Focus + Intention [Weekly Dream Status Report]

By Andrea Schroeder / November 29, 2024 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

Click here for the Dream Status Report journal prompts and ✨ PRINTABLE JOURNALING SHEETS✨

✨CLICK HERE✨ to download the printable journaling sheet with these prompts.

I know doing the same prompts every week can be annoying sometimes but this is magically clarifying. The repetition helps you go deeper into the process and makes it easier to LEARN from your process as you go, and the apply those learnings right away. This weekly practices helps me learn so much more, even when I'm just stumbling around trying to find my next steps.

Here are the prompts:

PART ONE: (sometimes these can stay the same for months at time, sometimes they change often)

My dream is:

I want it because:

When I have it I will feel:

PART TWO:

Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

PART THREE:

My goal/wish/intention for this New Moon is:

Last week’s focus was:

What happened in the last week?

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

What do I need now?

What does my dream need now?

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

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 do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

I'm still feeling BLOWN AWAY by how good I feel and how much energy I have.

I am REALLY enjoying the shift from fall to winter. Our weather cooled down and snow fell and stuck and I switched from cycling to walking. Some years that shift is awkward, I get tired/sore/blisters etc. This year it was just so nice. I mostly listen to Beautiful Chorus in my headphones and the walk feels so grounding and uplifting.

I finished sewing my parka and am almost done the puffer vest and have started making a hoodie. I feel like I am REALLY going to get into hoodies this winter... the pattern I use has lots of seams, so lots of options for colour blocking. And I'm dreaming of adding appliqués and embroidery and being sooooo cozy all winter. (I also have the expansion for this pattern to turn it into a dress!)

I am working on how I want to promote the Goodbye 2024 Hello 2025 Guided Journal and creating a small journal, now tentatively called Turning Your New Year's Resolution Or Word Of The Year Into A Transformative Year Long Project. It's got the prompts I am using to set up my year-long project for 2025: The Year Of Hope. I'll be sharing my Year of Hope, so you can do that with me or if you want to do a year-long thing (or month long or whatever length of time!) but hope doesn't feel right you could set up your own thing.

When I got to the end of the journaling sheet: what I need now and what my dream needs now were the same!

This almost never happens, unless if it's a time when I am overwhelmed and my dream wants me to take care of myself... but it feels like my dream understands I need support and wants me to have support, so it's fine to let it's needs wait a bit. But this week it was like we both genuinely want and need the same thing:

FOCUS AND INTENTION

It feels powerful and exciting to go into the new week focused on FOCUS.

🦄⚡️The New Moon Intention Setting Call is today!

Hope to see you there - or catch the replay over the weekend! Call details + replays are here.

If you can't be there live but have a question or there's something you are struggling with, send me an email this morning and I'll discuss it on the call and offer you some suggestions for things to do.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your Dream Status Report or start a conversation about whatever you're working with.

Get your next Dream Book lesson or get a weekly journaling + alchemy kit.

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Let yourself dream new dreams

By Andrea Schroeder / November 28, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

Our dreams are CHANGING. And new dreams are coming in. This keeps coming up on group calls in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership.

This makes so much sense because our dreams are a way that we respond to the world AND our dreams are a way that we help create the world.

So big world changes do spark new dreams.

The call to activism is so strong right now.

Of course it is! Activism is a way that we dream FOR THE WORLD and not just ourselves.

Not that dreaming for yourself is wrong. It’s that your dreams come from a sacred place of you, and in that place - we are all connected. So the deeper you go into your dreams the more likely it is that you shift towards a more collective focus.

And at the same time, I think culturally we are moving towards the end of individualism. I think we’ve taken this train as far as it can go. I think it’s time to live, work and dream TOGETHER. It’s BEYOND time to dismantle all forms of systemic oppression and create a culture that supports everyone.

We are in a time of change and chaos. Our dreams can help lead us through.

What do you wish was happening right now? That’s a dream.

How you choose to engage with that dream is up to you - that’s creative dreaming.

If you need ideas and support - join the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership. It can help you understand your dreams more clearly, figure out what new dreams are being born in you, and map out the path that helps you create the change you want to see in the world.

This is the work we are here to do.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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Can you LISTEN to yourself more?

