710: Everyday Is My Birthday
29 Jan 2026 · 24 min
Summer McStravick leads a guided visualization about treating every day like your birthday. She explains Flow Dreaming as an energy-activation method for manifesting, then walks you through an imagined path where you receive gifts and abundance, encouraging you to carry that celebration feeling into everyday life.
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You know that special feeling of your birthday?
It's your day, it's all about you and everyone celebrates that you're just in existence.
Well, what if you carried that feeling.
Every day, not just one day of the year. What if every day life showered you with gifts and blessings? What if every day you gave yourself permission to do the things you enjoy, to just spend some time with you, loving you, being grateful about your own self. Well, this week is actually my birthday and with those thoughts in mind, I wanted to give you a present. Today I'm going to be playing a Flow Dream, a classic. It's called Every Day Is My Birthday and it's one of the most popular recordings I've ever done. So stay with me and I want you to see sink into this delicious feeling of being able to give to yourself not just one day of the year, but any day of the year. Flow Dreaming Still Kinda Woo Woo is.
Just what it sounds like.
An escape into the world of woo.
Also a ride into you and how to feel happier, wiser and more self aware in every way. It's your ultimate journey into personal growth and inner power. We'll explore ideas like how your energy self influences the kinds of opportunities you.
Encounter, or how your personal growth can.
Drive your business growth.
Or even how that feeling of being.
Stuck is really always coming from something else. We just have to figure out what.
That's right, we're a dash of Woo Woo. A sprinkle of self care, a heap of problem solving and pattern busting and.
A giant cup of encouragement. We're going to relight so much passion.
Purpose, self love and confidence in you that you practically stagger.
I'm Summer McStravik, your host and welcome to Flow Dreaming. Still Kinda Woo Woo.
So I'm not kidding. I am a September baby and it's my birthday week. I have been celebrating. I went out and saw the Barber movie just a little while ago. I know late to the game on that one but oh, I was such a Barbie fanatic as a kid seeing Ali Wong. She's a fabulous and kind of raunchy comedian but I enjoy her spending time with my mom, with my good friends, with my husband, family, you know, just giving to myself. Giving myself especially permission to give to myself like it's some kind of reward or something that I have lived another year. Well, I got to thinking once. Why do we do that just once a year? Like why do we have to wait for a special time to honor ourselves? Because if we really do live in an abundant universe as so many of us believe, right, that life and source, God flow, your higher power, your higher self. All that is, if really we are surrounded by bounty and by this deep desire from everything, the greatest parts of the universe, God itself, to want you to grow, to want you to blossom, to want you to experience and move to the next level of your understanding and frankly, just joy. If really that's true, shouldn't those materials be there every single day for us to use? Shouldn't there be moments and shouldn't we be applauded the more that we give to ourselves as if it were in fact our birthday? Now, this is not a selfish thing, not at all. In fact, it's sort of the opposite. Because what we're saying is it's my blessing to be able to increase my happiness, increase what I can give or offer, right? Because most of us, when we think about our birthdays, we think about joy. We think about the happiest we could be. We think about unlimited piles of presents from friends, from family, and we did nothing to earn them. Except, like I said, stay alive one more year. Well, that's really not so different than a feeling that you can start to carry around a little more often, which is today I deserve some really good and beautiful and blessed things today. I get to do great things with them today. Yeah, it's about me, but what else are birthdays? Birthdays are opportunities for other people to celebrate you with you. And likewise, you're celebrating other people's birthdays with them. I mean, who here likes to go to a birthday party? I do. I love to go to birthdays, I love to celebrate. I love to have cakes and presents and, you know, the mood, the feeling, it's usually pretty happy, pretty joyful, pretty grateful. Birthdays are for everyone is what I'm getting at. It's for the giver and it's for the receiver. So what I wanted to do today, especially for those of you who are new and you've never experienced what actually flow dreaming is, because I know in this podcast I tend to move in a lot of different directions and we talk about intuition and personal power and sometimes I have guest interviews and so forth. But really the heart of things remains this gorgeous, gorgeous practice called flow dreaming. A method for manifesting, a method for co creating, a method for shaping and sculpting our own inner energies, emotions and frankly, our lives. So I create flow dreams for the express purpose of helping you do that. And really selfishly, for helping myself do that. All the flow dreams I've ever made have also been for me, because I was standing at the brink of needing, wanting, desiring something and realizing, oh, I should create some sort of structure for that.
I'll create a flow dream for that.
