Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™

There was a period in my life that was extremely dark; I can only describe it as a period I would have never thought one could walk through and live to tell about it. There wasn’t one area of my life that wasn’t getting battered by hurricane-force winds. All I could do was just hang on. I was in the proverbial dark night of the soul.

I lost my childhood home, and friends I had for years dropped out of my life for no apparent reason. My sister, who was my dearest friend, passed unexpectedly. In the wake of her passing, what was left of my family origin was completely shattered. I was partially paralyzed by a virus. I couldn’t care for myself, but there was nobody to care for me.

The work I had loved doing for years felt like walking in mud and fell away, leaving me with no income. I realized that the man I was in a relationship with for a few years was a true sociopath/narcissist and was actively trying to make me feel insane.

These were a few of the delights of this period, but the most challenging part was that I could no longer feel the inner Presence I had felt for years.

I would do my best every day to recognize that there was not one thing I could do about yesterday, but today I could ask, “What now? Where do I go from here?”

I began to notice that if something made me laugh, even the tiniest bit, it felt like a little piece of a puzzle sliding into place; I could feel a little healing taking place. It was literally the only thing that felt healing, so I began to seek out anything that made me smile or brought the slightest bit of laughter.

This was when I created Princess Sassy Pants & Co. Making these little images made me smile, so I made more and began sharing them. Because it was literally the only thing that made me feel better, I started doing it all day, every day, and slowly, I began to see a light shining into that very dark place…and then huge beams.