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The Dreams That Shape Us

by Steven Ernenwein, J.M. DeBord

Our modern western culture places little to no value on the power of our nightly dreams to inspire, shift, and reorganize our lives. This podcast demands a deep reconsideration of the role our dreams play on our path to a more vital and meaningful life. The following is living proof of the life affirming power of dreams to effect change and redirect the trajectory of our inner and outer lives. These are the dreams that shape us.

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Episodes

  1. Musical Odyssey of Soul Retrieval (Steve/Mel)

    Host Steve shares his story around running away and hiding from his calling, music. You get to hear all about his creative process, how it's become so entwined with his dreams, how to cultivate a relationship with your inner muse through dreams and waking relational experiences, and how creating...

  2. Dare to Be a Dreamer (Chelsea) - S4,Ep5

    Chelsea Turpening Coxsey knew from a young age that her dreams were different. They called her to discover a hidden world of meaning and connection through symbols and signs. Instead of running away, she dove headfirst into exploring the world that opened up to her through her dreams. She dared…

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  3. The Dream Doctor is In! (Angela) - S4, Ep4

    Do you have food focused dreams? Does it feel like your dreams may be suggesting a specific dietary regimen? Well Angela tells the story of how her dreams really beautifully companioned her on her health journey while she attempted to get to the bottom of some challenging health issues plaguing...

  4. When Dreams Come For You In The Night (Brandon) - S4, Ep3

    *Explicit Language Warning* Witness how dreams sometimes literally come for you! 😅 We all receive unique ways that the dreams use to really GRAB our attention, some of those ways can be pretty jarring like his. Brandon's dreams refused to see that he walked any path but his own! Hope you enjoy…

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  5. Coming Back to Love (Georgia) - S4,Ep2

    Season 4 continues with a harrowing, but beautiful story of Georgia's grief and loss over her father's sudden passing during her childhood and the very impressive (and unflinching) way her dreams not only companioned and held her, but also challenged her to confront her deep heartache. It's a...

  6. In the Name of the Father (Jason) - S4,Ep1

    SEASON 4 BEGINS! Jason gives us a gorgeous look at how dreams give us the mythic context for where we stand, what are challenge is, and where the soul has it's sights for where it wants us to arrive! You get a first hand look at dreamwork in real time and the life shaping vision his dreams are...

  7. Close Encounters of the Dreaming Kind (Fred) - S3,Ep11

    Season 3 Finale - Listener Discretion is Advised For almost the last 100 years, people have been reporting dream or dream like experiences of alien encounters and/or abduction experiences. Most of these have been passed off as dreams. Our guest, Fred Zewe, argues that some of these dreams are…

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  8. I Spy with my Dreaming Eye (Rochelle) - S3, EP10

    Many of our listeners haven't heard this remarkable story about Rochelle's dreams which showed her intimate details about an old friend's life. So take a walk into the past with us, back to our first season, and hear how Rochelle's dreaming eye spied into the life of someone she hadn't seen in...

  9. Till Debt Do Us Part (Melissa) - S3, Ep9

    Ever have a dream completely interrupt a major life event you were about to go through with?! Well join Jason and Steve as they explore the dream Melissa Johnson shares with them that caused her to call off her wedding 6 weeks before the day 😮😮🤯🤯 Melissa met both of us in her dreams before…

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  10. Murder, She Dreamt (Kristen) - S3, Ep8

    The first taste of their ability that psychics get is often through their dreams. That's how it was for our special guest, Kristen Kadi, but she got more than bargained for when she used her ability to try to track down a murderer. In this episode she shares her hair raising stories and personal...

