Ryan Wosleger spent 17 years feeling creatively stifled and unfulfilled working in corporate insurance. During the pandemic he began drawing on his daughter’s snack bags, which made her happier and eased her homesickness. The simple act of creating together lifted his anxiety and depression and rekindled his creative voice. The snack-bag art became a daily practice that strengthened the parent-child bond and provided emotional purpose. Wosleger gained recognition as the "Snack Bag Dad," and the artwork grew into a lifeline that reshaped his sense of meaning and fulfillment while balancing family responsibilities.
"I would compare it to treading water. I was not moving very fast, very far. I was working really hard, but I was not fulfilled," he said. "I was very creative, and any time I brought up maybe a creative solution to a problem in a very dry insurance industry, it wasn't valued. I was told to just kind of be quiet."
"I like to think that art saved my life. I went home in March 2020. I was miserable. Like many, a lot of anxiety and depression," Wosleger said. "The light bulb moment was drawing with my daughter. I sent her to school, to nursery school, with a snack bag. I noticed that she was coming home happier. She wasn't as homesick, and I realized that I was happier too."
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