<p>Thank you <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/172046971-otissia-lynette">Otissia Lynette</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/327105490-sierra-jeter">Sierra Jeter</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/142902137-jack">Jack</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/33338258-tori-rerick">Tori Rerick</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/325041505-sea">Sea</a>, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.</p><p>This is the final week of this experience for the Anti-Blocked Artist Club with The Artist’s Way framework, and I am proud of us for completing it. I hope Week 12 has been good to you, and honestly I hope every week has been good to you in whatever way you needed it.</p><p>This week is recovering a sense of faith, and the essays we went through were <strong>Trusting, Mystery, The Imagination at Play, and Escape Velocity.</strong> I’m touching on each of them here, and you can go deeper with the replay video. I’ll drop the task images and check-in below so you can move through it at your own pace.</p><p>Thank you to everyone who completed the 12 weeks, whether you were here live or circling back in your own timing. This is evergreen. Take what you need, when you need it.</p><p><strong>Trusting</strong></p><p>Faith had to get redefined for me. I struggled with it for years, especially in my 20s, because the version I was taught didn’t fit my life or my body. What finally made sense was realizing faith is confidence — confidence in who you believe in, whether that’s God, Source, the ancestors — and confidence in what they’re capable of in your life. When that clicked, movement got easier. Courage felt less like pressure. Following my bliss wasn’t naive, it was alignment. That’s what trusting looks like here: confidence that lets you move.</p><p><strong>Mystery</strong></p><p>This is the one that feels like dark feminine energy for real. So much of what we create is going to come from places that aren’t well-lit or logical, and that doesn’t mean danger — that means depth. Mystery asks you to stop demanding clarity before you begin. It asks you to stop treating the unknown like a threat. There’s adventure in the parts of yourself you haven’t met yet. There’s creativity in the dark. That’s where some of your best work is going to come from.</p><p><strong>The Imagination at Play</strong></p><p>Art can’t survive if you strip the fun out of it. If your inner child never gets a turn, everything starts feeling like work you didn’t sign up for. Play isn’t immaturity — it’s oxygen. It’s relief. It’s what keeps the process from suffocating you. When joy disappears, the struggle that follows isn’t growth, it’s self-inflicted burnout. Play brings your nervous system back online so you can actually create, not just perform effort.</p><p><strong>Escape Velocity</strong></p><p>At a certain point in your growth, you’re going to feel a moment where it looks like you’re being “tested.” I don’t fully agree with the language, but I do understand the pattern: there are points where life checks whether you’ve integrated what you learned. If not, the season runs again. Not as punishment — as repetition. If you <em>have</em> integrated it, things open. You move. Creativity gets louder. Access gets wider. It’s not about passing anything; it’s about readiness.</p><p>💡 <strong>Tasks for the Week & Check-In</strong></p><p>I’ll drop the images for the tasks and check-in below. </p><p>This is evergreen. Do it in real time or come back later. Either way, if you’re applying this framework even a little: morning pages, artist dates, somatic practices, check-in questions. - you’re shifting the trajectory of your artistic life.</p><p></p><p>I LOVE YOU!</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lotuslaloba.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">lotuslaloba.substack.com/subscribe</a>