What if your dreams weren’t random at all—but meaningful messages from the deepest parts of you?

In this two-part episode of Pay Attention, Holly McNeill sits down with dream tender and therapist Valerie Johns for a profound, soul-stirring conversation about how your dreams can support emotional healing, personal clarity, and spiritual growth.

Unlike traditional dream interpretation, Valerie’s approach to dream tending invites you to form a relationship with your dreams—to listen, explore, and allow the subconscious to speak. She explains how some dreams come not just from the personal psyche, but from the collective unconscious, offering insight into what the world is asking of us and how we’re being called to act.

Together, Holly and Valerie explore:

• Why we forget our dreams (and how to start remembering them)
• How to engage with dream images as living, healing messengers
• Why recurring dreams and nightmares are actually calls for attention, not fear
• How the ego has no control in the dream world—and doesn’t like it
• What skeptics often miss about the transformative power of dreaming

Whether you’re spiritually curious or cautiously skeptical, this episode invites you to soften, look within, and start listening to what your dreams are trying to tell you—about your healing, your purpose, and your place in a world that needs your full presence.

✨ Stay tuned for Part 2 of this powerful conversation, featuring Valerie’s live dream tending session with Holly you won’t want to miss.

Connect with Valerie Johns:
🌐 valeriejohns.com
📷 Ihttps://www.instagram.com/valeriejohnsla/
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-johns-66155216/

In this episode of Pay Attention, host Holly McNeill chats with Jay Moon Fields, a leading educator, coach and author. She stops by the show to discuss her Hey Wait framework, which teaches people how to honor their emotional experiences and share them authentically, helping them to break free from the cycles of overthinking, people-pleasing, and self-doubt.

Following last week’s conversation about trauma and body-based healing, this episode of Pay Attention moves us into the next essential layer: reclaiming pleasure.

Holly sits down with Dr. Laurie Mintz—licensed psychologist, sex educator, and author of Becoming Cliterate—to explore how cultural conditioning, religious messaging, and gender norms have created a world where women’s pleasure is minimized, misunderstood, or steeped in shame.

With honesty and clarity, Dr. Mintz breaks down the “orgasm gap,” the taboo around masturbation, and why so many women feel disconnected from their own bodies. She also shares practical, science-backed tools for cultivating sexual confidence and embracing self-touch as a powerful form of self-care.

This episode is both liberating and grounding—a reminder that pleasure isn’t indulgent, it’s essential. And as Dr. Mintz powerfully states: pleasure is your human right.

Includes candid personal stories, myth-busting insight, and empowering reflections on what it means to truly know and honor your body.

Connect with Dr. Laurie:

https://www.drlauriemintz.com/

https://www.instagram.com/drlauriemintz/

https://www.facebook.com/DrLaurieMintz/

Becoming Cliterate Book

A Tired Woman’s Guide To Passionate Sex

More about Dr. Laurie:

Dr. Laurie Mintz is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Florida teaching Human Sexuality to hundreds of undergraduates yearly. She has published over 60 scholarly works and authored two popular press books: Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get It and A Tired Woman’s Guide to Passionate Sex. Mintz is a licensed psychologist and certified sex therapist in private practice. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, indicating her work has had a positive national influence on the field of psychology. In 2023, she was named one of Forbes “50 over 50” women innovators.