When was the last time you created something just for yourself — without the pressure of a deadline, a grade, or an audience?

In this episode of Matters of Meaning, host Olivia Hicks sits down with sustainable business strategist and artist Camille Sharara. Together, they dismantle the myth that creativity is reserved for “professional artists” and explore it as a vital human process for healing, connection, and meaning.

Whether you consider yourself creative or haven’t picked up a creative practice in years, this conversation is an invitation to rediscover making as a way of coming back to yourself.

In this episode, we explore:

• Reclaiming your natural state: shifting from the need to be “an artist” to embracing our innate drive to create

• The emotional superhighway: how small, everyday acts of creativity support emotional processing and healing

• Process over perfection: letting go of judgement and outcome-driven thinking to find true flow

• Fostering meaning through creativity: easy, low-pressure ways to weave creativity into a busy life

• Vulnerability and play: how rediscovering play helps us reconnect with our inner child and release the stresses

Further resources

• Big Magic — Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Artist's Way — Julia Cameron

Connect with us
- Guest: Camille Sharara’s poetry — @words.onwonder
- Podcast Instagram: @matters.of.meaning

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