  11. The Burning Man and the Warrior's Way Home (Lawrence) - S3, Ep7

    Lawrence reflects on the trauma and PTSD he endured throughout his life and at war and the way his dreams have aided him every step of the way! His story is so full, so harrowing, and so redeeming. He shows that a vet doesn't return home when their feet touch US soil once more, but when they…

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  12. The Reclamation of the Magical Self (Kris) - S3, Ep6

    As Mary Jo Heyen said in an earlier episode, "we don't get to do this a la carte, if I'm frozen to my pain, I'm also frozen to my joy." In this episode, our guest, Kris, experiences what being cut off from both does to the heart and soul. But, providence is afoot and goes to work on her through...

  13. The Girl Who Steps Outside of the Universe (Jenni) - S3, Ep5

    Jenni shares with us her wild story of her early experiences of astral projection that led her to lucid dreaming and how these very wild experiences from a young age deeply shaped the trajectory of her life!! Discover how 9yo Jenni, who wishes to become the first woman to build a vehicle to step...

  14. The Robed Woman and the Unusual Motherhood Journey (Tzivia) - S3, Ep4

    Following on the heels of mother's day, we celebrate mother's in sharing Tzivia's very heartfelt, and at times heart wrenching, story of motherhood! Tzivia actually had no intention of becoming a mother, but life had other plans for her life and we get to see how her dreams held this for her and...

  15. A Sermon to the Divine Beloved (Greg) - S3, Ep3

    It's Oct 2020, thick in the pandemic, Greg is feeling lost for many reasons. Then his dreams come to his aid and point him in a direction and calls him to bring into the world the very thing he's been aching for. Studying Jungian thought, he's been dissatisfied with the rhetoric surrounding...

  16. The Power of Dreams Compels You (Ryan) - S3, Ep2

    *Content Warning: listeners discretion is advised* Join Steve and Ryan Hurd as they explore Ryan's story of facing nightmares in a lucid dream, sleep paralysis, generational trauma, core wounds, and so much more!! They speak to some really hush hush topics within lucid dreaming and the…

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  17. Knocking on Heaven's Door (Scott) - S3, Ep1

    Professor Scott Sparrow knocked on Heaven's Door and it opened for him while he was lucid dreaming. A holy light filled him with indescribable love, and it set him on a course in life to return to that place and continue receiving that Light. Dr. Sparrow, an acclaimed author, professor, and dream...

  18. 2yr Anniversary Episode - S2, Ep11

    Welcome to our retrospective episode where we take stock in what our podcasting journey has meant for us! We hear from 11 of our guests and what sharing their stories has meant for them, you'll get a slew of behind the scenes stories about some of our episodes, we work a dream of Steve's about...

  19. Re-establishing the Lineage (Alaya) - S2, Ep10

    Join Steve and Alaya as she explores the impactful way that dreams can be the conduit for our ancestors and the divine to put us on our path to do the great work we came here to bring forward! Instagram: @dreamsthatshapeus website: www.dreamsshapeus.com original music composed by Steve Ernenwein....

  20. Always Run in the Direction of your Dreams (Christian) - S2, Ep9

    This episode is in honor of Suzanne Stewart, the late wife of our guest Christian Gerike. The story and conversation chronicle the life and death of Suzanne and the dream Christian had the morning she left us. Suzanne passed in July of 2019 after a long journey with Parkinson's. This is a…

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  21. You Are Never Alone (Bob) - S2, Ep8

    Bob and Jason explore a fascinating lucid dream of Bob's. He had a lot of trepidation in honoring what it was trying to tell him, when one of the wildest stories I've ever heard of synchronicity and the connectivity of our dreaming mind occurs. The story looks at the science, looks at mystifying...

  22. The Endless Plate of Past Lives (Jason) - S2, Ep6

    Join Jason and I as he recounts a dream that set him on a wild path of discovering answers to the validity of past lives and the awakening of his gift as an author! It's all in the pasta - flavors of synchronicity abound, ancient Kings, sassy southern waitresses, hard looks in the mirror…

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  23. Dreams Never Abandon Us in our Grief (Mary Jo) - S2, Ep5

    Steve and Mary Jo Heyen explore a series of 3 dreams that helped her uncover pockets of unfelt grief that led to an incredible source of healing for her. She gorgeously relays how tenderly our dreams walk us into this kind of material and how they so deeply companion us there. Two weeks after the...

