This lil episode is all about something I got hit with recently ... Overwhelm. I talk about how I think I need videogames in my life for balance, how Transitioning takes up a lot of time, remembering why I started Drawing in the First place, Floatation Tanks, Swimming, Reiki Healing … I even talk about turning my Willy into a Fanny on this one lol

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Bonkers is how I'd sum up this past week, as well as this weeks lil podcast ... it's all about Overwhelm; something I got hit with this past few weeks. I talk about -

 

* Videogames, and how I think I need them in my life for balance

* Transitioning, and how it requires a lot of time

* Turning my Willy into a Fanny lol

* Remembering Why I started Drawing

* How Swimming has been teaching me a lot of life lessons

* Floatation Tanks, and how they've been highlighting just how tense my body is …

 

Lots of stuff on this one about Overwhelm … If you have any advice for dealing with overwhelm, please let me know, you can message me down the bottom of this page or send me an email :)

 

This weeks Inspirational Quote goes to Hajra Usman

"BALANCE IS THE KEY OF LIFE."

- Hajra Usman

 

You can listen to this episode below, via Apple Podcasts, or via Stitcher if that takes your fancy :)

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• TheRealDelia - Home of Delia Kropp, a Transgender Actress with a hugely inspiring story … whose been helping me this past few weeks via email. Thank you Delia..

 

EXTRAS

• YOUTUBE @SophieLawson - including Sophie's lil Art tips and some of my Pencil Drawings :)

• TWITTER @SophieLawsonArt - Come say hello, I post stuff on here sometimes … not at the moment though lol

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In this lil episode I talk about an experience I had on the bus today that was both funny, and awkward at the same time … but it made me realise how Social Anxiety, Fears and everything in life can be viewed either positively or negatively. I share some Art, Transgender and even Lucid Dreaming experiences too, that prove we really are in control of our thoughts.

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This week is a bit different, I had a really random thing happened this morning where my alarm went off while I was sat on a packed bus, and instead of turning it off, I left it on ... ringing away for over 20 minutes.

It was a Social Anxiety, awkward but funny experience, where I realised something … EVERYTHING IN LIFE CAN BE VIEWED either POSITIVELY, or negative ... Including Social Anxiety and Fears.

I talk about Sketching in Public, Presenting as Female in public for the first time, and meeting Evil Entities in a Lucid Dream.

Hope you like this one :)

 

This weeks Inspirational Quote goes to Neale Donald Walsch, who you can find at NealeDonaldWalsch.com

"LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE."

- Neale Donald Walsch

 

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RESOURCES

• TheRealDelia - Home of Delia Kropp, a Transgender Actress with a hugely inspiring story.

• Schrödinger's cat - This experiment is sort of how I see everything experience now … positive and negative at the same time, until we observe one or the other :)

• GIC Visit 19 - This is the visit where I spoke with my therapist about panic attacks.

• Episode 2 of the So Free Podcast - Podcast episode where I spoke about Lucid Dreaming for the first time.

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In this lil episode I share some stories from my brief time throwing paint around while Abstract Painting for the first time; As someone whose really only done pencil drawings before, this was a totally different experience ... I found to be Fantastically Freeing, and Massively Messy :)

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This week, I take a lil look at Abstract Painting ... something I tried for the first time recently; it took me totally out of my comfort zone, but ended up being Fantastically Freeing, and Massively Messy :)

 

 

On this lil episode, I talk about THE RANDOMNESS OF PAINT, how I found Abstract Painting to be INCREDIBLY LIBERATING and a lot of MESSY FUN.

Hope you like this one :)

 

This weeks Inspirational Quote goes to Bob Ross

"NO PRESSURE.

JUST RELAX AND WATCH IT HAPPEN."

- Bob Ross

 

You can listen to this episode below, via Apple Podcasts, or via Stitcher if that takes your fancy :)

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RESOURCES

• Six Days Of Abstract Painting: 30 in 30 painting challenge, days 1 - 6 - My six Abstract Paintings and some of the things I learnt :)

• Leslie Saeta's 30 in 30 painting challenge - This was the painting challenge I took part in, and it was so much fun. I highly recommend taking part in a future one, maybe we can paint along together next time :)

• How To Create Watercolour Splatter Effect - A lil video from Amy's Art and Design YouTube channel, that looks simple but so much fun :)

• Royal Talens Van Gogh Oil Paints @ CurtisWard.com - These are the oil paints I talk about on the episode, beautiful tubes of goodness, and so inexpensive too :)

 

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It's that time of year again ... when the sun comes out to play, so do the drawing pencils :) It's time to start sketching people in public, something I was terrified to do at first, but it's one of the most fun ways to improve, and loosen up, both your drawing, and the mind :)

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This weeks lil podcast be about the sketching, Sketching People In Public :) The weather's getting nicer now, so perfect time to get outside sketching those people :)

 

On this episode, I talk about how I WAS TERRIFIED AT FIRST but now see that sketching people in public helps LOOSEN UP YOUR DRAWING and LOOSEN UP YOUR MIND.

Hope you like this one :)

 

This weeks Inspirational Quote goes to Paul Laseau

"SKETCHING IS A CONTINUING SOURCE OF LEARNING RATHER THAN A STRING OF PERFORMANCES."

- Paul Laseau

 

You can listen to this episode below, via Apple Podcasts, or via Stitcher if that takes your fancy :)

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• Sketching People In Public Drawing Exercise - I talk a bit more about why and how to do Sketching People In Public, with some examples of my footless people :)

• Is It Right To Sketch People In Public? - A question I asked myself after a lady gave me a hard time for sketching a homeless man...

 

EXTRAS

• YOUTUBE @SophieLawson- including my latest one discussed on the episode - Cecil Drawing :)

• TWITTER @SophieLawsonArt - Come say hello, I post stuff on here sometimes :

• What Does Reiki Healing Feel Like? - I talk about my first time having Reiki healing

There was supposed to be a new YouTube video this week, but it never happened because I wanted things to be perfect ... so instead of putting something out that wasn't perfect, I put nothing out :( This week I talk about something I find really hard to do … putting out imperfect work. and how it's better to put something out that's good enough, than nothing at all.

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This weeks lil podcast is all about putting out Imperfect Work, something I've always found hard to do. There was supposed to be a new YouTube video last week, but I was focused so much on having perfect tings be perfect, I ended up not releasing anything.

On this episode, I talk about how Transitioning at work, starting this podcast and producing realistic pencil drawings, have all shown me that IT'S OK TO BE GOOD ENOUGH. Perfect really doesn't exist anyway, just like whatever you want to create if you won't allow yourself to release it in an imperfect form :)

Hope you like this one :)

 

This weeks Inspirational Quote goes to Sean McCabe, who you can find at SeanWes.com :)

"THE ONLY WAY TO CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT YOU'VE MADE AND THE IMAGE IN YOUR MIND, IS BY CONTINUING TO PUT OUT IMPERFECT WORK."

- Sean McCabe

 

You can listen to this episode below, via Apple Podcasts, or via Stitcher if that takes your fancy :)

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LINKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW

RESOURCES

• SeanWes.com - Home of Sean McCabe, who has this weeks Inspirational Quote :)

 

EXTRAS

• YOUTUBE @SophieLawson - Some of my videos :)

• TWITTER @SophieLawsonArt - Come say hello, I post stuff on here sometimes :)

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