OK yes this is the second post today - I won't send one tomorrow 🙂
But - Today is my 14th anniversary of being full time with the Creative Dream Incubator!
It’s such an awkward way to say it, but feels like the most honest. I started doing the work that grew into this in 2007, while working a day job, which I left at the end of December 2010.
But I started exploring creativity, spirituality and how on earth do we actually, logistically pursue our creative dreams and live as our actual selves in high school, and then much more seriously at 22 (which was…. yikes!…. 1996) when I had a degree in fashion design, a passion for textile art, and no clue how to support myself with either without taking the kinds of jobs that felt like they destroyed my soul.
So, it’s more accurate to say that today, Jan 1 2025, is the 14 year anniversary of me figuring out how to financially support myself with my creative dreams.
Which I am wildly grateful for!
AND I have an extremely complicated relationship with business and money within the colonialist capitalist system/culture I live in.
And I want to be really clear - I am not getting rich with this work! And especially this last year, between the divorce, my mortgage coming up for renewal right when interest rates were the highest, and the general state of the economy… it’s been hard.
BUT/AND I feel so much fulfillment, freedom and creative magic in my work life.
And I feel SO optimistic for the future.
In the big picture… THIS IS WHO I WANT TO BE and being able to BE that person is so valuable to me.
This is what pursuing our dreams really brings us - OURSELVES.
There is so much healing and magic in that and I have no words to describe how grateful I am to hold space for others in this journey.
And I cannot wait to see what we’ll create together in the Year of Hope.
The Year of Hope is a simple practice for PRACTICING hope…. and it is a sturdy container for transforming the places within us where hope is nowhere to be found…. and it is a support system for taking what you learn in that work and putting it out into your life and/or the world.
AND… having a more hopeful mindset will support your wellbeing and ALL of your dreams.
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