Every Monday in 2025 there will be a new journal prompt in the Year of Hope classroom in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Leave them in the comments at the bottom of that page so we can discuss this as a group. Practicing hope in community is MAGIC.

I've been sharing photos of my Year of Hope journal every Monday with the new prompt and I don't have a new photo this week.

I love how helpful that routine is - a bit of structure to support my creative process.

But to be SUPPORTIVE, a structure has to include room to support what is actually happening. Today I just don't have a photo or a page I feel interested in taking a photo of.

Maybe ideally I'd have a photo that I felt excited to share but here I am without one so... I don't want to force myself to get a photo and I don't want to not do a post.

Just noticing this, the different ways of holding a structure for a creative practice.

I am looking through pages I wrote in my Year of Hope journal about how we can't stay hopeful when we are heavy with unpressed feelings.

This was a big them for Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create which is still on my mind.

It's like hopelessness is a quicksand that is under everything right now. It wants to pull us under.

I mean, I'm sure hopelessness doesn't actually have wants, hopes and dreams itself. But it sure feels like it wants to pull us all under!

And I think the rule with quicksand is to not struggle with it? Because all that movement makes you sink faster?

Because that's definitely the rule for hopelessness and all of the heaviness we feel right now.

Don't fight it.

Figure out how to make space for it.

Figure out what you need when you feel heavy.

Yesterday I embroidered.

During Another World Is Possible: Showing Up For The Future You Want To Create we talked about how creative work is helpful but that getting set up to do a project can be inaccessible in the moment, so being prepared is so important.

So I left my embroidery project, with the little bag of all the things I need with it, on my coffee table instead of having it "kind of away" in my embroidery box on my shelf where it has been languishing for about a year.

Because technically it was ready to go, but in those moments where I feel heavy or foggy, I am not thinking of it. So I need it to be sitting there where I can see it.

So I picked it up. Fifteen minutes later I felt so much better.

There is something to be said for - doing a repetitive thing with your hands is good for calming your nervous system. There is something to be said for - creative projects are good for the nervous system.

There is a LOT to be said for accepting that there is a heaviness to these times, to acknowledging how it's impacting our minds and bodies, and making space to figure out what to do about that.

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$We can\'t stay hopeful when we are heavy with unprocessed feelings [Year of Hope Week 33]$