''Here We Grow!''

Hey there, 

Welcome to my personal and professional blog space and website. My name is Molly Murray... for now. I'm getting married in just a few days and will soon change my last name to Thoms (rhymes with homes.) 

I created this blog space and website as a unified hub while I grow my professional career in varying directions (I'm a seasoned doula and a brand new real estate agent) and to highlight more of my personal journey.

As humans, we are born, we go through life which includes a lot of hard stuff and hopefully, many joyous moment, and then we die.

I lost my parents, grandparents, and a sibling many, many years ago. I realize through their life and their death that nothing is forever. The only way their legacy lives on is through the service they provided the world, the stories that they told, and the people that they connected with. 

My parents and sibling's lives were riddled with addiction, mental health issues, and an underlying tone of instability... and then cut way too short. Despite that, while they were here, they made a huge difference in many lives. Their life and death made a great impact on my trajectory of helping people and living a life of sobriety and gratitude. Their life and death inspired me to stay grounded and always growing. 

As people, we connect and we grow through stories and personal experiences. We build our legacy while we are here on this Earth. I am so thankful to be so connected with so many people. And now, I have been asked to show up in a bigger way and to share more of my story and life experience. 

To me, there are very little downsides to sharing more of who I am. I realize that this type of sharing is not something that everyone understands and there is sometimes criticism for being ''too open.'' To that, I say, ''I hear you.'' and ''You do you.'' 

For me, I plan on sharing more of who I am, of taking up more space as a person, sharing more of what helps me to survive and even to thrive in this crazy, ever changing and sometimes tumultuous existence we call life... which will hopefully help others to grow. 

Which leads to me to my catchphrase, ''Here we grow.'' I say it anytime one would normally say, ''Here we go.'' While we are alive, we are always growing or at least I like to think so... because otherwise, what's the point? 

So... Here we grow! 

Sincerely,