By Andrea Schroeder / November 27, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

For quite some time, I've had this little voice inside tell me to take a closer look at the emails I send out when people first join my email list. They get the You Are The Magic journal, and some emails guiding them through it and some follow up emails about my work... and I keep feeling uncomfortable about the follow up emails.

And I said to myself "NO. It's fine to promote your work! I won't second guess myself. I put a lot of care into those emails. It's fine."

But that voice kept coming back.

And eventually I thought... yes I am doing to delete those follow up emails, just to make more space for other emails...

But when I got in there and looked more closely.

HOLY SHIT

I had been sending the follow up emails TWICE.

Seven emails, spaced 5-7 days apart from each other... it would go through them all and then send them all again.

YIKES.

It would have been good to really LISTEN to that voice, not necessarily to OBEY it, but get in there and take a look like it suggested.

Because, when I think back to how it happened, the voice asked me to TAKE A CLOSER LOOK and I was ASSUMING it was saying OMG STOP PROMOTING YOURSELF YOU ARE EMBARRASSING so I wouldn't engage.

Really listening to our inner voices helps us sort through... what is a fear or inner critic trying to derail us and what is our intuition. We need space to listen and process if we want to make the best decisions.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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I sewed myself a parka and I looooove it!!

By Andrea Schroeder / November 26, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

I finished my parka!!! This excitement is compounded by the excitement I felt about finding the outer shell fabric that is wind and water proof in the exact shade of green I was hoping for.

(Technically I am not finished though, lol. I had a LOT of problems with the metal snaps on the flap that goes over the zipper, which is essential to keep the wind out. I ended up having to cut a new flap to replace the whole thing. Then I ordered magnetic sew-in snaps and will have to sew those in - so the parka is fully functional for now but will be ready for the really cold weather once I sew those in)

It felt amazing to not only finish this project on the weekend BUT ALSO have enough energy to start two new sewing projects.

I have not had this kind of energy in a long time.

In September I went to my doctor to ask about Hormone Replacement Therapy. For the last eight years I’ve been in a gradual decline with perimenopause, and I’ve tried everything, and lots of things worked, but it got to a point where I realized I needed more help.

Now - I wish I had gone to the doctor about this four years ago. And I really wish it was more widely understood that women don’t have to suffer for 7-10 years through perimenopause, that there are lots of treatments, and that hormones are actually not only safe but protective as we age.

It took almost three months for me to adjust to the hormones, my doctor had said that could happen but that the women she'd worked with before had said it was worth it. And sure enough, I feel SO GOOD now it was definitely worth it.

It actually feels like a miracle.

FEELING GOOD, after feeling like shit for so long, is one miracle.

But then having the energy to pursue creative dreams, after NOT having the energy for them for so long is a whole other thing.

Like, I want to cry!!

I can't believe how happy I am to be sewing cozy things - I'm now working on a hoodie and a puffer vest.

Our creativity is so healing.

Not having the energy, time, focus or confidence to do the things we feel inspired to do is painful.

I know we are human BEINGS (not human doings!) but I am just so grateful to be DOING again.

We are CREATIVE beings.

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You don’t have to feel ready or even competent

By Andrea Schroeder / November 25, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

One thing I hope I am doing by posting here every day is to be an example of: you don't have to feel ready, you don' have to be grounded, you don't have to feel capable, you can be a mess, etc, etc, etc - AND STILL SHOW UP... and even in the mess, still have enough things go well that you get to your dream.

I am starting to feel REALLY GOOD. The epic self care I have been practicing is starting to do what I had hoped it would do. The HRT is doing what I hoped it would do. I feel like I am back on solid ground, feeling powerful and creative and present and GROUNDED.

Which is making me more aware of how UNGROUNDED I have been.

BUT/AND

We are ALL under a lot of stress right now, given the state of the world. (I mean even people who are chosen to not read news at all because it's too stressful, the body knows that the state of the world is SO STRESSFUL that you can't stand to know what is actually happening)

Good thing our dreams don't need us to have it together.

I am sitting here with my Dream Book. Drinking an iced lavender latte with the twinkle lights on as the sun is not up yet. (Since iced coffees bring me so much joy in the summer I decided to keep it going through winter this year, lol)

My dream wants me to remember that all the things I am doing well, and not focus on how much of the time I feel like a mess.

