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Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

By: Michelle Whipple August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

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[If you are just joining in, this is a book by Julia Cameron “a spiritual path to higher creativity”….Feel free to jump in or start back at the beginning. There are posts for each week (chapter)!] Today marks the start of the last month of Summer of Creativity. I hope you are seeing some changes…

Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength

By: Michelle Whipple August 3, 2022

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[If you are just joining in, this is a book by Julia Cameron “a spiritual path to higher creativity”….Feel free to jump in or start back at the beginning. There are posts for each week (chapter)!] I realized today that there was a little synchronicity during Week 7, which we’ve just finished, and I wanted…

Week 7: Recovering a Sense of Connection

By: Michelle Whipple July 27, 2022August 10, 2022

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I am sitting in bed with a cold La Croix because I have a summer cold this week. Does everyone have a summer cold this week?!? It’s not covid—I’ve been testing. And it feels like a while since I had a regular, boring cold. I have not missed it. River’s home this week and we’ve…

Jesus and Cheeses

By: Michelle Whipple July 24, 2022

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When I told my friend Sofi about this poem, she said, “Jesus or cheeses!? Those words sound the same.” So now I’ve got to write a poem about cheeses…. But here are two poems for a Sunday and one strange piece of art, because why not? Worth Repeating I stumble over and over; it is…

Week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance

By: Michelle Whipple July 20, 2022

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I wanna take a minute to do a check in with how this Artists-Way process is going for me. So far, I’ve been totally solid on the morning pages because I was already really in the habit going into this. I have slacked on the artist date for the last couple of weeks. One week…

Week 5: Recovering a Sense of Possibility

By: Michelle Whipple July 13, 2022July 19, 2022

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Welcome to Week 5! By this point, the novelty of the book and process has worn off. You may have hit a rhythm with the morning pages. You may still be struggling to make the artist date happen. You may have learned somethings about your internal narrative around life and your desires. But by this…

I See Light Because I See Shadow

By: Michelle Whipple July 9, 2022July 9, 2022

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I cannot imagine a God, who created this world, filled with so much diversity, so much light and so much in the deep, to have meant for us to skim the surface, not when the landscape of human experience is so vast and rich. So this is a reminder, as much for me as anyone, do not neglect the shadow.

Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity

By: Michelle Whipple July 6, 2022July 8, 2022

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“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.” Chekhov Today marks the start of Week 4 in The Artist’s Way, and this chapter is full of goodness. There are ways to sort of mark your progress in this first month and some wedges to push the door open just a hair…

Week 3: Recovering a Sense of Power

By: Michelle Whipple June 29, 2022July 8, 2022

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This week we dive into the underworld, the shadow side. Let me assure you that this work is work that is worth doing. If you can become, at least familiar with, if not comfortable with, the dark side, the hard emotions, the shadow work, the stuff your brain naturally wants to avoid—you become fireproof. It’s an act of bravery. It’s an act of self love.

Attention

By: Michelle Whipple June 26, 2022June 26, 2022

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I smell the ocean on the warm breeze flowing steadily past the skin on my face and arms, which are slightly sticky from the drying salt water. The sun is headed down but the days are long and it will be hours before it sets. There is a seagull walking past, eyeing the abandoned beach…

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Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

Week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance

I See Light Because I See Shadow

Attention

I am terrified of the silence.

I am [after all,] my own muse.

It Starts TODAY! Summer of Creativity

Prosperity

Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength

Week 7: Recovering a Sense of Connection

Jesus and Cheeses

Week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance

Week 5: Recovering a Sense of Possibility

I See Light Because I See Shadow

Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity

Week 3: Recovering a Sense of Power

Attention