Even though they all seem different: starting a creative business, moving to a new country, starting a family, moving into your Dream Loft Condo, learning a new hobby…
Actually there is only one Creative Dream: To be who you really are.
You don’t want money for the sake of money or success for the sake of success.
There is something much deeper than that driving your Creative Dreams.
It’s your purpose. Your authentic creative spirit.
I use the word magic a lot but it’s not magic at all.
The part of you that dreams the dream is the part of you that lives in a space of possibility, love and spirit. This is your higher self or your divine spark or your creative spirit or whatever you want to call it.
This part of you dreams without limits because it knows that wrapped up inside the dream is the mechanism for it’s fulfillment. That’s just how dreams work.
Meanwhile, here you are living in this place where dreams don’t just automatically come true. Where things are actually really hard. Where obstacles and fears and stuckness are solid and true and real.
And when you start moving towards your dream, doing the things you think you have to do to make it happen, you tend to run up against those very real obstacles, fears and stucknesses. And it can start to feel impossibly hard.
The world is not always a safe place – for us or for our dreams.
Creative Dreams (like Creative Dreamers) are magic and powerful and lots of great things, but they are also delicate and vulnerable. This is especially true when they’re new, but not only then.
This month I got so lost in the excitement of possibility and the magic of bringing dreams to life that I forget how important safety is.
And of course, because life is magic, life sent me some experiences last week to remind me.
How a lack of safety not only makes it impossible for a dream to grow but can also cause it to un-grow.
And how safety needs to be the first thing I put in the container, or else the dreams cannot grow.
So. Safety.
The Most Important Thing.
I am so sorry that I forgot this for even one second.
Without safety first, even possibility isn’t possible.
Safety can be a cloak of invisibility for when your dream is not ready to be seen.
Or a really fantastic parka when your dream is in the arctic in winter (like me!).
Or just the right teacher who teaches you just the right thing so you don’t have to figure everything out by trial and error.
Or time to work on your dream in a place where you won’t be criticized or rushed.
Or, of course, an incubator.
Safe. Space. For Dreamers. And their Dreams.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I am luxuriating in the magic of safety as I am opening up the Creative Dream Incubator Online Classroom today and watching it fill up with the most beautiful Creative Dreams and Dreamers. Everything from clear bright shining dreams to teeny tiny unsure and not-quite-ready-to-shine little baby dream seeds.
So beautiful they way they come together in this space of safety and nurturing and possibility.
And I am overflowing with gratitude for how much each of you trust me with your dream. That’s huge. HUGE!
And I promise you: your dream is safe with me.
And YOU are safe with me.
Yes, this is Big Life-Changing Dream-Growing stuff. But we do it in ways that feel safe. In ways that honour your tender little dream and your tender little heart and your tender little self.
I am here to help you grow your dream. And the best place for me to do that is in the Incubator.
Registration for the Creative Dream Incubator will close tonight.
Click here to read more and to join.
If you have any questions about the Creative Dream Incubator, use the contact form on this page to send me an email.
PS: I won’t be blogging for the rest of this week – I’m keeping my focus firmly on getting my Creative Dreamers all settled into the Incubator. Month Of Possibility posts will be back next Monday and then I have something even better in store for February.
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I could use a bit of safety right now. Thanks for the reminder!
This is so beautiful. Reading this made me realize that what might be holding me back from pursuing my dreams is the need to feel safe.