Write Your Story: What Your Creative Resistance Says About You (Hint: It’s Not What You Think)
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel like you’d be more creative if you were simply more disciplined?
Like you need to get your life together to get some creative work done?
That if only your proverbial ducks were in a row, then you’d have access to the creative genius you’ve always imagined?
What if the opposite is true?
In today’s episode, I explore the relationship between creative resistance (procrastination, laziness, lack of discipline, being “stuck”) and creativity itself.
And my take is this: maybe you don’t need to be more disciplined to be more creative. Maybe you need to accept the power of procrastination for what it is: an open door to your creative longings.
Join me to unlock a radical acceptance of your laziness, your messiness, your procrastination, your avoidance, your hesitation and even your self-doubt.
What if they all belong?
Buy Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way here.
Listen to David Whyte’s series on the creative path here!
Send Ally an email: mystory@writeyourstory.com
Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hi, and welcome to you, Write Your Story, podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | Good job, girly. |
| 0:10.6 | Pick up the pieces of your life, put them back together with the words you write, all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find when you write your story. |
| 0:23.7 | You've got the words inside. |
| 0:25.5 | Don't you think it's time to let them out and write them down uncover what it's all about? |
| 0:32.6 | And write your, write your story. |
| 0:36.0 | Right your, write your story. Write your story. |
| 0:40.1 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm your host. |
| 0:44.7 | And on today's episode, I want to talk about creativity and resistance or creativity and |
| 0:49.9 | reluctance or creativity and avoidance. |
| 0:56.5 | However you want to name this, the essay that I will read in a little bit calls it procrastination. I've heard people call this the lack of discipline. |
| 1:01.6 | I hear people call it laziness. However you want to qualify this term, it's really creativity |
| 1:07.4 | and the lack of creativity, creativity and the avoidance of creativity, creativity and |
| 1:12.9 | not creativity. And the contrast between these two things feels quite stark. This has become |
| 1:19.4 | extremely clear to me in the last, I don't know, month or two of my life, because I feel like |
| 1:24.4 | I'm in a bit of a reemergence to my creativity. I have always been a creative person from the time I was born. |
| 1:29.7 | I can trace it back to when I was very, very little. |
| 1:32.4 | I've had moments in my life, times in my life when I have been deeply, deeply in touch with that creative part of myself. |
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