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The rough stone shining, Nephi, UT (2026)

01/15/2026

I don't know about you, but I gave my "virtue" away a bit earlier than others. Maybe you feel like yours was taken from you by force and couldn't get it back. I spent my teen years feeling flawed forever. Like I was a lesser version of what people thought I should be or what the "Good girls" were. Was my virtue lost?

If your childhood was anything like mine growing up in a your Christian faith, you were taught from a young age to “guard your virtue,” especially in church spaces. Our sweet moms and leaders did their best to guide us, but over time, that message became almost exclusively attached to sexual purity, and for many people it planted deep guilt and shame.

But Christ never intended virtue to be something you lost, found, or kept. It was something you could get in resonance with. Rooting yourself in the vibration of having a pureness of heart. A gentle reminder to check in with God.

Virtue was never meant to be something fragile that could be lost forever. When you root down into what virtue actually means, it is spiritual strength. It is purity of heart, integrity of action, and inner coherence.

So I invite you to pause and gently ask yourself. What does your heart actually feel like when you are honest? Have you truly been flawed all this time, or have you been carrying shame that was placed on you, while your heart remained rooted in something far more divine?

Virtue is attached to being made new. It is everlasting. It is something you can return to again and again as your heart realigns with truth. If you have ever felt shamed into believing you lost your virtue, know this. God had been listening to your heart all along. Keep sayin those prayers. He hears you my dear.

I'm so grateful for my relationship with Jesus Christ. He is always teaching me how to love and understand my worth a little deeper.

If this resonates with you:
Send me a DM or visit the link in my bio to set up a free consult call on my website.

01/11/2026

All year I kept saying, “We haven’t had any fun.”
Then I looked through my camera roll last week and realized we had tons of fun.

I was just not aware that I had brainwashed myself into believing that fun required money. Fun required things.

I also realized something else.

I had spent so much time rehashing what I was lacking that I was not even noticing the simple pleasures that were right in front of me.
I forgot that fun was free.

Experiences are free.
Joy is free.
Laughing is free.
Smiling is free.
Sunsets are free.

We had a lot of fun.
We just did not spend a dime creating it.

And this is how so many of us get stuck in life.
We focus so much on what went wrong, what we lost, or what never happened, that we miss what is still happening.

The past already cost enough.

You do not have to keep paying for it.

Your future does not require suffering as an entrance fee.

Joy is still free.
Hope is still free.
A new chapter is still free.

You can stop spending your life on what you cannot get back and start investing it in what you can still create.

01/10/2026

I know so many who have shown up for me as answers to my prayers with their simple love and kindness this past year.

Tag someone who has shown up as an answer to your prayers.

And while you're at it...

Be sure to love intentionally, not accidentally.
Speak truth with tenderness.
Show up when it’s inconvenient, uncomfortable, or unseen.Choose compassion when judgment would be easier.

Not every prayer is spoken out loud.
Some sound like exhaustion at the end of the day.
Some look like silence, waiting to be noticed.
Some feel like a quiet hope that someone will see past the surface.

Your kindness might be the reminder they needed that God has not forgotten them.
Your presence might be the reassurance that they are still held.

Your words might land at the exact moment they were asking heaven for help.

If this resonates, send me a DM to set up a free consult call.
You do not have to walk your healing or growth alone.

12/06/2025

💥Weathering the Storm of Change💥

When you start to make a real shift in your life, don’t be surprised when the adversary comes in loud. He’ll twist your healing. He’ll call you a victim for choosing out of chaos. He’ll try to shame you for walking away from what’s hurting you.

And he won’t stop there.
He’ll tell you that you’re bad.
That it’s not worth it.
That you’re not worth it.
That you’re not good enough to change.
That you’re not even worthy of peace.

But here’s the truth.
Choosing out of something chaotic is not weakness. It is courage. It is clarity. It is you honoring the Spirit inside you that knows you were created for something steadier, kinder, and holier than the storms you’ve survived.

The most noble thing you can do is keep your peace. Protect it. Guard it. Stand in it.
Because peace is where God speaks, where healing happens, and where your life begins to shift from the inside out.

👊If you’re ready to stop living in chaos and start choosing the peace God has always wanted for you, I’d love to walk with you.

💫You can join me in the Christ centered 16 week Becoming You course or the SolidStone 10 week men’s course.
If you feel that nudge, take it. Your peace is worth it.

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