Tanya Meeson

AW11: Recovering a Sense of Autonomy

(Just a quick aside: most of my blogging is happening on Substack so if you’d like to join me there please do!) My God it’s been a loooooong almost six months on this Artist’s Way trip. But this chapter reminded me that a lot has genuinely changed since I started on 1 January this year.Continue reading “AW11: Recovering a Sense of Autonomy”

AW10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection

You know those people who say, “God I miss school. Those were the best days of my life” or “What I wouldn’t give to be a kid again” or “My twenties were the best years of my life”? I am not one of those people. And sometimes, Artist’s Way just feels like one giant, pain-in-the-assContinue reading “AW10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection”

AW9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

It’s fitting that this chapter of Cameron’s Artist’s Way is called Recovering a Sense of Compassion; fitting that she talks about “the creative u-turn”. Fitting also, that in the intro she says, “It may be tempting to abandon ship at this point.” The last two or so weeks have been … something of a surprise.Continue reading “AW9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion”

Guilty as sin

When the landscape of wrongdoing is so vast, where’s the value in feeling bad? It’s a horror scene. I’m in the lounge looking up at the ceiling and the blood dripping from it. There’s a suitcase hidden there, oozing from the limbs I stuffed in it. I must do something about the bodies before theContinue reading “Guilty as sin”

AW: Recovering a Sense of Strenth

If there is only one chapter in Artist’s Way that you read, let it be this one There are so many elements in this section that are so wholesomely practical that if there was only one chapter you were able to work through as an artist in recovery or as an artist in beginning, IContinue reading “AW: Recovering a Sense of Strenth”