Nurturing your own creative expression is incredibly important, even though the demands of motherhood make it feel impossible sometimes. We are three creative friends encouraging each other and other moms who are fighting not to lose our creative identities.
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Okay, for a couple weeks there, we were all feeling a little skeptical and frustrated with Julia, but this chapter offered the refreshing, realistic, practical advice we all needed to hear: Making even tiny shift in your creative trajectory will have incredible impact on where you land. Don’t be so obsessed with how you would ever afford to chase your dream full-time that you refuse to chase it part-time, or at all. Just do the dang thing, even if you can only do it a little, and enjoy the process, for crying out loud!
There’s some really good stuff in there. Plus, this week Brynn lets Melissa play-act at her alternate-life as an art therapist, so that’s fun.
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21 Oct 2026
Episode 2.08 Week 7 of The Artist’s Way
Yes, we’ve had a few bones to pick with Julia over the past few weeks. Perhaps a whole skeleton by the time we got to the horse comment in the last chapter. But this week, we are in accord with 85% of the chapter.
Perfectionism is the common enemy we can all rail against, and Julia’s got some piercing insights to share. Join us as we fight that stupid inner critic that keeps us from making stuff. We’d love to have you on the discord— just send us a note and we’ll send you the link!
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14 Oct 2026
Episode 2.07 Week 6 of the Artist’s Way
Show of hands. Who would like (Not Quite) Losing It to write an artist’s way for people who may or may not believe in God, who may or may not have money and who may or may not have a bajillion children? (We’ll workshop the title.)
Once again Julia has some really great advice about the important of paying attention and intentionally incorporating joyful pursuits even in fifteen minute increments or for the cost of a carton of raspberries. She buries these insights under stories about making time for her first horse in a decade.
Week 6 of the Artist’s Way is about finances. Julia tries to convince us that God is a God of abundance and wants us to have resources, which was a very hard sell for us considering current statistics on costs living and median income. Melissa does a particularly great job of finding the nuggets of helpful advice nestled between Julia’s suggestion we just haven’t been willing to accept the universe’s gift.
The struggle to justify spending money and time (which is money after all) on personal creative pursuits when the bills needs to be paid and your kid needs braces that cost the same as your grandparent first house is very real. That doesn’t mean joy is not worth any investment at all. We think you should buy the raspberries!
We also talk about Mel’s big book news! Publishing is a rough journey y’all! See you in the Discord and let us know if you’d like the link to join!
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