The Artist's Way 2026

The Artist's Way for the Midlife Woman
Recover your creative life in the company of women who understand this season.

Dates & schedule
September 8th – November 25th (12 weeks)
Zoom Wednesdays at noon ET, plus a rotating Friday session scheduled around the group's availability

What's included
Weekly lessons and exercises walking through Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, weekly Zoom gatherings (Wed noon ET + rotating Friday), a private and safe community forum, feedback on your writing, and support and connection with other midlife women. Morning pages, Artist Dates, and noticing synchronicity are woven into the weekly work.

Who it's for
Welcomes writers of every level and women of every belief system, or none at all. You don't need to identify as spiritual to get everything out of the course — the focus is on intuition, creativity, and honoring the emotional labor that comes with midlife caregiving and reinvention.

Instructor bio
Steph Sprenger Smith is a writer, editor, and workshop facilitator who has walked through The Artist's Way herself more times than she can count, through burnout, motherhood, divorce, and midlife reinvention. She built The Pause as the space she wished she'd had, and brings honesty, warmth, and zero pressure to get it perfect.