My name is Ron Heeb, I was raised on a family run apple orchard and hay farm, I am passionate about family, music, motorcycles, wildlife, America, baseball, and I love Jesus, I am from the sticks, I grew up in a town where we all knew each other and we all knew most of the kids from the next town over too, I was heavily influenced by music and movies in my childhood, and I still am passionate about music, I met Jesus when I was 15 and I am still learning how to walk with him today but he's been with me faithfully through all of my mistakes and struggles, I joined NA, about 2 months before my 21st birthday, and even helped started a clean motorcycle club that is expanding in Washington state still, I was 26 when I felt God telling me to move 200 miles away, I did and it turned into a horrible mess that led to me being invited to the Thanksgiving when I met Christy, and we basically never stopped hanging out, we have struggled tremendously and God is amazingly using our mess to become the message of hope that we have a burning desire to share with the world, I am the Husband to Christy, father to 3, a concrete construction worker, and proud partner in several things God's leading Christy and I in, and owner of several beautiful animals, and I am trying to honor my family's name, and spread the hope and peace I have begun to find in my life. 

Hi, I'm Christy.

If you asked me who I am without the titles, businesses, accomplishments, or things I'm responsible for, I would probably tell you that I'm a broken person who has learned to look beyond the broken pieces.

I'm a woman who is still learning how to live with patience, fun, love, and peace. I watch the world with wondering eyes. I listen. I learn. I create. I work hard. I protect the people I love fiercely, and somewhere along this journey, I've started becoming more me and less of who everyone else expected me to be.

I'm learning that I don't need permission to live my life in peace.

And maybe that's what most of my story is really about.

I haven't figured life out. I still struggle. I still hurt. I still make mistakes, and there are still parts of myself I'm discovering and healing. But I don't believe we're ever supposed to stop learning.

Growth is lifelong. My experiences have shaped nearly every part of who I am. Losing people close to me—especially experiencing the loss of relationships with my parents—changed me deeply. I've experienced people hurting me, leaving me, and walking away when I wished they would stay.

I've experienced addiction and recovery.

Addiction took things from me that went far beyond circumstances. It took pieces of my freedom, love, peace, creativity, and passion. But coming through it taught me something I never want to forget:

There is incredible value in simply being who you are.

I've learned that acceptance can be freeing. Accepting something doesn't mean agreeing with it. Sometimes it simply means recognizing what is, learning what you can from it, and refusing to allow it to steal your peace forever. Today, I'm finding Christy again. Not necessarily the exact woman I used to be, because life has taught me too much for that. I'm finding the woman who can laugh without fear, experience joy, create freely, explore, love deeply, and live without carrying every hurt she's ever experienced.

I don't want to carry hatred, anger, resentment, or pain through the rest of my life.

I want love.

I want acceptance.

I want peace.

And I want to know my full worth and actually live like I believe it.

At the center of everything is God.

God keeps me grounded. He keeps me moving when I don't know how to keep going myself. He fills a place inside of me that I've learned no human being can completely fill.

He's the One who is there without judgment.

I can pray. I can ask Him for guidance, truth, love, and protection. He is part of my voice, my heart, and my soul. Through some of the most painful experiences of my life, my relationship with God didn't disappear—it became stronger.

God allows me to look at my broken pieces without pain.

My faith doesn't mean I never struggle. It doesn't mean I have all the answers, and it certainly doesn't mean I live a perfect life.

I don't. Faith means I don't have to walk through an imperfect life alone.

I'm a wife and a mother, and both have profoundly shaped the woman I've become.

Motherhood has taught me love, patience, understanding, acceptance, strength, and accountability.

More than anything, I've wanted to be a mother my children can trust—a mom they can have a real relationship with and know that honesty matters in our home.

I'm an incredibly honest person, and being trusted means a lot to me.

I believe accountability matters too. Not because I believe people should spend their lives being punished for their mistakes, but because without accountability, how do we learn?

We have to be willing to look at ourselves truthfully if we ever want to grow.

