Our Story

Something out of a dream.

Jenic Mantashian at desk.

My path didn’t begin with purpose — it began with pain.

I remember arriving in this world as if I didn’t belong.

I was deeply sensitive — moving through life with a constant sense of overwhelm, a feeling of being too much — and at the same time, not enough.

Not lovable. Not fully seen. Not quite fitting anywhere.

So I learned to adapt. I shaped myself into who I thought I needed to be — creating identities, achieving, performing… doing whatever I could to feel safe in the world.

I searched for love in places it could never truly be found. And when that wasn’t enough, I numbed and punished myself.

Through dissociation, substance use, self-abandonment and self-betrayal — ways of escaping that slowly pulled me further away from who I was.

But underneath it all, there was always something quieter. A part of me that kept searching — for something real, something true… something that felt like magic.

Little Lightworkers card deck.

The night it all changed.

It wasn’t that long ago that everything reached a tipping point.

The pain I had been carrying for so long became impossible to ignore — so loud, so constant, that I began to question everything.

That moment marked the beginning of my spiritual awakening. And at my lowest, I questioned whether I even wanted to go on.

Despite years of searching, healing, and trying to understand myself, something still wasn’t right.

What I came to realize later was that the deep anxiety and pain I was experiencing was the tension point between the life I was living and the life I was meant to live.

That night, in total despair and surrender, I prayed — an unwavering plea for a sign to show me the way.

And that night, as I slept, I was shown something.

A world. A vision. Little Lightworkers.

When I woke up, it didn’t make sense. I wasn’t a mother. I wasn’t a teacher. I had no reason to create something like this.

But somewhere deeper, I knew. This was my path.

Working at desk.

A slow remembering.

When the dream first came, I wasn’t ready to receive it. I felt its truth — but my life wasn’t yet aligned with what it would ask of me.

So time passed. I returned to it in fragments — writing, creating, touching the edges of the world I had been shown — while moving through my own unraveling.

There were years of rebuilding — of letting go of identities,
of being brought face to face with patterns that could no longer continue.

Until, at one point, everything I had built my life around fell away. And all that remained… was the quiet pull back to that dream.

It was in choosing that path — again and again — that something within me began to shift. My heart started to open.

I began to reconnect with myself in a way I never had before —caring for the parts of me that had long been overlooked.

Little Lightworkers grew from that place — a space that gently uplifts, meets both children and their grown-ups where they are, and reminds them of something within that was never lost.