Category: healing
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🌿 Wellness Wednesday: It’s Okay to Hurt
Grief is the cost of deep love. And while the world keeps moving, your heart may still be standing in the quiet space where someone once was. If you’re missing a loved one today, please hear this: your pain is yours, and it’s okay to feel it. You don’t have to explain it. You don’t…
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Thankful Thursdays: Thankful for the Trail and the People On It
Some days I have to stop and take a deep breath—not because I’m tired, but because I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. Twelve years ago, I said yes to becoming a living kidney donor. I didn’t know then how fully that “yes” would change me. I just knew someone needed help—and I had a spare. Since then,…
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Wellness Wednesday – A Decade With One Kidney: What I’ve Learned Since 2013
In 2013, I did something that changed two lives—mine and someone else’s. I became a living kidney donor. It wasn’t a dramatic decision for me. It was rooted in something quiet but fierce—a deep sense of love, responsibility, and purpose. I didn’t know then all the ways this choice would shape who I am today.…
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Trail Tuesdays: The Path to Strong is Never Straight
Trail Tuesdays Murph Prep, Mindset, and Muscle on the Move Some Tuesdays, the trail is dusty and wild. Other days, it’s made of air squats, push-ups, and sit-ups in a quiet room while my muscles burn and my mind fights to stay present. Either way, it’s always a trail—a path that winds through challenge, grit,…
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Snapshot Sunday: Finding Light in the Canyon
Some people wake up on Mother’s Day with breakfast in bed or brunch reservations.Me? I woke up and laced up my boots. I hiked into Palo Duro Canyon yesterday — Texas’ own quiet giant — where flowers bloom between rocks and the wind carries more grace than most conversations ever could. These moments in nature…
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Burning Love: Texas is on Fire, Y’all!
This has nothing at all to do with fitness, and everything to do with the beautiful state that I call home…more specifically, the Texas Panhandle. Since Monday, over a million acres of land have burned. If you don’t know anything about the great State of Texas, let me educate you just a little bit: Texas…
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Journaling: The Sky Is Falling – Processing Grief
I have no real plan for this post, just feelings. This last week has been a beast! Do you ever have weeks like that? We all do, right?! Let me lay it out for you just a little bit… So both of my amazing kids are going through their own struggles right now…we are also…