The Creative Wanderer

S1 E13 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Twelve - Faith

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

34 minutes 33 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

Land ahoy fellow Wanderers, you’ve made it! What a life changing adventure we’ve had! Thank you so much for packing your knapsack and wandering with us through The Artist’s Way, we hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have.

We Creative Wanderers have managed to cover some serious ground. We’ve changed so much from the crumpled shells of our creative selves that we were when we embarked on this journey. We have emerged from our blocked artist chrysalises, our wings still wet, but ready to take our test flight.

In this penultimate episode, we explore recovering a sense of Faith in our creative selves, by Trusting the creative process, relinquishing control to the Life-force and surrendering to Synchronicity.

We get out our torches and go cave diving as we discuss the power Mystery has in the creative process. Our ideas need time to unfurl in the safety of a womb-like darkness, keeping them under wraps until they are fully formed and ready for all to see.

We arrive at the world’s largest toy box - our Imagination - where we revel in the importance of allowing ourselves to play, to try things out. The incessant societal nagging makes us believe that even when we are just giving something a go, if we do not execute it with absolute perfection, we have somehow failed. This is simply not true. We refuse to get bogged down. Instead we play, try, fail, start again. Build a fort, knock it down and build a castle from it’s ruins.

As we hit the accelerator to reach Escape Velocity, we are reminded of the final block, which sneaks in at the very last minute in the form of Doubt. This pesky beast wears many disguises, so we must be vigilant. Do not be fooled, not everyone wants you to succeed, and we all have a few Wet Blankets who are more than ready with ‘well-meaning advice’ to dampen our creative fire. Throw the blankets overboard like the ballast they are and soar high.

Endings are new beginnings and we are not quite ready to hang up our walking boots just yet. We round off Series One with an exciting ‘What Next?’ as we continue our creative journey and take all that we have learned out into the ‘real’ world.

Don’t forget to tune in to the final episode: Epilogue: The Journey Forward

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

Email: creative_wanderer@yahoo.com

S1 E12 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Eleven - Autonomy

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

44 minutes 1 second

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

We are almost at the end of our Artist’s Way journey, dear Creative Wanderers. We have travelled such a long way and this week has beautiful treasures in store for us. Now is the time to reap some wonderful creative rewards and pamper ourselves and our artist child within.

This week’s chapter reads like a love letter to our creative self. We have reached the point on our wanderings where we give ourselves permission to be artists. We are stepping into our independence as we come to terms with the fact that a creative life is fluid and not set in stone.

Julia shares a plethora of her own personal tips on how to set boundaries when it comes to our artistic Autonomy. It is our very own acceptance of ourselves as artists and creatives, and our proclamation of who we truly are, that grants us this state of self-governance.

As we journey closer and closer towards self-acceptance, we realise that most of the time our creative lives exist outside societal norms and their definition of Success. Creativity is a restless beast - as soon as we reach our desired result a new goal post is raised. We walk away with a firm understanding that our creativity and our work is the reward and we finally leave behind our cravings for outside approval or public acclaim. Producing work to fit the mould of “what is expected of us as artists” can seriously stultify our growth. Success teaches us to leave space for wonder and expansion in our creative expression.

This incessant creative drive towards exploring new territories is greatly helped by our daily exercise routines and Sports we engage in. We learn how to turn those into moving meditations, which fuel our work and keep us moving forward, blasting through creative blocks when they appear. Exercise routines mirror the creative process and reinforce our understanding of creativity as a step by step process rooted in small and gradual achievements.

We conclude our meanderings by building our very own Artist’s Altar - an act of self-nurturing and self-love. The Altar reinforces the fundamental principle of a creative process - the doing. Whatever that space is for you, it should inspire you to action whenever you work with it.

Don’t forget to tune in to the next episode: Week Twelve of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Faith.

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

Email: creative_wanderer@yahoo.com

S1 E11 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Ten - Self Protection

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

44 minutes 10 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

Week Ten of the Artist’s Way seriously tests our mettle and our resolve to continue on the rest of the journey.