That I can dip in and do so. Flow dreaming again is not meditation. It's not self hypnosis. It's its own special energy technique and energy activation, if you will. And I encourage you, you can find out all about it. If you don't know what it is yet, go to the Flow dreaming channel on YouTube and I've got a great tutorial there that you can watch. It explains it all to you. You can either do that now, come back, or just let yourself just float through this beautiful flow dream I'm about to play for you. And by the way, this is an actual flow dream that I have for purchase at my shop. And it has been, like I said in the beginning of today's episode, very, very popular over the years. And I just wanted you to feel it with me because this is the energy that I myself am basking in today. So with that, let's close our eyes and get in a comfortable position and.
Let'S drop into flow space, co creational space.
A space where every day is indeed your birthday.
Every day is my birthday. Abundance is mine. A flow dream. Close your eyes and relax. Release your abdomen, drop your shoulders and breathe deeply, breathing in. And as you exhale, you feel your chest drop, your neck melts and your jaw releases. You're relaxed. You're ready to flow, to let go and to walk into your year ahead. As you walk into this year, you use your imagination. Breathing, relaxed, imagining drifting, walking, walking forward on a path that's beautiful, supple, straight and broad. As far as you can see into the distance. This beautiful path continues onward. You notice the scene around you. Perhaps it's rolling green hills. Perhaps it's stars and space and light. Perhaps it's beautiful light that shimmers. An otherworldly place, a place just outside a physical. A place that's deep and interconnected, that weaves itself in and through your physical reality. And yet it's on the other side. It's deeper in, rooted. And a part of you is rooted there too. Living there, breathing through this space, experiencing it, programming within it. This is the you that walks, glides, strolls freely, effortlessly forward. The path is filled with ease and light. You have this deep feeling in your heart, in your whole being. This is the ultimate path for me. The place of greatest ease, love, prosperity, security, safety, freedom. This is the path where all of My dreams are fulfilled easily, one after another. Whatever I dream of becomes whatever I ask for, winks into being, becomes embedded in this beautiful flow of my life, and begins to grow and burst through into the physical surroundings, my physical, factual life. And as I move down this path, so easy, graceful and effortless, I can feel how it's also moving with me and under me and behind me and through me. It carries me. I go faster and further with it toward this place where everything is good and right. I feel this year opening in front of me. A new year of my life. A year that waits and beckons for me. This could be any day of my life. There is always a new year. Every day there is a new year, another 365 days. Every day is my birthday. Every day is my new year. What happens in my new year? What is there? What do I call in? What am I longing for? What's leaping up to express itself inside me and my life? What feelings am I craving? What if it happened this year would so satisfy me, finally fulfill me, Give me those feelings I'm yearning for that I've been working for, wanting? First, I identify one big and beautiful feeling. If this just happened, if I just had this feeling all through my life, everything would change. Everything would be 100% better. Everything would just feel so good.
I'd feel so proud, so relaxed, so relieved.
That's the feeling. That's the feeling I get this year. That's the feeling I get starting now. That is what I am. Breathing into the flow around me. Letting the light, letting the stars, letting the energy pick up on this feeling and expand it, grow it outward from me. Sinking it into the earth, sinking it into all of the people.
All the.
Opportunities, the time, the minutes, the hours, the days ahead that are still coming to be.
But already.
I've endowed it with my feelings, my expectations, my knowing, my energy. This is the feeling I have. Life. You match it. You figure it out. How will I get this? How will it arrive? I will step into it. If you show it up, I will take it into me and into my life. And that's what I feel right now. Myself. Receiving the feeling.
Receiving it with joy.
Receiving it with big birthday balloons all around me.
Receiving.
Receiving it with confetti falling down, sunlight streaming over me, a gentle wind on my face. Joyful and dancing and free and entering these feelings, becoming them. My life. Saying, oh, is that what you wanted?
Is that what you've been working for and going for? Why didn't you just say it was these feelings instead of all of these.
Pathways that we kept trying to give you that weren't quite right.
These feelings, though, will, of course, of course we can deliver these to you. We can give these to you in your life. That's easy.
We already know the path. We know the way.
That's already so clear. What? You're ready for it.
You're open.
Really? You'll accept it no matter how we present it, as long as we get you to those feelings. And you say yes. Well, yeah. Really? Of course, yes. Your arms are thrown wide open. Receive. Receiving this in.
And you see it.
You see it in your flow.
You see it right there in this beautiful road ahead of you. It's like you're entering a field dotted with presents.
Like a child on Easter morning, running.
Out and collecting the Easter eggs from the grass. This road ahead of you is dotted with presence. Gifts, gift bags and beautifully wrapped boxes, pedestals with gorgeous things, experiences, delights overflowing on top of them. And as you glide past each one, you want to scoop every single one of them in. But you know what? It's okay. You don't even have to, because you don't lose anything here. Your flow repopulates every minute, every hour, every day of your life with more and more of these good things.
