I had shared at some point this month that I am now doing my Dream Status Report practice on Sundays instead of Fridays, and doing it in my Dream Book 2026 daily planner.

I didn't do it yesterday.

So I am doing it this morning.

I am proud to report that I am still prioritizing my art, which has been MAGIC.

While I want to be open to other mediums, my artist self is REALLY into textile art so that's where we're at now. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED to do the work of tending to my other dream, the Creative Dream Incubator.

Hours spend stitching is one of the best medicines for me. That's how I know I really FOUND my art. My body and mind settle in, in a way that helps me access my deeper inner wisdom.

I have more energy and clarity. I trust myself more. Everything feels easier for me.

✨This is the magic of DOING your dream✨

I am only doing "test projects" and "skill re-building projects" right now. I am not making art to sell or anything.

BUT I did make my living as a textile artist in my 20s, though the finances were a constant struggle and eventually had to give it up to get a day job... it feels like actually I pick up where I left off, only now as my more confident and connected self, and that actually... making some art to show and sell will be a fairly straightforward thing at this point, and not the huge complicated mess it felt like back then.

BUT... I am not doing that yet.

Just the fact that I am MAKING THE ART I WAS DREAMING OF MAKING right now in this small and achievable way has shifted everything for me.

I think we need more of this right now: The magic of DOING YOUR DREAM and how energizing this is.

I don't meant we should ignore the world and just do what makes us happy. I mean the deeper way that connecting with our dreams is connecting with our souls, and creative magic, and medicine, and authenticity, and how this strengthens and energizes us. It actually helps us to LIVE OUR VALUES OUT LOUD in the world.

To get into dreaming on that deeper level - we have to be doing the deeper work of really BEING WITH ourselves.

Your dream is your soul showing you your path. It's showing you who you really are and what you are capable of and what your most authentic self looks like.

Your dream is also a creative and spiritual response to the world around you.

As the world changes your dreams are likely to change.

And, as the world changes, if this freaks you out (which is a totally valid response!) you might look for ways to respond that soothe your feelings, instead of look for ways to respond that feel the most authentic, meaningful and true-to-your-values for you.

So, the work of sitting with ourselves, soothing our feelings and coming back to our deeper truth remains the most important part of the work of creative dreaming.

Without that, we stop knowing what our dreams even are.

For those who have been here a while - you know from my blogs that I have given myself A SHIT TON OF SPACE to figure out my new dreams after my divorce. At first I looked for a new dream to cling to, to soften the sharpness of that time. But when I let go of that grasping to find a new dream, I gave myself space to really be with my feelings, went down a lot of rabbit holes, eventually found my way to the Year of Hope project (which I did in 2025) and to the exploration of what it would look like to BE the artist that I AM and... I spent a year sitting with that question alone.

All of that kind of looked like me floundering.

But that's not what it was.

That IS what it looks like to truly make space for yourself and your process. To give yourself ALL THE SPACE YOU NEED to find new dreams, to not put yourself onto some kind of schedule with it.

To listen to and validate your feelings and needs.

And to trust yourself to find the right dream at the right time.

You've got to let that process take the time it takes.

Anyone who ALWAYS knows exactly what their dream is and is ALWAYS sure about what to do next with it... isn't truly listening to their soul's deepest callings. They are not dreaming their most authentic dreams. They are no longer growing as people because your dream wants to GROW YOU and that looks MESSY and WEIRD sometimes and it means spending quite a bit of time in the UNKNOWN.

The UNKNOWN is such a powerful alchemical space to be in.

So much is changing right now. We have to give ourselves space to change with it.

This is why I made the Dream Book 2026 program for 2026.

It’s a way to HOLD SPACE for yourself so you can go deeper into your swirling constellation of thoughts, feelings, dreams, questions… all of it.

This is why I put the Hello Day practice in there as the first thing... Hello Day is a way to sit with yourself, your thoughts and feelings and your dreams, and just... be with whatever happens there. This practice alone can be deeply healing and help you orient to your inner compass while the world spins erratically.

Membership members, please, DO THE HELLO DAY PRACTICE somewhat consistently. Give yourself that space to be with yourself. This makes everything else about creative dreaming easier. It gives you a more solid foundation to dream from.

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