#308: How to Trust Your Creative Instincts as a Highly Sensitive Person

How do you learn to trust your creative instincts when you’ve spent years second-guessing the way you’re wired?

(After all, there’s no shortage of experts eager to tell you — or sell you — The One “Right” Way to be creative!)

But as Highly Sensitive Persons, we notice details, connections, emotions, and possibilities that others may miss. As we learn to trust our perceptions, they can powerfully guide our creative work.

Today, fiction author Laura Joy Lloyd joins me as guest co-host. Laura Joy shares how her sensitivity shapes the stories she reads, the characters she writes, and the unconventional writing process she created to honor her gifts, personality, and capacity.

Together, we explore

• how to distinguish wise outside counsel from fear-based pressure,
• why the “right” creative process may look different for each of us, and
• what becomes possible when we stop fighting the way we’re wired.

What if the creative process that fits you best begins with trusting who God created you to be as an HSP?

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Cheri Gregory

Through scripture and story-telling, Cheri Gregory delights in helping women draw closer to Jesus, the Strength of every tender heart.

Cheri is the co-facilitator of Sensitive & Strong: the place for the HSP Christian woman to find connection. And she’s the founder of Write Beside You coaching for HSP Christian writers, coaches, and speakers.

Cheri speaks locally and internationally for women’s events and educational conferences. She’s also the coauthor of five books: You Don’t Have to Try So Hard, Overwhelmed, and An Abundant Place (with Kathi Lipp); Sensitive & Strong (with Denise J. Hughes); and Exhale (with Amy Carrol).

Cheri and her college sweetheart, Daniel, have been married for over three decades; they’ve spent the last 19 years living and serving on the campus of Monterey Bay Academy on the central California coast. 

You can connect with Cheri thru her website, on Facebook, and via Instagram.

Laura Joy Lloyd

Through an innovative style she calls interactive serialized fiction, Laura Joy Lloyd invites readers to influence many of the stories she writes.

Free of harsh language, bedroom scenes, and unnecessary violence, Laura’s contemporary stories feature hope-filled relationships set amid Pacific Northwest islands.

Laura delights in encouraging people to express their creativity in imaginative and fulfilling ways. Through her podcast and journal entries, Laura asks questions about what might be learned, as well as what might be beautiful, uncomfortable, humorous, or promising.

Laura also enjoys swimming, reading, listening to music, and organizing whatever feels messy.

Website: https://www.laurajoylloyd.com/

Send a message: https://www.laurajoylloyd.com/contact-laura/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraJoyLloyd

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurajoylloyd/

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