Hi! I’m Gauri Yardi (she/her) – multidisciplinary creative, naturopath and creative wellbeing coach.

My mission is to help blocked and burnt out creatives regain their creative spark and get back to making art.

I believe that our work is unfairly considered a luxury. Music, art, literature, TV, movies and theatre all change—and in some cases save—lives. I can think of at least two songs and two books without which I wouldn’t be here today, and I know I’m not the only one who can say that.

I am deeply concerned that creative burnout might rob us of some of the greatest art of our time.

I’ve also experienced burnout that left me unable to write for years, so this work is of great personal importance to me and I try to live it on a daily basis.

My intention is to help blocked and burnt out creatives return to the art they were born to make.

A few things you might like to know about me

 

  • My name is pronounced ‘GOW-ree’ (it rhymes with ‘dowry’)

  • I have a Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy) and spent four years in clinical practice helping people with their health using nutritional supplements, herbal medicine and diet and lifestyle coaching

  • I’ve been writing ever since I could pick up a pen

  • My original plan was to kill time working in publishing while waiting for my ‘big break’ as a novelist (!!!) but a serious illness inspired me to become a healthcare practitioner instead

  • I’m an INFJ and an enneagram 3 or 4 depending on the day (I’m told that’s not how the enneagram works – and yet, here we are!)

  • I am of Indian origin and grew up in Australia. People regularly mistake me for white and I often have to ‘come out’ as Indian, which is always strange

  • I believe that black lives matter, the land I live on is stolen, we need to do everything we can to stop climate change, and the LGBTQI+ community deserves all the rights they’ve been denied

Any questions, just ask!