ANXIOUS & AMBITIOUS WITH NICOLE JANTON
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.
THE RETURNING WARRIORS PODCAST
Sheila is a LA Artist and prominent figure in her community. You may have seen her work online or Instagram. Sheila sketches daily and elevates this medium as a form of emotional expression, self-reflection and healing. But Sheila wasn't always an artist, she once had a successful career as a digital innovator and business coach. Now with renewed passion, drive and purpose, Sheila is positively affecting people's lives through art, and I am immensely fortunate to have her company on today’s podcast.
CONVERSATIONS WITH WARRIOR WOMEN
What does it mean to be an artist? Somehow in the course of our lives we were told we were NOT artists. That artists have to be at a certain level. Today we are going to bring creativity and art back into your life so that you can reclaim your inner artist. Sheila Darcey, Author and Founder of Sketch Poetic, joins us to talk about being a recovering perfectionist, why she loves bridge builders, and why sketching brought a deep and profound healing to her life.
CREATIVE GENIUS PODCAST
Anxiety and stress had taken over her life. At the urging of her therapist, Author Sheila Darcey turned to creativity as a way to express trapped emotions her therapist believed were at the root of her anxiety. Through daily practice of sketching, she was able to gain significant insights into the inner workings of her own subconscious and unconscious mind and ultimately free herself from the “out of control” anxiety that had been running her life.
YOUR SUPERIOR SELF PODCAST WITH TREY DOWNES
Sheila Darcey believes that art healed her soul, and everything she does is about sharing that powerful tool for self-care with the world. Her unique drawing style is intuitive, abstract, and organic, covering the page with flourishes and flashes of detail in a manner evoking Surrealist automatic drawing. It’s made in a flow state as part of a daily practice akin to Morning Pages, except visual, and with compelling results that hold their space on any gallery wall, bespoke object, or more recently, NFT auction.
VOICE RISING WITH KARA JOHNSTAD
Join Voice Visionary Kara Johnstad and Sheila Darcey, founder of the SketchPoetic Movement, in a heartfelt conversation on creative expression. Discover how you can tap into your innate creativity and transcend the turbulence by creating a daily sketching practice. Line by line, past trauma is processed. Squiggle by squiggle emotions are unstuck. Stroke by stroke, swirl by swirl, you come back into the flow. Pretty wondrous. You can articulate what is vibrating inside by liberating the artist who lives within, which feels simply freeing.
LA WEEKLY - MEET AN ARTIST MONDAY SPOTLIGHT
Sheila Darcey believes that art healed her soul, and everything she does is about sharing that powerful tool for self-care with the world. Her unique drawing style is intuitive, abstract and organic, covering the page with flourishes and flushes of detail in a manner evoking Surrealist automatic drawing. It’s made in a flow state as part of a daily practice akin to Morning Pages, except visual, and with compelling results that hold their space on any gallery wall, bespoke object, or more recently, NFT auction.
THE NAKED MAN PODCAST Episode 11: “Sheila Darcey on Healing and Transformation”
In our first time meeting after riding the whims of fate, Sheila and I create a sacred space around big topics like trust, forgiveness and anxiety. We talk about our struggles staying grounded and in the moment. We discuss imposter syndrome and how originality is a roadblock to creativity. We explore Andy's hang-ups on memory. We shift our definition of transformation, we rebel against perfectionism, people pleasing and instead seek our inner child. Because that's what art is: an act of remembering yourself. Ultimately, we rid ourselves of expectations and Surrender to the conversation gods. In so doing, we become friends.
ADWEEK PARTNER SPOTLIGHT - TODAY I’M BRAVE CAMP
Nonprofit 'Today, I’m Brave' Invites Adland To Support Future BIPOC Creators. More than 75 agency partners have signed on to sponsor the nonprofit's first camp.
In addition to the usual camp activities of kayaking, hiking and other outdoor events, Brave Campers will go on a brave transformation journey, which includes six stages: community, empathy, adaptability, uniqueness of self, confidence and summiting “Brave Mountain.”
REAL MEN FEEL PODCAST Episode 232: “Emotional Freedom Through Creative Expression”
This week’s episode is a wide-ranging conversation on healing trauma thru art, even if you don’t want to call it art. Sheila shares her daily sketching practice, experiences leading workshops with men, and bringing creative expression into prisons. Andy talks about where art has shown up the most in his life, touching on Holotropic Breathwork and the Akashic Records. Along the way, they explore anxiety, vulnerability, resistance, emotional time travel, and Sheila’s worst assumption.
THE CONQUEROR APPROACH PODCAST Episode 28: “Healing Through Sketching”
Many of us have unprocessed emotion and we operate in utter avoidance in dealing with our deep rooted issue. This is an amazing way to improve the quality of your life with a simple and cost effective method– Sketching!
Sheila Darcey found that the daily practice of sketching and freestyle drawing, giving a physical form to her thoughts, emotions and ideas was effective. Later developed into a meditative and therapeutic tool that Sheila has taught and shared with thousands of people. Elevating art as a tool for mental health, transformation and healing.
