Our Waking Dream

Coco Swanson
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Our Waking Dream is an astrology podcast for people who are capable but overwhelmed — navigating growth, pressure, and change. You can feel when something is off — in your work, your relationships, or your direction — but it’s not always clear how to move forward. Each week, Coco Swanson uses astrology as timing to help you understand what’s unfolding and how to work with it more effectively. This is embodied astrology — integrating your nervous system, emotions, and patterns so you can reduce overwhelm, make clearer decisions, and respond with more steadiness. You’ll learn how to regulate under pressure, expand your perception, and move forward with greater clarity, purpose, and agency.

  1. Gemini Season, Overstimulation & the Difference Between Fragmentation and Aliveness

    1D AGO

    Gemini Season, Overstimulation & the Difference Between Fragmentation and Aliveness

    We are living in an extraordinarily accelerated time. Who's feeling mentally overstimulated, emotionally fragmented, creatively scattered, exhausted, flooded by nonstop information, or disconnected from what genuinely makes them feel alive. Gemini season amplifies movement in the nervous system. Curiosity increases. Ideas multiply. Conversations speed up. Information expands. Possibilities branch outward quickly. This can feel inspiring, connective, imaginative, innovative, and creatively energizing — or it can leave the body fragmented, overstimulated, compulsively consuming input, and increasingly disconnected from coherence, regulation, and presence. In this episode of Our Waking Dream, Coco Swanson explores the difference between overstimulation and genuine aliveness. She explores nervous-system fragmentation, emotional contagion, information overload, curiosity, imagination, micro breaks, pauses before input, and the importance of consciously restoring coherence in an accelerating world. This episode includes practical reflections and embodied tools for nervous-system regulation, creativity, emotional steadiness, sensory awareness, imagination, relational presence, and restoring connection to what genuinely nourishes your body, mind, and heart. What genuinely makes you feel alive right now? What fragments you? And what would happen if slowing down, breathing, wandering, imagining, connecting, and returning to your senses became part of how you restore clarity and coherence instead of merely pushing through overstimulation? Coco offers free problem solving - live- every other Sunday, noon pst. To join the upcoming Solutions Lab:: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs For more about Coco Swanson: https://cocoswanson.com #GeminiSeason #Overstimulation #NervousSystemHealing #EmotionalWellness #BurnoutRecovery #Embodiment #Creativity #EmotionalIntelligence #OurWakingDream

    19 min
  2. Staying Fortified in a World That's Accelerating

    MAY 10

    Staying Fortified in a World That's Accelerating

    Does anyone else feel like reality is speeding up faster than the nervous system can comfortably metabolize? Who else feels: - mentally overstimulated, - emotionally flooded, - creatively restless, - exhausted by constant input, - or increasingly disconnected from what actually nourishes them? As we move toward the Taurus New Moon on May 16 and Gemini season beginning May 20/21 — alongside Uranus newly entering Gemini — we’re entering a much faster era of human experience shaped by accelerating information, technological stimulation, nervous system overwhelm, rapid change, social complexity, and fragmented attention. The deeper question becomes: How do we remain creative, emotionally alive, relational, grounded, and human while the world accelerates around us? In this week’s episode of Our Waking Dream, Coco Swanson explores emotional overwhelm, nervous system regulation, embodiment, modern exhaustion, sensory awareness, emotional resilience, and the importance of building inner steadiness inside increasingly accelerated systems. This episode includes reflections on: - information overload, - emotional processing, - highly sensitive nervous systems, - relational health, - neuroplasticity, - the body’s intelligence, - and simple practices that help restore coherence, discernment, creativity, and emotional grounding during times of uncertainty and rapid change. In this episode, Coco also references the work of Elaine Belle, Alexander Technique specialist and teacher, who has worked closely with her over the last five years: https://elainebelle.com For more about Coco Swanson: https://www.cocoswanson.com Join complimentary live group problem-solving in the Solutions Lab: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs #nervoussystemregulation #highlysensitiveperson #emotionaloverwhelm #burnoutrecovery #modernlife #embodiment #collectivestress #emotionalresilience #geminiseason #ourwakingdream

    20 min
  3. Disturbed by the State of the World? Ethical Exhaustion During Pluto in Aquarius

    MAY 3

    Disturbed by the State of the World? Ethical Exhaustion During Pluto in Aquarius

    Are you feeling increasingly disturbed by the state of the world right now? Leadership failures, media distrust, technological acceleration, visible cruelty, political division, and the growing sense that humanity feels ethically off can create a constant undertow of anxiety, grief, anger, and hopelessness in the body. Many people are carrying collective stress, distrust in leadership, fear about the future, and nervous system fatigue without fully understanding how deeply it is impacting mood, focus, productivity, and sense of safety. We are in the early years of Pluto in Aquarius, a long transit exposing corruption inside collective systems, technological ethics, social structures, and the ways humanity organizes power. Much of what feels disturbing right now is part of a larger dismantling. In this week’s episode of Our Waking Dream, Coco Swanson explores ethical exhaustion, collective distress, and how to consciously work with the heartbreak of what feels deeply off. This episode offers embodied practices to metabolize emotional charge, reclaim personal agency, and participate in change from a steadier internal place. Join complimentary live group problem-solving in the Solutions Lab: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs For more about Coco Swanson: https://www.cocoswanson.com #ethicalexhaustion #collectivestress #leadershipfatigue #anxietyrelief #plutoinaquarius #nervoussystemregulation #globalstress

