A group of diverse children playing basketball outside on a sunny day, with trees and a fence in the background.

In 2025, I embarked on Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path Toward Higher Creativity”. The curriculum provides a 12-week course, including a theme of recovery for your inner creative, journal prompts, Morning Pages and Artist Dates.

Black and white cartoon image of a mouse with big ears and a long tail, standing on a platform with the word "MOUSE" written above it.

In 2025, I embarked on Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path Toward Higher Creativity”. The curriculum provides a 12-week course, including a theme of recovery for your inner creative, journal prompts, Morning Pages and Artist Dates.

Week One

Recovering a Sense of
Safety

A child wearing a paper cone hat eating from a can of baked beans at a table. The background is decorated with green leaves and white flowers, and there are various 'hello my name is' stickers with words like 'wrong,' 'awkward,' 'invisible,' 'not that special,' and other words expressing negative feelings. The scene portrays a humorous or expressive depiction of social anxiety or awkwardness.

Hall of Haters

Oil on canvas
with stickers, permanent marker
??”x??”

Week Two

Oil painting of white lilies in a clear glass vase placed on black fabric, with a paint palette and a jar in the foreground.

Recovering a Sense of Identity

Paying Attention

Oil on canvas
??”x??”

Week Three

Recovering a Sense of
Power

A colorful, decorated fabric wall hanging with various inspirational and whimsical items, including drawings, a rainbow-colored rope, small figures, pictures, and themed embellishments, with a purple background and a brown bottom edge.

My Shayla’s Room

Mixed media on unstretched canvas
??”x??”

Week Four

Recovering a Sense of Integrity

A collage of various images including animals like a bat, squirrel, and hummingbird, nature scenes, and miscellaneous objects, arranged within a wooden frame.

Artist’s Prayer

Mixed media on wood
Resin, photos and found objects on thrifted frame
??”x??”

Week Five

Recovering a Sense of Possibility

Modern white residential building with outdoor pool and lounge chairs, surrounded by trees and landscaped gardens.
A backyard view featuring a rectangular swimming pool, three lounge chairs, and surrounded by purple flowering plants and desert trees, with a modern house and mountains in the background.

Week Six

Recovering a Sense of Abundance

Modern white building with black doors, outdoor lounge chairs by a pool, lush greenery, lavender plants, and desert landscape in the background.
A backyard with a swimming pool surrounded by lounge chairs, purple flowering bushes, and a house with outdoor seating, set in a desert landscape with hills in the background.

Week Seven

Recovering a Sense of Connection

Modern white residential building with outdoor patio, lounge chairs, umbrella by swimming pool, landscaped garden, and desert plants.
Residential backyard with a rectangular pool, three lounge chairs, a landscaped yard with purple bushes and a large agave plant, a single-story house with a patio, and trees in the background.

Week Eight

Recovering a Sense of Strength

Modern white house with outdoor pool, lounge chairs, and landscaped garden with trees and lavender plants.
A backyard with a swimming pool, three lounge chairs, purple flowering shrubs, large agave plant, a patio with outdoor furniture, and a surrounding landscape of trees and hills.

Week Nine

Recovering a Sense of Compassion

Modern white building with multiple patio doors, surrounded by trees, garden plants, and a pool with lounge chairs and umbrellas in the yard.
A modern backyard with a swimming pool, three lounge chairs, grass, purple flowering bushes, two trees, a house with a porch, and hills in the background.

Week Ten

Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection

Modern white building with large windows, surrounded by trees and landscaped garden with purple flowers, poolside lounge chairs, and parasol.
A modern backyard with a swimming pool, lounge chairs, and purple-flowered bushes, with a house and hills in the background during sunset.

Week Eleven

Recovering a Sense of Autonomy

Modern white house with large windows, surrounded by trees, with a pool and lounge chairs in the foreground, and a well-maintained garden.
A modern backyard with a swimming pool, three white lounge chairs, purple flowering bushes, and a house with trees and hills in the background.

Week Twelve

Recovering a Sense of Faith

Modern white building with outdoor lounge chairs by a swimming pool, surrounded by desert plants and trees.
Modern backyard with a swimming pool, three lounge chairs, landscaped bushes, trees, and a house in the background under a clear sky.

What comes next?

Thank you for taking the time to witness my journey over the past 12 “weeks”! Your support is invaluable and does not go unnoticed. Have an idea you would like to see next? A piece you would like to commission? Thoughts, jokes, or funny quotes? Send them my way and follow along for more to come!

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