Week Three -- Recovering a Sense of Power

This week we are dealing with anger, synchronicity, shame, and as always, criticism and growth. I will write more in-depth about these topics early Tuesday morning. I am not going to be anywhere near my laptop for the long weekend.

Keep doing Morning Pages, and read the Week Three chapter! Here are the tasks for this week (in brief), and don’t forget to have an Artist Date!

1. Describe your childhood room. Sketch it if you like. What was your favorite thing about it? What’s your favorite thing about your room right now? If you can’t think of anything, consider putting something in there from that old, childhood room.

2.  Describe five traits you like in yourself as a child.

Compare the two sets of lists. Look at what you really like and really admire, as compared to what you think you should like and should admire. Go with the first set for awhile.

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This week we are dealing with anger, synchronicity, shame, and as always, criticism and growth. I will write more in-depth about these topics early Tuesday morning. I am not going to be anywhere near my laptop for the long weekend.

Keep doing Morning Pages, and read the Week Three chapter! Here are the tasks for this week (in brief), and don’t forget to have an Artist Date!

Describe your childhood room. Sketch it if you like. What was your favorite thing about it? What’s your favorite thing about your room right now? If you can’t think of anything, consider putting something in there from that old, childhood room.

Describe five traits you like in yourself as a child.

List five childhood accomplishments. List five favorite childhood foods; buy yourself one of them this week.

Habits – List three obvious habits and three more subtle habits. What is the payoff in continuing them? Be specific.

Make a list of friends who nurture you. Not enablers!

Nurture:  Give you a sense of your own competency and possibility.

Enable:   Give you the message that you will never get it straight without their help.

Which traits of these nurturing friends serve you well?

Call a friend who treats you like you are a really good and bright person who can accomplish things. Part of recovery is reaching out for support.

Take an hour this week to follow your inner compass, your instinct. Morning pages are one way to contact it. Other artist-brain activities are painting, running, driving… my favorite is baking bread. Listen to what insights bubble up.

List five people you admire. Now, list five people you secretly admire. What traits do they have that you can cultivate in yourself?

List five people you wish you had met who are dead. Now, list five people who are dead who you’d like to hang out with for eternity. What traits do they have that you can seek in your friends?

Compare the two sets of lists. Look at what you really like and really admire, as compared to what you think you should like and should admire. Go with the first set for awhile.