The Creative Wanderers enter The Dangers of the Trail and tackle some insidious beasts in the forms of Workaholism, Drought, Fame and Competition.

Emilija and Jo discuss addictions and the role our toxic behaviours play in blocking our creative expression. Unable to tame the fierce creative force inside of us, we very often reach for guilty pleasures to numb out and silence the voice of fear and creative anxiety.

Jo admits to having a penchant for crisps and Emilija to having an irresistible urge for Workaholism.

The Trail challenged The Creative Wanderers even further by leading them into the desert. Parched and devoid of inspiration, Jo & Emilija stumble into Drought. Luckily they learn that there is a way out of this arid and desolate landscape - simply show up at your Morning Pages and write.

From the dry heat of the desert they walk into the furnace that is Fame. Highly addictive, Fame introduces us to its poor cousin Gossip, and teaches us that not all that glitters is gold. A poor substitute for self-mastery and self-love, Fame is a trickster that tries to convince us otherwise.

As sure as night follows day, you can bet your bottom dollar that Competition comes hot on the heels of Fame. Emilija and Jo discuss how you should only be in competition with yourself of yesterday and pay no heed to what anyone else is doing.

Despite the rough and rugged Trail, Jo and Emilija have managed to traverse this arduous terrain with ‘help’ from Jo’s seemingly unstoppable urge to burst into song at any given moment. After all, no matter the difficulty, the creative journey should always be joyous.

Don’t forget to tune in to the next episode: Week Eleven of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Autonomy.

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

Email: creative_wanderer@yahoo.com

S1 E10 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Nine - Compassion

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

58 minutes 23 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

It is week nine of the Artist’s Way and we are now sailing at a fast clip towards the finishing line. Emboldened by our discoveries and a sense of newly found freedom we may start feeling impatient. We may even want to rush our journey by cutting it short. This is where recovering our sense of Compassion enters and we are finally ready to face the biggest creative block of all – Fear.

We learn the importance of naming things by their proper names, especially when it comes to our inability to create art. Very often we call ourselves lazy or we feel guilty for procrastinating, whereas the fundamental reason for our creative stagnation is fear. The remedy lies in taking small creative steps, in deep compassion towards ourselves and in a profusion of self-love.

Another ego-stroking monster that loves to draw admiring glances in our creative routine is insistence on clockwork-precision discipline. Easier said than done, such harsh discipline drains us of our creative joy and energy. We step away from grounding our creative process in discipline and we anchor it in Enthusiasm, instead. Rigidity is replaced with the flow of life itself when we are in theos (‘filled with God’).

Fear wears many disguises in our creative life. It also derails us into taking last minute Creative U-turns, which sabotage our creative growth. Instead of running for the hills, we learn to recognise the warning signs and keep moving forward on the “straight and narrow”.

We wind down our journey by equipping ourselves with an invaluable tool to Blast Through Blocks. Our sense of creative dread has been well and truly dismantled.

Jo & Emilija would like to leave you with the following words by Julia Cameron: “For our purposes, “the journey is always the only arrival” may be interpreted to mean that our creative work is actually our creativity itself at play in the field of time. At the heart of this play is the mystery of joy.”

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week Ten of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection.

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

Email: creative_wanderer@yahoo.com

S1 E9 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Eight - Strength

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

39 minutes 12 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

This week The Creative Wanderers embark on an epic adventure to recover their sense of Strength, through realising that they have survived creative losses and lived to tell the tale.

Emilija & Jo face the Ivory Power of academia head-on, breaking down the differences between intellectual and creative mindsets. They come to an understanding that people who choose to teach an artistic subject are very often blocked artists and creatives themselves and that many are stuck within shouting distance of their dreams.

They park their ego in the ‘ego-park’ and remind themselves that age is just a number and that creativity is timeless. It doesn’t matter how old or how young one is, when you feel the need to create, you should just crack on.

It takes small steps to make big leaps and the creative process mirrors the same pattern. Filling the Form helps us make the daily creative drudgery fun as well as keep the drama of catastrophising at bay.

