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Thank you Sierra Jeter, Jack, Tori Rerick, The Creative Weaver of Words, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.
Welcome to the replay of Week One of The Artist’s Way for the Anti-Blocked Artist Club. This week was about what it really means to recover a sense of safety as an artist.
The feeling & knowing of safety hits different for us. Especially if you’ve ever been told your creativity was “extra,” your art wasn’t serious, or you needed some trauma-to-triumph storyline to make it palatable. Nah. That’s not the truth round these parts of Beyoncé internet ok?
In the replay, I walk you through:
* The Shadow Artist → why this part of us hides, and how to bring them forward with compassion.
* Healthy Ego → why shrinking or over-defending isn’t it, and what it feels like to stand in your art with a steady confidence.
* Zone of Excellence vs. Zone of Genius → being “good” at something isn’t the same as being in the lane you were divinely wired for.
* Energy Harvesting → how living through other people’s creativity keeps you blocked, and why true inspiration feels completely different.
* Village with Intention → what it means to build a community that actually pours into you. Peers and sages. Not just people who drain you.
* True Liberation → choosing freedom right now, not waiting for perfect conditions or somebody else’s permission.
* EFT Tapping Practice → we tapped through the lies society tells us about art and stepped into affirmations that root us back into safety and courage.
The next live is Sunday at 12:15pm EST. And yes, replays will always be here for you.
✨ Creative Affirmations
These are the affirmations we’re working with this week. You can tap with them, journal with them, or just read them out loud to yourself daily:
* I am a channel for God’s creativity and my work comes to good.
* My dreams come from God and God has the power to accomplish them.
* As I create and listen, I will be led.
* Creativity is the Creator’s will for me.
* My creativity heals myself and others.
* I am allowed to nurture my artist.
* Through the use of a few simple tools, my creativity will flourish.
* Through the use of my creativity, I serve God.
* My creativity will always lead me to truth and love.
* My creativity leads me to forgiveness and self-forgiveness.
* There is a divine plan of goodness for me.
* There is a divine plan of goodness for my work.
* As I listen to the Creator within, I am led.
* As I listen to my creativity, I am led to my Creator.
* I am willing to create.
* I am willing to learn to let myself create.
* I am willing to let God create through me.
* I am willing to be of service through my creativity.
* I am willing to experience my creative energy.
* I am willing to use my creative talents.
📝 Week One Tasks
Here are the ten tasks from this chapter. Remember: don’t try to do them all. Pick 2–3 that feel right for you this week. If you finish and want to keep going, beautiful. But this is not about perfection - it’s about building consistency and safety.
* Morning Pages → Write three pages of longhand, stream-of-consciousness every morning. Don’t reread them, don’t show them to anybody else. This is for you.
* Artist Date → Take yourself out, solo. Once a week, every week. Do something fun, silly, or playful that feeds your artist. (Example: spend $5 on stickers, sequins, or crayons just because you feel like it.)
* Villains List → Write down three old enemies of your creative self-worth. These villains are the ones who made you doubt yourself. Naming them matters.
* Villain Story → Write out one horror story from your villain list. Jot down the details: where you were, how you felt, what was said. Sketch it, rip it up, draw a big red X through it. Get it out of your body.
* Letter to the Editor → Write a letter in your own defense. Be as petty or as bold as you need to be to feel relief. Mail it to yourself if you want.
* Hall of Champions → Write down three people who believed in your creativity. Record their words and post them somewhere you’ll see often. Let yourself remember.
* Thank You Letter → Take one of those champions and write a thank-you note. Mail it to yourself or to them if you’d like.
* Imaginary Lives → Write down five alternate lives you’d love to live. Don’t overthink it. Then pick one and play it out this week in a small way.
* Affirmation Work → When an old injury or villain resurfaces, write it down and flip it into a positive affirmation. Practice saying it.
* Artist Walk → Take a brisk 20-minute walk. Just you and your inner artist.
End of Week Check-In
When you reflect at the end of the week, ask yourself:
* How many days did I do Morning Pages? How did it feel?
* Did I take myself on an Artist Date? What did I do, and how did it feel to actually give myself that time?
* Did anything else come up this week that felt important for my creative recovery?
💡 A Note from Me
Your art doesn’t have to just live in the shadows. it also lives in your courage, rituals, and willingness to build a village that pours into you the way you pour into others.A healthy ego is the thing that lets you stand tall in your ability to expression creativity and say, “This is who I am, and this is what I came to do.”
Donations & Support
If this replay and these notes gave you something, feel free to pour back into this work:
* Insight Timer → donate directly on my profile.
* Venmo → @LobaLand
* Cash App → $WolfMuva
* PayPal → [email protected]
* Buy Me a Coffee → Yall know I love Matcha
Everything & anything is always appreciated. And if you want to go deeper, you’re more than welcome to become a paid subscriber — you’ll get access to the exclusive after-party class notes, where I share the direct insights from my own journey with The Artist’s Way.
Upgrade your The Dark Divines experience and receive exclusive content from yours turly <3
And please, don’t forget to drop a comment in the group chat! Let us know how you’re moving through the week. This is a journey, not a solo mission, and the chat is where we remind each other we’re not doing it alone.
