forever trying

This morning I woke up overthinking things and life, until I started my Morning Pages and I felt myself chill the f out. By the end of the first page I wasn’t bothered by the thing that was making loops in my mind. I still haven’t finished The Artist’s Way (by Julia Cameron), but Morning Pages have stayed with me since I first came across it. It took a while to do them in their intended form of 3 handwritten pages, but in all its variations it has been a ritual that has given a lot to my spirituality, mental health, and creativity.

The farthest I’ve gotten in The Artist’s Way is Week 8. I started putting it off, ironically and not surprisingly, after I shared how much the book was helping me, and how