reflecting on creative self sabotage, and how to avoid it | The Artist's Way Week 9

[@estherhayes790]

Thanks so much for doing this series 🥰 I’ve read and re-read The Artist Way many times over the years but have always found an excuse to actually not do any of the exercises 😅 This week is the first time I started doing morning pages and I truly don’t think I would’ve started with being inspired by your work and the progress you both are making. I just want to say I thank you for all the work you’re sharing 💖

[@MOONBATHING98]

wow! thank you SO much for this comment it truly means the world!!! I am so glad you've started doing the morning pages. Please let us know how you get on, I hope you find it as life-changing and enlightening as we have!

[@VeronicaViccora]

omg GO YOU!!! that is so fantastic! It's definitely an intimidating course, but it really is life changing! Best of luck on your renewed journey

[@JessiTheBestiGaming]

Veronica looks so much like my sister it's crazy!! You have a wonderful energy, I wish you luck on your creative journey!

[@curseofcontext]

it's funny really watching these is my way to coax myself toward opening chapter 2 of the book up again, facing my second little A6 morning pages journal and giving them another go. from the get go i've found that even the guidelines that julia cameron gives were inaccessible toward me doing the work without running scared? i find it very hard to leave my place so artist dates are a deep desire of mine but something where i know i'm just not there yet. i've had to reframe this "inability" to stick to them to adapt them to what i can follow through with. a theme of mine this year i'm slowly realizing is my inner sense of readiness and how compromising on ideals is a kind way to honor it and clear it up! my plan is to return to these videos as i manage to move on deeper into the book, i'm loving them!!

[@MOONBATHING98]

thank you for your comment! I'm really glad you brought this up- I felt huge resistance/overwhelm to the artists way course for years before I was able to commit to doing it. Adapting is definitely the key- to everything in life really. Doing things exactly by the book is never the point- the point is finding a way that works for you and then continuously showing up for yourself. I resonate so deeply with everything you've said in this comment and it's something I'm still learning to do. I'm so so glad you're loving them, thank you so much for watching and letting us know

[@curseofcontext]

12:11 returning already because this one specifically is percolating in my brain (might just have to skip to that chapter maybe that's my inner rulebreaker's needed workaround with this book for me, just jumping around with the order 🤯) but the idea of observing outside-in how a lack of "creative discipline" has constricted beloved people hits right at home for me and it just struck me that in a sense for them, to turn that idea around and take the concept of discipline out of it, it seems to be a blockage of the inside-out that we all fall into sometimes and i'm frightened of that too because i'm so familiar with it and it's such a down the drain of what could have been and sometimes what would do people good. i think i don't care to be disciplined but i care to be in tune with my inside-out and nurture my relationship with it! even with my fear to leave my space it's a wounded inside-out i guess this is wild to me!

[@MOONBATHING98]

omg !! yes to all of this, also I am so glad you are having some REALISATIONS and thoughts are coming together as you go through this journey with us. this course has catalysed so many thoughts and ideas and perspectives for me!! Also I love the reframing of discipline and the term "being in tune with my inside-out".

[@ant6558]

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