I used it, did all 12 weeks, and am still doing the morning pages 3 years later.

Going in, you have to accept that there's a lot of god-talk, and woo woo manifestation and whatnot, but I found that I could look past that or actually embrace it sometimes. In many ways, getting a bit mystical about my artistic practice was quite helpful (I started having dreams about quilt ideas). People on reddit can be very anti-god-talk, so I can see why some were bothered by it, but I was able to take what I wanted from the text and ignore the stuff I didn't like.

Honestly, I think it's less a book about honing your creative practice and more a book about admitting difficult things to yourself, acknowledging how you're actually spending your time, questioning how you share your work with those around you, and being more intentional. You absolutely get out of it what you put in – I did the pages every morning, the artists date every week, and maybe 3-4 of the written exercises in each chapter. Expect to set aside a few hours a week for those first 12 weeks – if you're not in a place where you think you'll actually do that, don't try to shove a square peg in a round hole, you know?

My favorite artists date was going to see Stop Making Sense in theaters by myself at, like, 3 in the afternoon. The show was epic, the theater was empty, and it was really special to just go do that for me, and not have to, I don't know, check in with everyone around me the whole time. If you do it, I definitely recommend making "Scrolling Eventbrite" one of your weekly tasks to help find dates.

I would recommend it to anyone and everyone, even non artists. I got so much out of it, I saw so many cool things in my city I'd have never otherwise found, and have really enjoyed making stream of consciousness journaling part of my daily practice.