Artist Dates

The idea comes from the Julia Cameron book The Artist’s Way, (which is a 12 week creative rehab that I also recommend!). You don’t have to be an artist and the date does not have to have anything to do with art. The idea is that you give yourself a weekly chunk of time to spend doing something fun, alone. (I would also recommend no phone.) It’s a scheduled time to play, with no outcomes attached. I find it really powerful because you start to connect to what you actually want to do. Not what you think you should be doing, or what you wanted to do yesterday—but right now, what sounds good? Maybe you think you should go to a museum but you actually want to get a stack of trashy magazines and read them in the sun. Relearning to hear/feel/locate your own desires and interests usually illuminates the path forward.