Being optimistic enough to have a dream and go after it is brutal some days.
Your dream will break your heart.
It will ask you to be braver than you think you can be.
It will push you to face all the things you’d rather avoid.
It will ask you to keep going when you want to give up.
The days where it all feels impossible are not the days when you’re failing.
Those are times of healing, reckoning and growth.
This is the work.
As we get this new year started, there can be pressure to already know your goals and plans for the year. To already be on the way to SUCCESS!
But maybe that’s not the season you’re in.
Dominant culture expects us to always be on, always be productive.
Most healing and personal development are expecting you to be a constant upward trajectory, manifesting everything your heart’s desires, 24/7.
THIS IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT.
I just want you (and me!) to recognize how brave you are for having a dream.
For seeing a way of creating a better future, and believing in it.
For showing up, and taking the little steps.
This is magic.
And a part of making any dream happen is being with all of the stuff that comes up when your dream does break your heart.
Sitting with it. Feeling your feelings. Tending to the tender places.
This work is ongoing.
It’s so easy to feel like “Oh I’ve dealt with that” or “I should be further along at this point” but the work is ongoing.
The other day my therapist asked me “Do you think you’ll be DONE some day? Like, no more feelings? No more learning or growing? Are you trying to figure EVERYTHING out RIGHT NOW?”
Yikes.
It’s so easy to forget that this work is ongoing.
Most of the people I work with in Dream Book have been doing this work for decades. Lots of them are healers, coaches, therapists and mentors. They are so smart! They have great tools! They help other people overcome huge stuff every day and… their own work is ongoing.
Just like my work is ongoing.
This will be discouraging at times but please don’t give up.
The work is ongoing.
Your dream is how your soul calls you toward your true self and this is a life-long journey.
Dream Book members: if this work feels fucking brutal for you right now - remember the Creative Dream Alchemy Library of Inner Work Practices!
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