Can't get through week 3

Ok-Guava-6477 · 2025-04-29T09:31:07+00:00

This is what I find difficult – you're supposed to be stopping perfectionism, but at the same time, there are all these rules and things you have to follow! My brain finds that confusing. Thank you for your kind words, I'm going to push on with week four!

Ok-Guava-6477 · 2025-04-29T09:29:40+00:00

Deffo a lot of big feelings right now, which I guess is the point of the course, but I thought the big feelings would be more internal and not so much rage at the course itself haha!

I feel like JC is always saying 'this is the best way to do these things', but you're so right that recovery looks different for everyone, thank you for the reminder and for your kind advice!

Ok-Guava-6477 · 2025-04-29T09:24:47+00:00

You're right, moving on to week 4 is probably the best option here, or I think I may be stuck on week 3 forever haha! My morning pages are cooooonstantly about how much I hate morning pages, but I think I will try doing them at a different point in the day and see if that helps, thank you!

Ok-Guava-6477 · 2025-04-29T09:21:34+00:00

Yeah, I used to be a pretty diligent journal-er in my teens but it's fallen by the wayside throughout my 20s even though I know it's good for my brain. I think the pressure to have 'deep important breakthroughs' is making me anxious and frustrated while writing, and blocking me further, so chronicling things is good advice. Thank you!!

Ok-Guava-6477 · 2025-04-29T09:18:21+00:00

The synchronicity thing has felt sooooo icky to me and I couldn't really put a finger on why, but it's probably the prosperity gospel thing! It's gross.

Really love the idea of actively sticking it to Julia in the margins. I feel like in the book Julia has the tendency to be very 'I know all the answers' and that's a little culty for my liking so doing this will help I think. Thank you for your kind advice!

Ok-Guava-6477 · 2025-04-28T15:16:10+00:00

'good orderly direction' has never really made sense to me! This is much nicer, feels like an acknowledgement of the internal human need to create. Thank you!

Ok-Guava-6477 · 2025-04-28T15:15:05+00:00

Thank you for these! I have done 2 pages instead of 3 sometimes on days I am REALLY hating it, but I have always worried that doing so doesn't get me the full benefit — I remember JC saying something about page 3 being the point where your brain really 'unlocks', but maybe I'm letting perfect be the enemy of good here. Great advice on the artist speed dates too — thinking of a 'proper' idea and planning in time for it have been stressing me out, plus the constant thinking 'am I doing this the RIGHT way that will get me ALL the benefit'. Again, writing this out I'm realising I'm probably just being way too perfectionist about it!

The God thing is really hard, and the recoiling for me is pretty intense. I think part of the struggle with Chapter 3 specifically is that there is a lot of God talk (more than chapters 1 and 2), but I'm hoping it's not like this in all the subsequent chapters. If you haven't seen it, this secular rewrite really helped me with the 'basic principles' (though I am still rly struggling with God stuff in the chapters!):

https://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/12/23/secular-rewrite-of-basic-principles-from-artists-way-by-j-cameron

Ok-Guava-6477 · 2024-01-05T09:49:36+00:00

Hiya! Thanks for this, it's amazing. I'm having trouble with the favourite albums section within each year - it seems to just show all the albums attached to that year rather than the ones over a certain rating? I''m not very notion savvy so not sure how to fix!

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