No shade, I think the interpretation of God in this book is supposed to be spiritual, not religious. The Bible quotes & things I believe are more to ground it in the Western concept of Christianity or the Abrahamic faiths but...spirituality =/= religion, and I think the defensiveness may come from not getting what she's saying off rip in the intro: her perspective on creativity is that it IS spiritual. Point blank period. And if you would consider yourself non-spiritual or not open to that sort of thing, then this book might not be your thing. I get the whole woo-woo shit can be excessive, but I don't think this book is religious.

underrated video

This is dope, reminds me of the early days of KZbin

Thank you for your honestly. ❤

i badly need an advice on how to stay focused on tasks as an intern lmao, i tend to shift from different tabs and then lose track of time lol, luv the way you docu your 1st week 🌼

No way you’re from Colorado as well me too!! Moved up here 4 years ago from Toronto. Love your vid!❤

The artist's way is wordless.

Aw crap - I just bought this book as it came highly recommended. Now I'm learning of the God talk and I am very much aligned with your thoughts. Not sure I'm going to enjoy this. >.<

thank you so much for ur interesting info ❤

I am pagan and I am not seeing the use of the word "god" is pagan. Have read many metaphysical books and am not seeing a pagan view from your review and other reviews. This book was brought up last night at a woo woo group I attend. Sounded good but I have serious PTSD from trauma from being in a religious Christian cult. I don't think I could get thru this book. Thank you for a great review! Now to find a book similar without the xtian emphasis!

tbh when i heard kathythekip i thought of a mudkip and thought it was cute but i can see how the relation wouldn’t be very clear

Thank you for the great review. Due to still working thru trauma from being in a religious cult, am going to have to look for something like without the God emphasis.

It’s an AA Twelve Step program…I’m pretty sure it’s where she got her concepts. I have an issue with using the word “God” but I think of it as the “unseen” more because I’m not sure us humans aren’t meant to understand it all and it is very unseen😂

The god talk was a bit much. I worked through the book early this year in a group. I had to repeat the montra, 'Take what is meant for me and ignore the rest.'

I started the Artist Way and was enjoying it but I just fell off so hard mainly because of the God talk and couldn't afford the dates anymore. I had similar thoughts about the journaling too, like it helped but it just took up so much time to do them EVERYDAY. It's nice to know that I wasn't the only one feeling this way since everyone praises this book so much. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

wow I actually just started The Artist's Way after watching many videos about it, yours included. So far I'm enjoying it a lot, Im suprised it didn't work out for you but to each their own, its cool to see others opinions on it.

I was so disappointed about how the book approached God. I know she expresses that God can take whatever form you want at the beginning but it didnt read that way. It felt like there was only one way and this ruined, for me, the inner child concept that i did enjoy about the book. By chapter 4 anything that slightly hinted towards God i ignored and felt quiet frustrated about. I wonder how an updated version would do. You can tell the book is 30years old.

I just started making art and attended an art event and they kept saying how god is every artists inspiration and I was highly defensive because I felt unincluded or seen as someone who loves philosophy and more of a pantheist agnostic belief

I am glad to see you are back to posting again!

My professor recommended this to me years ago with her final feedback on an assignment that I did for her class. I ended up getting a copy as a christmas gift, and now I am in week 3. This has been such an eye opening journey, and what it's definitely helping me with is recovering my autonomy, accepting help from others when it shows up, and self care. And yesterday after many years out of college and a few years out of a mini program that I was in, I realized that I studied the wrong thing as my college major. Yes I loved writing, but I realized that I should have done a creative writing program instead of the traditional journalism/media. I had a good cry last night over that.

WOW! Kathy, your video today was so spot on for me currently. Thank you for your work here, and for your vulnerability. You spoke to so many things that needed to hear. It was as if the words you are speaking in this video, were those of my own. I am old enough to be your mom haha, but I get it! <3 So much love and peace to you!! xoxo

I’m an artist going through it not very proud of my perseverance. This video really helped me open my eyes

I have been on the artist way with you till the end as I start the week I have loved watching your vlogs. Thank you for making these vlogs

So this might be dumb but is it 3 pages front and back or 3 sides?

What are your thoughts almost a year later?

Thank you for sharing -- working on setting up an accountability group to do the 12 weeks together. Have you seen any good resources for this?

Great inputs about this book

I am so grateful for this video. I have just ready chapter one and so the journey begins…

i am on week four right now i feel like im slacking by doing only one or two tasks a week. but ngl i am noticing patterns in myself as well as a surges of creative energy i like this book a lot i just skip over the god stuff. I think some of the things she talks about in the book is a side eye like when it comes to work and money etc. I love this book so far i can see why it’s popular. This video helped push away some thoughts i had about the book that i read but immediately forgot in place with my bias. I look forward to doing this book again when im older and seeing what i missed or what i gain/ gain again

Do one page if 3 are too long., as a teacher I had five boys who mucked around all lesson. I kept them in and told them to write a page and say anything as nobody would read it. They folded it and I tore it up in front of them. They were always well behaved after that and now have a tool to express anger and rage and tear it up afterwards. It’s brilliant. .

I tried today for the first time because it was homework from my Creative Writing class. "First thing in the morning as you still kind of see blurry, write an entire page without thinking, nonstop, until the end of the page. Do that every day for 2 weeks and don't read it." I hate it so much. I'm sure at least half of the page was "I hate this. My hand hurts. This is useless." So I went to KZbin to see what's the point and if maybe I did something wrong. I have watched about 12 videos. Yours is the only one that made sense. Thank you. I wish it was explained like this before. I still don't like the idea but at least now I have something to fight the dread of feeling of it being useless.

I started my own The Artist's Way journey and I stumbled upon your first week vlog. Thank you for this, it kinda feel like I have someone to share this time with and someone, like a accountability partner, who also does this activities and practices along with me. Thank you for sharing your progress with us. Will continue watching your vids throughout this weeks. Cheers to both of us and I'm rooting for both of our endeavors in life!!

i love the concept, but envy ppl who have the time to write in the mornings, i always have just the time to get dressed, feed cats and go to work, specially when i go to the gym early. How do you guys do it? just wake up extra early?

wow cool website

I have this book coming in the mail today and as a Christian I am very excited! I had no idea it was based in Christianity.

It's literally in our history 🙊 that rhymes for some reason

I just was recommended this book today and im shocked I had not ran across it ir been told about it before. Your video was very helpful in showing what the book encompasses and slowed down my initial "jump in with both feet" response. I look forward to taking my time with it and doing the morning pages.

lmao i literally did the same thing and wrote "Ouch" "my hand hurts" several times during the first week!

I love how little issues start to surface when I’m organizing, cleaning the house, sketching or doing a puzzle. It never occurred that would be the perfect time to write those things down. Not to analyze them (I’ll get no where with that), but just to bring more awareness of them to the surface. There like creepy little ants that start crawling on you when they think you’re distracted but run and hide as soon as you try to confront them

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Thank you!

I love my brand name, but having to one time look someone in the eye and say my name is Lonely Girl made it really clear to me that I will refer to myself as Lo and not the full name unless necessary lmao

this was breathtaking to watch, kathy!! been loving following your journey 🫶🏻

You are very intelligent. Thank you for making this video 😊

Such an excellent and concise overview. Thanks!