What’s Brand New in the Goo: Identity and the Calling of the Dreamer Within

Written by Kate Wildrick, February 8, 2025

At the end of this last year and into January, I have been in my little cocoon going into the goo. As I have tracked my own decomposition and reconfiguration, I have revisited the grand epiphanies and interconnections of the healing journeys I have done with my clients and have thought long and hard about where this fits now.

What I have been thoughtfully examining and observing is this idea of identity. I often think about what I have had to do for myself to strip away the thoughts, ideas, constructs and confines that I was given and embodied to give rise for something greater. As I have done this work, I have helped others do the same so that they too, could experience the breakdowns and breakthroughs to emerge as a better version of ones self. The world we live in right now is full of triggers, programmed narratives and emotional hooks. All of these (along with countless other tactics) compete for our focus and attention and take up valuable real estate in our mind and lives. We become puppets to build others’ empires. We loose track of our own dreams and desires. We forget who we are and surrender to the story that we believe is our reality.

Within this divide (in our self and the world), there is a mysterious and beautiful space that provides us with an opportunity to see and encounter things from a very different perspective. It is here that I love to play and bring others to. This shifting ground is ever changing and illuminates the evolving and devolving landscape within and around us. Going here, we are able to access the void that can help us see another truth about what we are facing and the lies we clench to so that we can maintain a familiar and predictable order.

Identity. This theme is certainly alive and well in the collective. As it dances around in the media and makes way to heated conversations in board rooms and is invited to dinner in our homes, I am paying attention to what is there between the words and pauses. I am listening and feeling into what is asking to be seen or made room for so that something else can emerge. With so much focus around what is or is not, what can or cannot be, we loose track once again of where our own soul longs to grow. In other words, we affirm and reaffirm our own reality based on what we look for as evidence that we are indeed who we think we are in a world that tells us who we can and cannot be.

The last several months have taken me out of the folds of everyday conversation and dialogue to reconnect with that voice within. Albeit small and mighty, it is one that has been hard to hear amongst all the chitter chatter and clutter my mind has gathered along the way. I have had to up and leave to find stillness in other places. I have had to change my routine and challenge myself to face the delusions I have been living in and find the truth that this voice speaks so that I could start to come to terms with myself and my life to make room for someone else within to rise.

Time is not guaranteed and lets face it, many of us (and possibly myself), may not ever get to see our deepest dreams come to fruition. Our soulful longings that call us to come alive and live a meaningful and fulfilling life get sacrificed in order to survive or get by. This year for me is a year that will define where I go and who I will become. It serves as my catalyst and playground to challenge myself to do what I have been putting off, create despite my fear and become someone stronger than I am now. My identity, as I know it to be, is up on the chopping block and as prune away the parts and pieces of me that cannot take me to where I wish to grow, I am simultaneously having to call forward the characteristics, attributes and aspects of me that can see things through.

As I live out this experience, I am returning back to my work as healer. I can now see why this work is more important than ever, as it is big business hijacking realities and crippling the creator within. When we lose touch with our ability to imagine, dream and pursue our souls desires, we become susceptible to taking on the roles as pawns or puppets in others’ stories.

So, as part of my adventure, I am finally compiling my work into e-learning courses. As they build on one another, they will take support others in the monthly coaching work I do in addition to weekly journeys. I am also creating a very special playground for the big work around creating dreams and soulful legacies, I am building a space for a handful of people I wish to work with and invest my time and energy into for advanced mentoring. It has been very rewarding seeing all this work culminate and come together. All the lessons. All the journeys. All the twists and turns and going in and out of the known and unknown. To see where those I have worked with for years are now at and experiencing, it is proof that what I do matters and can generate big ripples.