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 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 15: Self-care

In this episode, Merideth shares some practical tips for taking care of yourself. Interwoven with music of Chopin, Swift/Rose, Piazzolla, and Bach, you’ll hear a special three part “Ode to Taking Good Care” inspired by the email signature of her therapist.

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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 5: Perseverance

How are you persevering right now? What is all the uncertainty, isolation, and concern of the future doing to your creative impulse, your sense of joy? In this episode of Artists for Joy, Merideth shares stories of artists facing criticism, pandemic panic, and other difficulties… and how Vincent Van Gogh offers some wisdom for how we might choose joy in the face of them. 

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