#7 Finding Peace Through Art: A Journey Beyond Chronic Illness

A conversation that takes a deep dive into how we see ourselves, unleashing our passion and how to live with illness that is at the forefront of your life. Listen in for a great chat with Artist Steve Light AKA SLART and Janis Hough.“I believe that we should all seek to be our raw, naked, honest truth, perfectly imperfect and fuck what other people think. Dare to be your most vulnerable self. Live life on your terms.”Janis HoughSLART note: I felt ok and I was in good spirits during this interview, but looking back at it now, I look gaunt and was quite ill. This about 6 weeks after I started dialysis sessions and my voice was weak. As you’ll discover in the chat, people with chronic illness can often just carry on living life a relatively normal life. Janis is a wonderful human being. I’ve known her for about 14 years, and it’s been amazing seeing her grow as a person and a coach in that time. What also inspires me about Janis is her free spirt, over the past 8 years or so she built a life living between Antigua and the UK. Living life on her own terms, making lifelong friends on the island and most recently, starting her own Yoga school.If you’d like to watch the video version, I’ve embedded it below:A little related shoutout: I really admire Rae Katz standing up for women who have mysterious diseases, who, more ofthen than not, are dismissed from their doctors and written off as ‘nothing to worry about’. She writes about chronic illness, being a mum and work culture in a male dominated tech-world (and so much more!). Make sure you check out her ‘stack, I highly recommend it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One more shoutout to my late mum, who would have been 74 today. Lots of love to you. Rest in peace x.Cream of The Crop is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.creamofthecropbyslart.com