the 20 minute Dream Lab meditation to start - taking the time to connect with the soul of your dream, before reflecting and planning creates space for the magic to happen.

My dream showed up as a cartoon figure, jumping around and throwing glitter.

I got the message right away: I've been so focused on the slog of "doing all the things" to get to the dream. The soul of the dream wants me to remember the incredible fulfilment and joy of it, and the magic. To ENJOY THE PROCESS.

And then it points to this idea I've been thinking about for months and says "Stop thinking about it, just do that this week"

Which is neat since last week my dream said to "keep chewing on it" which I did and... Now is the time! Let's do it! AND don't let "doing the work" be all about "work". Have fun with it and remember the magic.

What am I learning?

There are times when we need to slow down the Outer Work and deepen into the Dream Work.

There are times when we need to step on the gas and DO ALL THE THINGS in the Outer Work.

We have to be listening, like really listening, to the soul of the dream to know which time we're in.

A lot of the work of bringing a dream to life is counter intuitive because your dream is here to grow you.

It makes sense to your future/grown self.

It doesn't make sense to your current self. Your current self's perspective is not the perspective that understands the dream.

PARTNERING with the soul of your dream helps you get a more accurate perspective.

(AKA members: use the Dream Lab meditation more often )

What this is telling me right now:

What I need this week is more PRESENCE + DEPTH. What my dream needs is more ACTION.

Sometimes what we need is so different from what our dreams need we don't see a way to bridge that gap. Sometimes we have to flounder around a little and try things and "fail" and learn from those "failures" before we figure it out.

This week I see exactly how to bridge that gap, that by me focusing on PRESENCE + DEPTH I am more able to take all the ACTION STEPS my dream wants me to take.

I can move more slowly and deliberately and powerfully.

Happy dreaming/reflecting/planning to you!

Membership members - we'd love to hear what you're learning in your Dream Status Report his week - let us know in the forum!

And remember - this Wednesday is our April New Moon Intention Setting on Zoom!

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The desire to offer your gifts to the world is such a profound human need. It’s a part of who we are.

If you did a deep dive with the links I shared yesterday you saw it…. what Maslow found so interesting in that Blackfoot community he visited was that the majority of people were self actualized.

What he maybe didn't understand is that in the Blackfoot culture they understood that are BORN self actualized. Connected to their gifts. And so the work is to use their gifts to help others and support the community. 

But when this idea is brought this back into the lens of colonial/capitalist culture, the work is to figure out, on an individual level, how to meet all of your needs so that you get to a place where self actualization is possible.

Which just sounds like a recipe for burnout!!!

Which is what we STILL experience when pursuing our dreams.

How we balance the meaning, healing, fulfilment and joy we get from our dreams with the practicalities of taking care of our lives is the big quagmire of creative dreaming. 

Sometimes we achieve balance, sometimes we’re juggling wildly, sometimes NONE of the pieces will fit together.

But the one thing that tends to help is to put our dreams AT THE CENTRE OF OUR LIVES.

Because our dreams are how our soul shows us who we are, this means putting OURSELVES at the centre of our lives.

To try to see it all less as a hierarchy (you have to get the "important" needs met before you can play with your dreams) and more as a circle that can hold everything at once.

And because we don't live in a culture that supports us -  putting our dreams at the centre is only possible when we have a supportive, nourishing and soul-centred way of working with our dreams that is multi-dimensional and non-linear and helps us plug into deeper magic.

AKA… Creative Dream Alchemy.

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If you start doing working with your dream in this way with whatever small amounts of time you have available to you, things will shift and your dream will grow.

Otherwise, you’re waiting and wishing for something outside of you to change before you can have space for your dreams.

And as capitalism has shifted into late stage capitalism - that is just not likely to happen.

The world is incredibly stressful. Our dreams are the anecdote. We cannot wait for the world to give us space to dream, we have to CLAIM THAT SPACE for ourselves.

Today is our Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice call.

It’s not about tactics. This is about the SPIRITUAL practice of activating and sharing your gifts, and the CREATIVE practice of making your gifts visible and putting yourself out there in a way that the people you work is for can see it.

