From Hands to Heart: Crafting a Creative Life on Your Terms with Melanie Falick

2025-04-21

Using our hands to make things is the new luxury. It connects us to our ancestors, the earth and ourselves, and it improves our wellbeing and brain development. In 2012, Melanie Falick found herself sitting in a bathroom, looking at her hands and crying. Technology and business were robbing her of a good life, and something had to change. This realisation led her to travel the world, meeting with potters, weavers, painters, artists and more to discover the role making by hand can play in making a good...

Using our hands to make things is the new luxury. It connects us to our ancestors, the earth and ourselves, and it improves our wellbeing and brain development.

In 2012, Melanie Falick found herself sitting in a bathroom, looking at her hands and crying. Technology and business were robbing her of a good life, and something had to change.

This realisation led her to travel the world, meeting with potters, weavers, painters, artists and more to discover the role making by hand can play in making a good life.

Melanie’s adventures led to a beautiful book, Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live.

In this episode Melanie shares what she has learnt about the importance of making by hand, how to give yourself time (and permission) to create and redefining what success means, among many other things!

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