Creative Alchemy is Here
Creativity is the alchemy that transmutes suffering into expression, fear into inspiration, and loss into legacy. It enables us to tenderly hold life’s contradictions — the beauty amidst the destruction, the joy coexisting with the despair.
Creative Affirmations and The Artist’s Way
As a facilitator for Julia Cameron’s renowned book The Artist's Way, one of the most powerful tools I share with participants is the Creative Affirmations. These positive statements aim to counteract the negative self-talk and doubts that can hold back artists and creatives.
The Walking in This World Creative Circle is Open — an Artist’s Way Program
I'm hosting an online creative circle for Walking in This World, and you're invited to join me. Walking in This World is the second book in The Artist's Way series, a time-tested process for creative recovery and growth created by writer Julia Cameron.
Basic Principles of The Artist’s Way
The Basic Principles of Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way provide a philosophical foundation for awakening one’s creative potential and nurturing one’s inner artist.
The Artist’s Way Creative Circle is Open
When I picked up The Artist’s Way in 2018, I didn't realise how it would impact my life. I had known about the book since around the time it was published. Over the years, I would see well-loved copies lying around friends’ houses and art studios.
42 Famous Quotes About Creativity
Famous quotes about creativity. Read what artists, writers, scientists, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and psychologists have said about the challenges and rewards of creativity.
Artist Date Ideas to Do at Home
During lockdown or when we want to stay in, artist dates can seem challenging. Here are over twenty ideas for artists dates that can be done at home.
How to Do Morning Pages with Ease
In the Basic Tools, Cameron describes morning pages — ‘three pages of longhand writing, strictly stream-of-consciousness.’ She clarifies, ‘There is no wrong way to do the morning pages.’
Facing the Fear of Being Misunderstood
When we receive a creative impulse, it can come through quickly. When it arrives, it doesn’t always make sense in that neat kind of way. And when we spend time with our ideas, developing them through the creative process, meaning can be fluid. We’ll start one place and end up someplace radically different.
Reflections on The Artist’s Way, Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength
This is the eighth post in a series on The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, a book and a self-study program developed by Julia Cameron in the 1990s. I’m looking back on Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength.
City Flea, Manhattan
I’m heading to New York City next month. I’m so excited to catch up with friends and see how things have changed over the past three years since I was there last. I lived in NYC for 13 years, from 1995 to 2008. I moved there to study architecture at The Cooper Union. Whenever I had a chance, I took elective courses in the art program. Photography was one of my favourite classes.
Finding Authenticity in My Daily Routine
I recently wrote about how I'm inspired by the calm energy of kaizen, an approach that requires making small, continuous changes over time. I’m playing with methods to develop habits and behaviours to create change in my life. For a few weeks, I experimented by trying out different habits to support my creative exploration, purpose, and well-being.
Reflections on The Artist’s Way, Week 1: Recovering a Sense of Safety
This is the first in a series of posts about The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, a book and a self-study program developed by Julia Cameron in the 1990s.
How I Got Unstuck
The past eight months have been an exhilarating time for me, and I feel more connected than ever to my life’s dual purpose of sharing my creativity and helping others to tap into their own potential.