| I’ve done better than expected so far this week. Morning pages all but one day, more than half of the exercises and an Artist Date. I’ve also written four poems so far this week, several blog comments as well as my own blog posts and journal. Far more output than in ages.
The theme for this week was “recovering a sense of safety”. This is obviously something that won’t occur in one week, but I anticipate the process will continue and combine with the themes in upcoming weeks.
One thing I still have trouble with are writing the affirmations. I get bored doing them which I suspect is a blocking mechanism from my Critic. Boredom seems harder to overcome than outright criticism.
One tool I’ve added is a personal blog. This blog is actually hosted on my home computer, so no one has access to it except me. I’m perfectly safe posting my poetry and some journal writing there. Actually my journal writing occurs in two places – a moleskin journal and the personal blog.
I always create my poems in my journal, scratching them out and rewriting and just posting them when complete. For some reason I can’t compose poetry on the computer.