“The greatest privilege of a human life is to become midwife to the birth of the soul.”
-John O’Donohue, Irish poet

YOUR FIRST DREAM
March 08, 2026
While the headlines are filled with dark happenings that can leave us feeling helpless and powerless, in truth, we have immense power within us. Raising our vibration by learning to live from our heart and its truth is perhaps the most potent way to change the fear-based paradigms dominating the airwaves. Many, many people are turning within and walking a path of inner healing and spiritual growth, and I believe our nighttime dreams are an invaluable, and in my experience a critical resource for navigating our soul's journey. Carl Jung said that dreams are driven by a natural tendency within to bring resolution and closure to unfinished emotional and mental problems of the day. And yes, they can be tricky to decode, but I find them to be real treasures of deep wisdom and guidance for personal growth, health and relationship issues as well as the challenges our future might hold. They are well worth our time, consideration and attention. Dreams come from our unconscious mind which is freely creative. expressive and original. Our dreams are not limited by the fears, habits, and defenses of the conscious mind. This means dreams offer us information that our logical, thinking mind cannot. Dreams are truth tellers for us all. They can also be vehicles of communication from our Higher Self, spirit guides and departed loved ones though they may not reveal themselves as such. Jung talked about Big Dreams. These are dreams of great importance to our lives. Our First Dream is in this Big Dream category. These earliest dreams carry potent messages about the life and its purpose that is unfolding before us. Can you remember your earliest dream? Often we can, perhaps because the psyche has a sense of its importance. If it does not come to you immediately, ask yourself to remind you in the coming days. The earliest dream I remember has stayed with me and happened when I was about six years old. I would like to share it with you because it is an example of how powerful, prophetic and prescriptive these earliest dreams can be. I saw myself on a stage gliding along smoothly and effortlessly, moving from one moment to another peacefully and flawlessly. I seemed to know deeply within myself how to move in this graceful dance. It was like skating on ice. At the end of this "performance" I reached up and was handed, from above, a beautiful, faceted diamond. It seemed like an award for a job well done. As I held it, my hand tingled. My hand had fallen asleep, perhaps so that I would awaken and remember this dream. The dream always fascinated me, but it has only been in recent years that I have begun to fully grasp its meaning. It was showing me that to find my joy I would have to live and move in the world intuitively, believing in my safety to freely express myself moment to moment. It was a treasure map to deeply buried wisdom within me. To live with this kind of ease I would have to unlearn and heal many early fear-based patterns and beliefs about myself and the nature of the world. This would be my life's path. So how about you? Can you remember your first dream and what guidance it might have been offering to you for this lifetime? If you are unable to remember, ask yourself in the days to come, to recall your earliest dreams and stay open to inspiration. This is a time when the world needs the very best we have to give and, therefore, for coming into alignment with our authentic selves to express those offerings. Who were we before we were conditioned to meet the expectations of our environment in order to be safe? What are our soul's gifts? Michael Meade and others say, "Under the wounds are the gifts." Our buried treasure. Every night our dream state is available to us to give us guidance on how to unearth them. Decoding dreams. Here are a few steps to unlocking your nighttime's genius. 1. Do keep a dream journal. Have a notebook and pen nearby before going to sleep. If you wake up during the night, write down the dream before falling back to sleep. Do not wait until morning as you will likely have forgotten it. 2. Write down whatever you remember. You may recall a full dream, a tiny piece or just a feeling. They are all important. Also record the emotions associated with what you are recalling. 3, Sit with the dream and allow it to unfold in your consciousness. You might have insight immediately, in 15 minutes, or it could be weeks before the messages begin to dawn. Be patient, often dreams need time to cook before they fully dawn on us. I have found that my dream messages are always deeply important, even when, at first glance, they look meaningless or even bizarre. 4. Our dreams speak in the language of symbols. It is a new language for most of us. It is very helpful to have a dream symbol book or your computer handy to study the possible meanings of the symbols. Look for what rings true to you. Talking to a trusted other can also be helpful in flushing out a dream's meaning. And, yes, AI can also be helpful in dream interpretation; just be sure you are staying with what feels right and guiding your own process. Dreams offer us so much wisdom, inspiration, and guidance about who we truly are and what we need to continue growing and evolving into the fullness of our authentic selves. It is why so many cultures hold them as valuable messengers. It takes time to solve their mysteries, but I find the wisdom gained is well-worth the effort.
The Greatest Sin
December 19, 2022
Many years ago I attended a small Catholic church in Mill Valley, California. I was what is commonly referred to as a "lapsed Catholic," but I often found solace in the vibration of churches and, in addition, I was very inspired by Father John, the resident priest at this particular church. At one point Father John left for a six week sabbatical training and I really was excited to attend the Sunday he returned to the pulpit. He began his sermon that day by explaining that the senior Priest who was their instructor had asked the attending priests what they thought the greatest sin was. Of course, all kinds of heinous acts of betrayal, violence and harm were discussed, but none of the priests named the one that was considered the "worst" and neither did anyone in our congregation that day. Father John then proceeded to tell us that the greatest sin was when you observe someone doing something well or noteworthy and you do not tell them. We were all very surprised and while I did not fully understand it at the time, I remembered it and thought about it often, and always tried to live by this guidance. Sometimes, it would be challenging to go up to someone and share the good action I was noticing and how I felt about it, but people always seemed to be genuinely appreciative for the positive feedback. Sometimes the difficulty was that I did not want to give this person a compliment for whatever ego-driven reason I was feeling, but when I did, I was always rewarded by the warmth and positivity that the experience engendered. Whether with adults or children, people seemed from appreciative to hungry for feedback. While I knew that it was well-received to speak out when I saw a good thing, I was confused that it was the greatest sin to withhold that feedback. Then recently it came to me!! I understood. The two things children from infancy on need from their caregivers and environment are validation and mirroring. They need to be told, "Good job" or "I like what you are doing" and they also need to be seen. Being seen would be like, "I can tell you are putting a lot of effort into tying your shoes, and that it is difficult." The problem is that all too often, we do not get those basic requirements met by caregivers. And we grow up unsure if our efforts have value, thus harboring insecurity, doubt and shame. And so the false self is reinforced, and our truth is hidden from ourselves and the world. Recently, while learning a new skill, I was not sure if I was good enough to share it. I prayed for help. My help came in the way of three separate people sharing with me that they had benefitted from my efforts. That gave me the feedback I needed to go forward. What makes this such an egregious omission seemed like a great question to ask the Akashic Records. This is what I received: “Being willing to share positive feedback arises from a space of open-heartedness. This raises everyone’s vibration (giver and receiver) and allows us to move into cooperation and away from conflict. Healing occurs for everyone. These seemingly small actions create beauty, love and connection with one another. They heal the planet.”
