Significant realizations have often come to me through dreams, each one shifting the way I see myself and the world. In the mid-1990s, as I was beginning my work as a consultant, my life entered a new phase. My children were in college, my home was quieter, and I was not yet a grandparent. The usual tethers of time and responsibility had loosened, leaving me freer than ever before. Into that space flowed a deeper longing, a call to a spiritual quest that I had only dabbled in before but now felt ready to embrace with true intention.
I discovered the Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch. His writing stirred me, especially his emphasis on the power of “I Am” statements. We are, after all, constantly speaking ourselves into being. Too often, we declare the negative: I am fat. I am unworthy. I am cruel. Yet Walsch challenged me to recognize that every “I Am” shapes not only how we see ourselves but how we show up in the world. What if, instead, we chose words of possibility and love? I am kind. I am a communicator. I am a freethinker. I am brilliant. I am honest.
At first, I thought of “I Am” statements as fixed descriptors, boxes that defined me. Eventually, I realized they were not anchors but tools, dynamic ways of directing my energy. They describe what we do and how we live, not the eternal essence of who we are. This insight was beautifully reinforced years later during the pre-work for the Joe Dispenza Retreat in Basel, where he reminded us not to limit ourselves by clinging to past definitions of ourselves.
Self-discovery, I have learned, is never a onetime event. It unfolds gradually, fine-tuned by dreams, thoughts, and lived experience. One particular dream stands out from that era. While reflecting on Walsch’s “I Am” teachings, I dreamed of a phrase that declared itself with startling clarity: IAMWE.
That revelation deepened my understanding of collective consciousness. I had long believed in the unseen thread that binds all souls, but this was more than belief; it is eternal knowing. IAMWE spoke to the living energy between us, a current that is both invisible and undeniable. Whether harmonious or discordant, that frequency is the Divine itself flowing through us.
And so, even as I pray to God, I recognize that this energy is God, the higher power within and around us. IAMWE is both a truth and a practice: the reminder that we are not separate, but one.
I Am We 