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Creative Dysregulation: Why Your Creativity Is Chaotic & What to Do About It
You were born to express your creativity.
Kelly always considered herself a highly creative person. Growing up a trained dancer and high-achieving student, she thought she had what it took to bring her creative ideas to life in the ‘real world.’ Brimming with inspiration from books, businesses, podcasts, and musicals, she was excellent at dreaming up possibilities.
Fast-forward to her early 30s, and her creative track record was full of disappointment and failure, with a graveyard of abandoned projects. Believing that she wasn’t capable of executing her creative ideas without some form of physical, emotional, mental, or existential crisis, she broke up with creativity for good.
Her latest breakdown became her breakthrough when she realized that creativity wasn’t the problem; it was her crazy and chaotic inner world. Instead of disowning creativity, she would lean in and transform from within. Labeling her creative inadequacies as ‘creative dysregulation,’ she recognized eight areas of life that impacted her ability to execute Mental, Emotional, Physical, Motivational, Identity, Logistical, Inherited, and Spiritual.
Taking a complete mind-body-spirit approach to healing her creative dysregulation would become her greatest creative project Herself.
Creative Why Your Creativity Is Chaotic & What to Do About It is about taking full ownership of your creative struggles and seeing them as opportunities for radical growth and personal healing. It is a vulnerable account of Kelly's journey from being creatively defeated to finding creative regulation.
This part memoir, part self-help book, is rich with stories, a practical framework, self-assessment, and a series of actionable experiments. Although Kelly doesn't claim to have the answers and encourages readers to look within, she does normalize creative challenges and will motivate them to get back in the creative saddle.
Challenged with writing about her experience in as short of time as possible, Kelly leaned in and wrote this book in just five days. Practicing the principles she shares here by creating in public, overcoming perfectionism, and getting feedback early on, the current version of the book is a work-in-progress (much like Kelly). This book is ideal for anyone who has struggled to share their creative essence with the world in a sustainable, effective, and life-enriching way.
Kelly always considered herself a highly creative person. Growing up a trained dancer and high-achieving student, she thought she had what it took to bring her creative ideas to life in the ‘real world.’ Brimming with inspiration from books, businesses, podcasts, and musicals, she was excellent at dreaming up possibilities.
Fast-forward to her early 30s, and her creative track record was full of disappointment and failure, with a graveyard of abandoned projects. Believing that she wasn’t capable of executing her creative ideas without some form of physical, emotional, mental, or existential crisis, she broke up with creativity for good.
Her latest breakdown became her breakthrough when she realized that creativity wasn’t the problem; it was her crazy and chaotic inner world. Instead of disowning creativity, she would lean in and transform from within. Labeling her creative inadequacies as ‘creative dysregulation,’ she recognized eight areas of life that impacted her ability to execute Mental, Emotional, Physical, Motivational, Identity, Logistical, Inherited, and Spiritual.
Taking a complete mind-body-spirit approach to healing her creative dysregulation would become her greatest creative project Herself.
Creative Why Your Creativity Is Chaotic & What to Do About It is about taking full ownership of your creative struggles and seeing them as opportunities for radical growth and personal healing. It is a vulnerable account of Kelly's journey from being creatively defeated to finding creative regulation.
This part memoir, part self-help book, is rich with stories, a practical framework, self-assessment, and a series of actionable experiments. Although Kelly doesn't claim to have the answers and encourages readers to look within, she does normalize creative challenges and will motivate them to get back in the creative saddle.
Challenged with writing about her experience in as short of time as possible, Kelly leaned in and wrote this book in just five days. Practicing the principles she shares here by creating in public, overcoming perfectionism, and getting feedback early on, the current version of the book is a work-in-progress (much like Kelly). This book is ideal for anyone who has struggled to share their creative essence with the world in a sustainable, effective, and life-enriching way.
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87 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 8, 2024
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April 13, 2024
Loved this and read it in one sitting! Hugely relatable. If emotional regulation and self-reflection is not already in your wheelhouse, then this book will probably seem irrelevant or self-indulgent. If you've ever wrestled with creative discipline, but not thought deeply about your nervous system's role in that, then you will probably get something out of this. I've done Kelly's partner's Nervous System Mastery course and absolutely loved this book.
June 12, 2024
This is a neat little book on creative struggles. It could have been more in-depth, but it comes off as quite superficial on so many of the topics it covers.
December 18, 2024
Relatable, Readable and Highly Relevant
I am already using the term 'Creative Dysregulation' in my mind and in my discussions with those who know me. It ought to be common parlance because it's a lot kinder and more insightful than 'I'm f***ed up and I can't get my shit together'.
Thank you Kelly for saying what we've known all along. May this book inspire many other creatives out there who feel like giving up on creating stuff because it is an intense and often soul destroying experience to be locked in a rut of one's own making. Let's set us free! :)
I am already using the term 'Creative Dysregulation' in my mind and in my discussions with those who know me. It ought to be common parlance because it's a lot kinder and more insightful than 'I'm f***ed up and I can't get my shit together'.
Thank you Kelly for saying what we've known all along. May this book inspire many other creatives out there who feel like giving up on creating stuff because it is an intense and often soul destroying experience to be locked in a rut of one's own making. Let's set us free! :)
February 11, 2024
Quickly written, quickly read 😊 I not only personally relate to and benefit from Kelly's shared experiences (of past creative blockages and suggestions for future adaptations), but am also thrilled that this concept can serve as a gap between the specialized clinical dialogue around these issues and the everyday, middle- / upper-class creative tech experience. Art therapist here happy the gospel of creative life force is coming through in any, all, and every way.
February 20, 2024
Spot on!
Read this book in one sitting this morning! Amazing flow and storytelling. I relate with the book, love the wheel and the experiments ❤️ Will contemplate more this week and work on my actions 🙌
Read this book in one sitting this morning! Amazing flow and storytelling. I relate with the book, love the wheel and the experiments ❤️ Will contemplate more this week and work on my actions 🙌
March 5, 2024
Straight to the point compared to other self-help books. Although I agree with some of the spirituality aspects there were too many. Furthermore, I didn’t agree on getting therapy on literally everything
December 31, 2024
An incredibly relatable and helpful quick read. Highly recommend for anyone who has struggled with starting and (actually) finishing creative projects.
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