Developing Our Spiritual Gifts
July 06, 2022
“Who looks outside dreams, Who looks inside awakens.” Carl Jung “How can I develop my spiritual gifts?” has been a question posed to the Records frequently. People want to know how to increase their clairvoyant skills. It seems that with the intention to develop our sixth senses comes a responsibility to create a home to receive these communications. It makes sense that the first step would be to create a platform for listening. In our fast paced world where we are always moving about and doing, receiving messages from Spirit is difficult, at best. What I have heard most frequently is to slow down, spend time in nature, meditate, journal, watch your dreams, and pray. There is a communication we are wanting to begin, and it is a two way conversation. And our job is to become more receptive. Receiving messages from Spirit happens often when we ask for help in an area where we are struggling to get clarity. This guidance can come to us, but we have to be receptive to the gentle whispers that carry those communications. This slowing down and being open to the subtleties that often carry our answers means creating a more meditative way of living. As I write this, I see the movement of a deer on a hillside nearby, the deer is a beautiful reminder of how nature carries messages if we are open to receive them and to listen. The deer moves quietly and gracefully along the hillside looking for food, and also being acutely aware of all that is going on in its surroundings. As I have begun to appreciate our “Mother” Earth, I have learned how cloud formations, animals and insects, feathers, the weather, and trees and flowers all can carry meaning and messages. A good way to create this attunement is to learn to meditate. Even 15 minutes a day can begin to help us to still our minds and open our awareness. And for those who have become frustrated with the process, guided meditations are very effective as is a walking meditation, where you spend 20 minutes walking mindfully. The truth is that Spirit is communicating to us all of the time and we need to learn to attune ourselves to receive. Finally, and not of the least importance, is being in touch with our emotional beings—our feelings and our history. The spiritual bypass is a huge temptation for us all. We want the spiritual highs and to bypass the healing journey that awaits every soul on earth. As Michael Meade describes it, “Under the wounds, lie our gifts.” Facing the painful and demeaning experiences from our past which block our emotions and as well as the awareness that we are spiritual beings who are worthy of the gifts of the Spirit and the guidance those communications afford us.
Asking for Help
January 02, 2022
There is help all around us, help that is available to us just because we are. It has taken me awhile to learn this, that when I am in a quandary or a crisis, I can ask for help. It always shows up and usually in unexpected ways and from unexpected sources. Sometimes it comes and I have forgotten that I have asked for it, so it helps to keep our eyes, ears and heart's open and know we will get what we need. As we learn the truth of this, we can become calmer amid the uncertainties of living on planet earth. We begin to trust. Asking for help has been one of my most important spiritual lessons to date. The one that proceeded it was to surrender. The two actually go together, because it is when I am ready to surrender that I realize I need the help and ask to receive it. I have found in myself and in others a great resistance to asking for help. We have this very old idea that we "should" be able to do it ourselves and that when we don't somehow we are failing. We are not good enough, strong enough, smart enough, or some variation of those messages. The other block to asking for help is not believing we are deserving. That one also is very old. By very old, I mean from childhood and societal conditioning. Not deserving of love, good things, help when we need it, as much as we need. And so we are asked to heal those erroneous thoughts and move into the grace that is available to all of us because we cannot do this on our own and we were never meant to.
The Akashic Records and Spiritual Bypassing
October 24, 2021
I love that the Akashic Records are both elevated and deep in their wisdom, because as we awaken and come to know the beauty and light of the higher realms, it is easy and very seductive to try to move into our spiritual bliss without doing the truly important work of integrating our mental/emotional and physical selves into our spiritual beings. This is the deeper work of self-discovery. As we begin to access the full truth of who we are, we discover our spiritual purpose in this lifetime. Moving into just the spiritual dimension while ignoring our physical, emotional and mental realities is what is known as a "spiritual bypass" and in the long run this short circuiting slows us down and causes us to repeat patterns that need to be resolved.A very common example of this is growing up in a family where our voice and our feelings were not really heard, mirrored or validated and thus we came to believe our feelings, opinions and truth were best hidden and even forgotten. This leaves us believing that we are not DESERVING of the life we want. In all of us, there are many layers of conditioned behaviors that sabotage an authentic reflection of who we truly are. These patterns can also begin in past lives and the Akashic Records are able to reveal this. I have heard the Akashic Records advise people to listen to their dream-time messages, journal their feelings, meditate, do artwork, and/or just sit quietly and allow themselves to take the time to move into the deeper places within them. Think about the things you used to love to do as a child and what were the messages your environment gave you? It is during these quiet activities with ourselves that we begin to uncover our deepest truths and treasures.

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