My Secret Life: Poems from Morning Pages
About this ebook
For more than a generation, Julia Cameron has helped millions of readers unlock their creativity through The Artist’s Way and the life‐changing practice of Morning Pages. Now, for the first time, she opens those private notebooks to reveal a hidden dimension of her artistry: her poetry.
Written without an audience in mind, the poems in My Secret Life: Poems from Morning Pages offer an unguarded record of a creative life lived on the page. Intimate and unsparing, they move through experiences of love and rupture, desire and devotion, solitude and spiritual inquiry—tracing the inner weather of an artist listening closely to her own truth.
This collection includes:
- 80+ poems drawn from Julia Cameron’s own Morning Pages
- Work written across decades, offering a rare view of an artist’s becoming
- An intimate portrait of Cameron’s private creative practice
- An appendix of themed poetry writing prompts
With the same candor and creative courage that made The Artist’s Way a classic, Cameron invites readers into a more personal exchange. My Secret Life asks one essential question—What is my secret life?—and invites readers to open the book, take up the page, and begin answering for themselves.
About the author
Hailed by The New York Times as “The Queen of Change,” Julia Cameron is credited with starting a movement in 1992 that has brought creativity into the mainstream conversation― in the arts, in business, and in everyday life. She is the bestselling author of more than fifty books, fiction and nonfiction; a poet, songwriter, filmmaker and playwright. Commonly referred to as “The Godmother” or “High Priestess” of creativity, her tools are based in practice, not theory, and she considers herself “the floor sample of her own toolkit.” Her #1 bestseller, The Artist’s Way, has been translated into more than forty languages and sold over six million copies to date.
