Meet our Creative All-Rounder - Shiloh
Like so many people today, I have struggled with anxiety, depression and burnout. As a highly creative, empathetic individual, it has been challenging to work from the heart space, whilst maintaining my own wellbeing. As such, exploring the healing power of creativity with strong scientific/health literacy has become my purpose.
After working in creative industries for a decade, I began to feel myself slipping. At the time, I wasn't aware that I was experiencing mental and physical ill-health, but I knew something was wrong. I was drowning in rumination, disconnected from my body and completely lost.
This was my burn out and it wasn't pretty.
It was several years of boom and bust before I finally reached my limit. I HAD to stop everything or I wouldn't make it out of my 20s alive. Amidst this challenging period, I began to feel a strong pull to find greater balance between my right and left brain. This yearning was born out of necessity. I was creatively, physically and emotionally exhausted and I needed to find grounding and healing in a new, academic space. At the time, I believed that I would find a way to intellectualise my way out of the darkness.
Thus began my integrative health journey...
Experiencing student life in the 'mature-age' bracket has been so rewarding, but so bloody tough! And during the last five years of studying biomedical science, I have hit so many mental and physical blocks. I can now say with absolute certainty, that I could not think or intellectualise my way out of the darkness! I had to go inward...
Thankfully, the universe always provides what we truly need! In the middle of my most exhausted crisis period, I was given the opportunity to briefly relocate to the great south west. My incredible partner gave me the gentle nudge I needed, we packed our bags and off we went.
It was in this magical part of WA that pottery found me. The beautiful residents of Albany took me into their studio and shared their most precious gifts with me: their clay and their friendship.
Since wedging my first lump of clay... I can honestly say this medium changed my life. It has been the catalyst to unlocking mindfulness and creative play, but most importantly: my COMMUNITY.
Why do I do what I do? Because of my community. And through the creation of this business, I have been able to continue to expand this community, using creativity as the vehicle. Community IS our super power. It's the foundation that supports us, nourishes us, teaches us and offers unconditional love.
Thank you for being on this journey with me. Now, let's create! xo
