So if you focus on making it a safe and benevolent environment for your child to have self-expression, you then find yourself with a desire to have a safe, protected environment for yourself. When you try to connect to your child’s creativity and sense of wonder, you reawaken your own creativity and your own sense of wonder. JULIA: When you pay attention to the creativity of your child, you are connecting to a part of your child that is timeless. In working with creativity tools, people are building a spiritual radio kit.ĪPI: What are the greatest benefits of parents tapping into their own creativity in parenting, in terms of the parent, the child and the relationship? In the actual moment of creating, we find that we have a sense of something larger than ourselves guiding us. When we work on our creativity, we find ourselves feeling guided. In this way, they come to feel that they have a benevolent connection with a higher power–or the universe, the Tao, the force, it doesn’t really matter what you call it. When they use the tools of paying attention and Morning Pages, it’s actually a form of prayer. JULIA: I have been teaching for about 25 years, and I have found that as people work on their creativity, they wake up to their own spirituality. Julia’s tips fit specifically within API’s Eighth Principle of Parenting: Strive for Balance in Personal and Family Life as well as API’s Seventh Principle of Parenting: Practice Positive Discipline.ĪPI: In your work, you talk about creativity as a spiritual pursuit. Whether you are new to her work or have a bookshelf filled with years of your Morning Pages, whether you are an aspiring blogger or simply wishing to experience more creativity in your parenting, Julia shares inspiration appropriate for every family.
She is the author of 30 books, both fiction and nonfiction, including The Artist’s Way for Parents. Julia lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. She serves as the Assistant Publications Coordinator for Attachment Parenting International (API). Lisa Lord lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband and two children, where she works as an editor for Firecrest Clinical. Since then, Julia’s instruction through books and courses has helped millions of people around the world discover–and recover–their creativity, including parents. The Artist’s Way movement began more than two decades ago as author Julia Cameron shared her ideas with a few friends in her living room.
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