This call starts with a 40 minute meditation where we look at how this is working for you right now, and listen to your soul and the soul of your business (if you have one, it’s not necessary!) about what is needed next to help you achieve your goals. If you do this with me regularly over time you can make some big progress on your goals, in ways that feel ALIGNED and ALIVE for you and DO fit in with what else is happening in your life.

If the tactics and strategies for sales and marketing are on the surface, this meditation is in the deep end, where we look at the relationships between all of these things. The relationship between you and your gifts, between you and how you offer your gifts, between you and the soul of your work, between you and the people your work is for, between the soul of your work and the people your work is for, etc.

How these relationships show up in the meditation shows you what is working and what is not working and gives you the ESSENCE of what you need next.

In my work I create structures for you to do DEEPER and MORE EFFECTIVE Dream Work and Inner Work. This gives you the vision, clarity, and capacity to know how to move forward with the outer work in your unique way.

How you do the outer work of marketing and sales really should be DEEPLY ROOTED in your inner relationship with your gifts and the soul of your work and your own values. I think doing the DEEP ROOTING first makes it easier to know which tactics and strategies to use.

If you are self employed offering your gifts to the world: this deeper creative + spiritual practice will give you more insight than reading the latest info about how to hack the algorithm.

If you are offering your gifts NOT as a business: this practice will still give you insights about how to do this in ways that work better for you and fit your life.

If you wish you were offering your gifts but it all feels so overwhelming that you don’t know where to start: start with this. There is a place inside you where you DO know that yo are ready and you DO know some ways to start, let’s give that part of you some space to express itself.

Members: get the call details here. The replay will be on that page later today.

If you’re not a member: this is definitely worth joining for! You can cancel your membership after the call if you feel it’s not for you - there is an easy peasy cancel button in your account, you don’t have to email me or explain or anything. But if you read all the way through and made it to here - I think it IS for you. Join us here.

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I want to start by saying… I could hardly get anything done yesterday. I was so distracted by current events.

And I just want to normalize this. It’s not easy to know how to keep functioning with so much happening and we’re not always going to get it right.

What I did later in the day was accept defeat, stop trying to focus, stop checking the internet so much, and do some meditation, journaling about my feelings, and then I did ART for HOURS.

ART for HOURS is my big medicine right now.

And today I woke up feeling quite inspired and kind of “plugged in” and ready to focus, which is really nice.

One thing I did do yesterday was post a video on social media ranting about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

It was on my mind and I just wanted to share and didn’t realize it would resonate so much with people.

For a while I wanted to write a long, detailed post about how the Hierarchy of Needs was culturally appropriated from a Blackfoot community and because Maslow was looking it through the lens of colonial culture instead of understanding it through Blackfoot culture, he didn’t understand it. The needs should NOT be in a hierarchy at all and the self actualization needs should be at the centre of our lives.

I have not shared this because there are so many people already doing this work. Do an internet search for Maslow Blackfoot and you’ll find tons of interesting reading!

The first article I ever read about this was this one, which contained inaccuracies which have been corrected and which has been updated to focus on: Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now? which is so good!

There is also  Blackfoot Philosophies vs Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Even Psychology Today is writing about what Maslow got wrong

This article is about how the cultural appropriation isn’t really what matters and it’s more interesting to look at what was happening in the Blackfoot community.

The reason why I am interested, of course, is that creative dreaming IS self actualization.

And WE DO NOT need to fully take care of every other need we have as humans before we can get to dreaming.

And the truth is -  when we do put self actualization and dreaming at the centre of our lives - meeting all of our other needs becomes easier. 

In my many years of doing this work, it’s become more and more apparent that the culture we live in, this colonialist/extractive capitalist dominant culture is the biggest hurdle to achieving our dreams aka self actualization.

AND the thing is… artists create and impact culture.

We can change this.

On a group call recently I talked about what I learned from Dra. Rosales Meza when I did a program with her last fall. The short version is “Don’t confuse the fall of the colonial empire with the end of the world”

It’s important to keep DREAMING in these times because this is what moves us forward. This is what CREATES a better future.

And, always, when I talk about DREAMING I am not talking about DOING. Or PRESSURING.

I am talking about sitting with yourself, processing your thoughts and feelings, understanding and tending to your needs, listening to your dreams. Your dreams are a part of you, you can’t be fully present with yourself without being fully present with your dreams.

It’s HARD to stay present right now.

So we keep PRACTICING.