  24. Out of the Cave (Katherine) - S2, Ep4

    Content Warning: This episode contains a story involving childhood sexual trauma. Dr Katherine Lawson courageously shares her powerful story of how her dreams helped her overcome her personal experience of childhood sexual trauma. How this recurrent nightmare she had growing up eventually led her...

  25. Take the Red Pill (Jonathan) - S2, Ep3

    Join Jason and Dr Jonathan Hyland as they explore an amazing initiatory journey that he went on because of a presence and anxiety he felt arise within his body. It forces him to confront the unconscious on a somatic level versus strictly from an ideological standpoint. We find that this…

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  26. The Plants are Speaking (Val) - S2, Ep2

    If you're curious how our ancestors cultivated so much knowledge about the medicinal value of plants, Val, an herbalist, shares with us how the plants have been communicating with her through her dreams on special, non-traditional uses, offering strength and guidance, and she even shares a…

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  27. Return of the Dream Jedi (Ian) - S2, E1

    Jason and Ian explore Ian's work around reintroducing all 5 senses into dreams, especially lucid dreams, through awakening those neural pathways again. Ian shares a few fascinating dreams, one that really stretches ideas about how the lucid state and reality can touch and a prophetic dream that...

  28. If You Want to Come into your Power - (Steve-Grinch) - Ep18, S1

    Cohost Steve is delivered a powerful directive in a lucid dream on how to come into his power that opened a deeply initiatory experience in his life. Its an experience that has deeply reshaped his life forever and nascent within the journey was the discovery of the medicine and beauty he is being...

  29. The Antelope and the Thawing of the Glacial Heart (Matt) - Ep17, S1

    This episode is sure to rock you right in the chest. Our guest Matt Cochran shares with us his story of having a dream encounter with a beautiful pronghorn Antelope and then, through a very touching synchronicity, his dream actually manifests in waking life. Both the dream and waking encounter…

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  30. Love at First Flight (Cougar & Mariah) - Ep 16, S1

    Join Jason as he conducts our first love story, interviewing the couple about a possible shared flying dream experience they had over a decade ago and fatefully found each other through a post Cougar rattled off to the reddit community seeking to find the girl of his dream! Mariah finds his post...

  31. Introducing: Turning Season/The Dreamers' Den Podcast

    Join Steve and Leilani and get a firsthand look at what an actual group dreamwork session looks like. Leilani invited Steve to participate in a recorded projective style group dreamwork session for an episode of her own podcast, The Dreamers' Den (Soon to be renamed Turning Season). The group…

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  32. The First Sword Draw (Leilani) - Ep 14, S1

    Join Leilani while she shares her journey with autoimmunity and how her dreams offer her several poignant dreams to help her better relate to her autoimmune hypothyroid condition. And continues as it leads her to a deep ancestral understanding of not only her inheritance of this condition, but...

  33. The Father Wound (Steve) - Ep 13, S1

    Join hosts Steve and Jason as Steve relays a series of poignant dreams that aided him in his process of healing his father wound, his relationship with his father, and finally owning the duty of honoring his worth, creative fire, and Anima. It's a truly touching story! Star Wars fans will be...

  34. These will be your Kids (Jim) - Ep 12, S1

    In observation of Father's Day, we bring you this very special story where our guest, Jim, has a powerful prophetic dream about two kids the dream says are going to be his. This is 3 years before he and his wife even begin the process to adopt and after a series of fateful occurrences they are...

  35. Big Decisions, Bigger Opportunities (Lese) - E11, S1

    Do you have a difficult life decision before you?! Lese was given by her boss less than 24 hours to decide if she was going to stay at her job, the Wall Street Journal, or leave! Listen and find out how Steve and Lese have used their dreams many times over to make decisions that have had far...

