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What Your Dreams Require Of You
I am of the opinion that most humans require more than food, water, and sleep to survive and thrive. We also need witnessing, listening, loving touch, time for quiet, and time for movement. Dreams need witnessing, too, in order to survive and thrive. For the past five mornings. I’ve decided not to write down my dreams. It started on Thursday, three mornings before my bi-weekly meeting with my dream teacher. I told myself I already …
Is Dreamwork Right For You?
I’ve written over the past few months a few introductory articles about my approach to dreamwork and why I believe it’s a good tool for healing, self reflection, personal growth, and spiritual expansion. I say this as both a practitioner and as a student, for I am both, and probably will always be a student of the mysteries of consciousness and dreams. Today. I am hoping to provide a brief answer to the question “Is …
What to Do About a Psychic Dream?
This morning I woke up from my last dream of the night with just a fragmented memory of a conversation — someone had referred a friend to me for dreamwork because the friend had a psychic dream and didn’t know what to do about it. I decided to not spend too much time this morning trying to remember the rest of the details of the dream. Instead, I am using my energy on writing a …
Recurring Dreams: Stress Dreams
This is the first post in a series on recurring dreams, dreams that repeat across the course of a person’s life, with either similar content or similar themes to previous dreams. I can remember recurring dreams as far back as early childhood. There are three dreams, in particular, I remember repeating. One of these three dreams involved a giant tarantula chasing me through a building with tall columns, like one you would find in Greece. …
No Dreams Necessary
When you say you’re a dreamworker or a dreams researcher, as I do, you naturally attract questions from friends, family, or strangers about their dreams. Fortunately, I love hearing others’ dreams so it’s usually a win-win, if I have the time and energy in the moment to listen. I remember how most of my life I would be eager to tell someone about a realistic, strange, or powerful dream I had the night before, but …
NDEs, the Afterlife, the Paranormal, and Dreaming
Last week, while I was away in Tucson at the 39th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (my first time at the conference!), one of my favorite semi-annual events took place in my hometown: the public library sale. I love attending this 4-day event, and many of the books in my collection on dreams, spirituality, or the paranormal have come from the library sale. I couldn’t make it to the …
Why Dreamwork?
Recently, I wrote a brief personal essay in response to the question, “What is dreamwork?” In this post, I offer you why you might work your dreams and some benefits I’ve received as a result of dreamwork. (I envision this as a series, evolving as I evolve, as new benefits to dreamwork arise for me personally.) I’ve written in the past about maintaining a “dream practice,” which for myself and my clients includes an intentional …
The Best Way to Spend Your Morning Hours
What is the most healthful way to spend the hours just after waking in the morning following a good night sleep? Is it best to roll out of bed, on to a mat, and spend an hour in silent meditation? In prayer? Is it best to begin your day with journaling? Exercising? How about drinking a tall glass of room-temperature water with lemon and cayenne? Juicing? Stretching? Laying in bed simmering in the images of …
Talking to No One
I am a talker, a writer, a person who externalizes that which is internal. Over the course of my life until now, this has sometimes looked like over-sharing with friends, or over-confessional blog posts, or over-explaining myself and my reasons for my actions. About 15 years ago, during a self-development workshop, I made an internal connection between my compulsive need to talk, and deep-rooted feelings of not being listened to, not being heard, and not …
What Is Dreamwork?
You picked up a business card with the word “dreamwork,” but you didn’t know what that meant, so you searched up the web site listed and found yourself here. Or… Someone you trust told you that there was a way to intentionally and purposefully work with your dreams for healing, and you found yourself here. Or… You googled “why do I keep dreaming of an old boyfriend” and you found yourself here. Or… Whatever led …
