Episode 2.18: Reparenting Your Inner Artist Child

The Inner Child is an artist. Merideth shares some truths she is learning about parenting and how it speaks deeply to that internal struggle toward healing and acceptance of our own inner artist child.

1. How can you open the lines of communication with your inner artist and treat them with respect?

2. What boundaries does your inner artist need to feel safe?

3. How can you surround yourself with items that your inner artist resonates with and loves?

4. Art begets art—what do you need to get started? 

5. Are you a safe place for your inner artist child to return home to?

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Episode 2.6: Curiosity

This week on the podcast: curiosity. What purpose does it play in our creative lives? What one of Merideth’s favorite writers says to do when you do not feel passion for your art in a particular moment… she’ll also share info about an exciting new offering coming up next month you don’t want to miss!

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Episode 38: Mindset

How does the spirit with which we approach things change our experience? How can we learn to cultivate a mindset of growth and gentleness in our creative work, especially as we are trying new things? Merideth shares the story of how she learned the answer to these questions from a certain toddler this week. She also shares insights of Psychologist Carol S. Dweck, specifically how mindset can contribute to success. Watercolor art used this week by MB Whitaker. Find her work on instagram @mbwhitakerrr.

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Episode 37: Friendship

What stops us from cultivating deep friendships, especially with other artists? This week on the show, Merideth explores how friendship can be a powerful tool in the creative process, offering us not only companionship, but also self-knowledge, inspiration, perspective and healing.

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Episode 35: An Artist's Search for Why

In this episode, Merideth takes on the ever-important topic for artists--naming and claiming your “why.” What benefit is there in this singularity of purpose, of making meaning in work and life? She'll share three concrete practices/questions/ways of thinking to help you name yours, plus offer insights from two major thought leaders on the subject. 

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Episode 12: Buried Dreams

Italian Renaissance sculptor, Michelangelo, said, "I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free." This week Merideth explores buried dreams, what our tantrums say about us, and the hope we can find when we have the courage to dig. This week’s podcast features music of Sheik, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, and Ravel. Plus, illustrator Mike Cunningham repurposed Michelangelo's "Atlas Slave" for this week's artwork.

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Episode 11: Belonging

Where do you belong? This week Merideth dives into this question, reflecting on her own upbringing in small-town South Carolina. She explores how artists might find community and friendship by showing up as themselves and using their artist-eye to love others well.

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Episode 2: Your Inner (Artist) Child

Pablo Picasso said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." This week host Merideth Hite Estevez explores how our inner artist child can help us to discover what sparks joy in our work as adults.

Pablo Picasso said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." This week host Merideth Hite Estevez explores how our inner artist child can help us to discover what sparks joy in our work as adults. She'll offer ways to make the most of quarantine by (re)discovering the art of true play. 

Read more about the 'Harvard Center for the Developing Child" mentioned in the episode here. 

Register for the next Artist's Way Creative Cluster (which starts on May 12 via Zoom) here.

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