All week we've been exploring Creative Dreaming VS The End Of The World and all of the unique issues we are facing at this time.
This is hard stuff.
BUT.
We can GROW THROUGH our challenges and that's what the world is asking of us right now.
So for today's episode we're focusing on moving THROUGH this in a powerful way.
Watch it here:
I'm sharing a new episode every day this week.
So far we have talked about: feeling like you don't deserve to pursue your dreams when there is so much upheaval in the world, taking better care of yourself when you're overwhelmed by the news and how to handle the overwhelm we're feeling so we can act more powerfully.
Tomorrow I'll be sharing an alchemy meditation for Energy Clearing.
We are all processing A LOT right now. Of course we're more overwhelmed!
There are terrifying images on the news every day. All the climate scientists in the world agree that we are facing catastrophic climate change and yet none of our political systems seem to be able to respond quickly (yet!).
We can't just stick our heads in the sand about all of this and yet trying to stay informed is incredibly overwhelming.
So what do we do? That's what today's episode is all about:
Watch it here:
I'm sharing a new episode every day this week.
So far we have talked about feeling like you don't deserve to pursue your dreams when there is so much upheaval in the world, and taking better care of yourself when you're overwhelmed by the news.
Today we start to dig a little deeper into what you can do to respond creatively to the problems in the world, and how this is connected to your dream.
Next we'll be exploring:
- Becoming an effective Change-Maker
- Alchemy meditation for Energy Clearing
The world is very stressful right now and stress does make it hard to create!
A lot of us have been feeling just flattened, which is a totally normal reaction when the world is falling apart.
But... I would say that the world needs your creative work, now more than ever. And certainly YOU need your creative work, because your creativity is a powerful healing force.
So we've got to find ways to keep the creativity flowing. That's what today's episode of Creative Dreaming VS The End Of The World POP UP PODCAST and Video Series is about.
Watch it here:
I'll be sharing a new episode every day this week.
Yesterday we talked about feeling like you don't deserve to pursue your dreams when there is so much upheaval in the world. For the rest of the week we'll be exploring:
- I'm more easily overwhelmed than usual
- Becoming an effective Change-Maker
- Alchemy meditation for Energy Clearing
One thing I forgot to mention in this episode is that doing the things you can do make a difference DOES help you be less overwhelmed.
For every problem we are facing in the world, there are already SOLUTIONS that exist. There are already people working on those solutions.
Where can you get involved and be a part of the change you want to see?
Donating money, attending marches, volunteering, educating yourself. There is *SO MUCH* we can do to be a part of the change, and I know I feel MUCH BETTER when I feel good about how I am being a part of the solution.
This is a question I've been seeing a lot of artists, coaches, healers and would-be world-changers asking... do I deserve to keep pursing my dreams right now?
It feels... icky.
We don't want to put our heads in the sand about what's happening in the world and keep skipping happily towards our dreams... but we also don't want to sacrifice everything trying to singlehandedly save the world, right?
So how do we find a balance?
That's what our first episode in the Creative Dreaming vs The End Of The World Pop-Up Podcast And Video Series is all about.
Watch it now:
I'll be sharing a new episode every day this week.
These are the rest of the topics we'll be exploring:
- I'm so stressed out by the news that I have no energy to create
- I'm more easily overwhelmed than usual
- Becoming an effective Change-Maker
- Alchemy meditation for Energy Clearing
A few years ago, I used to wake up and literally JUMP out of bed, excited to go on new creative adventures.
These days - I tend to wake up with a mild-to-heavy sense of dread.
It's very disorienting.
Why would I feel this way when I have so much that I am happy about in my life?
Well look at the news.
There is so much chaos in the world.
Of course it's hard to process all of this and still muster up enthusiasm for our dreams.
We are living in unprecedented times.
The climate changes that are happening now are enough to scare anyone.
There is also a cultural revolution/awakening happening. We're waking up to the realities of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia... all the destructive ways that power is wielded in our world.
Personally, I've been learning more about colonialism and Canadian history from an Indigenous perspective and struggling with what it really means to live on land that was stolen while those it was stolen from are being pushed down by systemic racism.
This is what radical transformation looks like.
Waking up.
Seeing from a new perspective.
Using that new perspective to really SEE where you've been messing up so the you can do better.
Taking brave steps and living your new truth.
Being in it is MESSY.
We're all feeling it.
I mean - how do you keep waking up every morning to pursue your dreams when the world is falling apart around you?
That's the question I'm seeing asked everywhere these days.
This is what I do:
I make space for the dread I feel when I wake up in the morning.
I do NOT pretend it's not there, slap on a happy face and go about my day - which is what I want to do most mornings.
I sit with it. I process it.
Like I teach in Creative Dream Alchemy - you use what you've got to create what you want.
I wake up with dread and process it to create the clarity and inspiration I need to be able to show up in the most authentic and helpful way I can.
This is all we can do.
SHOW UP in the most authentic and helpful way possible.
I believe that your dreams will always lead you towards this, because they are always leading you towards your True Self.
