I started PSP&Co. in 2013 during a period that I can only describe as so dark that I would have never thought someone could walk through it and live to tell about it. I’ve had a lot of deep challenges in my life, but this one was unlike anything I thought possible.
Leading up to this, I completely lost interest in painting, and being a professional fine artist, this was a little problematic. I didn’t want to ever paint again. I also taught spiritual principles, did some speaking, and wrote volumes from a deeper, more high-minded, and oh-so-serious place.
One day I started doodling, looking for anything to focus on other than the pain I felt. Two little characters popped out, fashioned after my little dog and me. I added some words to the image and posted it on Facebook just for the hell of it. I felt just a tiny bit of warmth within, so I did another one.
Creating these little images made me smile a little bit, and since nothing made me smile, I kept doing it. Others seemed to be drawn to them. Doing this was the only thing that felt like the tiniest light in that dark cave, so I kept going.
Fast forward, and she now has well over a million social media followers and two sold-out books (I don’t sell anything at this time). I get many messages about how they bring a little smile to hurting hearts.
I just followed the moment-to-moment inner prompts. I followed the feelings of joy, however faint. Believe me, before this, if anyone had told me that I would paint little sparkly images and write about spiritual principles using words like tutus and fairy dust, I would have laughed so hard that my tiara would have flown off!
These moment-to-moment prompts lead us down paths we could have never imagined. Every time I have been led in a new direction, it is always something I had never imagined. What I can imagine is necessarily from the past.
We can learn from the past; the most important lesson is that it has passed and isn’t now.
Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™ 