Digging deep and healing their Losses led them to a treasure trove of Gains. The Creative Wanderers suggest that like them, you maintain a sense of hope and go ‘mining for the silver lining’.

Natasha Anne Kelleher, our featured creative this week, is an actress and published poet who thoroughly enjoys the Creative Wanderer Podcast and Instagram account. Her poetry serves as a conduit to project her perceptions of, and passions in life. She started writing poetry around the age of 19 and has written ever since. Natasha’s next goal is to write a novel, screenplay or play. She recently wrote a poem for Imagine Project which was commissioned by @CultureMileLnd in association with the Barbican Centre. Natasha’s poem entitled WOMANHOOD has been commissioned and published on the Barbican Life Magazine Website and she will be having further poems published on their website @BarbicanLife. You can see more of Natasha’s poems on her website EMOETRY at bit.ly/EMOETRY or on her fantastic Youtube poetry channel called VERBOSIO WORDS WORDS WORDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEu1xi9sBY

Natasha’s Instagram handle is @trailblazer55

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week Nine of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Compassion.

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

Email: creative_wanderer@yahoo.com

S1 E8 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Seven - Connection

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

42 minutes 23 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

This week The Creative Wanderers explore the receptive and active skills and attitudes which help us connect to and with or creativity and art.

Emilija & Jo are reconnecting to their creative streams by getting to grips with the art of Listening. They discuss the importance of hearing past the noise of the internal ‘interference fluff’ to enable them to listen to their inner voice of creative inspiration.

They pick their way through the minefield of Perfectionism, which is strewn with our craving for approval from others. They come to an understanding that the ticking time bombs of ego and pride trick us into losing our focus on the creative task at hand. We can often ruin an already ‘perfect’ piece of art by not being able to stop adding to it, in the fruitless search for perfection.

Thankfully, the remedy presents itself in the form of mustering up the courage, which enables us to take creative Risks. The act of bravely presenting our creations to the world expands our creative reach and gently nudges us outside our comfort zone.

The ‘Jealousy Map’ exercise helped Jo & Emilija with crossing the tricksy terrain of creative envy and resentment. They admit to having felt jealous in their lives. Emlija has sometimes harboured a naughty little ‘jealousy gremlin’, who was unstoppable in blurting out her innermost feelings to poor unsuspecting folks.

They had a grand time rambling through the tasks this week. Jo found herself doodling away lost in music and Emilija enjoyed scenting her home with her favourite, uplifting smell of peppermint.

This week was healing and grounding, with many a takeaway message to ponder. Jo would suggest one in particular for you to try; in order to quiet your mind and allow inspiration to flow, find and focus on the silence in between the external everyday noise.

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week Eight of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Strength.

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

Email: creative_wanderer@yahoo.com

S1 E7 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Six - Abundance

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

36 minutes 30 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

What a juicy week this was for The Creative Wanderers, as they worked out their relationship with God, money, and luxury.

They get theological and discuss their connotations of God, Universe, Life-Force, and they come to an understanding of ‘It’ by breaking the definition down and researching the derivation. Remembering that this ‘entity’, however one calls it, is on our side and wants us to create, because ‘It’ creates.

Emilija gets all ‘Star Wars’ and feels the force as she ‘sees beyond the physical’.

They deep dive into that major creativity blocker, Money and discuss how they have ancestral and ingrained toxic beliefs about it.

Jo discusses the dichotomy of ‘creating lack’ and ponders the heavenly scent of a punnet of fresh British strawberries.

Emilija discusses how our ‘havingness’ level and how abundant we feel within changes our ability to attract affluence.

They wander up and down Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid and realise that life is best lived from the top down. Should you like to know more, please see the link: https://www.thoughtco.com/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-4582571

Emilija and Jo work their way out of that age-old-adage that art is not ‘a proper job’ and unravel years of indoctrination that we must toil and sweat and be on our knees at the end of every day to feel successful.