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If you are in the membership and have questions about how to keep practicing right now - email me! Let’s talk about it! And we DO talk about it on our calls - the next Co-Dreaming/Co-Working call is this Friday.

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I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week. I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

I did sit down to do this on Sunday - but then I got a headache!

I realized that while I did have time to do it, I didn't have the mental and emotional capacity and that in the future, on weekends with a holiday or some kind of event happening in my life... it may be good to look at doing this on Saturday or Friday. Because it feels nice to start Monday with this done as it brings a different kind of clarity.

But, here I am still showing up in the ways that I CAN show up and doing this on Monday morning.

I am switching up some of the medications I've been on and bracing myself for this to go badly but so far... I just feel a bit better. So that's a win!

One thing I keep reminding myself is that it DOES NOT matter how any particular step goes, it matters that you keep taking steps.

What is really BLOWING ME AWAY right now is how good it feels to dream about STRUCTURE.

Artists need a lot of freedom! But we also need the kind of structure that feels like SUPPORT. Like a vine that can't climb a wall on it's own but with the right trellis it can reach the top of the roof by mid summer.

The weekly dream status reports and planning, and the monthly intention settings are forms of structure. But a lot of dreams need more specific forms of structure too - like the exact type of trellis that works both for the wall and the type of vine of you have.

And some of the things I've been struggling with lately really are [impacts of not having enough structure] and I have been wanting things that are [results of having the right structure] ... without seeing that working on CREATING THE RIGHT STRUCTURE was the solution.

This is totally common and even expected when we understand and remember that the process is NOT supposed to be linear.

So I am really enjoying doing the Structure Habits Routines class and re-reading everyone's comments in there. We all have such different ways of seeing this, and different needs, and it's just so inspiring to see all the different ways of approaching it.

I am still working on the first set of prompts! Each time I come back to it I have more clarity about how I would like all of this to work.

On to this week's Dream Status Report.

I did the 20 minute Dream Lab meditation to start. In the meditation I was really struck by the sensation of HOW MUCH the whole universe wants to help me make my dream real. And then when I invited the soul of my dream in... it was the hand of God handing me a piece of gum.

What? lol

It was violet gum, which tasted amazing and as I chewed I was like... oh yeah. You have to keep chewing on it!

But also.. as I chewed... this delightful violet fragrance was coming out of my mouth and surrounding me.

I don't have to keep chewing on it in a way that is annoying or difficult, the chewing can be fun and even kind of magical.

So that is excellent advice and the ideal way to go into this reflection process with the Dream Status Report prompts and then use what I learn there to map out my priorities for this week.

Happy dreaming/reflecting/planning to you!

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In a meditation with the soul of my dream, if my dream turns to me and says GUUUURL! I always know I am about to hear something I really need to hear, but that I may not really want to hear.

It happened yesterday morning.

GUUUUURL, my dream said, WTF are you even doing?????

And I said… Well I think you know what I’m doing! I am trying to figure out what kinds of routines and structures/systems would work because my old routines don’t feel right and I don’t know what the new ones should be yet.

NO, my dream insisted, seriously GURL what are you doing??!?! You’re doing this all in your head! You’re leaving ME out! You’re leaving SOUL out! You’re leaving CREATIVITY out! You’re leaving MAGIC out! Where is there ANY space for the alchemy here???????

Oh wow. WTF am I doing indeed. I have been going in circles with this because I have been trying to figure it all out in my head.

This week I wrote about how all of our law of attraction and manifesting practices are culturally appropriated and therefore are missing key cultural elements.

And I wrote about how important it is to have a TWO WAY relationship with your soul of your dream. To not just treat the universe as a vending machine that will give you whatever you want as long as you order right. 

You have to learn how to engage with the soul of your dream, to LISTEN to your dream.

Because once you have established a TWO WAY relationship with it, it can send you THE BEST advice, right when you need it.

(We have a Co-Dreaming call today in the membership and we’ll start the call with a meditation for sitting with your soul of your dream, so you can bring it your questions and problems and it can help you work out your next steps. This work, SITTING WITH and LISTENING TO our dreams is so profoundly important right now and I remain grateful for everyone who is doing in with me.)

I have been in such a LLOOOOONG process with this “re-creating my routines” project.

A part of me really does think I should be able to sort this out with logic and get it done quickly. 

