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You don’t have to feel ready or even competent

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.

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Following your creative instinct to get unstuck

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

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.

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.

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Everything is changing. How do I want to change?

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)

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 - I feel like practicing hope can teach us all a lot right now.

Come dream with us

 

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Creative Dreaming in hard times

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:

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. (More details next week) (Call times are at 1:00 Central, North America)

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 - I feel like practicing hope can teach us all a lot right now.

Come dream with us

 

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

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

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

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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Practicing Hope

I had a different post ready to go for today, but in light of this week's election results in the US it didn't feel right.

For the last week and a half I have been focused on HOPE.

I have been brainstorming a "hope practice" to add to the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership for 2025. Because hope is the foundation for all dreams.

This felt so relevant and important, even before the election results when I actually thought Harris would win.

Now it feels vital.

Without hope, there is no hope.

Without hope, there is no possibility of change.

Without hope, nothing new can be created.

And hope can be surprising easy to practice.

Meal prepping some mason jar salads is hope.

Buying that journal is hope.

Making space in your life for your dreams is hope.

Asking myself... what can I do to support myself in having a more optimistic mindset is hope.

Looking around in your community to see who needs some help is hope.

And most importantly right now, making sauce to feel your actual feelings is hope.

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My creativity is without limits

Every Monday I get a new Creative Dream Mantra from the  journaling + alchemy kits that are a part of Dream Book. This week I got: My creativity is without limits

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:

My creativity is without limits

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.

If My creativity is without limits feels good and encouraging, hold it with you this week. 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.

Your creativity actually IS without limits. Both in terms of whatever art you want to create and in terms of how you create your life and what is possible for you.

The places where you FEEL limited are pointing you to the things you need to work on.

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.

What comes up for me:

First I notice that I drew this with two hands holding a broken heart... I remember thinking about the healing power of creativity when I was drawing this. And now here I am, with a heart that is broken but healing.

I've been doing so much journaling lately - painting and drawing and processing my feelings. It feels SO healing. Divorce is so intense, and it's such an incredible opportunity for healing. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by this but lately I feel really grateful to be where I am.

And I am feeling that LIMITLESSNESS of creativity. Not like it's pushing me to want to "be bigger", just enjoying this sense that there is nothing in my way.

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Making an Un-Sticking Station

I had "Dream Book time" and didn't know what to do - like nothing was really "in process" so I was kind of stumped.

(Once you've done the 2 years of Dream Book lessons, you get the "Dream Book oracle" which shows up in the menu in the sidebar on the Dream Book page - clicking it will take you to a random Dream Book process or lesson)

So I went to the Dream Book lesson checklist - since this is a new Dream Book I am still at the beginning with it. My next thing was: The Un-Sticking Station.

This page is meant to give you space to start exploring using the Un-Sticking practice to get unstuck... of course I use this practice all the time so I don't really need this page. But I wanted to create an Un-Sticking Station page to explore my relationship with Un-Sticking, in relationship specifically to the dreams I am working on now.

It's important to follow these bits of inspiration or insight that come up as a part of our process, "Oh I would like to..." Whatever it is, DO THAT. Find out where it leads!

You Build The Path By Walking means any step counts.

So, I don't know where I am going with this. I was listening to my intuition about what I wanted to put here, with he circle and the items around it (heaviness, sadness, this never works, self doubt + obstacles) and then the lines between them... and suddenly the Un-Sticking Station felt like a hammock or something... it would HOLD ME. Hold me in the truth - being present with these obstacles WHILE ALSO being present with the deeper truths of what I am capable of.

This feels good. And very much unfinished.

The other page is purple now because I was putting purple in a different journal, too much paint plopped out of my tube, and I try to keep the paint as thin as possible in these journals, so I was looking for another page to put the extra on, and this felt right. (I have a lot of paint pens which can write over paint so I can still journal on this page)

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I’ve been having a hard time with my Dream Self

I started a new Dream Self Page in my Dream Book for "being deeper in my creative and spiritual practices". I want to feel more creative and alive and I don't really know what this looks like yet.

This feels like an important part of my other dreams and also like a dream in itself, so I wanted to explore this version of me who is really DEEP in the practices. This version of me seems to NATURALLY get into her practices and not get distracted by other things the way I have been lately.

I started the page by giving in a title and put the date in the corner and... nothing.

I was a little annoyed with myself for putting the date in, because then I could see how long it had been without me coming back and doing anything with it.

At the two week mark, I started journaling about how it felt that I am so stuck with this. That this dream self seems so far away from me. I felt like I had failed... but then I journaled about how hard it's been to adjust to this medication I am on and how really - I AM DOING MY BEST.

And then I started thinking about how it doesn't matter what it looks like - I am doing AMAZING because I am showing up. It's fine to just bitch in your journal about how stuck you are, and doing so is so much better than avoiding your journal because you are stuck.

Then I started working on the Dream Self and it was amazing, it felt like I was really getting in touch with his part of me.

Then I started a list of things that can help me be this version of me more often.

And I noticed that I am doing a lot of these things, and there are ways I can be better at supporting myself, and new things to add to the mix.

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I take bold action in service to my dream

Every Monday I get a new Creative Dream Mantra from the  journaling + alchemy kits that are a part of Dream Book.

 This week I got: I take bold action in service to my dream.

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 take bold action in service to my dream.

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.

How it lands for me:

First, it feels like an invitation. Then I immediately reflect on: am I being BOLD enough?

But really, ANY action is BOLD when it comes to your dreams.

And often, any action, even the tiniest little thing, actually FEELS bold because you're stepping out of "what is" and creating space for "what could be"

So, yes, I am being bold enough. We all are.

And then, I feel this wave of supportive energy. Like my actions are building a foundation that I can relax into.

Is relax the right word?

Like - I can trust myself to keep doing what I need to do, because I AM doing what I need to do. I am taking bold action in service to my dream. So this is bold action in service to my healing and self care, too.

It feels like an invitation and encouragement to KEEP GOING.

How does it land for you?

If I take bold action in service to my dream feels good and encouraging, hold it with you this week. 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. 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.

Come dream with us

 

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I set a clear intention but then the opposite happened

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This came up on a group coaching call recently. And I said that this is something I had been meaning to write about on my blog because it happens SO often.

So imagine that you are here, where you are. And your dream is there, where it is. Between you..... are some outer and inner obstacles.

If you’re not facing your dream directly and committed to taking steps towards it, then you’re not really aware of those obstacles. I know you’re aware of some of them, and you’re like “Yikes! I don’t want to deal with that!” and so you’re not taking any action. But you’re actually NOT all that aware of what these obstacles are actually all about, you’re seeing them from a distance.

When you face your dream directly and begin to take steps towards it - you are actually moving yourself right into the obstacles. You don’t take one step and land in your dream, you take a step and land in the obstacle because that’s what’s between you and your dream.

Sometimes you land in the obstacle you knew about, sometimes you land in an obstacle you didn’t realise was there. Either scenario can be jarring. And it feels like the obstacle came to you but actually you went to it. You’re the one who made a move.

Being up close with this obstacle is progress towards your dream.

Avoiding the obstacles IS avoiding your dream.

Resources from the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership:

The Obstacle Is The Way Through: alchemy meditation for transforming your obstacle

The Un-Sticking Station: the classic way to "un-stick" any stuck, or obstacle

Dream Plan Kit: to work on a plan to overcome the obstacle

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