Sketching For Emotional Healing and Transformation with Sheila Darcey

Anxious & Ambitious

Today’s guest is Sheila Darcey, founder of SketchPoetic, LA based artist and author of "Sketch by Sketch - A Creative Path to Emotional Healing & Transformation". The purpose of her work is to elevate art as a tool for emotional expression, self reflection, and healing. In this conversation, we explore how sketching can be a powerful tool for emotional healing, self-discovery, and transformation.

We chat about…

• How a fear of flying led Sheila to discover her anxiety and find sketching
• How sketching helped Sheila find connection to her body, the present moment, and herself
• The “monkey brain” and how sketching can help us express it in a healthy way
• How sketching can help us reconnect with faith, divine femininity, and our feelings & emotions
• How sketching started as a way to address anxiety and became a spiritual path
• Why Sheila uses the word “sketching” and not “drawing”
• Sketching as energetic release within the safe container of a piece of paper
• Why people often misunderstand how art heals
• Why Sheila doesn’t do vision boards anyone + what to do instead
• Feeling as healing, and using sketching as a way to feel and to heal
• The difference between feelings and emotions
• Sketching as a process of surrendering
• Why you don’t need to be an artist to sketch & how to detach from the finished outcome
• Getting real about our experiences with an eating disorder
• Why physical pain can feel soothing to emotional pain
• One of Sheila’s most profound moments when sketching
• Sheila stepping into her art full-time and the emotions that have come up for her

…and so much more!

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