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 am GLOWING HOPE out into my life + the future.

This is from the hope alchemy meditation in the Year of Hope.

This kind of meditation, done consistently, DOES create changes.

WE NEED THOSE CHANGES RIGHT NOW.

We need to be grounded in hope, as in the opposite of despair.

One reason why this meditation feels so good and magical and helpful to me is because it feels ESSENTIAL.

These times are asking us to GROW.

It is SO easy to be filled with despair right now. This is an extremely valid response.

AND.

Learning to sit with the despair and bring light and healing to the places in us that need us help us connect with something deeper and truer and more powerful.

(The hopelessness alchemy meditation helps with this!)

Drawing this out in my Year of Hope journal felt AMAZING.

One of the dreams I am working on right now is: being the artist I know I am.

This started out being really focused on the inner process and not on the outer results.

I went through all of my old sketchbooks and found all the ones with un-used pages and just started filling them up. Not even a new sketchbook! Just wanting to fill pages and BE IN THE PROCESS with this.

Now, a few months in, it's even LESS about the outer results, lol.

But I did shift over to doing more drawing and painting in my Year of Hope and Dream Book journals. Still, just using old craft paints and not getting precious with any of it. Still - focusing on being in the experience of it.

The experience of painting this page helped me get more grounded in my experience in the meditation.

This feels like such a healing balm. Like exactly the healing balm I need now. Which really is what I wanted to get from the "BEING the artist I know I AM" dream. So I am counting this as a huge success!

And I want to do more of this for other meditations I use often - like Dream Lab, Un-Sticking Station, Dream Self.

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