My dream wants to me to be proud of myself that I keep showing up.

Creative Dreaming no longer feels like "me living my best life"

It feels like the way we fight for our future, for everyone.

Our dreams matter. Our humanity matters. Our creativity matters. Life is sacred. WE KEEP SHOWING UP.

I am working on two things:

Goodbye 2024 Hello 2025: Guided journal, Goodbye 2024 Releasing Ceremony (Dec 13) + Hello 2025 Blessing Ceremony (Jan 17). All three are happening in the membership, but you can also get the journal on its own.

Creating a right-fit transformative/healing year-long creative/spiritual project: Maybe that's the title, maybe I will find an easier title as I work with it 🤣 but I am doing a year-long project with HOPE for 2025 and as I sort through HOW I want to do this, I am creating a workbook to share the process.

It will be VERY customizable - if a year isn't the right-fit time for you, you just change that. 30 days, 100 days, a season - whatever time frame works for you is perfect. The goal is to set it up in such a way that it supports you in getting what you want from your project.

My project for 2025 will be the YEAR OF HOPE. And I'll be sharing that regularly on my blog and I feel like it could turn into some other things - journals or healing circles (hope circles?) - I feel like practicing hope can teach us all a lot right now.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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How to show up when you don’t want to show up [Weekly Dream Status Report]

By Andrea Schroeder / November 22, 2024 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

Click here for the Dream Status Report journal prompts and ✨ PRINTABLE JOURNALING SHEETS✨

✨CLICK HERE✨ to download the printable journaling sheet with these prompts.

Here are the prompts:

PART ONE: (sometimes these can stay the same for months at time, sometimes they change often)

My dream is:

I want it because:

When I have it I will feel:

PART TWO:

Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

PART THREE:

My goal/wish/intention for this New Moon is:

Last week’s focus was:

What happened in the last week?

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

What do I need now?

What does my dream need now?

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

I just don't want to do this today.

Most Thursdays, I go out for coffee with the Dream Status Report journaling sheet. So it's like - that routine is a container. I bike or walk, get my coffee, sit down, and fill in the sheet. This is Thursday. (I love routine!)

This Thursday I wanted to stay home. I did a bunch of journaling, felt really good about it, and then just felt NO about the Dream Status Report.

Instead of doing it anyway, I am going to explore that NO.

Hey NO, what's up?

What do you mean what's up? NO is up. NO is all.

Well, yeah I hear you and I am not going to push you. I just want to understand why the no. This is something I have done every week for so many years, because it helps me.

We don't have to do every single that helps, every day.

That's true! And again, I am accepting your no and not pushing. I just want to understand why.

First, there is a flurry of frustration and just "I DON'T WANT TO DAMMIT"

But no actual reason WHY. This is interesting.

I keep sitting with it and it feel like underneath that... this just doesn't feel like the right thing.

Two questions come up in response to that: Why isn't it the right thing, like what is wrong with it? and What IS the right thing?

I don't want to feel "nailed down", like I don't want my dream to be describable, I don't want to look at the path as any kind of solid thing. I want to be in the mystery.

Oh that's interesting.

This weekly practice helps SO MUCH for "staying on track" and "showing up consistently over time" and right now I just want to be in the void of transformation.

OK I think that makes sense, given where I am.

What IS the right thing then, instead of abandoning the practice that has helped me keep showing up, how do I shift it to fit me where I am today?

The practice is about reflecting, learning, processing and using all of that to light the path ahead.

I don't want to just be in resistance, and validate my resistance by saying "I am in the mystery, I am in the void of transformation", you know?

SO, as a compromise, I could just answer the last question from the journaling sheet: My focus for the next week.

Oh! THIS CHANGES THE ENERGY OF THIS WHOLE EXCHANGE. Because I'm not trying to push this part of me who says NO, but then that means IT is pushing ME. This is a way to compromise. This feels good.

My focus for next week: BE in mystery. I just feel like I'm in a transformative time, I don't know what this means, but I want to make space for it. Journaling and meditation for just... being in the mystery and being open to my dreams and my self becoming what they want to become next.

🦄⚡️Creative Dream Incubator Weekly Coaching Call is today!!

Hope to see you there - or catch the replay over the weekend! Call details + replays are here. And after the call I'll start a thread in the forum to share your plans for the week and as a space for accountability and support.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

Come to the forum to share your Dream Status Report or start a conversation about whatever you're working with.

