Permission to Dream Again: Reconnecting With Your Desires After a Hard Season

After long seasons of giving, surviving, and showing up for everyone else, it can feel strange to ask, “What do I want?” In this episode of Your Odyssey, Tara and Karen invite you to reconnect with the part of yourself that still dares to dream. Together, we'll explore why it feels safer to shrink our hopes, how to rebuild trust with our desires, and what it means to shift from surviving to creating again. You’ll be reminded that dreaming isn’t about chasing perfection—it’s about remembering possibility. Because when you stop editing your desires and start listening to them, your imagination becomes a compass for what’s next. This episode is your permission slip to want again; to see dreaming not as indulgence but as an act of self-trust. Music: Love Is Waiting Produced in collaboration with VMJ Arts Collective Follow us on Instagram! Playlists: Spotify YouTube Music Chapters (00:00:03) - The OZODO Podcast(00:00:53) - Give Yourself Permission to Dream(00:01:57) - How to Rejuvenate Your Dreams(00:03:19) - Stoking Desires and Growing Your Imagination(00:08:06) - What Is The Dream That Scares Us?(00:13:08) - How to Dream Again With Rest(00:16:00) - A Million Dreams From The Greatest Showman(00:16:56) - "What If?"(00:18:31) - What's One Dream You're Afraid to Revisit?(00:21:23) - Our Odyssey: Dreams Still Matter(00:23:29) - A shoutout to Queenies Durham