The Artist's Way

TASKS Natural Abundance: Find five pretty or interesting rocks. I enjoy this exercise particularly becau ...

is not a goody-two-shoes exercise. Send to people you would love to hear from. Reread the Basic Principles ...

What was it? Were there any other issues this week that you consider significant for your recovery? ...

WEEK 7 Recovering a Sense of Connection We turn this week to the practice of right attitudes for creativ ...

reach for something that’s just beyond our grasp, “up there, in the stratosphere, where art lives on high....” ...

As artists, we drop down the well into the stream. We hear what’s down there and we act on it ...

To do that, we drop down the well. Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiratio ...

you with what you are doing. Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend’ ...

that lacks passion and spontaneity. “Do not fear mistakes,” Miles Davis told us. “There are none.” Cerebratio ...

going.” To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humilit ...

examining. The success of a creative recovery hinges on our ability to move out of the head and into acti ...

In order to risk, we must jettison our accepted limits. We must break through “I can’t because ...” B ...

feel great once you have done it. SUSAN JEFFERS Once we are willing to accept that anything worth ...

manager-brother explains to him why he should shed some weight and fight an unknown opponent. After an intrica ...

JEALOUSY Jealousy, I’ve often heard, is a normal human emotion. When I hear that, I think, “Maybe ...

—one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being. With courage you will dare to take ...

When jealousy bites, like a snakebite it requires an immediate antidote. On paper, make your jeal ...

you what you missed in the past; they will tell you what you can be doing, now, to comfort and ...

____. I beat myself up about the loss of __ . It is important to acknowledge our positive inventory ...

TASKS Make this phrase a mantra: Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong. Waterco ...