Sky Stories — Letting Your Dreams Rise

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Week 6 of the Soul Foragers Guide to Creative Healing

Sky Stories — Letting Your Dreams Rise

It’s the middle of June, and everything is blooming.

Wildflowers line the edges of the road, gardens are finally waking up, and everywhere I look, there’s another shade of green—more greens than I thought possible. The air feels softer somehow, and when I walk outside, I find myself looking up more often, just to take it all in.

That’s what inspired this week’s Soul Foraging prompt. After weeks of grounding ourselves in memories, stories, roots, and resilience, it felt like the right time to gently shift upward.

To let ourselves expand.
To imagine.
To breathe.

This Week’s Prompt: Sky Stories

Find a few quiet moments to be with the sky.
Maybe it’s lying in the grass with your journal, or simply pausing for a moment before going inside. Let your eyes trace the clouds, the birds, the endless blue or soft gray.

Ask yourself:
☁️ What do I see up there?
☁️ What symbols or shapes stand out to me today?
☁️ What do I feel when I look up—peace, longing, curiosity, something else?
☁️ Is there a dream I’ve tucked away that wants to rise like a cloud across the sky?

Your Creative Invitation

Create a mixed media piece inspired by what you see and feel. Let the colors of the sky, the shifting light, and your inner landscape come together in layers.

You might want to:

• Use soft, wispy papers or transparent layers.

• Add tiny drawn birds or stars or symbols from your imagination.

• Incorporate swirling lines, faded words, or colors that speak of hope, grief, freedom, or possibility.

This piece doesn’t have to explain your story. It can hold it. Like the sky does.

My Reflection

Earlier this week, I found myself staring at the sky after what felt like a long day. The clouds were moving fast—like they had somewhere to be. I remembered how, as a child, I used to lie in the grass and imagine stories in the sky: horses galloping, mountains floating, faces smiling down at me.

That night, I created an intuitive collage— I just let the sky move through me, and trusted that whatever needed to come out would find its way onto the page. Journaling, stencils, stamps, paint and papers, texture and words. I didn’t try to make it “make sense.”

It felt good. Freeing. Like I’d remembered something I’d forgotten.

Healing Focus

This week is about emotional spaciousness. After tending to our roots and memories, we now make room for dreams, intuition, and breath.

Sometimes healing looks like lying under a sky full of possibility and saying:
“I don’t have to carry it all right now. I can let some of it float by.”

Let’s Keep Foraging

If you’re following along with the full Soul Foraging journey, you’ve likely started to notice what speaks to you most—certain textures, symbols, or themes. This is all beautiful groundwork for the Soulful Stories workshop.

Each prompt is a little step toward your creative center.

And if you haven’t yet, I’d love to invite you to start at the beginning of the Soul Forager’s Guide to Creative Healing.

Let’s keep looking up… together.
With love,

Catch Up or Revisit: Weeks 1–5

If you're just joining this journey—or want to return to earlier reflections—here’s where we began:

• Week 1: A Memory in Nature — Soul Foraging Begins
  Read it here

• Week 2: Finding Sanctuary: Mapping the Chaos of Your Inner World
  Read it here

• Week 3: Whispering Leaves – Releasing What We Hold Inside
  Read it here

• Week 4: A Walk Through Your Story – Moving with Meaning
  Read it here

• Week 5: Foraging for Feeling Through Color
  Read it here

Each week holds a prompt and a gentle creative nudge—there’s no rush, just a soft unfolding.

I live and create on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg peoples, lands that remain under their original stewardship. I honor their enduring connection to this place and their care for it over generations.