I believe in manifesting dreams. I believe in creating your own  reality. I also believe that sometimes our unconscious heart and soul manifest better than our conscious mind does.

 I remember my first dream board like it was yesterday. I was lucky enough to have become close friends with a woman who had an amazing ability to see her dreams to reality. Lorraine Salgueiro, owner of Bliss Yoga, was not only a talented woman but a true manifestor of dreams. And she’s the woman I still credit with helping me see the importance of living in the moment, while dreaming of tomorrow.

 I asked her to help me with my first dream board, and we made a girl night of it right after New Years Eve. It was a phenomenal way to kick off the new year. That night, over Dove chocolates and a few glasses of red wine, she taught me the ins and outs and everything I needed to know about creating your own destiny, and finding your true intention in life. 

My first dream board was good, but shotty. Among travel destinations and a successful book launch I had selected magazine images of a guy. I certainly had a few candidates in mind when I selected images for my
dream board.

 Perhaps thanks to the wonderful dream board coach I had, exact imagery from my dream board – random pictures I’d pulled from magazines had manifested themselves in my life. I was creating my own reality and seeing my dreams come to fruition.

 Half way through that amazing year, I got into an “online” banter with a girl who was connected to someone that I’d had a relationship with  –albeit brief. My course had already changed direction, but it was her mission to ensure it. She ended up flying the white flag first and the debacle came to an end when she sent me an email attempting to apologize for the drama she had started, with a final stab that said something to the effect of, “from what little I do know about you, you’ve overcome some tough things in life…not everyone turns lemons into lemonade.”

 And since she was waving the white flag, I never told her what “little” I knew about her, or what I thought the circumstances…In thinking back on that event I realize the huge impact it had on my life, because that is what helped me see that the man I was dating, was truly the one I was destined for. But I also realized that other forces were at play, ones greater than my dream
board, working to ensure I was living my true intention.

 That was an incredulous year of learning about love and life, and the true meaning of each. At the end of that year, when I looked at my dream board, I realized that sometimes what we think we want, is not our path at all, and so long as you remain open to the universe around you, what’s meant to be will find its way.  
 

Of course, now, in the future looking back, I realize there were greater powers at force than my dream board, because that man I was dating, is in fact my husband now. And most importantly, he’s the father of my child; a being that would have ceased to existed had my husband not had his own dreams in life to follow. He’s not only supportive of, but a participant in, my dream boards. He’s the type of guy who is incredibly in touch with things like destiny, clarity and above all, fighting
for things you desire in life. 

I’ve had friends join my January dream board party, and I’ve even started using the creation of dream boards in my therapy practice. I get so much fulfillment when someone emails or texts me, “OH MY GOD, dream board photo just
came true.”

Just this past week, one of my girlfriends texted me that she was stuck this year and she couldn’t find pictures that meant anything. I suggested she spend a week writing “feeling” words and then places, and then spend a few
more days thinking about what those words mean to her.

Then I reminded her of some of the amazing techniques I had learned from my dream board coach…

 She told me to first let yourself be open to whatever images you find, you may not know now what they mean, but soon, they’ll explain themselves. And second – be specific. But do not put words on your dream board, unless you are ready to see them happen. Be cautious to put too many words, or ones with negative connotations. This is true for photos, but a bunch of images of a guy, and you're going to manifest a bunch of them - but if you want a relationship, make sure you put images of couples.


My husband has been witness to the fact that these pictures manifest themselves in real life, and inevitably there’s always one “shock  value” image. This year, it was this odd house I’d put on the dream board, it just struck me. In March, we were on vacation in Carmel By the Sea, eating at this fabulous breakfast restaurant. I yelled, “STOP THE CAR.” Then proceeded to
  jump out and snap a picture – I had dreamt this image to reality and to this day, it reminds me of our “Baby Moon” weekend, just us and the dogs enjoying one of our last trips before baby.


When I think back on that first year of dream board creation, I realize that you can never create 100% happiness; and sometimes during the course of seeing our dreams to reality, we fall on tough times. But I’ve never been the type of girl to settle for turning lemons into lemonade. I’m a littlemore ambitious than that – and each year I attempt to turn my lemons into a
fabulous lemon meringue pie.


And now, if I were to see that girl, I’d thank her for the way she ever so slightly impacted my path in life, because I can whole heartedly say, while she might not have been on my dream board, she was fate’s way of ensuring I was on the right journey.

 Each year I have continued creating dream boards, and each year
I’ve gotten better and better at determining what dreams I can create, and which
should be left up to destiny. And each year, more and more pictures come to life
in ways I never anticipated.


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