Week Three : Recovering a Sense of Power
The Artist's Way Book Study
Dear Artists,
It’s week three! You’re doing it! This is a week that can stump people, the adrenaline of the beginning has worn off and we might need to recommit. Pick your book up and dust it off, it isn’t too late to relish in the magic of the book study.
In a dream last night I heard : everything can be folded into the work. Anger, joy, grief, longing, passion, desire, frustration. When we have containers for our creative efforts we have places to channel what is coming up. It makes art making more fun, more enjoyable, to be able to see it as a place to bring our inner workings.
We notice synchronicity, where have our prayers been answered, where have they been true all along. How can we find our own ideas of god and let spirit perform great and simple miracles.
We are scared of failure and we are scared of success. I challenge us to choose the one that is of greater benefit to our communities and selves : success.
Be gentle with yourself when reading about shame, especially in the double loop of : shame that we haven’t cleared the shame yet.
More than anything else, experiment with solitude.
Take some time this weekend to do the tasks for this week, look at the habits that are not serving you. I found myself having a lot of clarity around what I say I “don’t have time or energy for” but then noticing all the things I was making time or energy for. This week we can start to get really honest with where our time and resources are going, and how we want to protect them and protect a sense of power.
USE THE COMMENTS TO SHARE THE FOLLOWING :
How did your morning pages go?
What was / will be your artist date?
Your 1-3 sentence reflection for the week
You are beloved and you are in a great experiment! Many blessings on your path
MORE SUPPORT AND RESOURCES :
🍑 Join me for Teaching as a Practice Thu July 13, 20, and 27 - A three week class for visioning your offering , building your dream syllabus, and launching and teaching your own online class
🍑 Book a 1:1 Creative Advising Session for next level support
🍑 Creative Ideation Portal : A free three day guide to visioning your projects
🍑 This week’s episode of Common Shapes is all about creating your own online class and why the world will be better for it (a great pep talk for why the world needs your art in general!
This has been a preview of the book study pep talk for free subscribers, if you’d like to join in : become a paid subscriber to access the Discord and the comments and all past and future pep talk emails for the 12 weeks of the book as well as our two live zooms