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Hey Beautiful Souls 😍 As Christmas approaches and a new year beckons, I'm reflecting on the journey we've shared.
Truly blessed in all circumstances and enjoying this beautiful Christmas season and looking towards another amazing year with Tarl.
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We wish you nothing but the very best each and every day and not just during the holidays. Make memories. Keep fulfilling your dreams and desires. Reach out and build bridges to those you wish you were closer with. Make new friends. Discover new talents.
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Just like myself with many battles of health, seek the joy and happiness among all circumstances. Blessings are everywhere . Let yourself feel, heal and love, starting within . You're amazing.
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I appreciate all your support and love. Exciting projects await with our passions and talents. I look forward to graduation in May 2024 with a degree in family science and pursuing the next steps in life. One day at a time. Embrace it all.
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Let's enter the New Year with our hearts open to the endless opportunities that await. Tarl and I are filled with gratitude for the love and support that have illuminated our path. This past year has been a canvas of trials and triumphs, and as we turn the page, we're embracing all the adventures that lie ahead.
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"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals."
- Melody Beattie
Keep shining ✨️ Be inspired ✨️
~ Jackie Inspires ~
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jackieinspires
Hey Beautiful souls :) Tarl and I are moved into our new place this weekend. We're so very thankful to each and every one of you for your love, prayers, support, help, meals, etc.
We celebrated our 3-year wedding anniversary this month * Eternity to go ;) and so excited, feel like newlyweds again. Starting from scratch to get all the things for our home. EXCITING. Utah is amazing and always had a place in my heart. We're in Southern Utah and even though it's hot, it's a dry heat from all the deserts but all the mountains and beautiful scenery that circles around us is INCREDIBLE. We're so blessed and loved.
We love the people here too. Our church family, our own family and friends, and neighbors, etc... I personally have never found a better place for my health, and life than here. Tarl and I are so incredibly happy and blessed.
As we get settled in I will post when I can, As you know Tarl works from home and is very busy with work and his creative projects and books. I am doing my last 2 semesters online for my Family Science degree and working with all my specialists for my health. Along with working on the Jackie Inspires Blog and Shop.. Which has been an amazing dream of mine * Those who are new can catch up with all our blog posts from the beginning.
So, It's going to be busy especially since we just moved in but you know it's such a BEAUTIFUL BLESSING. Each day has its own trials and challenges but always looking at the blessings in all circumstances. Yes, it's stressful and my body lets me know to hahha but I am so blessed to have the energy I have now and keeping food down and so much more.
Tarl and I are so strong in our testimonies of Christ. We were just talking about how angels carried us 1400 miles in 4 days during the middle of May 2023 when I was very sick and had to stop school. We're near family and friends. We have been given so many blessings and know that it is because of our faith in our savior Jesus Christ. That no matter how hard the trials may be from financial, spiritual, emotional or physical, HE LIVES> Angels on both sides of the veil surround each of us and blesses us.
Why we love blessing others in any way we can. No matter how we struggle we can always bless someone else in so many different ways. I am truly truly happy. We love this stage of our life and starting fresh with picking out dishes to furniture etc. We know that everything will come together, just as our love did 3 years ago. Just as jobs, health, finances, life, growth in our savior and so much more.
Enjoy this week. Enjoy each day. Brighten someone's day even if you're having such a bad day. Don't give up hope. Learn and grow and build your talents and passions because that is what can help you build strength to overcome. GOD IS GOOD.
Happy Move-In Weekend to us <3 God bless you all. It will be a busy time but life still goes on and we're so happy for all the memories being made.
Lots of love. Talk soon :) Remember YOU'RE ENOUGH. YOU'RE CAPABLE. YOU MATTER. BE VULNERABLE. LET YOURSELF FEEL. PRAY. CRY. ASK FOR HELP. YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH HARDER. DON'T OVERLOOK YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH MATTERS. LEARN TO LIVE AND SEE THE BLESSINGS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, NO MATTER HOW HARD IT GETS.
I promise you that all things will come together but it's in GOD's TIME. He knows your heart. Please believe and don't give up. Surround yourself with those that support and love you.