Get your next Dream Book lesson or get a weekly journaling + alchemy kit.

Go the Library of Creative Dream Alchemy to find a practice that fits for where you are or use the Dream Lab if you're not sure where to start.

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Following your creative instinct to get unstuck

By Andrea Schroeder / November 21, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

Continued from yesterday with the frustration and pain of not feeling as creatively engaged as I would like to be. Being in that space between having LOADS of inspiration but not loads of energy to act on everything as fast as I would like to.

This morning I was feeling the same way. On top of that, I had a massage scheduled at the end of the day, and it's raining, and forecast to rain all day.

One of my procrastinated upon creative projects is rain pants. The fabric I have for them is SO cozy warm, fleece on the inside with a water-and-wind-proof outside. Perfect for riding my bike on a cold rainy day and not being soaked. (I did make a fantastic rain coat out of this same fabric, but because of how my thighs are moving when cycling, my legs get wet no matter what)

I use the car co-op and was about to book a car when I thought about driving home from there in rush hour, in the rain and that felt very UGH. I felt the same way about the bus.

And I didn't want to think about any of this, I wanted to think about the things I wanted to do today.

But instead, I decided to just MAKE THE PANTS.

I have a degree in fashion design and a lot of sewing experience. I knew I could have these done within an hour, since it's just an elastic waist and I didn't plan on finishing the seams anyway.

So I just did it.

And then I put my rain pants on and I FELT SO FUCKING FREE.

Not just free as in... I can take my bike to get a massage in the rain and not be all wet. Even though I can.

But free as in.... I can create anything I want.

I felt creative energy flowing. I felt happy. I felt unstuck.

And then I used that energy to focus on the things that I had wanted to do.

I feel like MAKE SOMETHING. ANYTHING. Is a good un-sticking tool.

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It is PAINFUL to not engage with life in the way I want to

By Andrea Schroeder / November 20, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

I was journaling and hit upon the PAIN I was feeling about not engaging with life the way I want to.

And then I saw it: how I have been too frustrated with myself about not engaging with life the way I want to that I couldn't even see how PAINFUL it was!

So then I used the Un-Sticking Station practice on my frustration.

And there are so many layers swirling around there.

Compassion for myself.

Knowing that I am doing the best I can.

Frustrating and feeling like I am "too lazy" and "moving too slow" and need to just... do more art. Just move faster in general.

Acceptance that I am taking care of myself and my life and this is all a lot and no I don't currently have the same creative energy I used to.

Underneath that some excitement that I can have DIFFERENT creative energy. That this is just a season of my life.

And then also the acknowledgement of creatively active I HAVE been. And that thing how creative people always see the things they haven't done yet, we can be so flooded with inspiration that our "done" pile is just so tiny compared to the "want to do" pile.

But mostly, I am taking from this an appreciation that there is PAIN here. It feels small and vulnerable, hidden under the frustration. But it feels more TRUE than the frustration and I want to honour that.

Maybe it is some grief about the stage of life I am in. I keep thinking about my 35 year old self and missing that version of me. So I could look at how I want to bring some of her qualities out more...

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Meeting the soul of my business.

By Andrea Schroeder / November 19, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

I used the Meeting the Soul of your Business meditation this morning.

The Creative Dream Incubator appeared as this huge lavender coloured pulsing light.

Just floating there. It felt... I don't quite have words for it, I just stayed with the feeling.

I tried moving it, and putting it around me so I was inside it but that felt wrong. I'm not inside it. It's not inside me. We work together.

Nothing really happened... it just felt good to connect with it.

We don't have to have things "happen" each time we do alchemy meditations. Just showing up counts as something. And showing up over time changes things.

Tomorrow is our Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice call. We practice listening to what feels true and right for us about the creative work of putting ourselves out there.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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Everything is changing. How do I want to change?

By Andrea Schroeder / November 18, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

For forty-something weeks, I had been sharing my Creative Dream Mantras here, every Monday.

Last week it didn't feel right.

This week it still doesn't.

This is a part of building our own path and not following other people's rules. We do a thing that FELT RIGHT and then we get to a point where it doesn't feel right anymore and the thing to replace it with or change it to... just isn't there yet.

