Behind The Artist's Way | Julia Cameron

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

After years of teaching workshops on creative unblocking and self-publishing her exercises, Julia Cameron (https://juliacameronlive.com/) launched a global phenomenon in 1992 with the publication of The Artist's Way (https://amzn.to/2JPzrvJ). The book has since been translated into 40 languages, sold over five million copies and, along with companion workshops, brought creativity into the mainstream conversation— in the arts, in business, and in everyday life. Along the way, Cameron has authored more than 40 books, plays and screenplays, written for Rolling Stone, The Washington Post and The New York Times, and collaborated with legends of television and movies, including Martin Scorsese, who would, for a time, become her partner in life as well. In today's conversation, we dive into Julia's early years, her entrée into the writing life, her years-long struggle with addiction and awakening from it, her time in the world of movies, and her fierce commitment to her craft and to helping others find their creative voices and let them out.

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0:00.0	When I think about my guest this week, I think about somebody who maybe has been told
0:13.0	you have changed my life so many times I'm guessing hundreds of thousands of not millions
0:19.2	of times over the course of the last few decades. Julia Cameron wrote a book called The
0:25.4	Artist's Way, which has sold millions and millions and millions of copies. It has planted
0:31.4	the seed of this thing in the world of anyone who has a creative bone in their body called
0:37.8	Morning Pages, which is an incredibly powerful tool to get unstuck or unblocked. She has
0:43.8	been teaching around the world for decades, writing, she's written dozens of books, screenplays,
0:52.2	plays, musicals, astonishingly prolific in every part of her life. And she has made such a
0:59.8	profound difference in so many people's lives. Many of the people who have created the work
1:06.7	that have changed our lives. So the ripple effect is really incredible. When I sit down with Julia,
1:14.0	we were actually in her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And the conversation really was much more
1:20.8	focused on the, on her personal story, on her life, on what it was like to come up in her family,
1:30.5	to find her way and navigate her way, very young in the world of creativity and writing. If you
1:37.0	found yourself in her 20s, married briefly to Martin Scorsese, we talk about that window of time
1:42.9	and also found herself in a deeply addicted window of her life that would affect her in a lot of
1:50.2	profound ways. And we talked about that and how she sort of found her way out of it. And back
1:56.6	into the world of being an incredibly productive, kind, generous creator, writer, teacher, mentor,
2:05.0	to so many different people. It was such a moving, an inspiring conversation to be able to share
2:10.8	some time with her at her home in Santa Fe as she reflected back on this beautiful wise journey.
2:17.6	And a very real, and vulnerable way was really special for me and I'm super excited to be able
2:23.3	to share it with you. I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.
2:35.8	The sound is a little bit different. We're actually recording this out in Santa Fe. I'm sitting
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