Note: this post is from my daily Creative Dream Practice and includes links to the tools I use which are a part of the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership. You need an active membership to access those tools. You are always welcome to join right here!

This is the mantra I got in this week’s Dream Book journaling + alchemy kit: I am growing.

Use the meditation for the weekly mantras to dig in deeper to the mantra, or put your hands on your heart and take five deep slow breaths and repeat to yourself:

I am growing.

Notice where this lands in your body, what thoughts and feelings get sparked.

There is no right or wrong way to react. But your actual thoughts and feelings can tell you something about what you need right now.

My reaction:YES! I FUCKING AM!

As you can tell from last week's posts, it's been A LOT recently. And then I got a bad cold at the end of the week.

BUT. AND.

Every time in my life when things have been harder for me, for whatever reason, it's like a bootcamp. I come out of it stronger and believing in myself more.

I am counting on this happening now.

But in all of this, I am noticing one DELICIOUS way that I am growing...

The way I am showing up for my SELF in my Dream Book practice.

I am filling pages and pages. And I have a whole second journal that I use for expressing feelings, un-sticking and just kind of a brain dump.

I have re-arranged my work space to be less "computer type work" and more "all my favourite art supplies for creative journaling everywhere".

I mostly use the computer on the couch, or lying on the floor, anyway.

I always have my little zipper pouch of paint pens with my journals, but keeping my messier art supplies scattered all over my desk just FEELS GOOD. It's such an invitation to KEEP showing up to express myself, and spend quality time with myself, and my dreams, in my journals.

So I am spending more and more quality time with myself.

And I am noticing that "first response" that wants to bury any doubt/fear/anxiety/depression that comes up and just power through.

Of course, sometimes I CAN just power through but...

I don't WANT TO.

I am NOTICING that response instead of just being right IN IT.

Now I want to sit with it, say "Oh sweetheart I'm sorry you feel this way! What do you need?" and take it from there.

This is growth.

If you want to work on this with me:

If I am growing feels good and encouraging, hold it with you today. Look at problems, questions, stucks and obstacles through this lens and see what ideas it brings.

If it brings up some discomfort - that’s your stuff to work on today. To do that work, in the creative dream incubator coaching membership we’ve got the un-sticking station and the library of inner work practices. If you’re not sure what practice to use, you can email me, or post in our forum, let me know what’s going on and I will make some suggestions for tools you can use.

 

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