We were moving along the path, feeling like we knew what we are doing and them BLAM! Suddenly are suddenly in the questions, and we have to stay in the questions.

It's vulnerable and awkward. And so many coaches on the internet would be happy to sell you a way out of it.

But these vulnerable awkward places are so RICH.

So I am here, encouraging you to stay in it.

Let's be vulnerable and awkward together.

Let's remember that we are creating whole new ways of being and whole new ways of doing things while we are creating the thing we are creating.

Let's remember that this is a lot.

Being in the questions is brave and exhausting work.

A lot of the time, I don't feel up to it. So in those times, I focus on taking care of myself so that I feel like I have the courage and energy to take some steps.

Doing the work of FEELING READY is a part of the work. We can't just wait to feel ready! Or for outside forces to change things for us.

I am working on two things:

Goodbye 2024 Hello 2025: Guided journal, Goodbye 2024 Releasing Ceremony (Dec 13) + Hello 2025 Blessing Ceremony (Jan 17). All three are happening in the membership (details are here) but you can also get the journal on its own. (I will be adding more details to that page, but if you already know you want the journal, you can get it there)

My project for 2025 will be the YEAR OF HOPE. And I'll be sharing that regularly on my blog - I feel like practicing hope can teach us all a lot right now.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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Believe in the dream, not as a dream [Weekly Dream Status Report]

By Andrea Schroeder / November 15, 2024 / daily practice, Manifest Your Dream Life

Click here for the Dream Status Report journal prompts and ✨ PRINTABLE JOURNALING SHEETS✨

✨CLICK HERE✨ to download the printable journaling sheet with these prompts.

Here are the prompts:

PART ONE: (sometimes these can stay the same for months at time, sometimes they change often)

My dream is:

I want it because:

When I have it I will feel:

PART TWO:

Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

PART THREE:

My goal/wish/intention for this New Moon is:

Last week’s focus was:

What happened in the last week?

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

What do I need now?

What does my dream need now?

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Note: This is a post about my daily practice with my Creative Dreams - I often link to the tools, courses and processes I use which are available to Dream Book members. If you're not a member, find out more + join us here.

My dream sent me a really clear message: BELIVE IN ME, NOT AS A DREAM.

It meant, believe in me like I am real, because I am.

I noticed how I have been flip-flopping around about what my dream even is. For a while it was one thing, then suddenly that like it wasn't a dream... I wrote about how that felt like a goal, something I still wanted to work towards but something else was my DREAM.

Well, I think that was all true at the time. AND now it feels like perhaps I let go of that dream because I had hit a hard part? Like suddenly this other thing felt more important because it didn't have this really hard thing attached to it.

No judgement! It's ok to hit a hard part and take a step back.

But this week I felt ready to claim the other dream as the dream. And I am embracing the fact that the path is not linear.

And my dream was SO CLEAR about believing in it like it is real. So that's the lens I will look at things through over this next week... how would I do this if my dream was ALREADY real?

🦄⚡️Creative Dream Incubator Weekly Coaching Call is today!!

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Creative Dreaming in hard times

By Andrea Schroeder / November 14, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

The last year + has been really difficult for me and lots of times I thought... I should stop posting here. Like - get my shit together ALONE SOMEWHERE... THEN come out and share.

But my whole thing with the Creative Dream Incubator is to share ways to work with our dreams... TO GUIDE US. Because our dreams are a way that our souls show us our path.

So why would we stop receiving that guidance in the times when we need it the most?

It's our fucked up culture that says that creative dreaming is for when you feel strong, bold, sure and creative.

Creative dreaming is for everyone. All the time.

You don't have to be strong or feel capable or have your life going exactly right so that you have all the time, space and support you need.

AND my whole thing with the Creative Dream Incubator is to share the whole thing AND to say... we are stronger together. We can do this together.

So, hiding away when I feel stuck and then coming out to share my victories has never felt right to me.

AND sometimes it just feels awkward AF to keep sharing as I go in circles.

I just wanted to acknowledge that.

If you're creative dreaming in hard times - here is the "Things are bad!" section of the map with some thoughts, tools and approaches to try.

I do feel strong and capable right now. I also want to acknowledge that.

