Tapping into Dreams, Ancestors, & Consciousness: A Conversation about Chronic Illness and Intuition with Katrina Dreamer

This episode could also be titled, "A Capricorn & a Pisces Walk Into a Podcast." In season 3, episode 4 of A Friend for the Long Haul - A Long Covid Podcast, I welcome back my friend and pacing buddy, Katrina Dreamer. Katrina was a guest on season 2, where we discussed how they kicked off Covid Safe Colorado, our local mask bloc. This is a very different conversation! In this episode, we discuss:

• Katrina's plans to resume their dream and energy work, sharing their experience of running a 6-week long Social Justice Dreaming workshop, where they work with participants learning to trust their intuition and how they can use that to guide their activism
• Their experience with dreamwork, including how it manifested in their childhood, and their professional experiences
• Lucid dreaming, how factors like medications, chronic illness, PTSD, and inflammation can affect dream patterns
• Whether Beth might be astral projecting in her sleep, and whether she is clairaudient
• Dream journaling and ancestral work
• The launch of Katrina's new website and offerings of intuitive readings and energy healings
• How they protect their energy doing these readings
• Beth's newest diagnosis of a midbrain traumatic brain injury caused by neuroinflammation from Covid-19
• How challenging experiences have led to a greater sense of self-worth for both of us
• Katrina's webtoon, Chaotic Good and the Banned Bookmobile," which features covid conscious, queer and trans high school characters who rally around their librarian who is circulating banned books
• Our year of being pacing buddies, using a shared Google spreadsheet
• There's a lot of giggling about Pedro Pascal
• Celebrities we've met and what they smelled like

You can find out more about Katrina and their offerings at www.katrinadreamer.com! The next cohort of Social Justice Dreaming begins on August 8th. Contact Katrina to find out more!

Katrina's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katrinadreamer

And Bluesky.

Katrina's podcast, Dreaming Back to the Earth

And the cartoon, Chaotic Good and the Banned Bookmobile, is available on Webtoon! Sarah Steinberg is the illustrator.

⁠If you'd like your own copy of our pacing spreadsheet, here's one you can duplicate! Please don't use this copy!

In this episode, we also chat about our friends Lissy and Lior. Lissy will be on an upcoming episode, but she is a coach who blends neuroscience-backed strategies, compassionate support, and her own lived experience with ADHD in her approach. Lior Ocean is a queer collage artist, intuitive reader, and interspiritual companion. Lior has been on the podcast a couple of times.

Oh, and if you'd like an acupressure mat here's a link to the one Beth has: https://amzn.to/3H14gxH - this is an affiliate link to Beth's Amazon storefront.

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