I created this shop during one of the most difficult chapters of my life.

After I ended an abusive relationship, I was not ready for the prolonged harassment, smear campaign, litigation abuse, and attacks on my privacy and reputation that would follow. I have faced significant legal expenses simply to protect myself and defend myself against false allegations.

Just a few years ago, I went through cancer treatment, which had already depleted a significant portion of the savings I had worked hard to build. Now, I?m watching money that should be going toward my children, our home, and our future instead go toward legal expenses created by a situation I never asked for.

What frightens me most is that the financial pressure itself feels like part of the harm. The circumstances that I am facing are intended to exhaust my resources and threaten the stability I?ve worked so hard to create for my children and myself. I refuse to quietly surrender everything I spent years building. My children don?t deserve to bear the consequences of something they had absolutely nothing to do with. They shouldn?t have to lose opportunities, activities they love, financial security, or the stability of their home because so much of my income and savings must now be redirected toward defending myself. More than anything, I want to protect them from becoming collateral damage in a situation they did not create and cannot control.

That?s why this fundraiser matters. I?m not asking someone else to fight my battle for me. I?m fighting it. I?m working, raising my children, paying what I can, and finding creative ways to help cover the enormous cost of defending myself. Buying a shirt, or simply sharing this page, helps make sure that standing up for myself doesn?t come at the expense of my children?s future.

This store became a little bit of everything that has helped me keep going: mental health, healing, humor, lifting, running, soccer, boundaries, and the occasional inappropriate joke. 

Some designs are more serious. Some are empowering. Some are ridiculous. That's intentional. Healing isn't one aesthetic, and surviving something difficult doesn't mean you have to be solemn all the time.

Every purchase helps offset my legal expenses and allows me to continue standing up for myself without letting the financial burden silence me. But I also hope you find something here that feels like you and something that makes you laugh, reminds you how far you've come, or gives you a little extra courage on a hard day.

If you can't purchase anything, sharing the shop helps enormously.

Thank you for helping me turn a really painful chapter into something with a little more strength, humor, and hope. ??