  36. When the Men in Black Speak, You Listen (Wendy) - Ep 10, S1

    Fellow podcaster on extraterrestrial and paranormal happenings, Wendy Garrett, shares with us a dream encounter she had with the Men in Black that thrust her towards her calling in that arena! Jason and Wendy dive headfirst into the rabbit hole of the paranormal. Join them as they explore the…

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  37. I Can't, He Doesn't Want Me To - (Erin) Ep9, S1

    Erin, in the throes of an abusive relationship, has a powerful dream that initiates the process of her reclaiming herself, her power, and ultimately leaving the relationship. Steve and Erin explore warning dreams, toxic masculinity, power and powerlessness, and at the end, each offer a look at…

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  38. Love, Loss and Everlasting Life (Laurel) - Ep8, S1

    Laurel shared many extraordinary experiences with her husband John. When they were physically apart they would meet up in their dreams. They shared a wavelength of deep love and deep interest in dreams and metaphysics. Then John died and they continued to meet up in her dreams. Laurel's…

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  39. The Amazon Woman and the Stories Inside Us (Leah) - Ep7, S1

    In the thick of Post Partum Depression in the summer of 2017, Leah has an eruption of psychic material surrounding the Amazon Woman archetype. We deeply explore why she is showing up and uncover how the process of her arrival has been working her the past few years. This is an unique episode…

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  40. Dial Into Station 'Old Friend and His New Family' (Rochelle) - Ep 6, S1

    Rochelle started dreaming about a friend she hadn't spoken with in years, and to her great surprise she discovered that the dreams accurately described his life: his impending marriage, the birth of his daughter, his daughter's name. One time she even shared a dream with his wife. As the…

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  41. Origins: The Dreams That Made Us Dreamworkers

    Co-hosts Steven and Jason share the dreams and experiences that enticed them down the rabbit hole and led to becoming dreamworkers. They find out that some dark history in both of their families compelled them and played out in their dreams.

  42. The Harvest and the Teenage Scavengers (Brenda) - Ep4, S1

    Brenda shares with us a revelatory dream she had some twenty odd years ago that changed her life and the relationship she has with herself and daughter forevermore! It's a beautiful story, we hope you enjoy it. Interview by Steven Ernenwein Narration by JM DeBord Original music by Steven…

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  43. Dreaming Her Daughter Home (Linda) - Ep3, S1

    Linda Yael Schiller faced one of the biggest decisions of her life, whether or not to adopt a child. She consulted her dreams and they responded with a fascinating answer. Hear how her decision shaped her life. Interview by JM DeBord. Narration by Steven Ernenwein Original music by Steven…

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  44. May Death Step to you with Flowers (Susanne) - Ep2, S1

    Susanne shares with us a series of dreams that have helped her prepare for the death of her sister, who sadly left us this past summer of 2020 to pancreatic cancer. Steven and Susanne have a heartfelt discussion about these dreams and surrounding this particular cancer, as Steven's late…

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  45. Back to the Life I Know (Harper) - Ep 1, S1

    In our inaugural episode we offer for you the story of Harper, whose dreams showed him a future where he could live again with vigor and health. Interview by JM DeBord Narration by Steven Ernenwein. Original music by Steven Ernenwein (@aq_dreamwalker) Theme music snippet from The K Project…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Our modern western culture places little to no value on the power of our nightly dreams to inspire, shift, and reorganize our lives. This podcast demands a deep reconsideration of the role our dreams play on our path to a more vital and meaningful life. The following is living proof of the life affirming power of dreams to effect change and redirect the trajectory of our inner and outer lives. These are the dreams that shape us.

HOSTED BY

Steven Ernenwein, J.M. DeBord

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Our modern western culture places little to no value on the power of our nightly dreams to inspire, shift, and reorganize our lives. This podcast demands a deep reconsideration of the role our dreams play on our path to a more vital and meaningful life. The following is living proof of the life...

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