Tag: mindfulness

Feelings & Fire, Printable Packs

A Day in Your Dreams

Mindrah

Last week, we took the first step.

I shared a bit about how I’ve been crawling my way out of survival mode and starting to ask myself what kind of life I want to live — not someday, but now. Not all of it, not perfectly, but piece by piece.

That post came with a simple journal prompt. Just a quiet invitation to think:
“If I could change things… what would I want to feel?”

And now we’re ready for the next part.

Gentle Next Steps

This time, I wanted to do something a little different — something slower, softer, and maybe a bit dreamy. I made a guided visualisation called A Day in Your Dreams (see below). It’s not about imagining some big, impossible future. It’s just about picturing a day that feels calm and kind — one that feels like you.

You can listen to the video if you’d like to be gently walked through it, or you can explore the printable that goes with it. Some people think better with their eyes closed. Some people like pens and pages. Some of us need both.

Whatever works for you is the right way to start.

About the Printable

The free printable will be shared in this blog once it’s ready (I’m just finalising it now!). It offers space to reflect on one moment at a time — morning, midday, evening — and includes gentle prompts like:

  • What does your space look like?
  • How do you feel as you wake up?
  • What’s one small detail you’d love to bring into real life?

Each section has a little spark of encouragement from one of our Ash & Ember Rising mascots — like Zalyn the Motivation Mermaid, who reminds you that it’s okay to dream boldly and still take your time.

Download the printable

A Day in Your Dreams

What’s Coming Next

In the next blog, we’ll choose one of the moments from your visualised day — maybe your ideal morning routine, or a peaceful workspace, or a little thing that brought joy — and we’ll start to explore how to bring that into your real life.

We’ll go slowly.
We’ll start small.
We’ll do it together.

Because dreaming matters — but doing it gently? That’s where the magic starts.

Let’s Journal It!

Last week I also started to show you what it might look like to start journaling. Here is what today’s post invites you to do next — pause, imagine, and spend a moment inside the version of your life you’re hoping to build.

(coming soon)

messy progress, Reflection

Balance in the Blaze

Mindrah

Last year, there was a sudden change in my role expectations at work, and I found myself staring down the possibility of endless hours stuck in a place where I was expected to be professional… but had nothing to do.
It wasn’t an easy change to accept.
I was in the middle of becoming something new — of changing — and suddenly, I was being anchored in place.

So what did I do?
I chose to grow anyway.
I applied to study a Master’s in Teacher Librarianship.
I committed to NaNoWriMo and decided to write a novel from scratch.

Then this year, I realised that if I overloaded my schedule just a little more — took on one extra unit each semester — I could finish my degree this year.
I could be done. I could be free. I could begin again.

And that’s how I ended up working full time, studying full time, parenting… and still somehow trying to meet creative goals.
I didn’t mean for it to happen — but I went from too much time on my hands to chaos incarnate.
Deadlines. Responsibilities. And an overwhelming need for time I didn’t have.

Sometimes I think people imagine “balance” as this calm, perfectly planned thing:
Work for 8 hours. Play for 8 hours. Sleep for 8 hours.
Easy, right?

But real life doesn’t work that way — especially when you’re responsible for people and tasks and dreams.
And the first things we sacrifice?
Our play. Our rest.
The pieces that keep us whole.

So how do you find balance that actually sustains you — especially when you’re busy?

You find it in moments.
Tiny ones.
Choice by choice.

This year, I’ve been choosing balance one moment at a time.
Moments to breathe.
Moments that bring joy, even if just for 10 minutes.

I…

  • Celebrated my birthday intentionally and creatively, in the way I wanted to
  • Finally started learning to paint with watercolours — and it has been pure joy
  • Kept blogging every single week, even when it was hard
  • Created for the fun of it through play and printables
  • And on occasion, did something completely silly and unexpected (hello, Blooper Mascot)

Balance isn’t 8 hours of leisure to offset your 8 hours of work.
Balance is:

  • That one quiet moment where you feel peace
  • A spark of joy you didn’t expect
  • Giving your body what it actually needs — whether that’s rest, silence, movement, or dessert
  • Choosing not to do everything right now
  • Letting go of perfection, and allowing “done” to be enough

Balance doesn’t mean doing everything.
Sometimes, it just means taking one small moment to do something kind for yourself —
on purpose.

Because there is joy to be had in goats and dragon-phoenixes and life, if you can find it.