We are all always being guided. Our guide is always present, but it can take practice to learn how to recognize it and trust it. (Call this guide whatever feels right to you.)
Guidance comes in different ways for me. Sometimes, I feel something similar to butterflies in my chest and stomach. Other times, it feels like warm water rushes through me; sometimes, it’s a clear inner knowing. There are also less frequent times when I hear an inner voice accompanied by a deep sense of peace and certainty.
Years ago, my focus was on wanting to know what to do, but now, I just want to feel its presence with me. I know that experiencing its presence is all that matters; if there’s anything to do, it naturally follows.
I began to notice years ago that I was guided in two different ways–through pain or joy. If I couldn’t hear directly, didn’t listen, or before I knew how to listen, I was squeezed in the direction I needed to go. This was often painful. When I began to willingly listen, the feeling was often a mixture of joy, excitement, and a little fear. It’s similar to waiting in line for a carnival ride: I am excited but also a little afraid.
The key is learning to trust it so that you want to listen even when it doesn’t seem to make sense and you haven’t a clue where it’s leading you. This takes practice and many experiences to learn we can trust it.
I’ve had too many astounding experiences to count by listening to this guidance. It’s the way PSP&Co. started, too; I was experiencing a very dark period, and nothing, and I do mean nothing, felt joyful. One day, I started doodling and created the Princess and the Pup. It was the only thing that had felt even the tiniest bit joyful, so I kept doing it (sometimes 18 hours a day). Now, she has over a million followers on her social platforms.
I didn’t set out to do any of it; I just listened and followed what made my heart twinkle.
Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™ 
My grandchildren makes my heart ❤️ twinkle
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Absolutely!✈️
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Thank you for your kindness 🩵 Merry Christmas to you too!
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Hello Anonymous,
Reading your beautiful and very heartfelt response to JL about your plight and unfortunate heartache with the lovely, SM (love of your life and sweetheart ❣️❤️❣️) made my heart ache. I think all of us, both young and old have had to deal with this unfortunate situation. (AND it’s not for the faint of heart!) We’ve all been there and it’s a bewildering and lost feeling.
I have so many hopes that you’ll look back and see this as simply a bump on the road. You’re among safe and compassionate people who are in this with you. I know I am. Merry Christmas! 🩵🌨️☃️🎄✨
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JL, the way you described that “dark period” you were going through where nothing felt joyful, and how listening to your guidance you began doodling which led to the eventual creation of PSP&Co. – this miraculous place where many find themselves daily. JL, thank you so much for the light, wisdom and joy your website brings. Your service, your efforts, your art, your talent… is such a phenomenal blessing!
As far as my circumstances are concerned, this entire year — 2023… has been the worst, most difficult year of my life, and I am to blame. Unfortunately, I lost my sweet SM… the love of my life due to allowing insecurity and jealousy to creep in. I discovered that my fear of abandonment caused by past traumas was the culprit. My sweet SM gave me many chances and I didn’t realize how I was behaving until “after” it was too late. Before I realized she’d given me the last chance, she said she was “done,” there was no more “us,” and she walked away.
Ever since, I’ve been asking for her to forgive me with her whole heart and give us another chance. To my horror, she hasn’t been fully present in any communication with me in any communication since 07/2023, and has completely ceased communicating with me altogether.
I have spent months working on myself so that if she ever came back to me, I would be ready for her. For example, I have learned that my fear of abandonment caused the insecurities and neediness that drove her away. I have learned that to love somebody with your whole heart is to trust that person 100%. I have been asking my sweet SM for forgiveness ever since.
JL, she introduced me to this wonderful PSP website when we first began our relationship in 2018. Every day I’m thankful for the wisdom you impart and your beautiful drawings.
I still believe in love and have been going through the joyless darkness since 07/2023. One of the only sparks of joy presently felt this holiday season is the hope that my SM, my other half, my best friend, and the love of my life, will return.
SM, my hope and prayers are that your guidance will lead you back to us and that someday soon you’ll once again feel butterflies 🦋when you think of me. SM you are deeply loved with all of my heart, all of my soul and all of my might. My Christmas wish is you SM 🌹 ✨🧚♀️
As other readers have commented, I hope that this Christmas we can go walking in the winter ❄️ wonderland 🎄amongst the twinkling Christmas lights ❄️✨🧚♀️🧞♂️✨✨.
SM, I can envision us holding hands, talking about anything and everything, seeing your beautiful face again, kissing your amazing pillow lips, rekindling the love, spirit and warmth that has always naturally existed like a halo around us… your true forgiveness, another chance for us – that would be the Christmas miracle I pray for – you 🌹✨🧚♀️♾️🧞♂️✨❤️🎄❄️ You are the love of my life! 🌈
Please come back to me dear one, my SM ✨🧚♀️❤️
IWALU ♾️ HAM
Forever yours ✨♾️🐘🐘✨💍❤️
XOXO 💋
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Thank you for all you do. Your posts brighten my inbox every day.
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