The Artist's Way for the Midlife Woman

Recover your creative life in the company of women who understand this season.
SEPTEMBER 8TH-NOVEMBER 25TH

 Rediscover your creative life.

Not by becoming someone new.

By remembering who you've always been.

 If creativity has felt stagnant or buried beneath the demands of work, caregiving, or simply surviving, this workshop offers gentle structure and the compassionate accountability of walking alongside women who understand this season of life.

For twelve weeks, you'll journey through Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way inside a deeply supportive community of women who are ready to reconnect with their creativity, their joy, and themselves. 

 

Maybe this sounds familiar.

You keep telling yourself you'll get back to your creativity...

after the kids are older.

once work settles down.

after this season.

when things get easier.

Because somewhere along the way...

your creativity became quieter.

The play disappeared.

Joy took a backseat to responsibility.

You aren't alone.

 

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Using The Artist's Way as our guide, this 12-week journey includes weekly lessons and reflections, morning pages, Artist Dates, and live Zoom gatherings in a private online circle just for midlife women.

Julia Cameron's classic has a long history of re-sparking creativity in its readers. Morning pages, Artist Dates, and noticing synchronicity are hallmarks of her work, and we'll bring all three into our weekly meetings and discussions. These aren't assignments to complete perfectly—they're invitations to reconnect with yourself. We'll be using the filter of midlife as our lens to approach the book, getting curious about what lands differently for us at this stage of life.

 This workshop welcomes writers of every experience level and women of every belief system—or none at all. While The Artist's Way uses language about spirituality and a higher power, our approach is intentionally inclusive. Whether you connect with nature, intuition, psychology, faith, or simply your own inner wisdom, you'll find a place here. Our focus is on helping you rediscover your creative voice while honoring the emotional labor, quiet grief, and profound reinvention that so often accompany midlife.

Why I keep teaching this workshop:

 

I've returned to The Artist's Way many times. Every time, it gives me something different.

 

The practice helped me stay connected to my creativity during difficult seasons. But here's what surprised me: the greatest gift was the wisdom and shared discoveries that emerged during conversations. It was watching a room full of women recognize themselves in one another. That's why I keep coming back, and why I keep inviting women to come with me. 

"The book didn’t change my life, but Steph and the women reading it with me did. They reminded me what real connection feels like, and together we remembered to look for magic in the everyday — to find a few human minutes in our daily chaos for something beautiful."

-Past Artist's Way participant

I remembered myself

"I finally considered myself creative."

-Past Artist's Way participant

“I just didn’t want it to end.”

“I can’t put into words how beneficial this workshop was for me! I loved being connected to a group of like-minded women writers, in about the same stage of life, diving deep on our own creativity and the very relatable challenges and revelations we were each having along the way. Our Zoom meetings and online chats were so affirming. “

-Past Artist's Way participant

I found my people

"Our group meetings felt sacred."

"It felt like we all walked home together."

“This workshop had a strong community support that I have never experienced before.”

“It was a wonderful reset. The work was honored, the struggle was honored, our lives were honored.”

-Past Artist's Way participants
There comes a moment in many women's lives when they realize they haven't actually lost their creativity. They've simply spent years putting everyone else first.
The writing can wait. The painting can wait. The singing can wait. The dream can wait. Until one day, you can no longer remember what it felt like to create for the sheer joy of it.
If that's where you are, I'd love to invite you home.

September 8th – November 25th

Join us for 12 weeks of connection, creativity, and discovery in a supportive, safe space. Early Bird pricing ends August 8th.

 

✓ Weekly lessons and prompts inspired by The Artist's Way chapters

âś“ Weekly Zoom gatherings (Wed noon ET + rotating Friday)

✓ A private online community for accountability, reflection, and celebration

âś“ Support and connection with other midlife women

PAYMENT OF $377 →
 

Meet your instructor

Steph Smith Sprenger

Steph is a writer, editor, podcaster, and producer whose work centers on helping women reconnect with themselves through writing and creativity. She is the founder of The Pause, editor-in-chief of THREE literary magazine, co-producer of Listen to Your Mother Boulder, and the author of the forthcoming memoir Nostalgia Junkie. She has returned to The Artist's Way through seasons of burnout, single motherhood, divorce, and midlife reinvention, discovering something new each time.
 

She created The Pause to offer the kind of creative community she longed for herself, where women can rediscover the parts of themselves that have been buried beneath years of caregiving, responsibility, and productivity. As your guide through this 12-week journey, Steph brings honesty, warmth, humor, and years of experience creating spaces where women feel safe enough to begin again.

 

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