Thankfully, they come to realise that creativity and the Life-Force are expansive and playful — hoorah!

They get out of the ‘lack-trap’ and into luxury and it’s creative nature. They implore you to go out and find luxury in the everyday, especially in seemingly simple things.

Jo talks about her beautiful cat, Ziggy, how joyful he is and how much of a luxury it is to have such a pet in her life.

At the end of the day, Emilija and Jo think that we should all embrace the giddiness of life.

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week 8 of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Connection.

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

Email: creative_wanderer@yahoo.com

S1 E6 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Five - Possibility

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

38 minutes 17 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

This week we encounter limitations on our creative journey. As we start to live more authentic lives, our creative expression yearns to spread its wings and take flight beyond the safety of our feathered nests. In order to do so we are required to leave behind our limited notions of what we are able to accomplish.

Our newly found creative expansion brings about the need to examine the rewards and pay-offs we get by staying stuck. It also asks us to stop using others as an excuse for our stunted career growth. We are reminded that the universe we live in and God, are infinitely abundant, bursting with limitless possibilities, and that all of their generosity is freely available to us for the taking. We are encouraged to trust and surrender to their guidance and be open to all help. No dream is crazy or impossible once we start removing the limitations we have set on our expectations of how much we can receive.

More and more our creative journey starts resembling the flow of a river. Smooth and serene or rapid and destructive – we embrace it all in the spirit of gentle exploration and a growing sense of adventure. Instead of hiding in the safety of our redundant limiting beliefs, we are becoming excited about the opportunities that await us at every turn of the river bend.

A close examination of the benefits we reap by remaining creatively stuck, uncovers quite an insidious creative block – The Virtue Trap. This is us depriving ourselves of much-needed creative solitude and rest, in the guise of sacrificing our time for the “greatest good” of our family, friends and society at large. We deny our authenticity and present to the world a false version of ourselves which meets the approval of others. Our constant depletion of our creative time in order to “serve” others might give our ego a temporary “virtue signalling” satisfaction, but in the long run it leads to self-destruction. By recovering our forbidden joys and wishes and by truly getting to know ourselves, we learn to balance the needs and demands of others with the needs and demands of our own creative life.

Jo and Emilija end their wander-ponder through the realm of possibility, understanding there truly is no limit to our creative expansion and that it all boils down to looking at ourselves through the lens of Love.

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week 6 of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Abundance.

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

Email: creative_wanderer@yahoo.com

S1 E5 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Four - Integrity

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

33 minutes 21 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

This week The Creative Wanderers get into integrity and move closer and closer towards artistic authenticity. They talk about the challenge and agony of reading deprivation and how they were forced to face who they are, discover more about themselves and their creativity.

Jo decides it is time to admit to having had an addiction to creativity sapping games on her phone & talks about visualising herself at eighty, deciding she would be Golden-Girls-esque and without a doubt living her best life.

Emilija gets to grips with not sweating the small stuff, goes deep diving into her emotions and finds herself enduring the dark night of the soul.

They discuss the importance of listening to your Morning Pages for signs of resisting change until you can’t ignore those niggling nudges any longer and find the courage to step outside of your comfort zone to face them full on.

As we creatively emerge from the chrysalis of self denial, Emilija and Jo liken artistic recovery to metamorphosis. Just like a caterpillar we disintegrate our clunky old self to become our true authentic self.

Walking the path of integrity is no small task. It requires honesty and transparency of feeling. It is always darkest before the dawn. Jo and Emilija encourage you to keep on walking towards that dawn.

Annarita Mazzilli is our featured creative this week. Annarita is a choreographer and dance lecturer by profession (Mazzilli Dance Theatre) and has been surrounded by art all her life as the daughter of a sculptor (Domenico Mazzilli) and having studied art back home in Italy (Institute of Art Pino Pascali -Bari).

Annarita’s visual art stylises natural and human forms to reflect her connection to nature, movement and her fascination with facial expressions as well as aspects of humanity as a means to express individuality as shared universality among different people, cultures and nature.

