One of the recommendations from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way is to take a couple of “Artist’s Walks” a week. An Artist’s Walk is going for a 20-minute walk or more. With no specific purpose. It’s to wander. And think. And see. I don’t always get in an Artist’s Walk. But this week I did.…
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…
Yesterday, I wrote about my IT band issue. While I was writing it, I thought to myself that I should check the Runner’s World website to get some stretches. Or get some other ideas for dealing with it. But I didn’t. This morning, I again thought I should check out the Runner’s World website. But…
This week focuses on Recovering a Sense of Autonomy. Cameron wants us to focus on ways to nurture and accept ourselves as artists. And to explore behaviours to strengthen our spiritual base and creative power. At the core of this, is accepting yourself as an artist. And you are an artist whether you make money…
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…
I’ve been working on my creative blockage for almost two years now. I’ve been blocked for longer than that. But in July 2022, I started working through The Artist’s Way to help get me “unblocked”. It’s not that I don’t have anything to write about. In terms of playwriting, that is. It’s that I can’t…
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…
I remember getting the call to audition for Assisted Living. Actually, I didn’t get the call, Deb did. We were driving back from Ottawa in August 2022. Connie, the stage manager for the show, called to see if Deb and I wanted to come out to audition. I had seen the notice for the show.…
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…
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