Dreams and Time
Since I was a little girl, I have been as fascinated with the concept of time travel as I have with the nature of dreams. It wasn’t well into adulthood, however, that I started contemplating that one possibly related to the other. Influenced by science fiction tv shows and films like the original Star Trek (my parents were fans when I was a kid) and the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as Quantum Leap, …
Is Dreamwork Like Therapy?
This week, I attended an annual writer’s conference, but instead of my writer self, I could tell it was my inner dreamworker who wanted to show up there. In a way, the writer’s conference was my dreamworker debut, if that’s a thing. A bit shyly, but not reluctantly, I added “dreamworker” to my response when people asked me what I did professionally. The feedback from strangers and friends alike was overwhelmingly positive, and even more …
Working with Dreams for Healing
In my recent “audio chat” on Patreon, I spoke a little about why I believe we are missing an opportunity for healing when we don’t pay attention to our dreams, when we don’t dive deeper into the dream experience, and when we don’t meaningfully engage with our children about their dreams. (This chat episode is free and available to the public; you don’t need to be a subscriber to my Patreon to listen.) I wasn’t …
Are Some Dreams Psychic?
It took me a long time to believe in my psychic dreams, in my ability to dream of events that eventually came true. In fact, it took more than just “belief;” it required an alternative paradigm for experiencing time, space, and memory. As I started to understand that precognition inside dreams (or meditations, for that matter) was a real possibility (with some backing by science), I started to relate less to my dreams as “psychic” …
What’s the Weirdest Thing That’s Happened to You?
I have a vague memory of sitting at the kitchen table in my childhood home and saying to my mom, “I’m weird.” “You’re not weird,” my mom said in response. (I almost wrote “honey” there at the end, but I’m pretty sure my mother never called me a pet name.) “I don’t think weird is bad, actually,” I said to her. “I like being weird.” I didn’t understand at 17 that being weird was probably …
Seeking Guidance With Your Spiritual Awakening?
Is it necessary to move through a spiritual awakening alone? I’m not sure. Maybe for some or parts of it. But I know that on my own journey, especially over the last seven years since I turned 40, there have been times I’ve desperately sought out a teacher, a guide, or at least a teammate to share my discoveries with, and to be validated through or by. Occasionally, I’ve been fortunate enough to find myself …
Welcome to My New Web Site! (2021)
If you’ve found yourself here, I imagine you may be curious; curious to know more about my writing or my latest work, curious to know how we may work together, or perhaps, as I often do on individual web sites, you ended up here by some roundabout path, intuitive hunch, or shared interest. Whatever the reason or method, welcome. Over the past two decades, I’ve shared writing online on various sites and platforms, including some …
Seven New Poems (2021)
In 2020 and 2021, writing essays and nonfiction did not come easy. What seemed to want to come out of me was poetry. These poems complemented a period in which I was re-discovering old music, and engaging with new-to-me music. The series of poems from the past year (and newer ones) may be found on Medium— where reading and engagement with my content supports me financially in a very small, but still meaningful way. A …

- Dreams |
Precognition in Dreams: Best Practices for Cultivating Psychic Dreaming
- January 31, 2023•
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- Spirituality |
The Reality Behind Reality
- January 25, 2023•
- by Jen•

- Interviews |
New author interview with Kabbalah scholar Zvi Ish-Shalom
- January 19, 2023•
- by Jen•

- Dreams |
Dreaming of Our Little Ones and Loved Ones Lost
- January 12, 2023•
- by Jen•

- Time |
Is Music an Actual Time Portal?
- December 1, 2022•
- by Jen•

- Dreams |
So You’ve Outgrown Your Dream Dictionary
- November 28, 2022•
- by Jen•

- Dreams |
The Blessing of a Forgotten Dream
- November 25, 2022•
- by Jen•

- Dreams |
Who’s Listening to Your Strange Dreams?
- October 26, 2022•
- by Jen•

- Dreams |
What Your Dreams Require Of You
- September 19, 2022•
- by Jen•

- Dreams |
Is Dreamwork Right For You?
- September 8, 2022•
- by Jen•