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😭❤️ With how meaningful Jane Eyre was to me 😭❤️ With how meaningful Jane Eyre was to me as a young girl, no idea how this part of this book hasn’t rocked me the first three times I read it. ❤️ Somehow I both do and don’t understand why 🤷‍♀️🙃
Just a girl, standing in front of a book, asking i Just a girl, standing in front of a book, asking it to completely obliterate her in the name of sacred remembrance. 

Because obviously the best time to re-read the most heart-ripping, soul-activating book I own is when I’m already hanging by an emotional thread. Let’s just finish the job. 😂😭😬🥵🤧

Just out here casually aiming for transcendental ruin like it’s a wellness goal. Self-care? Nah, self-crack-open-and-ascend.

“If how we see, truly see, is not with eyesight, but with a vision, a form of spiritual perception that allows us to know what’s real, what’s lasting, what’s actually true, if this comes from within us; then no one has power over us.”

“From a theological perspective, Mary Magdalene’s gospel is considered an “ascent narrative,” which means that it describes a path that we can navigate to liberate the soul; not in death, but here in this lifetime. The word ascent, though, is misleading in that the imagination immediately goes upward. Thinks transcen-dence. Ascension according to the Gospel of Mary is more accurately a descent into the heart; so farther up is actually further in.”

“I wake up to a way I’ve been operating in the world, the world created by my ego; and I see the suffering it perpetuates. I see that there’s another way. And that way does not include finding some hot, saucy pants lover, who completes me (not so far anyway), or the discovery of a tried and true recipe for uninterrupted joy. Not fame. Not success. There’s no end point here, no fixed state of completion. There’s no master or guru status. It’s just alpha, then omega, ad infinitum. This is what I’m trying to explain. There is no X marks the spot. It’s simpler than that, and far more difficult. It’s more of a series of perpetual moments when you remember that you don’t have to feel separate from love-if you don’t want to. Even in the midst of the worst of what we say to our-selves, even when someone we love most in the world can’t see us at all, we can practice a way that humbles us, that disrupts the ego’s grasp, and lets us return again, with ease (even eventually, with levity), to love. It’s all very quiet and unremarkable, though. It’s not showy, or exciting.”
Cheers to Fridays & Mental Health walks with the g Cheers to Fridays & Mental Health walks with the girls! 🥂🥰 I got oat milk in my chai latte and it was deeeeeelicious! 🤤 Oh, how my soul needs this weekend! 🥺😞
Finally got to see #jacobtwotrees 🥰 Finally got to see #jacobtwotrees 🥰
In honor of all the black kitties I’ve been luck In honor of all the black kitties I’ve been lucky enough to love in this lifetime, thus far. ❤️🥰 Keep telling Mark I think we need to find us a kitten to love on….
Beautiful day for the dog park 🥰 Cassian extra Beautiful day for the dog park 🥰 Cassian extra appreciates the water on the warm days 🥰 Make no mistake, he was quite the menace today. 🙃
I 👏 am 👏 so 👏 grateful 👏 to Mark for a I 👏 am 👏 so 👏 grateful 👏 to Mark for always listening to hear me, not to respond, not to defend, not to shut me down, but to truly hear me. He shows up, even when it’s uncomfortable. Especially when it’s uncomfortable. He asks thoughtful questions, reflects back what I’m feeling, takes accountability, and holds space for growth for both of us.

That might sound simple. But IYKYK. 

I’ve been in relationships where I begged for years just to be heard. Where I was gaslit, ignored, erased, or punished because a man couldn’t handle thirty minutes of emotional discomfort. And if someone isn’t interested in clarity? That’s not forgetfulness or a bad memory. That’s manipulation. Full stop.

It takes so much energy to resist taking accountability, and it really should speak volumes if you’re listening. 

It still terrifies me to bring up needs or ask for clarity because my trauma trained me to believe that any expression of needs (pfft - and forget desires!) meant abandonment, punishment, or worse. I was taught that self-abandonment = safety. That silence = survival.

So when I do speak up now, it costs me something. But somehow, Mark never makes me pay for it. He listens. He shows up. He works through it with me. That’s what love looks like. That’s what safety looks like.

And here’s the thing that always gutted me in the past: when someone claimed to love me, but would rather throw away time, precious, beautiful, joyful time together, than take accountability. If they’d rather lose hours, days, even years of connection than sit in a moment of reflection? That 👏 ain’t 👏 your 👏 person 👏. 

There is nothing more that angers me than the lost opportunity to laugh, have a new experience or make memories with someone I love. 

Love without accountability isn’t love. It’s convenience. And I didn’t survive all I did just to settle for someone who can’t sit through tough conversations.
Duck butt! 🦆 Duck butt! 🦆
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