Floor patterns and feelings she has experienced while dancing, are also transferred to paper and used to dictate colours, moods and shapes. Her drawings usually encourage the spectator to take on an active role as they need to tilt and turn their heads to search for the many hidden faces and/or messages in a fantasy, garden-like world. The multiple points of view give freedom of choice, as each picture can be hung in multiple ways according to personal taste and its display can even be changed over time.

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week 5 of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Possibility.

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

S1 E4 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries|Week Three - Power

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

32 minutes 32 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

Our Artist’s Way journey this week was dynamic and robust. We took a closer look at the strong emotional states that resurface when we step into our creative power and examine the experience of synchronicity.

Emboldened by our sense of safety and identity we venture out into new territories. Our creative reach expands and we are tasked with taking more and more responsibilities for our creative expression.

However, our old habits and outdated patterns of behaviour are not very keen on expanding with us and rear their ugly heads in the guise of anger and shame.

We give anger the due respect it deserves and recognise it as a sign of healing. When directed properly we realise that anger is a “tough love” friend, a force which moves us from inertia into action.

We have learned that art is a great illuminator, which shines light on the darkest of our secrets. Very often artists and creatives get shamed for exposing truth. Still, this act of bringing dark to light is very much needed for humanity to heal its wounds.

Shaming is very closely followed by criticism and this week we have learned to distinguish between the criticism that helps and the criticism that damages. Empowered by this tool we gain even more clarity on who to let into our Sacred Circle.

Jo spoke about gentle growth in our creative “hatchery” and how growth occurs in spurts. The need for solitude and kindness towards one self is key in the “rest” period of our creative life. Jo also gave invaluable advice about self-love to Emilija who always tends to run a hundred miles an hour!

Synchronicity also takes root in our lives as a string of “happy-accidents”. The trick is to recognise this ‘lucky’ streak as help, as a gift by divine grace, and not look the gift horse in the mouth, or even worse, return the horse. All of us are indeed powerful co-creators with life itself.

Emilija and Jo have experienced incredible synchronicity in the early stages of their own journey as The Creative Wanderers. Emilija’s journalist friend Beverley D’Silva actually interviewed Julia Cameron about her new book “The Listening Path” for BBC Culture – only a mere couple of weeks after Beverley and Emilija spoke about The Artist Way and Emilija’s intention of creating a podcast about it. Well, that was definitely the Universe showing us synchronicity!

The link to the BBC Culture article can be found here: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210105-why-being-creative-is-good-for-you

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week 4 of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Integrity

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

S1 E3 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week Two - Identity

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

33 minutes 21 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

This week Jo & Emilija discuss defining and safeguarding their sense of artistic identity and look at some pesky ways of how sabotage that can stop creative recovery.

They look at how to wheedle out those troublesome saboteurs, discuss the fear of missing out and how to defend precious creative time by having daily artistic rituals, which replace those time snaffling habits.

Emilija and Jo talk about moving from self-doubt into self-expression, about trusting their creativity and digging out all the sludge and muck of layers and layers of their own creative denial. They talk about ‘Going Sane’ in the process and how it feels like you are doing the very opposite… how this newly discovered artistic sanity can feel erratic.

Jo uncovers her silent saboteur and Emilija owns up to having a creative tornado hurtling through her flat on a daily basis.

They visit the playground of life and climb on the seesaw with ‘Poisonous Playmates’, who are not quite the good friends they appear to be to our artist child. Next, they jump on the merry-go-round with the ‘Crazymakers’! Jo and Emilija discuss these master saboteurs and how they are magnetised to you when you are creating. Coming to terms with the fact that the ‘playground’ is littered with blocked artists, but that we are all at different stages of our creative journey, is key to not pointing the finger of blame or taking those ‘well intended’ back-handed ‘compliments’ personally.

They then get into the nitty gritty of the inner blocks - skepticism and imposter syndrome. Onward they wander to 'Attention' and how living in the now is a way to connect and survive. Revealing how attention is both focused and expansive.

