This week focuses on Recovering a Sense of Faith. The final “week” of the creative recovery focuses on trust and mystery. Trust that things unfold they way they are supposed to. We should stop trying to control the outcome. Cameron wants us to surrender to the creative process. Follow the prompts that appear. And we…
This week focuses on Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection. Cameron starts by having us revisit our creative blocks. Those things that we do so we don’t have to be creative. For me, it’s watching too much TV. Maybe even overeating. Both things dull my senses. And when I over-indulge in them, I don’t have any…
This week focuses on Recovering a Sense of Compassion. It’s funny. Week 9 of The Artist’s Way has been the longest week for me so far. I “started” this week at the beginning of June last year. And I only moved onto week 10 seven months later. It’s not that I was working so hard…
Week 8 in The Artist’s Way focuses on recovering a sense of strength. One of the things we need to do is acknowledge and mourn our artistic losses. Cameron says that avoiding it causes artistic scar tissue. And that prevents artistic growth. Most of us shrug off our artistic misfires. We don’t openly mourn the…
This week’s work is on recovering a sense of connection. It’s not only our connection to those around us and the environment. It’s our connection to everything. Cameron tells us that our Morning Pages and Artist Dates are teaching us to listen. The Morning Pages encourage us to listen past our internal censor. It’s a…
This week focuses on cultivating your feelings of abundance. You don’t have to be rich or in the black to be able to feel wealthy. Sometimes it’s about having an occasional treat that makes you feel well off. What does luxury mean to you? For some people, it’s buying a horse. For others, it’s getting…
I’m still taking much longer than a week to complete the weekly exercises. But keep moving forward, right? I find that I continue to build momentum even though it’s slow. This week’s focus is on recovering a sense of Possibility. Cameron wants you to lean into your relationship with the Creator. Or the Universe. Or…
I’ve been limping along working on my Artistic Recovery. It seems to take me a month to finish these “week” long sessions. That’s my fault, though. Not the program’s. I am very happy with the work that’s coming out of following The Artist’s Way. I wish I was better at following through with it. The…
I’m writing this a few months after the fact. But like the “week” before, it took me more than seven days to finish my exercises from week three of The Artist’s Way. Part of me was tempted to start over and try to do the work in a week but I decided to keep moving…
My second “week” of The Artist’s Way took longer than a week… Just like the first “week”. It’s not that it took so long to do the exercises. It took me a while to do the check-in. Not this blog post, but the check-in exercise that’s part of the program. I’m not sure why. I…
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