I found this post in my draft folder... it's from last summer. And today feels like the right day to finally get it ready to post!

 

I don't need to figure this out.

That's all it said. I don't remember what it was about but it feels so liberating to look back in my journal and see it.

We spend a lot of time figuring things out and in a sense yes of course we need to do that.

WE NEED TO STAY ENGAGED WITH OUR DREAMS.

AND

We don't usually figure things out with our heads, you know?

The answers come by staying engaged, open and curious. Engaged above all else.

And sometimes we can get kind of rigid about wanting to understand what we are doing.

But we never actually have to figure anything out.

Keep showing up and possibilities appear.

 

It's so interesting to me that I found this post today.

Today I had my first therapy session of the year, and my therapist showed me an index card she had made of all the things I was working on in 2025. She said I was being so intentional about how I wanted to start the year that I she wanted to keep track.

For me, 2025 felt like an important year for figuring things out.

I did the Year of Hope project, to try to figure out how to feel hopeful which felt necessarily to me to build the foundation for my new dreams.

I sat with the question... How do I BE the artist I AM? which took so many twists and turns over the year.

And then I had lots of goals around creating new ways of relating to my work, new business systems, routines - all of it.

2025 was the year I went from "going through a divorce" to "being divorce" and ready to be in my new life. In 2025 I took the time to re-set my home and my life in every way I could. I de-cluttered and re-organized and got so many lamps and created a more cozy right-fit space of this next chapter.

But also: all the stuff of being in the thick of midlife, being self employed while new trade wars get started every day, increasing violence and political turmoil everywhere in the world and here in Canada.

I am looking back at myself from the other side of all of that "figuring it out"

I sat with so many difficult feelings and big, impossible-feeling questions last year.

I didn't make myself figure it out. I didn't rush to answers. I sat with questions. I let the questions multiply and get bigger. I kept showing up.

And then, over the last month, as I've been setting my intentions in my Dream Book 2026... answering the prompts and digging into what I really want next and why and all the feelings that get sparked in that... so many things have fallen into place.

I am making SO MUCH ART.

That permission to NOT figure it out, coupled with the commitment to keep showing up... brought me to where I wanted to be.

This is how it works.

Keep showing up.

I suggest using the Hello Day practice and/or the Dream Lab practice to help you keep showing up and moving through the process.

Co-Dreaming/Co-Working is today on Zoom!

I hope to see you there.

 

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