Kristen Lloyd went from 'train robber' on the Heber Valley Railroad to a recording artist, children's book author and motivational speaker, channeling her childhood pain into her songs and writing.
Kristen Lloyd went from ‘train robber’ to recording artist and children’s book author, channeling her childhood pain into art.
Lloyd jokes that she went from “making kids cry with [my frightful robbery antics] to making them happy” with her performing skills — like spinning guns and doing rope tricks. On this visit to her old stomping grounds, Lloyd whipped around a lasso, jumping through it easily, showing that the talents honed over 10 years of practice haven’t left her.
“I use my songwriting as a way of processing all of the really intense emotions that I had at that point,” she said.“I told myself that I was worthless and I was no good because my dad was living his life in Utah, taking care of my half-sisters,” Lloyd said. “And that because he was spending time being a father to them, that must mean that there’s something wrong with me — that I’m not good enough.
Kristen Lloyd as a teen, with her favorite cow, Honeybee. Lloyd has incorporated Honeybee into her children's book, "Find Your Brave," and in her songwriting.When her grandparents decided to retire from farming, and sell their cows, Lloyd had to deal with a new fear: Finding a new home. She moved to Heber City.
“For me to emotionally acknowledge that Kristen does have value and Kristen is someone that other people want to be around,” Lloyd said, “that’s what kind of started my journey into finding confidence to be Kristen.” While she was still performing at the railroad, Lloyd enrolled at Brigham Young University, where a songwriting class allowed her to pick up more skills. In that class, she wrotewith the lyric, “Life don’t always turn out as you plan. / Sometimes in the scheme of things / you’re dealt a tougher hand. / It wasn’t easy without mom and dad, / but some things seem to ease it all away, / like riding home in Grandpa’s Chevrolet.
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