Keep shining ~ Be Inspired ~
~Jackie Inspires ~
jackieinspires
Hello beautiful souls 💜
Just been working on my health ,enjoying my time with my husband Tarl and working on school . 18 credits is alot. I'm doing it though. :)
I've been trying to figure how to write this post for the last few weeks and decided to go with it. This is me . First picture is Senior in high school 2001. I was 17 years old. 3 weeks from graduating 🎓 I didn't make it..
I have always had low self-esteem in school growing up. Been bullied, beaten up, sexually harrased and much more over the years. I look at this picture and think Wow. I'm beautiful. I would make friends with whoever and be there no matter what. My heart has always been big. I would Help anyway I can . Most of all I thought, I was pretty enough to be asked to Dances or even the prom..Well back then I didn't think so, neither did others.
I fell "inlove" so I thought and got married at 18. 3 weeks before graduating I bailed out of a car and I thought it was going to blow up and emergency break was pulled all way out and brakes went to the floor. I never seen the car afterwards but I was laying in the middle of the highway . Story for another time.
2001 - no graduation and got married 18
2006- went and got my Ged after a couple years of divorcing my then husband.
I then became a Certified Nurses student and worked and endured many challenges.
I never got to walk the stage or wear cap and gown or celebrated me. But I kept going and didn't care how old I was. Or what I went through , I was going to make my dreams come true. One at a time.
Fast forward to 2016 when I was remarried and was a step mom. I worked and I did a program for my church which I could get 15 credits towards college degree. Byu-pathway.
During this time I've dealt with horrible people, going through divorce, and so much more. ( another story sometime)
I finished my pathway. But due to my sickness with diabetes and otherthings I didn't celebrate and missed the party .
Now it's 2023 where I continued to finish school and I'm an online student working on Family Science degree. I've endured and overcame so much physically, spiritually, financially, and emotionally. I am now 39 and alive, happy , blessed and I overcame divorces, moves, had surgeries, and so much more.
I am finally remarried to an amazing man and since 2 years ago when we got married I was able to not work so I could finish this dream of graduating. The 2nd picture is me now. It's literally from 2001 to 2023 of all the obstacles and dealing with abuse, bullying, financial, divorces, health, really low times and more, I didn't give up.
I am a senior at 39 doing my spring semester in 2023 and then will have last semester of school for summer 2023 . I will be 40 when I graduate Summer 2023 and walk the stage in May 2023. WALK THE STAGE. Wear a gown and a hat and hear my name called. Hello ? This is huge... Something I haven't experienced. To celebrate with my husband , my biggest supporters.. No matter how hard it is now, I'm doing it. So can YOU. Whatever you want or desire or think you can't, because you can 💜
I have many supporters and also many battles. I know that health, relationships, confidence, trials and other things haven't stopped me. It's made me want to be even better and all the tears, suffering, pain and etc I've endured has gotten me here and it's worth it because I've loved myself even more .
My faith and my testimony and knowing God and our Savior has been there always and protected me I'm forever grateful. When I was at my lowest or suffering so much, I knew that I was loved and given strength..
This is just little piece of my story and small victories. All I want you to know is DON'T YOU GIVE UP. YOU KEEP FIGHTING AND LOVING YOURSELF. You find a way to make your dreams and desires come true. A way to leave where you need to get out and give yourself a better chance and be safe. Knowing in your heart you're enough and amazing and worth it. Celebrate even those small victories because the bigger ones coming. Love yourself through it all.
This is just a simple version . There's so much more and emotion and pain and hurt and challenges that I had to go through to get here, but I am here.
I'm so proud of myself. I'm doing all I can to get to that stage and walk it and graduate and experience what I never have before . And then hopefully if all finances go well I want my husband and I to celebrate and go to Disney World for my 40th Birthday to celebrate me and us and accomplishing of getting my Family Science degree.
Make those dreams. You stand up and be proud no matter the tears or challenges you face and go get it . You matter. We got this.
Lots of love
Keep shining ✨️ Be inspired ✨️
~Jackie Inspires ~