Draw Your Feelings - Rukmini Poddar - Ep 136

Art2Life

Nicholas Wilton

Self-improvement, Education, Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

https://Art2Life.com - Rukmini Poddar is an artist, educator, and designer. Her creative passion lies at the intersection of emotional wellness and creative storytelling. She is an artist who draws feelings.

She admits that stumbled into art. It wasn’t a planned career path. When Rukmini graduated college, she was burnt out. As a graphic designer, she spent much of her time on the computer. She wanted to get her hands dirty, so she dove into the 100-Day Project. She started playing with watercolors and made abstract doodles. She started drawing her feelings to express her creativity.

She’d post them on Instagram. Before she knew it, it became the anchor for her day. By the end of the 100 days, her life was changed. People would comment and say, “I’ve always felt this way and I’ve never had words for it.” Something extremely personal to her became universal. She found a community that resonated with her work. It became her guiding light.

Drawing her feelings led to a passion for art she never knew existed. She shares more about her journey to finding herself and helping others connect with their emotions in this wonderful conversation.

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LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN…

[2:22] Learn more about Rukmini Poddar

[8:00] Drawing your feelings together

[9:59] The magical process of art-making

[13:14] Rukmini’s family’s perspective on her art

[16:23] Rukmini’s career in graphic design

[23:00] Rukmini’s art-making process

[25:40] Sign up for an Art2Life retreat

[26:51] Making the invisible visible

[29:49] From group classes to writing a book

[33:50] Helping others unlock their emotions

[39:57] Why Rukmini is passionate about her work

[42:31] How life is a series of differences

[47:19] Balancing the tension between opposite emotions

[53:23] What’s happening next for Rukmini

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

The 100 Day Project: https://www.the100dayproject.org/

Joe Dispenza: https://drjoedispenza.com/

CreativeMornings: https://creativemornings.com/

Dan Martell: https://www.danmartell.com/

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CONNECT WITH RUKMINI PODDAR

Draw Your Feelings: A Creative Journal to Help Connect with Your Emotions through Art: https://www.amazon.com/Draw-Your-Feelings-Creative-Emotions/dp/0593539141

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rockinruksi

Rukmini’s Website: https://www.dearruksi.com

Creative Wilderness: A Healing Arts Retreat: https://www.dearruksi.com/retreat

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0:00.0	I am an artist who draws feelings.
0:01.9	That's the simplest way to put it.
0:03.5	Lately, I introduce myself and it always raises a few eyebrows.
0:06.4	And there's never anyone who just walks by that.
0:08.7	I think it catches people because we all have emotions and we want to know what it means to draw them.
0:14.0	And I like to say I really stumbled into this.
0:16.0	This was not a planned career path.
0:18.3	This was nothing I ever really strategized or thought about. I simply drew my own
0:22.4	feelings. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Art to Life podcast. So excited. I'm sitting across
0:31.3	Rukmini Podar. She is an artist, educator, and designer. Her creative passion lies at the intersection of emotional
0:40.4	wellness and creative storytelling, which is kind of where I hang out. And so, oh my God, I'm so
0:47.9	excited. We've never met. We met like five minutes ago. We do the same kind of work, but we do it
0:52.9	differently. She's got this amazing new book out
0:55.7	called Draw Your Feelings. There's links in the show notes. It's a creative journal to help
1:00.3	connect with your emotions through art. So I can't wait to dive in.
1:10.2	Welcome to Art to Life, a podcast for the Creatively Curious.
1:14.5	My name is Nicholas Wilton, and each week I'll help you rediscover not just the art of your life, but the art in your life.
1:21.8	Join me as we explore that perfect blue at twilight, the wild frontiers of art making and the extraordinary joy of finding
1:29.6	your ways you go.
1:35.5	Thanks so much for being here.
1:36.7	This is so great.
1:37.5	Thank you, Nick.
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