Dreaming Awake
Travels between worlds via the arts, culture, nature, spirituality & all things Jungian
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Explore your one wild life with an Autumn depth writing workshop (opens the original)
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Waking up from the machine (opens the original)
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In a broken and divided world it can be hard to see the bigger picture. The power of great art, however, is that it can widen our sense of perspective. In this month’s Dreaming Awake I reflect on my hometown of Manchester, its role in the global industrial revolution, the record label inspired by Andy Warhol’s Factory that got the city dancing and how a Manchester-inspired artwork made from 30 tonnes of buttons by Ai Wei Wei got me thinking about what it means to see the whole and not just the p
No one teaches us how to dance (opens the original)
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It’s almost four years since my husband and I offered our home to a refugee fleeing the war in Ukraine. Sharing your house with anyone comes with its own challenges, gifts and surprises. But what we didn’t know that Autumn day back in October 2022 was how much joy was about to enter our home - or that, four years later, we’d be celebrating our new arrival’s graduation with such big smiles. In this month’s Dreaming Awake, I reflect on what I’ve been learning from sharing a home with someone who’s
Creativity is life (opens the original)
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A myth of normal we’re conditioned to take for true is that creativity is a gift only available to the few. But what we’re mostly not taught is that our in-born capacity to create is how we get to discover our gifts. In this month’s Dreaming Awake, I reflect on lessons in creativity from Carl Jung’s cosmic egg and explore how we can view our creative acts as a way of being in conversation with the world and of being in love with it. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://subs
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