Artists for Joy

This week on the podcast, Merideth offers a musical meditation with some reflection questions around the idea of an Inner Team from Episode 2 in Season 3.  While you listen, reflect on the following: 1. Who are your inner team members? Where do they sit in your car in any given moment? What activities bring out which parts of your team? 2. What resources do the negative presenting members have to...

Whatever you are feeling about fall, bring it on over to this "the podcast equivalent of a fire pit" and we'll talk it out. This week Merideth shares a coaching exercise that will help you name your inner team members, resource their skills, and cultivate a sense of self-compassion for the multitudes you contain.  Graydin: https://bit.ly/2FHiTGx   Episode 2.20: https://bit.ly/3fpbv4p Beethoven's H...

Self-coaching Questions: 1. What is my base-line stress level like? 2. In the face of this upsetting thing I am taking personally, what am I afraid this means about me?  3. What am I meant to learn here? Podcast survery: https://bit.ly/3xp9KKW    

Season 3 debut! Merideth shares what she's been learning from chatting with artists of all disciplines on social media and in her coaching practice: specifically about how to talk to creators about their work—what comments feels good and why. Plus: the number one thing she believe creatives long to hear in their most vulnerable moments.  Saxophonist Kirsten Edkins https://bit.ly/3BoBi4i   Composer...

BONUS: This week features a talk Merideth gave recently for a fine arts department at a university in her area. Listen for 3 tips on how to stay joyful as you learn and teach in the arts.  Listen to Merideth's album here: https://spoti.fi/2IxrGfz See the pictures Merideth refers to here on the post for this episode:  https://bit.ly/3tEI1DU   Prompts from the talk: Think of someone from a past, pre...

This week in bonus content land, Merideth leads you through a breathing exercise called the physiological sigh. Listen when you are stressed to activate your parasympathetic nervous system. Season 3 begins in two weeks!   Join the Artist's Way Group: https://bit.ly/32pPZE8   Enjoying the show? Leave us a review: https://apple.co/3j2ufUm   Tell me how you listen to the show: artistsforjoypod@gmail....

What effect does stress have on our creative lives? Can stress be good? Merideth shares what she's been learning about how to manage the biological response to stress, including something you can try IMMEDIATELY to regulate it. Huberman Lab Podcast: https://spoti.fi/3dH9S12   Sara McMahon's IG: https://bit.ly/3dEXy1o Join the next Artist's Way Creative Cluster: https://bit.ly/32pPZE8   Join our ma...

Self coaching questions:  Hearing- What's that one song that makes your heart flutter with joy every time you hear it? What band makes you do a fist bump in the car? Whose voice calms and soothes and reassures you? Is there a poem that you love to hear read aloud? What sounds of the natural world remind you of the glory of creation? Write some sounds down that spark joy.  Seeing– What's that one s...

This week's show was recorded live in Brooklyn, NY! Merideth shares an idea picked up at this year's Writer's Digest Conference, a practical step in cultivating joy.  Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" https://mo.ma/3zVTEtE Erin Ellis, cellist https://spoti.fi/3d0YT2d   Leave a comment or submit a question https://bit.ly/38bKMSF Transcript of this episode https://bit.ly/3PJ4bNR (auto-generated, may co...

Today's episode features some listener mail about last week's episode and provides you with some questions to help you name your season. 1. What do you spend most of your time on these days? 2. What do you spend most of your energy on these days? 3. If you had to give your current life season a name what would it be?  4. What is hard in this season? 5. What are you grateful for in this season? 6....

Besides summer (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), what season are you creating in? Merideth explores how naming and claiming your season of life can help you manage your expectations, guilt, or (lack of) motivation. Follow The Lazy Genius: https://bit.ly/3aYWgNN   Subscribe to our mailing list: https://bit.ly/3b6yTi6   Leave us a review: https://apple.co/3j2ufUm   NEW transcripts of rec...

