Shari “SharStar” Afflick is a Bahamian Jamaican pyrograhpy artist, art teacher, and holistic wellness practitioner who was raised in South Florida where she currently resides. She attened college in Tallahassee, FL where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development from Florida State University, with minors in English and African American Studies. At the same time she also attended nursing school and received her practical nursing liscence and worked as an LPN at a rehabilitation facility and doctors offices for over 10 years. 

Shari grew tired of working in a health care system she did not agree with nor believe in, so her love for natural healing urged her to go back to school where she later obtained a second Bachelor’s Degree in Alternative Medicine from Everglades University, in Boca Raton, FL. She is currently working as a Wellness Specialist at one of the top scientifically based vitamin supplement companies in the United States.

Her personal health, spiritual, and creative journeys inspired SharStar to also start her own company called Light & Life Holistic Health, with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and empowering others through creativity and holistic wellness. She focuses on the gut-brain-axis and various means of vagus nerve stimulation to promote gut health for mental health, stress management, immune boosting, and much more.

As a self-taught artist, over the years SharStar has developed a love and passion for the ancient art of solar pyrography (wood burning with sunlight). Given her medical background, and personal spiritual practice, she began to notice this powerful process connected many dots! From the numerous benefits of vitamin D obtained from being in the Sun, to the intense meditation of single-pointed focus, and the impact of light on the pineal gland/neurotransmitters – certainly there is much more to be gained from solar pyrography than just simply burning wood!

In addition to her functional and wearable art pieces created from the Sun, SharStar also offers courses and workshops to teach others how they can do it as well! The power of this alchemical artform is truly in the process, so she finds joy in sharing how it can be utilized as a tool for meditation, mindfulness, and ultimately mental health. 

SharStar is passionate about traveling the world and writing about her art, as well as the health and spiritual benefits of connecting to the Sun. She is an aspiring author looking forward to going back to graduate school to study community psychology & art therapy, and develop this powerful artform into a healing modality.