Given what we now know from the neuroscience around habit formation - the wisdom of this approach - even if only anecdotal at the time - was profound!Īnd whether posted in the room or uttered by the group as meetings conclude - ‘Keep coming back’ and ‘It works if you work it’ are mantras.
Going back to the 1930s and ‘40s in AA - long before there were rehab centers - their prescription for getting sober was to attend 90 meetings in 90 days. In response to “But you must believe in something?” she concluded that she could relate to this -Īlso built into her structure was a version of “90 & 90”. Twelve chapters in 12 weeks, inventories, archeology, humility, and a focus on maintaining conscious contact with a higher power in whatever way we understood it.Ĭameron shares that her early days of sobriety required an embrace of a relationship with a higher power - something she resisted. It was a lifesaving intervention I had no idea I’d needed - I went on to attend one of those Alanon meetings for decades. An assignment for a graduate-level employee counseling course required a paper reflecting on attendance at 2 open Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and Alanon meetings -each. It was years before I made the connection between its structures and discipline to the 12-step rooms I’d serendipitously found my way into six years before. I don’t remember how I happened upon The Artist’s Way (TAW)- then newly published - but there it was. It was 1992 and yet I can still remember the smell of the coffee and the comfy chair I’d retreated to at a Barnes & Noble bookshop, biding my time between school runs. We also open ourselves up to serendipitous ways that answers and solutions come from unlikely sources. They offer a means of staying alert to the opportunities that abound when we make ourselves present and available to our inner wisdom. Thirty years ago, she introduced us to the basic tools and methods of embarking on a creative recovery.įor some these opened the door to a way of life.
They are the latest additions to Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way seriesīoth invite us to once again embark upon A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - as she subtitled The Artist’s Way. Early in 2022, Seeking Wisdom, A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection hit the store shelves, just one year after The Listening Path, The Creative Art of Attention was published.
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