I was painfully shy growing up. I didn’t start to break out of my shell until I was about nineteen. I remember walking down the halls in high school praying that nobody that I (kinda) knew would walk past me. If I did see someone, I would turn beet red and would become terrified about what to do. Needless to say, for this and other reasons, I hated high school as it was basically torture. People often don’t believe me when I tell them how shy I once was. (I might have swung a little too far the other way.) It’s even hard for me to imagine that I once felt this way.
The beautiful thing is that we each have unique gifts, we each have our own genius to express and it’s our job to allow that into expression. It’s not our job to create it, to become puffed about it, or to judge it. It’s our job to open a way to ALLOW what sits in each of us waiting to pour out. When we learn to allow this, we learn that we are so much more than we ever thought we were. We learn that are so far beyond our genes, our upbringing, our education, our experiences, or anything we control.
I’ve written before about the spiritual experiences that started many years ago and how I discovered I could paint just about anything after they began. When I painted I would stand back and feel a sense of awe and would want to exclaim, “Wow! That’s so beautiful!” I wanted to do this because I KNEW I didn’t know how to paint and that it was something so much bigger than “Jane” doing the work. The feelings of awe weren’t coming from some egotistical perspective. Quite the contrary, I felt deeply humbled each time I painted. It was an experience of peaking deep within and into a place that transcends our self imposed limitations.
There are many who haven’t seen the beauty that we truly are. A beauty we can’t take any credit for–that’s not based on anything we’ve done or not done. The experience is necessarily life-changing, and even the tiniest glimpse at this is worth every effort. The form it takes in each of our lives will be different, but the message is the same. xo
Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™ 
Thank you Jane…❤🎶💕No greater joy than finding you nitch! Blessings and Love!
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❤ I was also very shy growing up, still have shy tendencies, but I really love to show off my weird & wonderful sassy self!!! ❤
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Thank you Jane for sharing your own struggles to us. We all have them and its nice to know we are not the only one going through these struggles.
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Thanks for sharing your gifts💖🦋
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So true. I was a very shy person too. As a teenager, would have rather be doing anything than talk in public. Ironically years later I spoke at national conventions in front of hundreds of people. But in my soul, I’m still that shy girl.
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So true 😍 Love your art, your spirit & your messages always 💞
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