My Creative Self-Healing Journey: How Living The Artist’s Way Changed Everything

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A phoenix rising from the pages of a book symbolizes the profound transformation that can occur when one engages with "Living the Artist's Way."

I never considered myself a creative person. But looking back now, I realize I’ve been walking a creative self-healing journey for years without even naming it. This path wasn’t lit by studios or stages—but by motherhood, grief, stillness, and one small book that quietly changed everything: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.

Growing up in a traditional, mid-working-class family in Southeast Europe, art wasn't something you pursued. It was something you watched others do—on TV, from afar. Around here, art was considered a 90% guaranteed path to poverty. And the remaining 10%? That belonged to the rare, chosen ones: “truly gifted, lucky, financially supported.” Not me.

Fast forward to now- and I’m unrecognizably different. The last decade of my life has been nothing short of a spiritual earthquake. People, health, love, loss, motherhood, knowledge—all rearranging me. All bringing me home. One of the most powerful transformations happened through the slow, soul-wrenching journey of motherhood.

Becoming a mom earlier than I expected plunged me into a sabbatical of identity.

There was no structure. No clarity. Just fatigue, confusion, overstimulation.I didn’t know who I was, and I didn’t know how to become who I needed to be—for my son or myself.

I felt the urge to do something, to create, to build. But I had no energy left. All of it went to him.

That phase was an accumulation of life in its rawest forms: mental, emotional, physical highs and lows. So I turned to the few things that always held me: books, movement, herbs, introspection. I moved between yoga, running, reading, and healing. I devoured books on homeopathy, herbalism, and ancient medicine. It was my grandmother who first taught me about the power of plants—one of the few threads that has never broken in me.

But one book cracked something open deeper than all the others.

The Artist Way creative self-healing journey

One of the breakthroughs that i had during these times, was a book that I pretty much consider pivotal for my coming-into-being as a creative person was Julia Cameron's "Living The Artist's Way" book. I first bought it as a gift for my husband but I knew it's gonna completely change my live when I'll read it myself.

So it did.

"Living The Artist's Way" is like a journal that you keep with yourself, by yourself, daily for 3 months or so.

This wasn’t just a book. It was a companion. A mirror. A path. It met me where I was—tired, uninspired, quietly desperate to feel like myself again.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in your life, numb to your own joy, or unsure how to move forward, this book is for you. It doesn’t promise magic. It promises a process.

Through two simple, consistent practices—Morning Pages and Artist Dates—you begin the slow excavation of your creative self. You write every morning, unfiltered. You take yourself out once a week for no reason other than to be with your inner artist. You give yourself permission to not know what you’re doing.

It felt like therapy. A creative self-healing journey I didn’t know I needed.

I had long believed motherhood was going to be my only legacy. But this book reminded me: I was still here. My voice still mattered. My stories, my wounds, my wonder—all of it was valid.

It helped me build this blog. It reminded me that writing had always been my way of processing the world. I learned to write when I was five. I never really stopped. I just stopped sharing.

This process—this book—made me begin again.

It helped me shed the perfectionism that had once protected me but now only isolated me. For years, I’d been afraid of being judged. That fear controlled my every expression. Nothing was ever good enough. No one could ever reach me, not really. And yet, this book gently peeled away that armor.

It doesn’t fix you. It reminds you.

This book told me: you’re allowed to feel again. To try. To be messy. To matter.

If you haven't been on a path of self-discovery or self-inquiry so far, or you feel lost, at crossroads, or maybe numb and joyless, this book is what will certainly take you out of the slump. Shortly after you start reading it and working with it, you will also see things moving around in your life, changing, for the better. It unlocks your creative potential, it places you on a deep self-remembrance process, that will strip you away of all the 'ego-coating' you developed during your life and leaves you alone, looking straight into your inner child's wet eyes in the mirror.

I still write my Morning Pages. I still take myself out on quiet Artist Dates. And when I forget who I am, I know where to return.

I’m not saying you need this book. But if your soul’s been whispering “create,” “feel,” or “come back”… maybe it’s time for a reading like this.

This was food for my soul.

Maybe it will be for yours, too.

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P.S. You’re not too late. You're not too broken.And you're definitely not too ordinary to be creative. You’re just right on time.

You can find this book everywhere, in any format, online or offline right now, if you give it a try, please tell me how it kicks. However, I'm gonna put a link down below to a short interview sequence where Julia Cameron briefly explains how 'the magic of Morning Pages' can unfold in your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NtqKxYu9pg

Best of me to you.

E.T.

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