On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.
I started doing these as videos a few weeks ago - and that felt like the right thing to do but today everything about doing a video felt wrong 🤣.
So I am just going to share my thoughts in writing.
(Also: in exploring my feelings in the Un-Sticking Station I realized I do want to do videos when I want to go deeper into a topic, but not necessarily every week.)
Failed video aside - I have been feeling SO GOOD.
I was really focused on habits for self care and wellbeing this week AND I went really deep into Dream Work, connecting with the soul of my dream, and I was feeling so good.
One thing about living, healing, creating and dreaming in a dystopia is that it seems to be harder to hold onto good habits.
Like, what’s the point?
WELLBEING IS THE POINT!
Last weekend I really SAT WITH the heaviness and helplessness I am feeling. And asked myself: so what do I want to do? And in the end I decided I wanted to be more diligent about MOVEMENT.
And I hadn’t been getting my long walks in for [reasons] and it was hard to get back into it because [reasons] so I came up with a plan to get back into it.
After two days of 1 hour+ walking each day, I felt different.
(And I feel like I need to be SO CLEAR about this: I know this doesn’t work for everyone, and my point is not that we can survive these times with exercise. This is just what I know about my body and my self care. I share my journaling as a way of encouraging you to dig in to your situation and explore what works for you. Your way through can be totally different!)
I also started meditating more and more, going deeper into the Dream Work - and by the end of the week, that is over an hour a day too.
And I remembered the big sparkling magic of my own meditations!!
I received so much insight and support from working with the soul of my dream more diligently and deeply this week.
(It’s kind of funny that recently my focus for the week was “I don’t want to be diligent I want to be devoted” and this week was all about being diligent about the things that help me feel better.)
I feel like what’s been happening for me is that the heaviness of the world is in my body and I’ve been tired and overwhelmed and so…
I've been avoiding the DEPTH WORK of dream work and...
It’s in the depths that the magic happens, it’s in the depths that the healing happens and it’s in the depths that we find the things we need to help us in these times.
It’s a bit of a catch-22.
But we can start really small, and find the most easy-to-do thing that helps increase wellbeing, and then diligently increase it from there.
I think accepting that self care and wellbeing are harder right now is a good place to start. And being gentle with ourselves about finding ways in.
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