From Hands to Heart: Crafting a Creative Life on Your Terms with Melanie Falick
When Melanie Falick, author of Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live, faced a personal crisis in 2012, she decided technology and business were robbing her of a good life, and something had to change.
This decision led her to travel the world, connecting with potters, weavers, artists, and many others. Through this journey of discovery, Melanie learned that using our hands to make things connects us to our ancestors, the earth, and ourselves, while profoundly improving our wellbeing and brain development.
‘Time is our most precious resource, and we really don’t know how much of it we have left. Just as we spend our money carefully, we need to spend our time carefully’ – Melanie Falick
For Episode 2 of We Need to Make Things I chat with Melanie Falick @melaniefalick about the importance of making by hand, how to give ourselves time (and permission) to create and redefining what success means, among many other things!
Melanie is a writer, editor, creative director and lifelong maker. She believes we can change the world for the better by incorporating more making by hand into our lives and by valuing and prioritising creative expression.
She is the author of the brilliant book Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live.
This episode is full of Melanie’s wonderful wisdom including:
👉 What we stand to gain when we make by hand
👉 How we can make more time for creativity
👉 Why we need to use the right side of our brains
👉 How curiosity and play can reveal hidden parts of ourselves
Enjoy!
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