There is too much happening and then more happens [Dream Status Report]

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.

Membership members - I'd love to hear what you are learning in your Dream Status Report or planning for this week - come to the forum to share!

 

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