Artist Dates, Jewellery Workshops, Meditation & Time in Nature

 

At the beginning of this year I began reading The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. It's one of my favourite books and I always feel so inspired reading it. The idea is that you write your morning pages (3 pages first thing when you wake up) every day and take yourself on a weekly artist date. This can be anything, a nature walk alone, a trip to a museum etc. I have definitely been neglecting both of these as life gets in the way so last month I decided to try again. I always found artists dates very helpful - time to think, meditate and nurture yourself.  I decided to take myself off to a jewellery making workshop, followed by lunch in my favourite raw vegan cafe. I had a beautiful raw meal followed by raw chocolate cheesecake and a peppermint tea, whilst reading my book. I felt completely reenergised afterwards and i'm determined to carry this on, even if I can't manage it every week. 

I've now attended two jewellery making workshops, and booked on a few more. I'm learning so many new skills and I always come away feeling very inspired.  It's lovely to simply focus on being creative. Here's a few of the items i've made so far.

I also attended a meditation workshop a few weeks ago, which was really amazing. I learnt so much about sound healing, posture and creating sacred space. It was so relaxing and I could really feel so much energy as we all meditated together. We were also given a meditation journal to write about our experiences of our meditation practice which I loved, as I love journaling and know how helpful and healing it can be. And whilst on the subject of journaling, I passed my Journal Therapy course with a distinction last week and received my certificate a few days ago, so that was lovely news.

After working and studying very hard over the last month, it was lovely today to take Luke on a lovely nature walk in the woods. I really felt like I needed to connect with Mother Earth and that's exactly what I did. It was a lovely day, and, of course, my camera came with my too.

Another amazing thing which happened this month is that I wrote my story for one of my favourite online magazines Soulwoman.  It's a beautiful magazine full of love and inspiration, and it's free! Here's the link if you'd like to have a look. http://www.soulwomansanctuary.com/emagazine/

Well it's certainly been a busy and eventful month and there's lots of exciting things happening in November, including my trip to London. I'm very excited and will have lots to share over the next few weeks!