More.
And more of these gifts. And you scoop them up. A cornucopia. You can hold as many as you desire, as many as make sense that you can happily take into your life. You feel yourself lifting the lid off one beautiful, brightly colored box. And inside there is something that is giving you that feeling that you needed some big beautiful opportunity, some big, beautiful, perfect gift saying to you, this is yours. This will give you that feeling that you are creating, that you're co creating in your life. Gift after gift lines the road as far as you can see. You sweep them in with big broad wings billowing into your sails. More and more you reach the feeling.
Of what you want, what you crave.
And desire in your life. It comes to you, whatever it is, prosperity and abundance. Yours filling your life through the whole next year, more and more of it. Everything pulling aboard, saying, this is the one thing. Shower her. Shower him with it. Bring it into their life. Bring it in more and more, more and more. Maybe it's safety and security. All of your worries are gone. Everything is solved for you. You are safe and secure forevermore. Whatever that means. Monetary safety, relationship safety, job safety, health safety. Whatever that means. It's yours. Pour it in.
Why not?
You can have whatever you become, whatever you align to this is all within your ballpark. All within your ability. All within your being. You and flow. You and source. Co creating this together. What do you choose? You feel that. You feel it so strongly right now. It is inside you and.
And it is there.
It's there drinking it in. Filled. You look ahead to the year again. And you can see this year there'll be more surprises. More joyful coincidences, more opportunities, more connectivity, more love, more health, more bounty.
More.
More everything than ever before. Everywhere. The tide has turned. The tide has turned. And now I walk into freshness and newness and grace. I am carried in grace, carried in affection, carried in warmth and joy. Carried in prosperity and bounty. The old year washes away. I feel it washing out of my life and washing out of my skin, out of my hair, blowing and billowing away behind me, away, washed away and gone. The new freshness surrounds me, takes my hand, dances with me and leads me into my future. Happy Birthday. Every day I rebirth into a new day. A new life, new joy, new feelings, new connection, new flow. My heart is so free and light.
I feel just so relaxed, happy and astounded.
Astounded that I am allowed to even ask for this. That life in the universe supports my asking. No, they cheer my asking. No, they are relieved that I am finally asking.
And I am relieved too.
As I open my heart, open my soul and say this year I turn the corner. I get more of this feeling than I've ever had. What a joy. What an experience. I'm so grateful for it. So thankful. I knew it would always come. I knew I would always be gifted with it. My only challenge is how much of it can I drink in? How can I deeply take this in and be in this space that where my focus in how much can I take it and become it, receive it and accept it? Thank you Flo. Thank you. Happy Birthday. And with that I find myself opening my eyes, returning from flow and back. I hope you felt that was beautiful and you let it sink into your bones, sink into your energy. That is the feeling I want us all to be holding in ourselves every day, all the time. Imagine cruising through every week, month, year of your life, feeling that experience. The gifts are everywhere. Life is rewarding me.
I deserve it.
I deserve it.
Well, like I mentioned, if you enjoy.
That, I can encourage you to drop.
By flowdreaming.com I have that as a download that you can actually get on your phone or on your computer. I also have an app called Flow Dreaming. Look it up in the app store on your phone or tablet.
You can also find it there.
There's a whole bunch of Flow dreams, actually just hundreds of them at this point. So with that, I'm gonna wish you all a very happy birthday no matter what day of the year it is. And I'm gonna go off and celebrate because like I said, I get a birthday week, a birthday year, a birthday month, a birthday lifetime. So you can have that too.
Go celebrate.
Go do something. Go blow out some candles for yourself. Just because. And I'll see you all next time as we dip our toes into another beautiful pool of Flow dreaming. Still kinda woo woo.
Hey friends.
I just wanna point you in the direction of a couple of resources that might just light up your day. First, I have an app, it's called Flow Dreaming for meditation and manifesting and it has hundreds of Flow dreams and playlists that you can use download enjoy to start sculpting these energies of your life now. Second, there is a YouTube channel for flow Dreaming. I know. Who'd have guessed the best thing you can find on that channel aside from from. Also, this podcast is a tutorial. It teaches you how to Flow Dream. I'm right there on the screen with you, leading you through several beautiful and.
Gorgeous Flow dreams that we do together.
So go check it out. Look up flow dreaming on YouTube and have a good time. Enjoy yourself with these beautiful free resources and if you feel the urge, reach out to me. I am always available summerlowdreaming.com and I'll help you and together we'll discover what may be a perfect personalized Flow Dreaming program for you could be like. To find out how to do that just go Visit my website, flowdreaming.com until next time. Love to you all.