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 have all experienced so many different emotions in our lives, many of which are still stored in our bodies.   How are you dealing with the emotions surrounding this “new normal?”

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.  Sheila’s recent journey as an artist, innovator, and facilitator, started as a personal commitment to sketch daily, then soon became a catalyst for her own transformation.  She was surprised by what began to happen to her.  As a successful businesswoman, Sheila found herself at the top of her career, yet still feeling like she wanted deeper compassion and understanding of herself, took her thoughts and feelings to pen and paper.  She used Instagram as her accountability partner and began sketching and posting daily.  Sheila now has over 1,000 beautiful sketches and is taking her message and practice out into the world to help others learn how to better navigate their emotion through creative expression.  She never thought this journey would end up becoming her passion project and lead her to experience more compassion and connection with everything and everyone around her.