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.