The Spiritual Artist Podcast

What happens when life changes, the house grows quiet, and we find ourselves alone with who we really are? In this episode of The Spiritual Artist Podcast, CJ Miller welcomes harpist, composer, author, and Episcopal priest April Stace for a heartfelt conversation about solitude, creativity, presence, and personal transformation. Following a divorce and her only child leaving for college, April found herself living alone for the first time. What initially felt overwhelming gradually became an ...

What if becoming a better artist isn't about taking more classes, mastering more techniques, or learning all the rules? What if the most important thing you can do is simply keep creating? In this Spiritual Artist pep talk, CJMiller shares a realization that came to him while painting: creativity naturally evolves when we give ourselves permission to explore. Through the story of another artist's journey and his own experience of feeling creatively stuck, CJ explores how frustration, experime...

Where does your creative voice come from—and how do you learn to trust it? Playwright Drew Larimore joins CJ Miller for a conversation about intuition, spiritual guidance, and the mysterious process of bringing creative work into form. Drew shares how experiences with past-life regression helped him see writing as a thread running through his life and how he works with spiritual guides, meditation, and intuition as part of his creative practice. CJ and Drew explore what it feels like to move ...

What if your artwork isn’t something to analyze or fix, but something that can help you recognize yourself? During a recent Spiritual Artist Retreat in Santa Fe, I took part in an exercise I usually facilitate for others: physically walking a shape I had discovered in nature. What happened surprised me. In the rigidity of a stone and the delicate lichen growing across its surface, I recognized something about the way I move through my own life—and I felt that recognition in my body before I c...

As artists, it’s easy to let recognition, rejection, awards, and sales tell us whether our work is “good.” In this episode, I share a very recent experience with a juried art show—one that stirred up all those very human questions about being seen, being recognized, and wondering whether anyone really understands what we’re doing. But Spirit had another lesson waiting for me. Our work isn’t validated because it wins an award, and it isn’t validated because someone buys it. We create because s...