Then there's my husband, Ron. He's my best friend, my person, and my safe place. He's the person who knows me better than anyone. Marriage has taught me that when you've chosen something that important, sometimes it's worth fighting for. Difficult seasons don't automatically mean something isn't worth saving. Sometimes walking through those seasons together can make the relationship stronger.

And thankfully, life with Ron isn't always serious.

I love his kid-like personality, his happiness, his loving and playful nature, and especially his goofy side.

If I had to describe us?

Passionate. Committed. Fun.

Creating is part of how I breathe.

I love taking something that exists only inside my imagination and turning it into something real.

Photography, art, words, design, fashion, jewelry, and creating things with my hands or imagination give me an opportunity to put a piece of myself into the world.

I love becoming good at things.

And yes—I love success.

There's something incredibly satisfying about looking at something and knowing, That came from me. That started as a thought, and now it exists.

Creating gives me peace, expression, freedom, challenge, accomplishment, and purpose. Even better is when something I've created makes another person happy.

I'm endlessly curious, too.

I love wildlife and animals, nature, mountains, the country, space, the world beneath the ocean, photography, words, art, and learning random things simply because they're fascinating.

I just genuinely love learning.

Give me wildlife, mountains, a camera, a road trip and probably an espresso, and I'm pretty happy.

I love cooking—and definitely eating. I love genuine music, fashion, jewelry, shoes, experimenting with my hair, traveling, laughing, joking around, and making other people laugh.

I'm adventurous and goofy, but I also deeply love quiet.

I'm strong-willed, protective, and apparently possess a fairly ridiculous pain tolerance.

I'm complicated.

And I'm finally learning to love that.

Fearlessly Connected is about much more to me than connecting people.

God is not the kind of fear that keeps us trapped.

God is love. God is strength.

And being connected isn't only about being connected to other people.

It's being connected to God. Connected to yourself. Connected to your purpose.

Connected to the belief that regardless of what happens, you can continue learning, growing, thriving, and succeeding. Being fearless doesn't mean never experiencing fear.

It means fear doesn't get to decide your life.

You can hurt and still heal.

You can lose and still love.

You can fall and still rise. You can be broken and still create something beautiful.

That's what Fearlessly Connected means to me.

Here's something that might surprise people:

I don't necessarily want to be close to everybody.

I love my quiet. I value my space.

But I deeply love people.

I believe that love comes from God. He has given me a capacity for love and forgiveness that sometimes I don't even completely understand myself.

I want people to know their worth.

I want people to experience love and acceptance.

I want people to experience the peace I've found.

And above everything, I want people to experience a relationship with God for themselves.

I don't need to personally know someone to want those things for them.

If something I create, say, share, or do helps even one person uncover their worth, maybe some of what I've lived through can become something beautiful.

Someday, I want to look back at my life and be able to say:

I did that.

I created a part of myself that other people could see and hold onto.

I don't want my footprint on this world to exist only in something people can read, hear, or remember.

I want to have created things that remain.

Art. Photographs. Ideas. Businesses. Memories. Love. A family. A community. Things people can see, experience, and sometimes literally hold in their hands.

And maybe someday someone will look at my life and think:

Man, I want to live like she did.

Not because my life was perfect.

It wasn't.

But because I lived it.

I want that person to want to experience their own life fully—to create, explore, learn, love, laugh, grow, use what God gave them, and leave their own footprint behind.

I'm still creating mine.

If you remember nothing else about my story, remember this:

You are strong. You are powerful. You are special.

God can guide you.

There are amazing things about you that you probably haven't even discovered yet.

There is growth inside you.

There is purpose inside you.

There is success inside you.

There is a person you haven't completely become yet.

Sometimes life piles so much hurt, fear, disappointment, shame, and doubt on top of those things that we convince ourselves they've disappeared.

They haven't.

You might just have to unbury them.

Then live them.

Grow with them.

And discover just how amazing the person God created you to be really is.

I'm Christy.

I'm still learning. I'm still healing. I'm still creating. I'm still laughing. I'm still loving. I'm still growing.

I'm still becoming.

And I'm finally learning that I don't have to be completely unbroken to live a beautiful life.