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. The discussions already have been so good! Practicing hope in community is MAGIC.

I sent this as a newsletter on Friday morning, and shared it on social media - but it just feels important so I am sharing it here too.

I want to come out of this with my ability to dream intact. This feels important to me.

My ability to dream means my connection to my soul, my creativity, my feelings, my sense of what feels right, true, meaningful and important to me. And my ability to ACT on all of that.

By “this” I mean all the ways our political and economic systems and our climate itself are collapsing. And I know this state of collapse will likely continue for the rest of my life. So maybe I don’t want to come out of it as much as learn how I want to be in it?

In my morning scroll just now I saw a lot of conspiracy theories that sparked dread in my heart because we cannot solve the problems that we refuse to SEE. And the conspiracy theories have us looking in the wrong direction entirely.

The fires in LA are not weird, or deliberately set (I mean it seems like one maybe was, but that’s after the others had been raging for days?) to cover up crimes. They were entirely predicted and predictable, if we listen to climate scientists. Climate change IS increasing “natural disasters” that get bigger and more destructive. A lot of what we will experience as climate change will be our increasing inability to rebuild.

We’re in it. And to pretend we are not, to choose to believe conspiracy theories or keep our heads in the sand only keeps us moving deeper into it instead of making choices that can protect the future.

This is why we need the skills of creative dreaming:

⚡️ the courage to face the hard stuff head on

⚡️the groundedness to sit with it, and get more information, and learn

⚡️the emotional capacity to begin to process the magnitude of what is happening

⚡️the emotional capacity to find hope somewhere in there

⚡️the commitment to LIFE, like really being present with the wonder and mystery of life and not being checked out

⚡️the ability to DREAM and IMAGINE beyond what our colonialist capitalist culture has ingrained in us (extracting non-renewable resources from the planet to hoard wealth for yourself is a really lazy and unhealthy dream)

This is why even though everything feels futile to me sometimes, I will keep holding space for the people who want to do this work with me in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership.

We can create a better future together.

This Friday, January 17, we are doing a Blessing Ceremony for our dreams for 2025.

This feels so important right now, to get some support for our dreams, to plug into the magic of community and set intentions together. I hope you join us!

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