Manifest Your Dream Life

Finding the next layer [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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 was struck with a realization this week...

My "default setting" (I don't know why it just feels better to describe it this way, than to say "the pattern I am in") is to work REALLY REALLY hard. Doesn't matter what the situation, I have this belief that hard work will solve anything.

Driving the hard work is the belief that I can work hard enough to EARN validation.

This isn't a new realization.

But this week I saw it in a new way, like I got to the next layer of it.

And I experienced it a 100% futile, which felt like a miracle.

Like - there is no reason to work harder that just isn't the solution.

This is a miracle because as I said "default setting" is the best way to describe this pattern. So it's how I learned to see the world - it's my LENSE.

The lenses through which we see the world tend to be invisible to us because it's just how we see things. Even when we are super self aware. Even when we work on this stuff all the time. It's still really hard to see the things that are invisible to us!

So this IS a miracle, to see it in a new light.

And to choose to take a different approach.

So I am just really grateful to see this in a new light this week, and to see that I have space to make a different choice.

And for those who have been following for a long time - it was in 2021 that my dream was sending me all of those "slow the fuck down!" messages.... and I keep receiving them in new ways. (Membership members: Get the Slow The Fuck Down BE as Powerful, Creative + Magnetic as you ARE classes here.

No call this week as we wind down a little for the holidays. If you missed it - get the replay of the Goodbye 2024 Releasing Ceremony here.

Next Friday we've got the December New Moon call.

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Resisting my routine [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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've done this weekly reflection practice for years and sometimes I have a lot of resistance to it.

This is one of those times.

You know that week between Christmas and New Years when everything is kind of weird and it's like you can't stay in your regular routines? I feel the pull of that already.

This year I am dreaming of a last-week-of-the-year full of art and sewing and great snacks.

But here I am, a few weeks away from that, why am I in so much resistance to doing this thing this week?

I guess because I am getting ready for the Goodbye 2024 Release Ceremony, that larger process of reflection kind of eclipses this smaller process of reflection.

Having a a few regular routines around reflection and intention setting does mean that sometimes the larger routines conflict with the smaller ones. Do I want to just skip this for this week and focus on my yearly reflection?

Oh no, a part of me does want to do this.

I am reminding myself that I have multiple routines for reflection and intention setting (this weekly one, the monthly new moon ritual and the annual reflection) because without consistent reflection, all of this creative dreaming doesn't get TRACTION.

This reflective practices help us learn from our process, refine our approach and narrow in on our dreams.

So, filling out the sheet...

OH WOW!

Looking at what has been happening, what I am feeling and learning... this new inspiration/idea is taking place for a new way to approach how I am working with my dream right now.

This also feels like it feeds the Year of Hope project with some ideas for ways to fill those pages with hope.

This feels VERY generative. I'm glad I worked through that resistance and did the Dream Status Report practice this week!!

🦄⚡️The Goodbye 2024 Releasing Ceremony is today!

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

 

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BE the magic [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

 

One of the messages I have been receiving from my Dream Self for... years? is that the version of me who has my dream STAYS AWAY FROM OVERWHELM.

There has been a lot for to learn in exploring that. And a lot of ways to approach that.

Like - can I try to control all of the conditions of my life "better" so that I am happy with everything? (LOL I can TRY)

Or - can I just worked HARDER "just for now" to get to where I want to be... and then relax and not be overwhelmed?

And it can get complicated because pursuing our dreams does put us out of our comfort zone and so it can be easy to be overwhelmed and staying away from that can mean staying away from growth and it doesn't feel like that's what my Dream Self is telling me to do.

Since late summer, I am making lifestyle changes that help a lot.

Looking back it feels like... when my marriage ended and then my step-son was suddenly life-threatening ill, I retreated in a lot of ways. Everything was SO stressful it did feel like my only option.

And then that retreat turned into a healing space to recover from all of this.

And then slowly it shifted... I wasn't retreating from the world anymore ... I was just spending a lot of quiet time alone and enjoying the FUCK out of it.

And now I feel a lot more connected to that dream self who stays away from overwhelm. I'm not AVOIDING overwhelm because that doesn't quite feel like the right energy, I am just enjoying the fuck out of feeling calm and present and cozy.

