A Little Nudge
This keeps coming up with people in my life, so I'm nudging all of you to do this.
Howdy Wild Side!
Happy Friday! Venus’ day…soak it up!
I’m sharing the first part of this message with the Kumquats on the free side too. I want to particularly send this message out to a few of my super-close homies who I know have started and not finished doing The Artist’s Way. Just a little nudge of encouragement from me!
Times of upheaval and transition are a FANTASTIC time to pick that book back up and finish the damn thing! No excuses!
I’m not judging anyone for not finishing, only nudging….I mean, I had the book sitting on my shelf for 20 years, had flipped through it many times and thought I got the gist of it— without actually DOING the program that the book lays out. It wasn’t until I was stuck in bed for 8 weeks with a broken knee in 2016 that I finally did the whole thing: 12 consecutive weeks. And then I turned around and did it a second time right after— 24 consecutive weeks.
I recommend this book to literally EVERYONE. I buy up copies of it at the thrift store and give them out constantly.
Yes, it seems really basic on the surface, but it’s way deeper.
Yes, some of the activities are corny, but so fucking what.
Yes, it takes time you think you don’t have, but if you don’t take your own self-love and growth seriously right now…when? You, me, we— could all die tomorrow.
So what are you waiting for? There’s no “better” time than right now.
Yes, dudes…I’m ESPECIALLY looking at you because I’m so sick of men not diving into “the work” of transforming their pain and limiting beliefs because, selfishly, I need more whole, healed, passionate men in my life and this is a fun process of self discovery!
The medicine I recommend usually tastes great and goes down easy.
The only thing we regret are the things we didn’t go after.
This is why I’m cranky…I’m tired of being the cheerleader about stuff that is so fun that no one takes it seriously. That’s a limiting belief. “The work” on ourselves can be fun, deep, cathartic and powerful— all at the same time. You heard it here first.
Here’s a list of priceless gifts that I gained from doing the Artist’s Way that make it such a powerful book of internal sorcery—
I used to be keep my creative life and my spiritual life separate, despite being devoted to both. This book proved to me that creativity IS my connection to Spirit. They are impossible to separate and I have not even bothered to separate them ever since.
I picked up the habit of writing Morning Pages as a primary method of therapy, which I still do to this day…6 years later.
I became good at writing because I am writing all the time.
I re-established my connection to my inner child and have not abandoned myself ever since, despite some really grueling hardships. I have continued to believe in myself when very few around me did, because of this now unbreakable connection.
I learned to see any professional jealousy or longings as the indicator light pointing to a direction I need to go in myself, that has nothing to do with that person. I now see any pangs of longing that I get for something that someone else has as my cue to look within to find a pure inner-child desire that needs to be fulfilled. Then I go and do it. I get faster and faster at this process and spend very little time looking at what others are doing because I’m busy doing what I love.
I learned to manage my perfectionism better. Which, believe me, as someone with a Virgo moon, we can be horrible about our expectations for perfection. Mostly to ourselves. No small pattern to undo. This was a huge gift.
I fell in love with myself! I explored all the ways I’m awesome, cataloged the things that amuse and delight me and now I know many, many ways to make my light shine brighter and brighter. You can do that too!
What a world it would be if we all knew how to do that.
That’s all I wanted to say to the whole group today…
The rest of this transmission is for the Wild Side, which all of you are welcome to join any ol’ time.
Now…onto our weekly tarot reading and an update about how my eclipse fast went…
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