Today we’d like to introduce you to Sara Carreau
Hi Sara, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I always had a fascination with art from a very young age. I have clear memories all throughout grade school, deeply enthralled in pottery, landscape drawings and creative writing. However, I didn’t begin painting on my own time until around 2015. At the time I was just doing it as a form of self expression and pleasure. The paint could always get out the vivid visions running endlessly through my imagination. My visionary painting skills are self taught, but discovering Bob Ross fueled the expansion of my landscape art through oil paints.
The older I got the more my ambitious spirit sought freedom in every sense of the word. I began exploring new interest like live music and traveling. This is when I found the local underground music scene in 2017 and immediately felt right at home. Vendors selling eccentric handmade items, community gathering to connect deeper, vibrant colors, welcoming and smiling faces around every corner. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but in reflection I’m seeing a resemblance to my early childhood days before the age of 8… I lived in Dunedin Florida at the time, and my family would bike down to Pier 60 in Clearwater for a sunset celebration.
About 30 vendors line the pier ready to peddle their wares, with everything from watercolor art to handcrafted jewelry. Pop ups literally everywhere with vendors braiding hair, live painters, break dancers, live music, drummers playing on broken buckets, hot dog carts; all while the sun sets over the water! It’s literally like a mini music/ art festival and it STILL happens every week in my hometown. Reminiscing on these memories, I can see so clearly how my roots have helped shape my lifestyle today.
Several years later in 2018, I learned how to make jewelry at my first 3 day music/art camping festival. It was day 2 at Pass The Good fest in Pensacola Fl, a hurricane was coming so I waited out the weather in a renovated schoolie. The owners of the home on wheels brought out wire and crystals, asking if I wanted to get creative during the storm. I wire wrapped my first necklace. Unknowingly this was the birth of a new beginning that would completely change the course of my life.
My first wire wrap was a turquoise crystal, and I wore it everywhere! I began noticing a shift in the energy I was experiencing in my reality. Looking deeper, I explored studying the meaning of energy and how it relates to crystal therapy. Seeing 1st hand how a small but mighty turquoise crystal, positively shifted my reality, completely exploded my mind and sparked my passion for holistic medicine. The driving force behind any of my work, is this connection and passion, for the lost wisdom of self healing.
I wasn’t any good at wire wrapping around this time, but I felt drawn to gifting wearable pieces of crystal healing to loved ones that I know would benefit. Before presenting these offerings to my beloveds, I would set intentions and infuse my love into every piece, unknowingly (at the time) channeling Reiki.. One thing lead to another, and these beloveds started commissioning jewelry and paying me for it!! I was still attending local Edm shows, and recognized an opportunity to start selling my work at these events right in my neighborhood. The genuine love and support that I received from my local community, allowed this artist to bloom like the universe intended.
6 years later staying consistent, working two food service jobs while studying for a degree in horticulture, my skills strengthened into what it is today. I quickly realized I wanted to strengthened my knowledge on energy and got certified as a Reiki Master. I now work full time as a traveling artist and healer. That is one of the biggest blessings this life has gifted me. I travel around the country hosting workshops, vending festivals and exploring the medicine that can be found in our natural world.
The workshops I specialize in are Reiki Healing circles, Soul Painting DIY, Wire Wrapping Crystal Jewelry for Beginners and ‘How to be a successful full time artist’ seminar.
Whether you’re a new friend or an old, thank you so much for being apart of this beautiful journey. I wouldn’t be here doing what I love, uplifting our community to greater heights, if it weren’t for the presence of YOU!
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Most certainly was a challenging road. I had to face some internal and external blockages before I could find this liberation through living out my purpose.
Internal blockages like insecurity, fear, self doubt and feelings of unworthiness. Sifting and sorting through all the projections placed onto me from my childhood. Rediscovering what it means to truly be ME, fully right now in this moment. Finding the courage to take a bets on myself and make calculated risks that will lead me to my destiny.
External blockages like societal norms of what “success” should look like (having a stable income, working a 9-5 job, owning or renting a home, staying where your family / ancestors chose to reside, etc). Comparison of perceivable comforts or successes of my peers on social media. Drowning out the various voices and opinions of others limited beliefs, on my unique life situation.
And then of course having to adapt to the changes of society.
I started my entrepreneurial endeavors in 2018, well before COVID. Going out to events/ festivals 3-5 nights per week was my main source of income. Once the entertainment industry got shut down, I had to become flexible with how I was going to move forward next. I started live streaming pop up shop’s of my products and offering Live Stream Distance Reiki healing services, since social distancing became a big practice.
I also used to make around 15-20 online shop orders PER WEEK, before getting wrongfully canceled on Twitter’s social media platform and banned on SnapChat in 2020 – Which at the time was my main driving sources of online income.
Actualizing my highest vision from younger Sara (when I first started this journey), which was to live and travel full time on the road as a artist / healer; exploring the country out of my tiny home on wheels; logistical problems started to arise. Like my inability to boon-dock it 24/7 in Florida heat without access to A/C in the summers, constantly being asked to move wherever I parked up, the lack of space in my 24ft RV (with my partner moving in with a 50lb dog). Considering we’re both entrepreneurs, our business supplies and our personal items just couldn’t fit comfortably no matter how much tetris we did lol.
Wanting to increase my profit margins while traveling in the music / art festival industry, I stopped investing hundreds of dollars to gain entry into these large scale events – and instead began apply as a live painter and workshop host. Offering my services in exchange for attendance, allowed me to scale my business to the next phase. I now get paid to travel all over the country to teach my experience to others.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
My mission is to uplift our community through natural forms of medicine, inspiring the remembrance of what it means to truly take our power back, and co create a harmonious world.I pride myself in offering some of the highest quality handmade holistic products and services. Using ethically sourced ingredients from gemstone mines / farms in North, Central and South America, India, Thailand, and more! I specialize in hand crafting luxe crystal jewelry, landscape visionary paintings and high potency liquid extracts that are produced with certified organic or wildcrafted ingredients. I’m also a certified Reiki Master, working 1:1 with clients to positively transform their lives through mental, emotional and energetic support using life force energy.
What makes my products extra unique is each creation has Reiki healing infused into it. The energy of positivity, wellness and vitality are radiating out into the recipient, through the hand crafted piece. All with the intention to truly make your soul shine.
What matters most to you? Why?
What matters most to me is a lifestyle where all my needs and wants can be met and experienced within the same space. That space is found in a community that’s centered around the principles of nature, spirituality, and holistic wellness. It needs to be a place where the human connection is authentic, and I’m living a life that feels aligned and on purpose. What matters most to me is L I F E in all aspects. Curiosity, discovery, and exploration.
Pricing:
- Simple Crystal Jewelry: $25-$65
- Luxe Crystal Jewelry: $85-$1,000+
- Painting Prints/ Original Canvas: $10-$500+
- Holistic Herbal Self Care: $25-$45
- Reiki Healing + 1:1 Holistic Mentorship : $44 – $999
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.soulsunshinegoods.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulsunshinegoods/
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/soulsunshinegoods
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@soulsunshinegoods
- Other: https://linktr.ee/soulsunshinegoods