I feel creative, powerful and magnetic.

(Membership members, get the BE as powerful, creative + magnetic as you ARE class here)

I am not moving as FAST as I used to but I feel more powerful. And I am really loving this.

So that is summed up in my focus for next week: BE the magic.

🦄⚡️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.

 

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Focus + Intention [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

 

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

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 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.

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.

 

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

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

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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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How do I want to practice hope? [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

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. Now I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet instead of on the computer, which I did for YEARS. I LOVE THIS. It just feels different on paper and I love that I have a growing stacks of Dream Status Reports sitting on my desk.

Lots of grounding this week.

After a few really difficult months adjusting to medication, I FEEL BETTER. My brain is working pretty consistently! I feel like I am finding the ground beneath me. This is so good.

I'm starting to figure out a program about HOPE for 2025 and the structure of it changes every day right now as I brainstorm, which is pretty normal for my creative process.

But I am realizing that I haven't created a year-long program since before the pandemic. Before my peri-menopause got bad. Before my marriage ended. Before I turned 50. It's like - I am in such a different place in so many ways, HOW DO I CREATE A PROGRAM NOW?

It's a lot to explore! I AM LOVING IT. I am slowing down and going deeper, in so many ways.

🦄⚡️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.

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.

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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Devotion + Trust [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

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. Now I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet instead of on the computer, which I did for YEARS. I LOVE THIS. It just feels different on paper and I love that I have a growing stacks of Dream Status Reports sitting on my desk.

Lots of LEARNINGS this week.

Just from spending a lot of time journaling, reflecting, processing... I started to connect some MAJOR dots between "places where I feel stuck" and "places where I am acting out a pattern from childhood".

Like WHOA this is a thing from childhood I hadn't even really noticed until this week, and suddenly it's like... maybe this is the root of all the things that don't quite feel right.

It's so interesting how this happens... things start to feel more "not right" which feels like we are going in the wrong direction, but actually we are GOING TOWARDS CLARITY.

Always always always always follow the thoughts + feeling that come up when you work with your dream. They matter. They are showing you something. It could get uncomfortable along the way but they are leading somewhere really good.

My focus for next week is: devotion and trust.

What my Dream Status Report showed me that right now it's important I don't WORK or EFFORT for my dream, that I BE DEVOTED. Which could look like work at times... but feel completely different.

I have some ideas for a daily practice of drawing my dreams... excited to play with it.

🦄⚡️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.

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.

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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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)

Come dream with us

 

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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.

Come dream with us

 

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Soul + Space [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

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. Now I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet instead of on the computer, which I did for YEARS. I LOVE THIS. It just feels different on paper and I love this.

I'm looking back through my reports form the last few months. So helpful to see the little things I am figuring out along the way.

These "little things" are adding up to real changes - I am feeling more stable and grounded in what I want to do next. I am feeling more stable and grounded in my nourishing routines.

Slowly, plans are coming into focus: a new way to promote my work and a new project. After months of just... being in the mystery with this kind of stuff is the best way I can describe it... it feels so good to have some clarity and be making solid plans.

AND I am remembering to be gentle. Now that I have plans, I want to race ahead and DO ALL THE THINGS but I need to go at the pace that is right for my body and mind, not just my creative spirit, lol.

My focus for next week is: soul and space.

Lots of "meetings with the souls of things" using the Dream Lab meditation.

My Dream Book feels ALIVE right now, I am giving it time every morning before anything else and that time is feeling really rich and rewarding.

🦄⚡️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.

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.

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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Ground + Acclimate [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

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. Now I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet instead of on the computer, which I did for YEARS. I LOVE THIS. It just feels different on paper and I love this.

I want to highlight that last week my Friday post was all about disappointment and this week is the opposite.

This week I want to cry because I feel so grateful and happy to be where I am.

I've had three days in a row of feeling exactly like how I had hoped going on hormones would help me feel. I feel like I am 39 and I have never heard of perimenopause, lol. I am optimistic, creative and clear-headed, I have energy and I am so grateful to feel this way. AND I understand that this may be a part of the swings I have been experiencing and there is no guarantee that I will stay feeling exactly like this.

