The Artist's Way

was the experience for you? Did you do your artist date this week? Yes, of course, we always hope. ...

WEEK 2 Recovering a Sense of Identity This week addresses self-definition as a major component of c ...

recovering our creative selves. As we gain strength, so will some of the attacks of self-doubt. This is nor ...

sources. We can neutralize them once we recognize them as a sort of creative virus. Affirmations a ...

artists. The truth is that it was self-will to refuse to acknowledge our creativity. Of course, this ...

STEVENSON Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, ...

people’s plans for us. We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel ...

within. You will learn that it is actually easier to write than not write, paint than not paint, and so ...

around them functions as supporting cast, picking up their cues, their entrances and exits, from the ...

trailer cave. Over the past two decades, I have watched many directors at work. I was married to a prof ...

them, but since they feed on power, any power source will do. Although quite frequently crazymakers ar ...

that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work. Crazymakers break deals and destroy schedules. Th ...

important your deadline or how critical your work trajectory at the moment, crazymakers will violate your ...

and miss the fact that the crazymaker has used hearsay to set you off kilter emotionally. Crazymakers are expert ...

the bar exam or get your husband home from the hospital. Crazymakers hate schedules—except their own. In ...

that we’re that crazy ourselves and we are that self- destructive. Really? Whatever God’s dream ...

codependency or get yourself to a twelve-step program for relationship addiction. (Al-Anon and Sex and Love ...

given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With o ...

enjoy this? No. He told himself that film school was distracting him from his real job of finding ...

enough for the photographer It has chosen. MINOR WHITE I like to think of the mind as a room. In that ...