But really, I am doing a whole bunch of things at once:

• understanding my changing needs in mid-life, which keep changing!
• figuring out how to fit my two big dreams into my days: the Creative Dream Incubator and textile art 
• creating a whole new creative practice to create space for the new art I want to make
• processing ALL THE THINGS that are happening, or trying to

All of these things feed each other. I know they fit together beautifully. I just don’t know HOW exactly.

And if I DO use logic to figure this as fast as possible, I miss out on figuring out the best way for me to do this. Like almost everything that has to do with dreams - slower is better.

Taking MORE time to reflect helps us better understand HOW to move forward.

And then I realized … I’ve been trying to figure out the new STRUCTURE I want for my work/soul/creative life…

… and I totally forgot about the STRUCTURE HABITS ROUTINES class in the membership!  I’m so glad one of our members was doing it, and commented about something she learned, which reminded me… oh yeah that’s what I need.

It's a simple class with a set of prompts that I ask you to take several days to work through, to give yourself time to really process everything that is included when we look at structure, habits and routines.

So I spent an hour with the first set of prompts in that class and got SO MUCH clarity about how I want it all to feel and function. Like - i’ve been messing around in the DETAILS of it without a clear big picture VISION of what I want.

And that's when I made the card in the photo above: LESS STRUCTURE * MORE DEVOTION

I realized I've been so focused on looking for the right structure to hold everything I want to do and keep it all organized all the time.

And yes I do need that, dreams do need structure to be able to take root and thrive.

But structure, and logic, aren't the POWER. The devotion is where the power comes from. Your participation is where the power comes you. YOU ARE THE MAGIC.

Which is something I talk about in the creative planning and project management class. Having the right structure for you, and for your project, gives you more space to be really present with it and creates more space for magic. So there is a balance there - it can't be ALL ABOUT following through on a plan and it can't be JUST vibes.

There is a right balance there.

And I feel a lot closer to finding it.

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

We'll start with a short meditation for connecting with the soul of your dream (like the Dream Lab) and then have time for whatever you want to do - planning next week, working on your projects, sharing your updates, talking about something that is stuck with your dreams or just hanging out in the magic of the group.

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

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The law of attraction and manifesting teachings you can find online are culturally appropriated.

At this point, we have over 150 years of appropriations of appropriations, dovetailing with the “make 6 figures in 3 days” online coaching industry, moving further and further away from the original teachings.

VISIONING is an ancestral practice. It’s a very human way of relating to yourself and your life to listen to the spirits for a vision of what to do with your life and asking for courage and support to enact the vision.

VISIONING is a two way relationship. And that’s where the law of attraction and manifesting teachings fail.

When you culturally appropriate, you take a teaching or wisdom and remove it from it’s cultural context and put it into an entirely different cultural context while also cherry picking which part of the teaching you are working with, and leaving out essential elements. Appropriation leaves out essential elements because it doesn’t understand that it’s appropriating and believes it’s culture-less perspective on the teaching is right and the stuff it leaves out wasn’t relevant.

VISIONING is LISTENING for the calling and then building up the courage to act on it.

It means dreaming DEEPER. Going beyond what you want on a surface level and trying to understand what your soul wants for you. It means growing into who you really ARE.

The only book that I can recommend about this is The Native Creative Process: A Collaborative Discourse between Douglas Cardinal and Jeannette Armstrong with photographs by Greg Young-Ing. It’s not easy to find but if you live in Winnipeg, Canada - it’s in the public library.

The real teachings about intention, as all Indigenous (not colonial) teachings, happen within a living relationship with all of creation.

Within a recognition that ALL LIFE IS SACRED. Within a culture where we take care of each other.

Another book I can recommend is Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Which is not about intention or law of attraction, but it can teach you a lot about Indigenous relationships to the earth. In colonial culture we’ve accepted as truth that humans have a negative impact on the earth. As though we can’t help but destroy! In this book she shares how Indigenous ways of living actually HELP THE LAND. That the land - all the plants, waters and living things on it - DID BETTER with proper human stewardship. That our real role as humans is to care for creation, not try to profit from it as much as possible and destroy everything in the process.

Can you see how the way intention is used, in law of attraction teachings, is similar to how we treat the earth?