And with my dreams - for quite a while I've been in the process of figuring out how I want to be showing up in certain areas of my business, and feeling like I've been flailing around and not getting anywhere. And then this week it all CLICKED.

This happens! Things click! IF we stay in the process, we do work through it. Even when we are just circling around the answer, the process of circling is helpful.

This week my focus is on grounding and acclimating.

Feeling so grateful for the way my relationship with myself and my dreams has shifted, feeling grateful for new systems and routines I have built... it feels like a miracle to be where I am right now, and I want to take the time to get grounded and acclimated to this place, with THIS relationship with myself, my dreams and my creativity. I know I need these inner changes to feel really STEADY before I do the next part of the outer work.

🦄⚡️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.

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.

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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Disappointment is a part of the process [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

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.

Now I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet instead of on the computer, which I did for YEARS. I LOVE THIS. It just feels different on paper.

It was another rough week at Creative Dream Headquarters.

I saw my doctor, all of my symptoms are the usual side effects and we're still hopeful that I will be adjusted to this medication in the next month or so but in the meantime... YUCK.

I'm also realizing that, all this time I was thinking if I finally went to my doctor for help then that would mean... I would for sure GET help. But that's not necessarily true... maybe my doctor won't be able to help and I will need to go a different route.

This is SO like creative dreaming where you have this idea about something, and you are so sure about it... and then once you set out down that path - you find out how wrong you were.

It can be really disappointing, especially if it took a lot for you to set out on that path, and you were counting on it working out.

In the bigger picture, we always learn from this, we can alway apply that learning to figuring out the next steps but in the moment it can be really brutal. Membership members - remember the disappointment practices in the Library of Inner Work practices.

So, that's where I am. Lot of disappointment that I'm not feeling better yet which, at times, turns into fear that I will never feel better. I know this is not true AND I am just being in the mess with it as well as I can.

🦄⚡️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.

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.

 

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Still finding that sweet spot between depth and strategy [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

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.

Now I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet instead of on the computer, which I did for YEARS. I LOVE THIS. It just feels different on paper.

This week was rough.

Adjusting to this medication I am on could take 3 months, and every time I am feeling better I think "this is it I'm adjusted!" and then I crash again.

I am remembering that we don't dream in a vacuum, we dream in the world, as it is, in our lives, as they are. And things will not always been smooth.

We can't wait for "things to be easier" we need to engage with our dreams from within our lives as they actually are. That's where the magic happens.

Filling in the prompts this morning I saw... my explorations of DEPTH and STRATEGY, now STRATEGY/STRUCTURE is where I need to focus, so I'll keep exploring next week.

I am looking for a new way of working, like a shift in my own routines not much WHAT I do, but HOW, and... making changes is chaotic sometimes. That's how this feels.

Routine has always been HUGE for me for my own self care and emotional wellbeing. So changing routines brings up a lot of stuff. It's good to remember that, to accept that it may be hard to re-arrange things, and remember I will settle back into new routines, routines that are a better fit for where I am now and where I want to be 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.

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.

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.

Check out the calendar of upcoming calls. Make a plan to join us live or catch a replay.

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Finding that sweet spot between depth and strategy [Weekly Dream Status Report]

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.

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.

Now I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet instead of on the computer, which I did for YEARS. I LOVE THIS. It just feels different on paper.

This was ANOTHER amazing week.

That's two in a row, lol!

I already wrote about the last-minute retreat I went on. It was SO GOOD to get away like that.

Wandering around in the woods I had this felt sense of how POWERFUL our creativity is.

Getting away from everything helped me shift my perspective and look at some changes I want to make.

I've been doing this work full time for almost 14 years! All the thought and effort I put in to figuring out my routines and ways of doing things served me so well over the years... AND... it's time to re-evaluate. This feels exciting AND it's a lot to step back far enough to re-evaluate.

Filling in the weekly Dream Status Report journaling sheet this morning this was clear: I need to find the sweet spot between DEPTH and STRATEGY.

I am feeling called to be deeper in my creativity and deeper in my healing and deeper in the creative dream process. AND I want a clearer strategy that supports me in this.

So I am drawing that ven diagram - of depth and strategy - and exploring.

🦄⚡️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.

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.

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.

Check out the calendar of upcoming calls. Make a plan to join us live or catch a replay.

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