Get full access to The Dark Divines at lotuslaloba.substack.com/subscribe
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Thank you Sierra Jeter, Jack, Tori Rerick, The Creative Weaver of Words, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.
Welcome to the replay of Week One of The Artist’s Way for the Anti-Blocked Artist Club. This week was about what it really means to recover a sense of safety as an artist.
The feeling & knowing of safety hits different for us. Especially if you’ve ever been told your creativity was “extra,” your art wasn’t serious, or you needed some trauma-to-triumph storyline to make it palatable. Nah. That’s not the truth round these parts of Beyoncé internet ok?
In the replay, I walk you through:
* The Shadow Artist → why this part of us hides, and how to bring them forward with compassion.
* Healthy Ego → why shrinking or over-defending isn’t it, and what it feels like to stand in your art with a steady confidence.
* Zone of Excellence vs. Zone of Genius → being “good” at something isn’t the same as being in the lane you were divinely wired for.
* Energy Harvesting → how living through other people’s creativity keeps you blocked, and why true inspiration feels completely different.
* Village with Intention → what it means to build a community that actually pours into you. Peers and sages. Not just people who drain you.
* True Liberation → choosing freedom right now, not waiting for perfect conditions or somebody else’s permission.
* EFT Tapping Practice → we tapped through the lies society tells us about art and stepped into affirmations that root us back into safety and courage.
The next live is Sunday at 12:15pm EST. And yes, replays will always be here for you.
✨ Creative Affirmations
These are the affirmations we’re working with this week. You can tap with them, journal with them, or just read them out loud to yourself daily:
* I am a channel for God’s creativity and my work comes to good.
* My dreams come from God and God has the power to accomplish them.
* As I create and listen, I will be led.
* Creativity is the Creator’s will for me.
* My creativity heals myself and others.
* I am allowed to nurture my artist.
* Through the use of a few simple tools, my creativity will flourish.
* Through the use of my creativity, I serve God.
* My creativity will always lead me to truth and love.
* My creativity leads me to forgiveness and self-forgiveness.
* There is a divine plan of goodness for me.
* There is a divine plan of goodness for my work.
* As I listen to the Creator within, I am led.
* As I listen to my creativity, I am led to my Creator.
* I am willing to create.
* I am willing to learn to let myself create.
* I am willing to let God create through me.
* I am willing to be of service through my creativity.
* I am willing to experience my creative energy.
* I am willing to use my creative talents.
📝 Week One Tasks
Here are the ten tasks from this chapter. Remember: don’t try to do them all. Pick 2–3 that feel right for you this week. If you finish and want to keep going, beautiful. But this is not about perfection - it’s about building consistency and safety.
* Morning Pages → Write three pages of longhand, stream-of-consciousness every morning. Don’t reread them, don’t show them to anybody else. This is for you.
* Artist Date → Take yourself out, solo. Once a week, every week. Do something fun, silly, or playful that feeds your artist. (Example: spend $5 on stickers, sequins, or crayons just because you feel like it.)
* Villains List → Write down three old enemies of your creative self-worth. These villains are the ones who made you doubt yourself. Naming them matters.
* Villain Story → Write out one horror story from your villain list. Jot down the details: where you were, how you felt, what was said. Sketch it, rip it up, draw a big red X through it. Get it out of your body.
* Letter to the Editor → Write a letter in your own defense. Be as petty or as bold as you need to be to feel relief. Mail it to yourself if you want.
* Hall of Champions → Write down three people who believed in your creativity. Record their words and post them somewhere you’ll see often. Let yourself remember.
* Thank You Letter → Take one of those champions and write a thank-you note. Mail it to yourself or to them if you’d like.
* Imaginary Lives → Write down five alternate lives you’d love to live. Don’t overthink it. Then pick one and play it out this week in a small way.
* Affirmation Work → When an old injury or villain resurfaces, write it down and flip it into a positive affirmation. Practice saying it.
* Artist Walk → Take a brisk 20-minute walk. Just you and your inner artist.
End of Week Check-In
When you reflect at the end of the week, ask yourself:
* How many days did I do Morning Pages? How did it feel?
* Did I take myself on an Artist Date? What did I do, and how did it feel to actually give myself that time?
* Did anything else come up this week that felt important for my creative recovery?
💡 A Note from Me
Your art doesn’t have to just live in the shadows. it also lives in your courage, rituals, and willingness to build a village that pours into you the way you pour into others.A healthy ego is the thing that lets you stand tall in your ability to expression creativity and say, “This is who I am, and this is what I came to do.”
Donations & Support
If this replay and these notes gave you something, feel free to pour back into this work:
* Insight Timer → donate directly on my profile.
* Venmo → @LobaLand
* Cash App → $WolfMuva
* PayPal → [email protected]
* Buy Me a Coffee → Yall know I love Matcha
Everything & anything is always appreciated. And if you want to go deeper, you’re more than welcome to become a paid subscriber — you’ll get access to the exclusive after-party class notes, where I share the direct insights from my own journey with The Artist’s Way.
Upgrade your The Dark Divines experience and receive exclusive content from yours turly <3
And please, don’t forget to drop a comment in the group chat! Let us know how you’re moving through the week. This is a journey, not a solo mission, and the chat is where we remind each other we’re not doing it alone.
Get full access to The Dark Divines at lotuslaloba.substack.com/subscribe