Individualistic and selfish. It’s only about what I want. It’s the idea that the universe should capitulate to my desires, and WILL capitulate as long as I hold the right thoughts.

Can you see a way to use intention that is within a context of…. ALL life is sacred.

Can you see a way to use intention while revering the mystery of life? Can you see a way to use intention while honouring the fact that you don’t control the universe?

This is what I have been doing in my work.

This is why I have a whole membership for making your dreams happen, with hundreds of resources, and I don’t focus on creative visualization or manifesting practices. There is ONE meditation on creative visualization in the membership and I hardly ever mention it.

Instead, I encourage the Dream Lab as a regular practice because that is where you develop a TWO WAY relationship with the soul of your dream, which is connected to your own soul which is connected to everything.

Or Hello Day as a way to help you connect to yourself - your gifts, medicine and power, so instead of sitting here waiting for the universe to deliver your dreams via the law of attraction, you are growing your ability to CREATE your dreams.

And THAT work is going to get messy.

So then I encourage you to really BE IN the mess! BE WITH the thoughts and feelings that come up, even when that seems like it’s taking you AWAY from what you want. I encourage you to NOT “stay positive” and “stay focused” and “fake it till you make it” because when you do that, you are missing the PROCESS. Which is so far from linear.

You start with whatever dream you have. If it matters to you - there will be magic there.

Your dream is your own soul calling you, showing you your path. THIS IS ALWAYS TRUE.

AND

Sometimes the dream you start with is a dream that gets you to a place where you can hear the next dream. And that one is the CALLING. Or closer to it.

AND

This is soul work! Not linear! So as you dream and move towards callings, your potential grows. So the dream grows along with you. There is no “destination” to get it.

Dreaming is a way of living more attuned to soul and creativity.

Answering a calling is about LISTENING to the universe, not trying to control it. So I work with intention more as support for my process, and not as THE VEHICLE through which my dreams will happen.

This is why the monthly New Moon Intention Setting ritual is set up the way it is. To use intention to support us is doing the things we feel called to do. And to heal and grow through the ways that we engage with our dreams. To summon the courage to create the things we are here to create.

When I started this work, I was a New Thought practitioner.

Which is to say I attended years of classes from one of the original appropriators. I was told that I was being taught “the kernel of truth act was within all of the world’s great wisdom traditions”. I was in that world.

I did not set out to do my work differently because I understood how colonized my training was. I started to learn about colonialism in 2015 when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report came out in Canada, and I had started doing this work around 2008 and it was my full time work by 2011.

I set out to do my work differently from what I was taught because I wanted people to get better results.

Of course these law of attraction teachings don’t work consistently enough to build a life on. For many people they don’t work at all and the only answer given to that is to tell those people that they are doing it wrong. “Just be positive” “Stop giving into the fears” “Fake it till you make it”

I wanted my creative dreams to support my life in a grounded and stable way and I wanted to offer better tools for my clients - so I had to find a better way.

I never want to tell anyone “you are failing with your dreams because you are doing it wrong” I want to say “Oh shit I’m sorry this is so hard. You’re not doing anything wrong! This part is just hard. But worth it. So let’s find some softer ways to engage with it”

Now, over 15 years in, and with a better understanding of cultural appropriation and colonialism/imperialism and how they relate to extractive capitalism and how all of this relates to our relationships with ourselves and the world… here is my advice about how to make your dreams happen:

GET YOURSELF INTO THE PROCESS AND THEN STAY IN THE PROCESS.
LET IT BE A MESS WHEN IT’S A MESS.
KEEP LISTENING. MEDITATE + JOURNAL MORE.

My Creative Dream Alchemy class is FREE and HELPFUL. It’s a 20 minute video class explaining what I mean about how the process of pursing a dream is ALCHEMICAL as opposed to linear. And it’s a guided meditation that helps you GET INTO THE PROCESS and a guided journal for figuring out how to apply all of this to your life and your dreams.

This is the one I link to at the top of all of the emails I send. If you're not signed up for my emails, get the free class here.

I created the Creative Dream Incubator because I believe that creative people having more support for creating their vision and pursuing their dreams MAKES THE WORLD BETTER.

Creative people create CULTURE. And we need a better culture to carry us through these times and into a better future for everyone.

I'd love to work with you and your dreams! Join the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership here.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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