Welcome to Reclaim Your Sacred Radiance
For those of you who know me, you know that I’ve spent more than three decades serving as a chiropractor, meditation teacher, and resilience
coach — helping people find freedom from physical, emotional and spiritual pain. For those of you who are new to me, welcome. I’m so glad you’re here.
My name is Maureen Murphy, and I’m the founder of MayDayResilience — an organization devoted to healing, awareness, and reclaimingyour radiance. This blog marks a new chapter in my lifelong mission: helping us to remember who we are and to reconnect with the life force that animates everything.
I’m writing to you on All Hallows Eve (Halloween), as I prepare for Samhain in my adopted country which celebrates Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). My twin cultures share the human impulse to remember and honor the changing seasons, our deceased loved ones, and our return to the light.
For my Celtic ancestors, this time also marked the beginning of a new year, and the awareness that the veil between worlds was thin, allowing for ease of connection. So, I ask for the blessing of my ancestors now, as I embark on this new adventure, writing articles and essays to remind us to look for and find the Light in our time.
Tomorrow, my beloved and I will finish our ofrenda (offering) to our loved ones. Then we will join friends to paint our faces and don costumes as we visit the many colorful public ofrendas in our town center. View our ofrenda here.
From Burnout to Blessing: Why I Created Mayday Resilience
Mayday Resilience was born from an experience I had several years ago, a physical, emotional and spiritual burnout which I now refer to as my “mayday moment.” This humbling experience helped me realize I was off course and led to a spiritual awakening and creative upwelling that changed the trajectory of my life and work. I couldn’t be more grateful!
My story was recently published in the best-selling anthology, Unbreakable Spirit: 18 Stories of Feminine Resilience, Blessings and Renewal. Find Book Here. My chapter, “Reclaiming Sacred Radiance: A Healers Journey from Burnout to Blessing,” details my reframe of this experience, how I came to see it not as failure but as sacred initiation. I wrote it to offer hope and camaraderie to anyone feeling alone in their struggles, whatever they may be. Afterall, it’s our response to life’s challenges that reveals to us who we are, why we are here, and of what we are really made.
Chances are good that you too have experienced a big life event or upheaval. Has it awakened you to more of who you are? I’d love to hear about it, because as I’ve learned, our stories are our medicine and there is magic in the telling. Send your message here.
In my own case, burnout had crept in quietly, disguised as productivity, passion and purpose. My recovery began not with a grand plan, but with a choice — a quiet willingness to say yes to my soul and a growing awareness that it was in my power to change. I learned that I wasn’t alone in my struggles but part of a vast wave of human experience and opportunity.
My first act of awareness became an act of compassion. And from there, everything began to shift. I recognized that I needed help, healing, and a new way to relate to myself and the world around me. Through my own experience, I came to see that the root of so much of our human pain is the illusion of separation — believing we are alone, disconnected from nature, from each other, from the universal life force that animates everything.
This blog is a space to remember our belonging.
I write to explore what it means to live with presence, awareness, and in alignment — to meet life as it is, not as we wish it to be, and to reclaim our innate response-ability to choose again and again how we show up.
Here, I’ll be sharing stories, reflections, and practices grounded in The 7 Essential Resilience Skills — tools that have guided not only my own healing, but the healing of countless people I’ve worked with — those who have learned to free themselves from limitation, and build a life sourced from sustainable energy and authentic connection:
- Boundaries & Alignment – Honoring what’s true for you
- Energy – Learning to source from within
- Power – Using personal power skillfully and with integrity
- Connection – Leading with the heart
- Integrity – Living from core values
- Perspective – Seeing through new lenses
- Receptivity – Giving and receiving in balance
What You’ll Find Here
This is more than a blog — it’s an invitation to come home to yourself.
You’ll find gentle guidance, practical tools, and honest conversations about burnout recovery, emotional resilience, and spiritual growth. Together, we’ll explore how awareness and compassion open the door to freedom, empowerment, peace and possibility.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, disconnected, or uncertain — know that you’re not alone. Let’s walk this path together, learning to meet each moment as it is, and rediscovering the wholeness that was never truly lost.
Let’s begin — right here, in the present, where all our power resides!
With wonder and kinship,
~Maureen
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