You don't need more inspiration
You need to see more clearly
Weekly essays on resilience, identity, overthinking, and what nobody tells you when life falls apart
Hi, I'm Kim Murray
A person who spent years looking for shortcuts before deciding there weren't any.
I'm a writer who's been widowed, remarried, and reinvented more times than I planned. I create content and resources for people navigating the kind of life transitions that make you question everything.
If you overthink, over-control, and can't quite figure out why the anxiety is still there even after you've done everything right, you're exactly who I'm writing for.
I'm not more evolved than you. I don't have everything "figured out." I write from real life — as a spiritually curious, emotionally complicated work-in-progress who still yells "WTF, Universe?!" at least once a week.
Where to Find Me Online
A Substack newsletter for people who feel deeply, think endlessly, and want spiritual truth that doesn’t require abandoning reality (or yourself) to access it. If you’ve read all the books, meditated to 528 Hz music, and scribbled affirmations until your hand cramps but still wonder, why am I like this? welcome home.
A gratitude journal for anyone figuring life out after loss, change, or total chaos. Unlike traditional gratitude journals that tell you to "just be grateful," this one embraces both your pain and possibility. Prepare to rediscover moments of gratitude and authentic joy without ignoring your pain or suggesting toxic positivity.
My writing includes essays published in two Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies, several Medium publications, Tiny Buddha, and Authority Magazine. Writing that started as an exploration of grief and grew into something bigger. Now I write about what actually helps when life stops cooperating.