Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayWeek Four: Recovering A Sense of Integrity Do Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages work? Specifically, do they work for us? We begin this podcast by discussing our success following the advice in her book The Artist Way to write three pages of stream of conscious thoughts every morning. Let’s say our results…

Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayWeek Three: Recovering a Sense of Power Should you use anger to fuel your writing? Do you experience shame while creating art? Have you been keeping up with your artist pages? Week 3 of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way poses these questions with clear answers in mind—but we’re not convinced. In…

Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayWeek Two: Recovering a Sense of Identity We’re on Week 2 of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, shifting from internal creative obstacles to external ones—namely our friends and family.  We dig into Cameron’s concepts of “poisonous playmates” and “crazymakers”: how to identify them (spoiler: they’re not always people) and strategies for…

Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayWeek One: Recovering a Sense of Safety What if the real barrier to making art isn’t talent or time, but whether you feel safe enough to fail? We step into week one of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and stress-test its big promises against real life: jobs, bills, mental health, and…

Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s WayThe Basic Tools Three pages. Every morning. No exceptions. No mercy. We’re going to unblock our inner artist using Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. For three months, we’ll write stream-of-consciousness drivel before our brains fully wake up – a bizarre ritual Cameron swears by and millions of writers have adopted. But…