Driven by a love of knowledge, psychology, archeology and history, Jeff Murrah enjoys traveling to unique places. Besides writing and homeschooling his three sons, Jeff is a professional counselor and public speaker by vocation, working with couples and families since 1981. His counseling website contains articles on family, and parenting issues (www.RestoreTheFamily.com). Two more sites focus on helping couples save their marriages and recover from affairs (www.SurviveYourPartnersAffair.com and www.Affair RecoverySecrets.com). Prior to going into private practice, he worked in many psychiatric and medical/surgical hospitals in the Houston area. He has also worked with chemical dependency treatment and homeless shelter facilites. He worked as a Christian Counselor with Rapha prior to going into private practice.
In addition to counseling, Jeff also taught psychology courses at San Jacinto College. His experiences working with people and teaching have provided him with a broad knowledge base that he shares with people through his articles on family and marriage related issues. His articles have an international distribution. He has been featured on Wall Street Journal Radio and the Larry Elder Show. His articles have been featured as part of the Parent University program of the Pasadena Independent School District.
One of his hobbies is researching and writing about history. His love of Texas history and Southern culture led to his writing his two award winning books, None But Texians: A History of Terry’s Texas Rangers (www.NoneButTexians.com), Which received the 2002 Summerfield G. Roberts Award for the Best Book on Texas and Texans during the Civil War and Texans Always Move Them: A True History of Texas, which received the 2007 Presidio La Bahia Award for the Best Book on Early Colonial Texas. He was also named the official historian for the Terry's Texas Rangers re-enactment group (http://www.terrysrangers.us/) which were featured in such movies as "The Postman", "The Patriot", "Gettysburg" and "Ride with the Devil".
Jeff's love of history has also led to his chasing down the Texas embassy locations in European capitols and being commissioned an Admiral in the Texas Navy by Governor Rick Perry for his accomplishments. His travel and research have culminated in his latest history book, Texans Always Move Them: A True History of Texas. The book debuted at the ceremony marking the 100th Anniversary of the Terry’s Texas Ranger Monument at the State Capitol.
Jeff has enjoyed writing since working on his high school newspaper. His other published writings include a series of articles on relationships, parenting and his book, Infidelity: A Survivor's Guide. His travel articles include experiences at a haunted castle in Scotland, exlporing mysterious Mayan ruins, climbing the National Wallace Monument, and visiting Neolithic archeological sites in Orkney.
"The parents are the real architects of their children's destiny and the State cannot help it."-Robert L. Dabney
"...the modern adulterer appears a monstrous inhumanity; for he leaves the accomplice of his illicit desires, often without a home or subsistence and always without any legalized title to them, without name and without character".
-Robert L. Dabney
"The seducer is meaner than the murderer, and hardly less mischevious."
-Robert L. Dabney
"Truth is essential to all social affections and friendships; for these require confidence."-Robert L. Dabney
"No relationship is healthy if it is based on incompleteness and neediness"
-John Bradshaw
"The mind as a complex system, does not structure itself to reflect its environment; instead it interprets its environment in terms of itself"-Mike Tuggle
"Human culture, because it represents a rich network of communication between the living and the dead as well as between the individual and society resists easy manipulation"-Mike Tuggle
"Bad religions inspire bad nations"-C. S. Lewis
"All freedom consists in radice in the preservation of an inner sphere exempt from State power." -Lord Acton
"Any issue settled by force or in disregard of law is never truly settled." -
President Jefferson Davis
"When everyon is heading with a rapid pace for destruction, the individual who simply stops will stick out like a fixed point"-Blaise Pascal
"The theory that children of the commonwealth are the charge of the commonwealth is a pagan one derived from heathern Sparta and Plato's heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolutionof the conjugal tie."-Robert L. Dabney
"I mean once more to assert the unfashionalbe truth. Truth is never out of date. It has sometimes happened that a tentative experience has thrown much light upon a bad system as to reopen the discussion with better guidance than the previous"-Robert L. Dabney