We are finally here! 🥹 The final week of my Artist's Way journey. Join me in the summery countryside as I reflect on 12 weeks of creative recovery. I'm sharing my final thoughts on "recovering a sense of faith," my verdict on the Morning Pages, and how I'm scrapbooking my "manifesting journal" [06:40] for the future. My one takeaway? You must read this book.

It's Week 11 of The Artist's Way, and we're tackling the big themes: "recovering a sense of autonomy" and redefining "success" . This week felt like a "summer scrapbook" , teaching me that a successful creative life isn't a future goal, it's a present feeling. It’s the feeling of eating a "viral pasta salad" while watching the "sunset at the reservoir". This post is about how a rainy, cosy weekend taught me everything.

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.

It’s NotesOnDawn, and this week's Artist's Way challenge was the one I dreaded most: a total media purge. No TV, no social media... and no books. As a book lover, I was terrified [02:16]. But my biggest struggle wasn't what I expected. It was "horrible... thinking about just having to eat dinner and like do nothing" [07:17]. This is the story of my "iPad kid" [08:26] confession and the surprising spiritual breakthrough I found in the silence [10:25].

Hello, it's NotesOnDawn! This post is a personal look at Weeks 2-3 of my Artist's Way journey. I thought I was just building habits, but my Morning Pages revealed a huge, unexpected blockade [07:54] I have against manifesting my creative goals (like getting a publisher!) [08:43]. I’m sharing how I'm using Artist Dates to pottery classes [05:00] and aquariums [10:00] to learn how to 'receive' again.

Hello, it's NotesOnDawn! I've started The Artist's Way, and this post is my diary of Week One. I'm talking about my new "late spring morning routine" [00:20] and the scary, liberating new ritual of "morning pages" [00:50] and how it’s so different from journaling. I'm also sharing my first "Artist Date" to the reservoir [07:58] and, for my fellow 'AllAboutBooks' lovers, a full "what I read in march" [01:49] book review special.