Jenna, I loved this essay! As someone also obsessed with Harriet the Spy and writing in composition notebooks, and doing some inner child work, I SO related to your experience. Learning to connect with our inner child is so fascinating, especially in this creative context 🩷
Thank you, Kailey! I've been kind of blown away revisiting Harriet and realizing how much fun it is *still* to reconnect with all of these things I loved as a kid. Letting myself do that has been one of the biggest gifts from The Artist's Way — I love that you've had a similar experience with creativity and inner child work! ✨
Jenna, I really enjoyed your essay. Your morning pages excerpts from your first go-round with The Artists Way made my jaw drop. They were eerily similar to journal entries of mine from years ago. That push and pull of “I want to be writing” vs. “Why aren’t I writing?”—ironically I spent a lot of time writing (journaling) about that. This is my first time doing TAW and have found it super helpful. (Thanks Ali!)
Thank you, Chris! It is a really confusing push-pull, but I've always loved how TAW (and mostly my morning pages!) helps me pull it apart and make sense of it. Grateful to be going through the process in community with you!
Thank you Jenna and Ali for sharing this essay! It is affirming, to hear someone else share about repeating this program multiple times to access and absorb its lessons. I also love Harriet the Spy and count eavesdropping in public as an artist’s date! Go get your spy on and keep writing.
Jenna, I loved this essay! As someone also obsessed with Harriet the Spy and writing in composition notebooks, and doing some inner child work, I SO related to your experience. Learning to connect with our inner child is so fascinating, especially in this creative context 🩷
Thank you, Kailey! I've been kind of blown away revisiting Harriet and realizing how much fun it is *still* to reconnect with all of these things I loved as a kid. Letting myself do that has been one of the biggest gifts from The Artist's Way — I love that you've had a similar experience with creativity and inner child work! ✨
Jenna, I really enjoyed your essay. Your morning pages excerpts from your first go-round with The Artists Way made my jaw drop. They were eerily similar to journal entries of mine from years ago. That push and pull of “I want to be writing” vs. “Why aren’t I writing?”—ironically I spent a lot of time writing (journaling) about that. This is my first time doing TAW and have found it super helpful. (Thanks Ali!)
Thank you, Chris! It is a really confusing push-pull, but I've always loved how TAW (and mostly my morning pages!) helps me pull it apart and make sense of it. Grateful to be going through the process in community with you!
Likewise, Jenna!
Thank you Jenna and Ali for sharing this essay! It is affirming, to hear someone else share about repeating this program multiple times to access and absorb its lessons. I also love Harriet the Spy and count eavesdropping in public as an artist’s date! Go get your spy on and keep writing.
Thanks very much, Abra! Happy to meet a fellow spy :)