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. I am getting a lot from reading your comments, and from knowing that we're all practicing hope in our own ways.

Practicing Hope will likely lead to hopelessness at times.

As we've been exploring in the Year of Hope prompts over the last few weeks - there is a spectrum between hopeful and hopeless and different ways of moving back and forth on it.

Trying to make myself stay at the hopeful end doesn't serve me as well as learning to take better care of myself when I am at the hopeless end.

How do I want to hold this despair?

I was just so overwhelmed by the heaviness of despair, laying on my floor, kind of doing yoga, mostly sitting with my feelings.

I got the image in my head of this tear drop, but it was bedtime, so I made a note of it and put it in my journal the next day.

Once I did paint it, I was delighted that this painted teardrop FEELS JUST LIKE how it felt when the idea came to me.

Then I filled the other pages with ideas for how I can hold this despair.

Which ultimately helped me accept... I'm just going to have to carry despair for now.

I don't want to spiritual by-pass. I don't want to force myself to feel different from how I feel. I do want to SUPPORT myself in feeling how I want to feel.

ACCEPTANCE is such a powerful tool. We don't want to accept shitty things and never change them, but to accept that reality is what it is helps to ground us where we are.... and being grounded where you are is the most powerful place from which to build a path that leads somewhere else.

So I am grateful for this new layer of acceptance.

And grateful that I am actually feeling less despair since doing this.

AND grateful that I pinpointed a few things that I have not been doing that would be REALLY HELPFUL to do, so I am doing this.

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