Jo & Emilija share what inspired them this week, talk about how they found the tasks, and discover that their ‘Life Pies’ might be missing a wholesome slice or two. They think you should ‘get creating’ because it is easier to ‘do’ than ‘not do’...

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week 3 of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Power

Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

S1 E2 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Week One - Safety

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

33 minutes 18 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

This week our adventure begins for real, as we take our first steps on the road of creative recovery and discovery. We set off with enthusiasm and a spring in our step only to find ‘shadow artists’ and ‘negative beliefs’ popping up out of nowhere and blocking our progress - highwayman style.

Tune in and listen to Jo and Emilija discuss why establishing a sense of safety is a fundamental step in being able to express ourselves creatively. In order to do so, we travel back in time and start to excavate our long buried childhood dreams. We begin to recover forgotten and often suppressed creative impulses. Along the way we encounter our artistic child and draw a circle of protection around its creative vulnerability.

Valuable tools are presented to us which help us muster up the courage to step out of the shadows of creative denial and inertia into creative power and action. We start reframing our negative beliefs into positive affirmations and use self-acceptance to shield from any disparaging chitter-chatter. And, we discover the magic of the “be-do-have” formula!

Like with any journey sometimes waters get choppy and Jo and Emilija hit some stormy weather this week when they discovered that for some mysterious reason (known only to the Microphone Gods) the podcast recording was riddled with the nightmare of the ‘hissing S’. The repair took longer than anticipated which meant that they had to publish this episode a week later than planned. They are happy to report that they are back on schedule and will continue posting on a weekly basis. Phew! Creativity can challenge our patience, indeed!

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week 2 of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Identity.

Should you want a creative companion, Jo and Emilija are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer

S1 E1 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Introduction - Morning Pages, Artist Date & The Sacred Circle

Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist

Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare

Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

4 years ago

31 minutes 25 seconds

The Creative Wanderer

Have you got your backpack packed and at the ready for your first jaunt into creative inspiration with Emilija and Jo?

This week they talk about what inspired them to embark on Julia Cameron’s ‘The Artist’s Way’, give their take on the first twenty five pages of the book and experiences of their creative journeys.

Listen to them discuss how they loved Julia’s ‘pearls of wisdom’, what they found inspirational in the book and what they observed whilst becoming aware of their creative senses.

Jo and Emilija want you to know that even though you might start the process with a veritable spring in your step and giddiness in your heart, it’s not all plain sailing. There will be moments on your journey of creative recovery when you might think, ‘this is too hard’, or ‘I hadn’t anticipated so much of what I had packed away in the ‘attic of childhood dreams’ to come out of hiding'. These forgotten dreams are not always a walk in the park BUT they might end up being just the wander you need to spark your creativity.

So, if you are thinking that you might like to discover and recover your creative self, this is the perfect opportunity for you to embark on that journey. And, should you want a creative companion, Jo and Emilija are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures and quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.

A bit about your co-hosts: Joanne (Jo) Darrall is a multi-disciplinary creative. She has run and emceed several comedy nights in London, been part of a sketch comedy troupe ‘Three Scoops Comedy’ and co-hosted a music and comedy radio show ‘The ConnyJojo Show’ with her husband. Jo is a voice-over artist for several comedy audio serials. She is in the middle of penning her first children’s novel and spends most of her time creating abstract/impressionist acrylic paintings and sketch portraits.

Emilija (Millie) Ellen is an actress and a voiceover artist. She has worked in theatre, film and TV. From sensuous and playful to warm and reassuring, Emilija has lent her voice to a number of projects. Her voiceover work includes TV commercials, animation, film dubbing, telephony & GPS prompts, audio guides and English language educational tapes. She is Meisner trained and has studied with Bill Esper in NYC. Emilja is also an Etiquette Consultant and champions kindness and elegance as the fundamental principles of good manners.

Don’t forget to tune into the next episode, after you have completed Week One: ‘Discovering a Sense of Safety’, when the ‘real’ work begins…

The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration

Instagram: @cre8tive1derer