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These are the journal prompts I got in this week’s Journaling + Alchemy kit (from Dream Book):
What part of you feels too small for your dream?
What does this part of you need?
AHHHHH yes these are the questions I need right now.
In a practical sense, “my dream” is the dream I shared of getting a camper van or RV and traveling with Bear but that would mean a bunch of things sorted out in my life to make this happen including money.
(Dream Book members see the call: Having A Stable Relationship With Money While The World Is Unstable)
And, right now, my dreams include BEING IN the transformative healing vortex that is getting a divorce.
So… it’s all of this that I am thinking about as I ask this question. Which parts feel ready? Which parts don't? Why don't they?
We almost always have parts of us that feel too small for our dreams.
This is because our dreams are here to GROW us. Like an elm seed isn’t meant to stay an elm seed forever, it’s meant to become a seedling and then a tree.
But of course growth feels scary for so many reasons. So parts of us will resist growth even when we know for sure it’s leading to what we want!
For most people, all of this is unconscious.
For people who are deeply engaging with their dreams, it’s more conscious.
And it’s hard to engage with this fear because… fear is scary!
But. Sitting with it is SO GOOD because there ARE ways to take care of the parts of you that feel too small for your dream, and doing that will open up new possibilities for what you can do.
AND, more often than not, if you really sit with this part of you you'll find that they DO want what you want, they're just afraid of some part of it. And once you have all parts of you on board, it's so much easier to move forward.
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