The Creative Wanderer

The Creative Wanderer
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Your weekly jaunt into creative inspiration

  1. 06/14/2021

    S1 E14 The Artist's Way |Our Discoveries |Epilogue - The Journey Forward

    The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration A saying goes that ‘all good things must come to an end”, and although we might wish to believe otherwise, this indeed is a bitter-sweet truth. The same goes for any journey one undertakes - eventually the time comes for our hero or heroine to Journey Back, experience Resurrection and Return with the Elixir.  Endings are indeed New Beginnings as we turn to Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey for guidance and inspiration. Jo and Emilija close Season One of the Creative Wanderer Podcast with the Epilogue from The Artist’s Way.  Now that we have reached the final pages of the book, we quickly discover that our quest continues and that The Journey Forward awaits, ready to set a new course in our ever expanding creative journey. We have changed and we are in the process of integrating our new selves back into the ‘Ordinary World”.  The Creative Wanderers share their own stories about how The Artist’s Way impacted their lives. They discuss the struggles they encountered, the discoveries they happened upon, the ups they celebrated and the downs they bested, the synchronicities they giddily accepted, and the breakthroughs that changed their lives. Warts and all get exposed, and proudly! Sad to say farewell for now, Jo and Emilija sign off feeling hopeful and full of dreams for The Creative Wanderer Podcast Season Two.  As we wind down our creative wanderings and steer our ship into a safe harbour for a well-deserved rest, we wish you all fair winds and following seas. Keep on creating, our dear fellow creative wanderers and WATCH THIS SPACE! 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 Medium: creative-wanderer.medium.com YouTube: The Creative Wanderer Podcast Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

    35 min

  2. 06/06/2021

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

    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 Medium: creative-wanderer.medium.com YouTube: The Creative Wanderer Podcast Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

    44 min

  3. 06/01/2021

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

    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 Medium: creative-wanderer.medium.com YouTube: The Creative Wanderer Podcast Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

    44 min

  4. 05/23/2021

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

    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 Medium: creative-wanderer.medium.com YouTube: The Creative Wanderer Podcast Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

    58 min

  5. 05/14/2021

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

    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 Medium: creative-wanderer.medium.com YouTube: The Creative Wanderer Podcast Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

    39 min

  6. 05/02/2021

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

    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 Medium: creative-wanderer.medium.com YouTube: The Creative Wanderer Podcast Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

    42 min

  7. 04/25/2021

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

    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 Medium: creative-wanderer.medium.com YouTube: The Creative Wanderer Podcast Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

    37 min

  8. 04/17/2021

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

    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 Medium: creative-wanderer.medium.com YouTube: The Creative Wanderer Podcast Art: Copyright - JSD Art / Instagram: @jsd_artist Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare Julia Cameron & The Artist’s Way: www.juliacameronlive.com

    38 min
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