And I believe that it's more important than ever to really process our feelings so we stop being so tangled up in our stuff that we can't show up in the most helpful and authentic way possible.
I have a LOT to say about this.
So I recorded a POP UP PODCAST and video series about it!!
Creative Dreaming VS The End Of The World is a 5 episode podcast + video series to explore all of this in much more depth.
Overwhelm. Self care. Not knowing how to respond to what's happening.
Not feeling like you DESERVE to have a dream when there is so much shit in the world.
We're going to explore it all.
It starts Monday, September 23 right here on my blog.
This class was so sweet! It was a real treat to teach with Jodie.
In this 37 minute class, we explore the 5 myths and 3 truths you need to understand to be able to make your dream real, and share 1 essential practice for breaking through obstacles and getting to your dream.
Watch it now:
What’s next?
- Jodie has a free ‘Incredible You’ Guided Meditation that helps you to connect to the truth of you and your dream.
- Jodie also offers 1 on 1 sessions to help you to go deeper to overcome those inner blocks that are holding you back from your dream so you can enjoy more success and fulfilment without stressing out or burning out.
- I send free emails to help you be more BRAVE with your dreams
- And my amazing Dream Book: a totally new approach to journaling that helps you navigate the path with more COURAGE, POWER and EASE.
And those journal prompts we talk about in the class?
Here they are:
- What’s your biggest takeaway from the class?
- What are you avoiding?
- What is your inner wisdom guiding you towards?
- What does your true creative power need you to tap into right now?
- What’s your next step?
I am hoping you're already signed up fo my emails where I show you how to use your journal to be more BRAVE with your dreams.
Your possibilities will grow and expand when you show up for your dream in this way.
Sometimes it feels like everyone is looking for "the big secret" to how to have what we want...
But there is no secret.
The answer is simple: If you want to change you life, you need to show up for the change!!
I made this video which shows the process...
As you can see, this whole process of making a dream real depends on one thing: YOU.
It's YOUR CHOICE to show up for your dream, or not show up for your dream.
And that choice plays a HUGE role in determining how your life unfolds.
Showing up for your dream means showing up for your SELF.
Are you too busy for daily practice? Showing up for your dream regularly NOURISHES YOU, it's f form of self-care you especially need if your life is too busy!
Are you "not ready" to get serious about your dream? Showing up for your dream regularly GROWS YOU so you'll become ready.
Do you have no clue what to DO to work on your dream? Showing up for your dream regularly GROWS YOUR DREAM.
There is *so much* magic and freedom that become available to you when you make the commitment to really show up for your dream.
You can *always* show up for your dream. Nothing in your life has to change before you can do this.
Once you've learned the Dream Lab practice - you can do it any time! You can do it on your commute to work or during your lunch break - that's what I used to do, before I quit my day job to live my dream on Jan 1, 2011.
If you show up for your dream, your dream WILL show up for you.
I've had a near-daily practice of working with my dreams for over 20 years.
I have lots of tips and tricks to help make it fun and engaging, so you STAY WITH IT. Because the only way you won't get to where you want to be is if you give up.
My new class, Dream Book, is a GENIUS journaling system that makes it easier and more fun to keep showing up - no matter what's in front of you.
Plus all the support you need to navigate the inner and outer ups and downs of pursuing a dream.
It's good to fail.
You already know this. The internet is full of memes about the magic of failing and yet... the truth is sometimes failing just feels like failure and it's a shitty feeling.
Last month I set a really big goal for myself. A goal that make me laugh it was so ridiculous.
It happened during the monthly alchemy + coaching call I lead in the Creative Dream Circle. I was really feeling the magic and this big, ridiculous goal just came to me.
And I said yes to it, with my whole heart.
It felt funny, it felt ridiculous, but it also felt inspiring.
So I really went after it....
And I failed spectacularly.
But I feel like a success because I spent the month PLAYING WITH this way of dreaming bigger and thinking bigger.
Sure, nothing changed for me in the outer world but working with this big goal for a month absolutely ROCKED my inner world.
It showed me more clearly where and how and why I hold back.
It showed me more clearly what I want next for my life.
I feel deeply changed by this experience.
And it inspired a whole new way of relating to my work, it inspired a whole new way of putting myself out there, which I am now excited to start working on.
Right now, I'm so glad I went for the big goal and failed. It put me on an amazing new path.
But of course there have been times in the past when I have set smaller, more reasonable goals, and I failed miserably and FELT LIKE a huge failure.
This is just the nature of dreaming.
You set a goal for yourself, you aim to move yourself in a specific direction, and then... well almost no one ends up exactly where they set out to be.
You end up where you end up.
And the important work is what happens next.
(This is also why it's important to put DATES on your goals, or else they just kind of fade away into oblivion)
The important work comes after you've set the goal and.. you end up where you end up.
If you process your feelings about where you ended up, you WILL find a gift in it. The gift could be clarity about what you REALLY want or a deeper understanding of where you hold back with your dreams or coming face to face with the thing in you that needs healing so you CAN move forward, it could be something entirely different.
But there is always a gift.
