The Self-Awareness and Self-Compassion Podcast
Ever need a word of encouragement and a story that feels like a warm hug for your soul? Join life coach Blaze Schwaller as she explores what it means to be imperfect, human, and striving for a fully engaged and colorful life in this series about stretching to reach your highest potential while honoring the full range of your emotions and experiences. Whether she's talking about crippling self-doubt or the joy of befriending feral cats, expect these poignant conversations to be your weekly boost of self-acceptance, humor, and motivation. Formerly the Full Spectrum Feeling Podcast.
The Self-Awareness and Self-Compassion Podcast
Dreaming a New Version of Yourself into Life
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🌿 This podcast is now archived, but these conversations around self-awareness and self-compassion still matter deeply.
I now continue this work on Anchored & Alive with Blaze, a seasonal approach to emotional regulation, burnout recovery, and building a steady, supportive relationship with yourself. Listen here.
I love the actual physical act of dreaming, but I also am a fan of consciously dreaming up new ideas and new thoughts about how I might be if I tried out something new.
By thinking about how I might feel or act if I already had what I think I want now, it lets me understand if there’s a deeper need underneath my desires, or if I already have a lot of what I want.
Conscious dreaming also lets me figure out how to amplify the feelings I want to have more of and attract more of that into my daily experience. It doesn’t happen haphazardly, it happens with conscious effort and making myself aware of opportunities and thoughts as they arise.
Daydreaming always felt so much more important than adults told me when I was a kid, and now I think many adults like me resonate with vision-boarding our ideas to make them a reality. It’s what our species is built to do – we LOVE to dream!
And it turns out, dreaming serves a big purpose, to help us come up with the ways we will achieve our goals, merge with the feelings we want to create more of, and have fun along the way.
What are you dreaming about this year? I hope it is fun! Be easy with yourself as you take the small steps towards making it a reality - slower is faster!
If this episode supported you, you may enjoy my current work on Anchored & Alive with Blaze, where these ideas are explored through seasonal rhythms and deeper integration.
