Week One- Recovering a Sense of Safety

The Artist’s Way --

Recovering a Sense of Safety


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 far less fear.


KEY IDEAS:

Shadow Artists

needing a sense of support
harsh self-judgment
Protecting the Artist Child Within

baby steps – go gently and slowly
find and protect the artist child
be willing to be a “bad” artist to begin
Your Enemy Within: Core Negative Beliefs

fear of the unknown
list of reasons “not to” – beliefs, not facts
Your Ally Within: Affirmative Weapons

affirmations to achieve a sense of safety & hope
watch for the censor / objections / blurts
observe, reflect, dissolve negative blurts



Your Process of Creative Recovery

-- Read through to the end of Chapter One – feel free to make notes in the book.

-- Begin your Morning Pages tomorrow morning.

-- Plan and do an Artist’s Date this week.

-- Do the tasks at the end of the chapter (try completing at least half of them).