And when you process your feelings and receive that gift, then you can use the gift to set the next goal and move towards it.
It's this long term process of setting goals, then looking back on what happened with the goal, processing all of your feelings about that, listening to your inner wisdom about what to do next, and then setting the next goal.
THEN REPEAT.
It's a circle.
If you're just setting random goals and not looking back, reflecting, processing, connecting to inner wisdom and using all of this information to set the next goal then... you're not going to create any kind of momentum towards your dream.
You need to connect the circle. And then keep moving in it.... so it becomes a wheel.
You absolutely cannot fail as long as you stay engaged in this way.
It will take the time it takes, but you WILL get there if you stay on the path.
This is why I do a monthly call in the Creative Dream Circle.
We do alchemy work to connect more deeply with our intuition and dreams, reflect on last month's goals, process our feelings about what's happening, and use everything we learned to set a goal for the next month.
We do this *every month*
And each month we go deeper and deeper into it. (And yes everybody misses a month here and there, that's fine... as long as you keep coming back to it)
So THAT is why I could set this ridiculously HUGE goal, and fail spectacularly at it, and receive healing and inspiration from that experience instead of feeling like a failure.
That's why I am moving forward with more inspiration and clarity than I had before I failed at my goal.
You NEED to be able to fail in order to get your dream.
If every time you fail that knocks you off the path - you're not going to get there. If failure is knocking you off the path then you need more support for processing the failures.
Again - I can help you with this! The Creative Dream Circle is full of tools for working through this stuff.
Lately my Facebook feed is absolutely flooded with ads for online business training where each person is telling the same story.
- I tried to build my dream business.
- I struggled. And then I struggled some more.
- I had $0.67 left in the bank.
- And then I found the secret (!!!)
- Then I made $1,000,000 in 6 months
- Now - sign up for my free masterclass so I can share the secret with you so you don't have to struggle.
Guess what friends?! WE NEED THE STRUGGLE.
The struggle is a part of it.
Important things happen in the process of struggling with your dream.
As Joseph Campbell so eloquently said it: Where you stumble is where your treasure lies.
There are so many gifts to be found in being in the struggle.
This is where you grow. This is where you heal. This is where you uncover your superpowers!
IF YOU STAY WITH IT.
Trying to avoid the struggle is stupid.
You don't need to avoid the struggle, you need to learn to work with it more deeply.
You need practices and tools that help you excavate the DEEP magic, lessons and growth that are at the core of the thing you struggle with the most.
That's why I do things differently in the Creative Dream Incubator.
I invite you to be on the path with me, to dig into the struggle and suck every bit of magic out of it that we can find.
Yes - I share my tools, but everyone uses them in their own unique way. One of the things that really delights me about the Creative Dream Circleis how I share an idea, and then the Circle members take it and run with it - each in their own unique direction.
We're in this together. But we're each on our own path.
YOUR intuition. YOUR ideas. YOUR magic. <--- These are the things you need to build your dream.
In the Creative Dream Circle, everyone is supported in creating their own unique path to their own unique dreams.
Now is the perfect time to join.
Our August Alchemy Class + Coaching Call is happening on August 27.
You do NOT have to attend live to get all the support you need! Just watch the recording after the call, and leave your thoughts, ideas, and questions in the comments and we'll discuss it there 🙂
This is the kind of support that grows even the most impossible of dreams.
>>> Join us here.
There is a new monthly payment option! You can be in the Circle getting all of the high quality support you need for only $33 USD.
Even after 25 years of living as a dreamer, I still struggle with my dreams.
What if I admit I want it, but it turns out I can’t have it?
What if I find out I’m not good enough?
What if I go after this dream and mess up my life?
What if I put my ideas out there and people steal them?
What if everything changes and I don’t like it?
If you're stuck: GOOD.
Getting stuck means you're actually trying to show up for your dream. The only people who never get stuck are the people who are not trying.
Getting stuck is actually PURPOSEFUL too. Because when you really SHOW UP for your dream you'll be forced to stare down those fears, doubts, inner critics and limiting beliefs that have held you back until now.
This is actually how you grow towards your dream, by facing the hard parts, by bringing them the healing, transformation and growth they need.
(I did a free class where I take you through this process, called The Hard Parts Are Where The Magic Happens. You can sign up for the replay here.)
There is only one guarantee when it comes to dreams: if you don’t try you will surely fail.
I show up for my dreams EVERY DAY.
I get stuck ALL THE TIME.
And I am grateful when I get stuck because it's through the process of getting UN-STUCK that I have made my dreams real. I have healed and changed and grown so much by working with my stucks.
I want YOU to join me in this work.
The Creative Dream Circle is my online training centre and community of kindred spirit creative dreamers. This is where we show up for our dreams.
We have a private blog where I write every day and invite everyone to come in and play with me. Plus monthly coaching calls for generating MOMENTUM towards your dream, weekly journaling kits and an extensive library of dream-growing classes and tools.
We are stronger together.
Together we practice showing up for our dreams and I'd love to have YOU join the group - I added a new $33 monthly option to make the payments as easy as possible.