Interview With Author Sherrie Laryse
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I teach Emotional Intelligence. This was born from my background in human behaviour, neuro linguistics, grief, trauma, psychosomatics, mental illness, yoga and meditation. And also through my own lived experience.
I am the author of one published book (so far) called On Path.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book, called “On Path” was inspired by my own life.
My husband and I were unable to start a family, for some unknown reason. It just didn’t happen for us. Regardless of this fact, I wasn’t ready to give up motherhood. It felt like the only way I knew myself – as a mother. While my memoir started as journalling, ultimately the inspiration to share this story was as an avenue for me to mother, via my book.
Motherhood, for me, comes in the form of teaching emotional intelligence to others, and empowering them to find gratitude for their own path, as I found in mine. Through my book, On Path, I nurture and guide others the way I would nurture and guide my own child, all the way through their tough experiences in life.
I found that we are never off path. All of our life experiences accrue to prepare us for what is ahead. We are always ‘On Path’. This is the message that I am inspired to share.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I use my own experiences as a real-time case study to share emotional intelligence techniques, and therefore my writing occurs quite organically — as life happens.
The writing habit began as me journalling my way through life challenges, namely, my inability to be able to have children. Given my husband and I were both of excellent health, with no known medical reasons why it shouldn’t happen, the seven-year span of me waiting for that little pink line on the pregnancy test gave me a lot to journal about! There were many emotions that I spiralled through, and I wrote through each emotional intelligence technique and meditation that I used to find level ground again.
It was about part way through my debut book, On Path, when I realised I wasn’t just writing for me. This story was going to be shared. My writing style stayed the same and the raw and honest nature of a private journal is what flavours the whole book.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I grew up reading Paulo Coelho. His fables certainly flavoured my book, which moves through the full spectrum of emotions, and arrives at a place of resilience, growth, peace, and gratitude for life exactly the way it is.
What are you working on now?
My latest book! Although I am literally up to page 20, so it’s a little while off yet.
I’m also completing a degree at university in neuroscience, so the book writing dovetails with my uni workload.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My own database, in person book readings, plus Instagram (I think – it’s sometimes difficult to know where sales originate)
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t shy away from paying good money for a good editor!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never stop learning.
What are you reading now?
Cognitive Neuroscience 😊
Plus a book about the bridge between western science and Traditional Chinese Medicine, called The Spark in the Machine by Daniel Keown.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Page 21, haha!
My books write themselves as life happens so I can never tell how long it will take. I just write as the words come into my head.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
To be honest, they’d all be blank. I reckon if I’m stranded on a desert island, I am going to have to journal a lot to process all the emotions that would come up for that life challenge! I’ll need a lot of pens too please.
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