Dear friends,
Welcome to our weekly check-in!
How has your week been? Did you take your artist on a date? Write your morning pages? We are happy to report that we did both (although we did each miss one day of the morning pages — such is life!). We’ll fill you in on all of our creative goings-on in the episode above, but first, a quick introduction to the theme of this week’s chapter.
This week, Julia invites us to think differently about anger, shame, and criticism.
In this third chapter of The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron tackles anger, asking us to view it as an invitation to act upon, rather than an emotion we are acting out. She warns us at the beginning of this chapter that we might start to feel some sharp emotional peaks and valleys this week as we help our inner artists recover. Spoiler alert: we did indeed feel some strong emotions this week!
On our artist’s dates:
This week, we both went on artist’s dates — something that I (Elena) have particularly struggled with! An artist’s date only needs three components: it must be done solo, it must fill your artist with some kind of beautiful or vivid imagery, and it must be done with the intention that this is indeed time set aside for your inner artist.
Our dates this week took us for inspiration to a nearby library, as Elena got her first physical library card since before the pandemic and explored a new library, and into nature, as Joy walked the Lade Braes footpath in St. Andrews, accompanied by JVKE’s “this is what autumn feels like.”
Artist’s dates don’t have to be complicated, and they don’t have to entail any kind of enormous endeavor — they just need to be done!
And, Joy’s date produced her first Instagram reel — an excellent example of the kind of play Julia encourages us to engage in as we help to heal our artists!
Check in with us!
Tell us about your weeks! Did you do any of Julia’s tasks? What did you make of your morning pages?
Much love, talk soon!
Elena & Joy
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