Every Monday in 2025 there will be a new journal prompt in the Year of Hope classroom in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Leave them in the comments at the bottom of that page so we can discuss this as a group. The discussions already have been so good! Practicing hope in community is MAGIC.

The news hurts my head.

The answer isn’t to stop reading all news. Though part of the answer is to find the right balance between being informed and losing my mind by keeping up with everything that is happening. We all know that the shock and awe is happening on purpose, in order to impact us exactly how it’s impacting us.

So what do we do?

I am making art. Feeling my feelings. Meditating. Practicing the best self care I can.

Looking for places where I can make a difference.

I am deep in the Year of Hope project. And one thing I find hopeful today is the growing movements in Canada to stop the far-right from taking over our country at the next election this year. I’ve never seen this much grassroots political engagement ahead of an election and that is hopeful.

And I am really trying to validate my feelings without getting stuck in them. Another balancing act.

But mostly - I think I need to accept that I am where I am. As a sensitive person, I am struggling with it all. So I need to validate the struggle.

I have/had SO MUCH RESISTANCE TO THIS but when I can do it, everything feels easier.

It's another "new normal" to adjust to. And we're going to adjust. And we're going to respond. (I know loads of people are already responding). And we're going to create a better world for everyone. This is not the end.

When I drew that picture about my head hurting - that made it feel better.

Expressing feelings helps process them and makes more space to see them.

And I want to point out that a three year old could have drawn this. It's not about "making Art".

I think drawing your feelings is MORE effective when the drawings don't look anything like "real Art".

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