It's so complicated to be in a body sometimes! But I feel like I'm adjusted to the hormone replacement therapy, I have new supplements and I'm getting shiatsu massages which feel like they massage my SOUL along with my body and with all of this going on I FEEL GOOD.

I am working on two things:

My project for 2025 will be the YEAR OF HOPE. And I'll be sharing that regularly on my blog - I feel like practicing hope can teach us all a lot right now.

Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:

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You are acting from self doubt or self belief. Pick right.

By Andrea Schroeder / November 13, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

This was a message I got in a meditation.

IT. IS. THIS. SIMPLE.

It's not whether or not you FEEL self doubt, but what you ACT FROM.

When you feel self doubt: tend to that feeling INSTEAD OF acting out of it.

Tools from the Creative Dream Incubator Membership:

Self Doubt Relief

Alchemy Process for working with Self Doubt

Alchemy Process for bolstering your sense of courage

Your Self Doubt Is Not Yours You Deserve To Believe In Yourself

Slow the fuck down! BE as powerful, creative and magnetic as you ARE

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A really difficult conversation with my frustration

By Andrea Schroeder / November 12, 2024 / daily practice, healing, inner work, journaling

I am so frustrated. I feel so anxious. And then I tense up. I don’t believe in myself or any of my ideas.

And then I get frustrated with myself for how I am feeling and how I am reacting to my feelings.

But reacting well… like saying “Oh honey I’m sorry you feel this way, what do you need?” feels annoying. Like I HAVE DONE SO MUCH OF THAT I CAN’T DO IT ANY MORE.

I went for a bike ride. I distracted myself with various things. And still this pit of self doubt is here, wreaking all sorts of havoc.

But I want to do this thing. I have moments of really believing in it. But whenever I go to take action - I freeze.

And I am a really good coach, I know how to guide people through this and I know how to guide myself through this but I AM JUST SO FUCKING SICK OF EVEN FEELING THIS.

So today I am trying the Un-Sticking Station with that “I AM JUST SO FUCKING SICK OF EVEN FEELING THIS” voice.

So, hi there I AM JUST SO FUCKING SICK OF EVEN FEELING THIS.

It’s my teenaged self sitting there, looking very annoying at being called into this boring meeting.

Oh hi! Thanks for meeting me here.

Did I have a choice?

I don’t know, but I appreciate you being here.

She leans forward. “WHY ARE YOU BEING LIKE THIS?”

I don’t really know, I am trying to figure it out.

“You have everything! Look at your loft! And your business! And this cute idea for this thing you want to do! Why don’t you just do it?”

I know. I mean. Well…

She rolls her eye “You don’t feel good”

Well, I don’t! I feel like my struggles with perimenopause are so invisible and I also feel like I talk about it too much, but come on MY BRAIN ISN’T WORKING RIGHT.

So fix it.

Ugh. You sound like my ex-husband when he was at his worst. When he was over capacity with his own struggles and couldn’t empathize with mine.

You want me to empathize with you?

Yeah, I guess.

You called me here to empathize with you? (Her tone of voice suggests that she can't believe I am asking her for empathy)

Actually no, I called you here to find out more about what you need.

Ok that’s much more interesting. I need you to stop being all tied up inside, just do all the things you want to do.

OK, why? What would that give you?

Satisfaction of seeing how I turned out.

You don’t like how I turned out when I am anxious?

It’s really hard to watch.

Yeah, I get that!

You do?

Of course!

I thought you wanted to just use anxiety as an excuse to not do anything.

Of course not! I want to do all the things I want to do!

Oh…

This fizzled away there, it's unresolved but I can feel something shifting.

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I love where I am right now

By Andrea Schroeder / November 11, 2024 / daily practice, journaling

For a while now, I have been sharing my Creative Dream Mantras (from the weekly journaling + alchemy kits) every Monday.

This week that didn't feel right. So here I am, honouring my feelings.

I painted a page in my journal bubblegum pink and wrote in big bubble letters: I love where I am right now.

Which is funny, right? Just starting the process of getting a legal divorce. Struggling with peri-menopause, going on hormones and struggling to adjust to the hormones.

And yet... I feel so rooted in myself.

I am making my self care and my needs such a huge priority.

Every morning I am making a coffee, lighting a candle and sitting down at my desk with my art supplies and journaling... it feels like such HIGH QUALITY self care.

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