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Week 2: External Blockers (and Internal Doubts)

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We're on Week 2 of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, shifting from internal creative obstacles to external ones—namely our friends and family.

We dig into Cameron's concepts of "poisonous playmates" and "crazymakers": how to identify them (spoiler: they're not always people) and strategies for protecting your creative space from their intrusions. Then we tackle Cameron's uncomfortable idea—that blocked creators might actually want these distractions to avoid doing the work.

But our strongest reaction to this chapter is Cameron's reliance on God and a capital-C Creator throughout her method. Can an atheist follow the Artist's Way?

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Chapters

1. Welcome And Process Group Invite (00:00:00)

2. Week One Check‑In: Morning Pages (00:01:49)

3. Prompts, Phone Habits, And Routine Design (00:05:20)

4. Artist Dates And Personal Affirmations (00:08:10)

5. Week Two Overview: Identity (00:09:54)

6. Affirmations, Doubt, And “Don’t Think” (00:12:05)

7. Poisonous Playmates: Peer Dynamics (00:16:15)

8. Crazy Makers: Family, Divas, And Control (00:20:40)

9. Boundaries, Skepticism, And Saying Yes (00:27:20)

10. Attention And Mindfulness In Practice (00:32:10)

11. Tasks We Tried And Time Audits (00:37:20)

12. The Internet As A Crazy Maker (00:42:00)

13. Bullet Journals, Schedules, And Goals (00:46:00)

14. Affirmations Experiment And Tracking (00:50:30)

15. Takeaways, Listener Input, And What’s Next (00:55:00)

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