FAST COMPANY FEATURE - 21 DAYS OF DAILY SKETCHING
4 things you can do to be happier, smarter, and more emotionally aware.
“An entrepreneur is a “big believer” that we can all live happier and healthier lives with a little creative inspiration on a regular basis. These are the activities that help you get there.”.
THE WHEN IS NOW PODCAST Episode 2: “Conversation with Sheila Darcey”
The When is Now tells the stories of inspiring people who are not just imagining a new world, but making one.
Show Notes: “Sheila Darcey is the founder of SketchPoetic, a movement that uses creative expression to process past trauma and understand emotions.”
THRIVE GLOBAL
Editorial: “Creativity as a Tool for Alignment: The Bridge Between Self-Knowledge & Self-Expression”
Excerpt: "Creativity is the unifying thread woven into the tapestry of humanity. It entwines warmth and vitality into the oftentimes frigid reality of our lives. It may appear as a slab of unshaped clay and untapped potential, or as the bold strokes on the blank canvases of a new day. Regardless of its frame or form, creativity and its vivid hues are ever-present (and necessary) in our-selves and our world.”
LADIES ROADMAP PODCAST
Episode 74: “Navigating Emotion Through Creative Expression”
Show Notes: "Are you truly feeling your fears and emotions? Or, like many of us, do you rationalize them away without acknowledging and actually feeling them in your mind and body? To move through and process emotion of any kind you must first feel the emotion. This is not as easy as it sounds. ”
We thought this would be a great time to check back in with Sheila Darcey aka Sketchpoetic to discuss how different creative expressions can help facilitate healing and just an overall release of stress and fear.”
BEYOND BARRIERS PODCAST
Episode 21: Self-Care In Uncertain Times With SketchPoetic’s Sheila Darcey
Show Notes: “How do you respond to uncertainty caused by crisis? Do you feel paralyzed by fear and anxiety? Are you walking on eggshells but trying to hold it all together?
If you feel an evolution stirring within and are looking for transformation, stay tuned and learn how Sheila uses creative expression as a tool for self-reflection, self-care, and healing. Sheila is on a mission to share the Sketchpoetic practice with the world and to help others find their own way.”
THRIVE GLOBAL
Editorial: ”The Power of the Emotional Selfie: Using Art as a Tool for Transformation and Healing”
Excerpt: "Every day I take a selfie. Not the angled, duck lips, “damn, I look good” type selfie. It’s more the unfiltered pure unknowing of my inner world sketched on a blank sheet of paper selfie. This selfie is made with my hands and created with ink sourced from the deepest well of my being. Every morning, I sketch. I sketch to express the emotions I’m feeling each day. The emotions that used to overwhelm me, but now underline the punctuated narrative of a new visual language. I call it SketchPoetic, a daily practice of sketching through what I go through”
VOYAGE LA
Editorial: ”LA’s Most Inspiring Stories”
”Every neighborhood in LA has its own vibe, style, culture and history, but what consistently amazes us is not what differentiates the various neighborhoods but rather what they all have in common. From East LA to the South Bay (and everywhere in between) we’ve been blown away by how many creative and talented people call LA home.”
LOVEGROWN PODCAST
Episode 5: “Where Creative Expression Meets Self-Expansion”
Show Notes: “This week, Joe and Lo introduce their first guest to The Lovegrown Podcast. It’s no coincidence that the woman on the show epitomizes what it means to be soul family. Sheila Darcey is a profound artist, facilitator, inspiring innovator, and healing mother. She is the founder of SketchPoetic, a movement that embodies awakened consciousness and emboldens her to cultivate radical lovingkindness. In this episode, the three discuss how art and creative expression can be used as tools for individuals’ and communities’ healing.
Throughout their time together, Sheila also shines a light on an energetic dynamic between Joe and Lo after facilitating a groundbreaking creative collaboration.”
CURED COLLECTIVE PODCAST
Episode 7: “Sketchpoetic - Living vs Observing Emotion”
Show Notes: “Are we truly experiencing and connecting with our emotions, or are we simply treating them like our most recent obsession on Netflix and watching them from a safe distance? This realization of living vs observing our emotions came pouring out of Sheila Darcey, a.k.a. the Sketchpoetic, once she began to put pen to paper. Her art became an emotional translator of years of suppressed thoughts, beliefs, pain, and joy. Sheila continues to use this form of expression as not only her own therapeutic tool but is now her mission to share this practice with the world and to help others find their own way to optimal well being.”
LADIES ROADMAP PODCAST
Episode 36: “Energy Flows Where Attention Goes”
Show Notes: "Sheila Darcey shares an intimate conversation about the deep responsibility she feels like a second generation Filipino immigrant to take care of her family and make the most out of the opportunities she has been given. She talks of reaching the pinnacle in her career, yet feeling there was something missing in her life. Returning to her artistic roots and tapping into her own unconscious mind through her artistic sketching served as a tool for her own healing and enlightenment. Energy flows where attention goes…..
Sheila talks about the importance of being present and how she tests and holds herself accountable. Her authentic voice will leave you feeling inspired to journal or sketch yourself to a more luminous version of your true self.”