positive self talks can help you with safety and hope

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This week initiates your creative recovery.
You may feel both giddy and defiant, hopeful and skeptical. The readings, tasks, and exercises aim at allowing you to establish a sense of safety, which will enable you to explore your creativity with less fear.

The Artist's Way (Week 1) - Recovering A Sense Of Safety

This week finds us facing the internal blocks to creativity. It may be
tempting to abandon ship at this point. Dont’! We will explore and
acknowledge the emotional difficulties that beset us in the past as we
made creative efforts. We will undertake healing the shame of past
failures. We will gain in compassion as we reparent the frightened artist
child who yearns for creative accomplishment. We will learn tools to
dismantle emotional blocks and support renewed risk.

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The Artist's Way (Week 9) - Recovering A Sense Of Compassion

Kindly recorded for Brain Pickings. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/07/26/david-whyte-the-truelove

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

David Whyte reads his poem "The Truelove"

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/12/meditation-in-sunlight-may-sarton-amanda-palmer

"Meditation in Sunlight" by May Sarton (read by Amanda Palmer)

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/15/george-herbter-love/

Music: Bach Cello Suite No. 4 in E Flat, performed by Seraband Bourree (public domain)

"Love" by George Herbert (read by Maria Popova)

Mary Oliver reads from her exquisite collection 'Blue Horses.' Background, poem text, and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/mary-oliver-blue-horses-fourth-sign-of-the-zodiac/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/sets/mary-oliver-listening-to-the

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Mary Oliver reads from Blue Horses

Background, context, and full text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/11/david-whyte-vulnerability/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality

Photograph by Nicol Ragland

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David Whyte reads "Vulnerability"

@AmandaPalmer reads Jane Kenyon's sublime poem of living with and through depression. Originally recorded for Brain Pickings. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/27/having-it-out-with-melancholy-jane-kenyon-amanda-palmer/

September 27, 2017

Amanda Palmer reads "Having It Out With Melancholy" by Jane Kenyon

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/02/meryl-streep-morning-song-sylvia-plath/

Recorded at Poetry & the Creative Mind 2014, hosted by The Academy of American Poets.

Meryl Streep reads "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/10/11/louise-gluck-crossroads/

Louise Glück reads her poem "Crossroads"

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This week may find you dealing with unaccustomed bursts of energy and sharp peaks of anger, joy, and grief. You are coming into your power as the illusory hold of your previously excepted limits is shaken. You will be asked to consciously experiment with spiritual open-mindedness.

The Artist's Way (Week 3) - Recovering a Sense of Power

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