Can recurring nightmares be changed—and can better sleep support recovery from trauma? On this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell talks with clinical psychologist and behavioral sleep medicine specialist Dr. Courtney Worley about evidence-based treatments for nightmares, insomnia, and trauma-related sleep problems. Dr. Worley explains how imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) can help people […]

What can dreams reveal about psychological growth in midlife? Jungian psychoanalyst Tony Caldwell joins host Katherine Bell on The Dream Journal to explore individuation, compensatory dreams, shadow work, initial dreams, and the tension of opposites. Tony explains how dreams can counterbalance a one-sided conscious attitude, why individuation is an ongoing process rather than a finished […]

What are dream herbs—and how can plant allies support dream recall, dream incubation, creativity, healing, and spiritual connection? On this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with author, herbalist, certified hypnotherapist, dream guide, and intuitive coach Audrey Gilbert about her book Herbal Dream Magic: Spells and Rituals with Plant Allies. Audrey explains […]

How do Jungian psychology, dream archetypes, neurobiology, and memory reconsolidation come together in dream work? In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with clinical psychologist Dr. John Valenzuela about dreams as meaningful experiences that help us update emotional memories, deepen self-understanding, and improve relationships. With poignant examples from his own dream […]

In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with psychotherapists and artists Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard about their book The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice. Together they explore how dreams reveal emotional truth, invite deep listening, and open pathways into creativity, […]

In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with physician-turned-psychotherapist, teacher, and writer Dr. Keren Vishny about dreams as a place we can return to again and again. Together they explore how dreamwork can deepen presence, support emotional awareness, and help us stay with difficult experiences rather than avoiding them or rushing […]

Early adulthood can feel like a search for meaning in a world that keeps asking for stability. In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with Satya Doyle Byock about quarter life as a developmental stage, the tension between stability and meaning, and how dreams can reveal what the conscious mind has […]

Dream teacher and prolific author Robert Moss joins The Dream Journal for a wide-ranging conversation about active dreaming, shamanic imagination, synchronicity, dream reentry, hypnagogia, precognition, nightmares, and the living nature of dreams. Robert Moss is the founder of the School of Active Dreaming and the author of books including Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, […]

What do Shakespeare, dream journals, live theater, and spiritual imagination have in common? In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with dream researcher and author Dr. Kelly Bulkeley about the spirit of dreaming in Shakespeare, the power of dreams as play, and how long-term dream journaling reveals patterns of meaning over […]

Are we dreaming reality together? In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with author and spiritual teacher Paul Levy about the dreamlike nature of reality, the collective mind virus known as Wetiko, and how nighttime dreams can help us wake up within the waking dream. Paul shares how a powerful spiritual […]