    23 min
  4. Feeling Scattered & Overstimulated During Uranus in Gemini: How to Trust Your Inner Compass Again

    APR 26

    Feeling Scattered & Overstimulated During Uranus in Gemini: How to Trust Your Inner Compass Again

    Uranus has moved into Gemini—and we can’t rely on our thinking the same way. More input. More opinions. More speed. More confusion—personally and globally. Information is multiplying. AI is layering over everything. It’s getting harder to know what’s true. Focus fractures. Decision-making gets harder. Even when you’re trying to stay grounded, things don’t land the same way. This is the beginning of Uranus moving into Gemini—a shift that amplifies how we think, communicate, and take in information. In this episode of Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and educator Coco Swanson explores how to work with mental overload by building internal coherence. You don’t need more information. You need a way to feel what’s true for you—even when everything around you is loud. For more about Coco Swanson: https://www.cocoswanson.com Complimentary, live problem-solving. Bring what you’re working through: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs

    22 min
  5. Forward Momentum Needs a Foundation: Taurus Season and Making It Sustainable

    APR 19

    Forward Momentum Needs a Foundation: Taurus Season and Making It Sustainable

    Who’s feeling a surge of passion, a pull in a new direction—and noticing it’s not landing yet? Ready to move… and it’s not holding? What’s activating in you and what your life can currently sustain aren’t matching. That’s when things get forced, inconsistent, or draining. This is where we overextend or question ourselves. Not because the direction is wrong—but because the capacity to hold it isn’t there yet. Time, energy, nervous system, resources. As Taurus season begins, the work shifts. From movement to stabilization. From starting to fortifying. Clear what’s outdated, regulate your system, and build something that can actually support what you’re stepping into. In this episode of Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and educator Coco Swanson explores how to work with forward momentum without burning out—by strengthening the foundation underneath it. You don’t need to push harder. You need to make it hold. For more about Coco Swanson: https://www.cocoswanson.com To join Coco's complimentary, live bi weekly hour problem-solving: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs #selfleadership #nervoussystemregulation #burnoutrecovery #sustainablegrowth #leadershipdevelopment

    21 min
  6. Anger, Passion, the Edge Between Reaction & Direction -- New Moon in Aries April 17

    APR 12

    Anger, Passion, the Edge Between Reaction & Direction -- New Moon in Aries April 17

    How do you work with anger and passion in a way that creates forward motion — instead of shutting something down or taking you off track? When that energy rises, most people suppress it, project it, or feel it start to distort what they were about to step into. This week, we’re working right at that edge. With the New Moon in Aries in conjunction with Chiron on April 17, the impulse to initiate meets the part of you that remembers when things didn’t land. In this episode of Our Waking Dream, strategist & mentor Coco Swanson walks you through how to stay with that energy in your body, return to what’s in front of you, and use it to move forward — instead of letting it take you out. If you're needing consistent support & community, step into our new Leadership Studio, starting this week! April 16 https://cocoswanson.com/leadership-studio For free problem solving, join our next Solutions Lab: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-lab

    19 min
  7. How to Build Stability in a Changing World (Uranus at the Final Degree of Taurus)

    APR 5

    How to Build Stability in a Changing World (Uranus at the Final Degree of Taurus)

    What's shaken you to your roots over the past 7 years? Work. Money. Your body. What you value. How you live. Things that once felt stable are unraveling. Thank you, Uranus, for rocking our Taurus boat, completing a cycle that's been disrupting stability at its foundation -- your resources,, nervous system, and values. In this episode of Our Waking Dream , strategist and mentor Coco Swanson explores how to build stability now. Not through control, through coherence. Through resourcing our bodies and clarifying how how values have changed -- and aligning with them. For live problem solving, bring a dilemma to our next Solutions Lab on April 19, sign up in the newsletter: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs

    20 min
  8. Protect Your Forward Motion with Care : Libra Full Moon

    MAR 29

    Protect Your Forward Motion with Care : Libra Full Moon

    It’s easy to feel thrown off in relationships as we near our April 1 Full Moon. You might feel ready to move forward in your life — there’s energy, momentum — and at the same time something in your relationships is asking for attention. Things might feel a bit out of balance. You might notice questions around care — who’s caring for who, where you’re overgiving, where something feels uneven. Resentment can come up. Sensitivities. Old dynamics getting louder. Thank this Full Moon for illuminating discord that’s ready to be harmonized before more movement. This is forward motion — but not at the expense of your relationships or yourself. In this episode of Our Waking Dream, Coco Swanson walks through how to keep your momentum while tending to what’s coming up — so what you’re building can actually hold. For more and to join the next Solutions Lab: https://www.cocoswanson.com/newsletter #highfunctioningoverwhelmed #emotionaloverwhelm #selfleadership #nervoussystemregulation #relationshipdynamics

    18 min
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About

Our Waking Dream is an astrology podcast for people who are capable but overwhelmed — navigating growth, pressure, and change. You can feel when something is off — in your work, your relationships, or your direction — but it’s not always clear how to move forward. Each week, Coco Swanson uses astrology as timing to help you understand what’s unfolding and how to work with it more effectively. This is embodied astrology — integrating your nervous system, emotions, and patterns so you can reduce overwhelm, make clearer decisions, and respond with more steadiness. You’ll learn how to regulate under pressure, expand your perception, and move forward with greater clarity, purpose, and agency.

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  • Creator
    Coco Swanson
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Coco Swanson 2025
  • Show Website
    Our Waking Dream