Dear readers, this coming March 7 I'm starting a Morning Pages Circle, a 4-week-long journaling group for personal development. Here, you'll build the habit of daily writing in a community of like-minded people and give yourself the chance to explore where the writing takes you. When you commit to writing your pages first thing in the morning the journey is always rewarding. We're here to build that consistency together.
How Morning Pages started for me
It was December 2019. I grabbed an old notebook one morning and started writing. I had read three chapters of The Artist's Way, including the part where Julia Cameron describes morning pages, a cornerstone of her creative practice. Three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. It sounded simple enough for me to try. I had done automatic writing exercises in theatre school, which I liked. I knew the result was often bizarre too, with sentences that sounded more like they came from an absurd dream-like environment than rational thought. In December 2019 I was sick, dragging myself from chemotherapy session to chemotherapy session. My entire life was a mess: my physical health, my mental health, my love life, my professional life, my finances. So I wrote. I didn't know what else to do.
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