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You're not getting your old life back.
But you can reinvent yourself through art.
The Now What Workshop is a live, 2-hour creative workshop built on tools from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, adapted for women navigating chronic illness, grief, burnout, and the other hard life stuff that reshapes who you are. No art skills needed. Come as you are, even from bed.
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Something changed. And you've been quietly trying to figure out who you are now.
Maybe it was a diagnosis that rewrote your days, and now you cancel more than you commit. Maybe burnout finally caught up with the woman who could always do it all. Maybe you lost someone, or something: a person, a marriage, a career, the body you could count on.
The surface stories are different. Underneath, it's the same three sentences:
"I lost myself."
"I don't recognize who I am anymore."
"I'm grieving who I used to be."
And under all of it, this weird, disorienting question: "Okay… so now what?" It shows up at kitchen tables, in parking lots, at 3am, in doctors' offices. For two honest hours, we're going to answer it. Together, with a pen in your hand.
Yes, that book. The one on your shelf.
Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way has sold over 5 million copies across 30+ years because the tools inside it (Morning Pages, Artist Dates, creative recovery) genuinely work.
But here's what nobody tells you: the classic version assumes steady energy, free mornings, and a body that cooperates every single day. So when your life stopped looking like that, the book stopped working. You quit by Week 3 and blamed yourself.
That was never a you problem. And if the book alone was going to fix it, it already would have. It's been sitting right there.
In this workshop, you'll do the practices with me, live, in versions built for the body, brain, and energy you actually have. And you won't leave with a reading assignment. You'll leave with something you made.
Two hours. A Dream Zine in your hands. And a first step you can actually take.
The Life Audit, Artist's Way style. A guided, task-style audit of where you actually are, anchored by the single most powerful journaling prompt I know for discovering what's next. Most women have never been asked this question.
Morning Pages, with a twist. Once your braindump is on the page, I'll share my #1 secret for making Morning Pages something you look forward to instead of one more thing you quit. (I've never shared this outside my membership.)
A mini Artist Date, live: your Dream Zine. We'll turn everything you uncovered into a tiny zine, a mind map, or both. You leave our two hours holding an actual made thing: a little map of what's next, in your own handwriting.
One thread, pulled. You'll pick one thread from your creative life and plan tiny, realistic ways to weave it into your actual week, based on your actual capacity. And you'll practice the skill underneath all of it: permission to break the rules and do this your way, without caring what anyone else thinks.
The Now What Starter Workbook, as a bonus. Seven days of bed-friendly creative prompts, with five-minute versions for low-energy days. Stay till the end and it lands in your inbox.
Three women who started exactly where you are
Every one of them walked into a workshop like this one carrying the same question.
Came in with chronic illness, grief, and real loss. She announced "I hate watercolors" in her first session. Two years later she's still here: painting, writing, and thinking about her own art business.
Arrived right around retirement, at a point where she wasn't leaving the house at all. Now she plans artist dates, finished the 100-day project, and shares photos with the community. She says it saved her.
Lives with rare medical issues while being the breadwinner and mom to a daughter with unique needs. She's done this work more than once, because her art has become her anchor.
Three very different stories. One shared starting line: a single afternoon, a pen, and "now what?"
Hi, I'm Katie.
A few years ago my health fell apart. Long COVID, POTS, celiac, burnout, grief, one thing after another. I went from leading teams to lying on the couch wondering who I'd become. Creative recovery is how I answered my own "now what," and I built the version of this work I wish someone had handed me back then.
Quick answers
Nope. If you can hold a pen, you're qualified. We work process over product here: everyone's art will look different, and there's no right or wrong.
There's an option at checkout to add lifetime access to the recording, so a flare day never means missing out.
Something to write with, paper, and if you like, any art supplies you have around. Pencil and the back of an envelope genuinely count. You can join from bed.
Especially for you. You didn't fail the book. The classic version just wasn't built for a body and brain that change day to day. This is the version that bends around you.
The old you isn't coming back.
The next you starts with a pen.
Two hours. A room full of women who get it. And a first step you can take from exactly where you are.
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