NEW bonus content featuring a guided visualization for self-protection (inspired by Nicholas Daniel and Louise Hay) with music of Ardie Son and Angela Sheik. Joining our mailing list to get episodes delivered to your inbox every Friday: https://mailchi.mp/e5dcaffdf8ce/luminasignup

This week on the podcast Merideth interviews a mentor and teacher, oboist Nicholas Daniel. They discuss how to become impervious to harmful feedback, keeping the joy in the face of anxiety, and harnessing the power of questions to become your own teacher. Plus, Nicholas shares the mantra he repeats to himself before every performance.  Listen to Nick here: https://bit.ly/3AzCTW4  

Self-Coaching Questions What does crying look like for you? What helps you feel emotional release? What truths do you know that you can use to coach yourself into a more positive mindset? Write them down on post its and put them somewhere you can see them daily. What sounds fun to create right now? Don't over think it. Find something where you get to make your own creative decisions, even small on...

An episode featuring the most requested topic Merideth receives. Listen to learn more about how to cultivate resilience and shift your mindset so you can keep creating with joy. Submit mail to the podcast: https://bit.ly/38bKMSF   Sign up for a free coaching session: https://bit.ly/39PirW8   Follow artistsforjoy on IG: https://bit.ly/3tEI1DU  

Today's musical meditation features a powerful exercise for putting down your heavy load. Sometimes the show mustn't go on: here's to normalizing this for artists looking for more joy.  Let me know what you think of the exercise here: https://bit.ly/3tEI1DU Submit mail to the podcast: https://bit.ly/38bKMSF

Today's creative lie is the ever popular "the show must go on" mentality. Merideth explores how this way of thinking is not always beneficial or artist-centered. She'll offer a practical exercise for checking in with yourself to help you put down all the baggage that is not yours to carry and love yourself through all that is wrong. Submit Mail to the Podcast: https://bit.ly/38bKMSF Leave us a rev...

Self-Coaching Questions:  What obstacles are in the way of you finding a therapist? If you are in therapy, consider how that relationship is serving you and what you might bring to your therapist or counselor next.  What matters most to you? How are the things that matter being given the attention or consideration they are longing for?  Whose critique are you allowing to permeate through the hedge...

This week Merideth explores how our teachers affect our creative development. She'll offer practical take aways for how to rebound and heal from these interactions when they're painful, including how to create a community that is supportive and restorative. Mental Health Resources: https://bit.ly/2LR45YW Atlantic article: https://bit.ly/3GnJsM9 Submit mail to show: https://bit.ly/38bKMSF Coaching...

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Merideth offers three practical take-aways for how to love your artist-self well.  Ann Patchett Essay: https://amzn.to/3wmDoPv Join the Coaching Course: https://bit.ly/3xZkccY  

Self-Coaching Questions: What action do you need to take this week to find more confidence? Who can you invite into your process by sharing your experience and vulnerably opening up about your creative life? What might you be missing when you are not letting yourself be fully known? Look back at a work of art you made that you are really proud of: was there a coda, or a place towards the end where...

In celebration of 2 years of podcasting, Merideth reflects on 3 things she's been learning from that practice. Listen to this if you're feeling stuck and need a little creative pep talk. Spotify Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3fiXEIa   Register for our Coaching Course: https://bit.ly/3xZkccY    

Who are some of "the ones" you have created for in the past? Spend time being grateful for each of them.  Now flip it— think of someone you have been "the one" for. Spend time being grateful for those artists. Jonathan Jones said "…art's story is not a trajectory of ascent, but more of a looping spiral, constantly retracing its steps." Look at your current artistic practice and consider the overla...

How you answer this question may be the key overcoming feelings of discouragement or burn out. I don't know who needs to hear this, but this is for you. Brooklyn Classical https://bit.ly/364cPFM   Tour the Lascaux: https://bit.ly/3ughVIe   Artcurious Podcast https://bit.ly/3xbCxTC More about cave paintings: https://bit.ly/3JeWxXT The Artist's Oath Workshop: https://bit.ly/3iDFkwp