Hello, it's NotesOnDawn! It's been a hectic month as I've been "packing up my life and moving to London" [00:27], but I'm still on my Artist's Way journey. This week was about "Self-Protection" [01:14], which I saw as a way to "reconnect with some inner child stuff" . This post is all about a weekend of creative breakthroughs: from my best friend's poetry launch to... getting my very first tattoo [09:14]!

This week on my Artist's Way journey, we’re exploring Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion. For any writer or creative feeling stuck, this is for you. I’m sharing my personal diary on embracing "creative U-turns" as growth, healing the inner child through the radical act of fun, and finding creative fuel in nature (from the seaside to the botanical gardens) and in our community. Let's learn to be kinder to our creative selves.

Hello, it's NotesOnDawn! Join me for a dreamy weekend at the end of Week 8 of The Artist's Way. We're talking "Recovering a Sense of Strength," and for me, that meant waking up at 4:30 AM for the sunrise [00:20], only to have a difficult but breakthrough-worthy encounter with my "8-year-old self" [02:14]. This post is about the real work: scrapbooking our past selves [05:55], cleaning our present spaces [07:15], and refuelling with incredible books.