Nicole Harmony

Yesterday marked a powerful step forward for the future of heart care at UT Health East Texas.

The more we bring awareness to this gap, the faster we can close it and transform the recovery journey for every patient who comes next.

Today is the day that our founder, Nicole Bruce, addresses hospital leadership to share our vision for the future of heart medicine and how people recover their lives after life saving measures are performed on their heart.

Join us live today at 3:00pm CDT as we meet and shake hands with people who have the power to bring our vision to fruition!

We’ve learned how to save lives…
but we haven’t fully learned how to support what comes after.

Heart disease is the #1 killer of women, yet it’s still largely studied through a male model.
And even when lives are saved, the path to recovery can feel fragmented, unclear, and overwhelming.

I’ve lived this as a daughter.
I’ve seen the gaps.
In diagnosis.
In communication.
In recovery.

This platform was created to change that.

To bring awareness.
To advocate for better care.
And to support the full journey.
From diagnosis to healing.

This is Closing the Heart Gap. 🫀

The translation of her designer is F***l Matter…can’t make this s$&@ up 🙄

2025

The year I found strength while feeling beaten down.
The year pain was constant—and still, I smiled and served.
The year I learned how much deeper I could dig.

Minutes after landing in Dallas, a distracted driver erased ten years of recovery from chronic pain. In twenty seconds, I was back at square one.

What followed was a crash course in a broken system—insurance that doesn’t favor the injured, care dictated by optics, and pressure to settle before true healing. Even with legal help, I often felt less than human.

And still… I am in pain.

All of this unfolded while I walked beside my mother in her own fight. Some mornings, sitting in the car before the long walk to the CVICU, I would just cry.

I saw greed. I saw disorganization.
And I also witnessed extraordinary doctors and nurses who gave everything to save her.

2025—the Year of the Snake—asked me to shed what no longer serves. During my mom’s hospitalization, my website and business went dark. I let it go. God knew I couldn’t hold one more thing.

I feel a pivot coming. Maybe a book. Advocacy for ECMO patients—so no family endures the fragmentation that nearly cost my mother her life.

For now: being her right hand as she regains strength, and doing everything possible to heal my own body.

The skin has been shed.
A warrior has emerged.

And now, the Year of the Horse is upon us. 🐎

Tonight, I sit in stillness and allow gratitude to wash over me.

Observing two separate timelines.

My mom is here.
Alive.
Laughing.
Singing.
Celebrating with us.

And sometimes, my body still drifts back to the moments when we weren’t sure she would survive.

That timeline is where we lost the battle.

Both held the echoes of overwhelming uncertainty.
The never ending procedures.
The faint buzz of hospital lights.
The way time felt suspended.

And then…within a sacred space…they began to separate.

And I’m learning that healing is not pretending it didn’t happen…but honoring the truth that both the grief and the miracle co-exist.

So tonight, I’m honoring both timelines:

❤️The one where I prayed with my whole body just to keep her here but alas Jesus called her home
🙏🏼 And the one where I get to watch her sing next to me while I hold her hand during the Christmas Eve service.

I’m not taking a single moment of this for granted.

What a wonderful Christmas gift it is… that she gets to be here.

That we get to be here…together.

“For nothing will be impossible with God.” — Luke 1:37
God, thank You for breath, for mercy, and for another year with the woman who shaped me. May her heart continue to be strengthened, her joy be full, and may our home be covered in Your peace. 🙏🏼❤️

Merry Christmas ✨

Incredible discussion over on with Brené Brown! Highly recommend this episode!!

A man becomes dangerous in the best way when he stops worshipping his own ego.

When he stops defending his wounds.
When he stops performing strength and starts embodying it.
When he stops hiding behind pride and faces himself like a warrior.

Smashing the ego isn’t about becoming less
It’s about becoming true.

A man who can confront his shadows is a man who can lead.

A man who can admit when he’s wrong is a man who can be trusted.

A man who chooses accountability over image is a man who can be followed.

The hero’s path is inner conquest.
Not domination of others but mastery of self.

This is the kind of masculinity the world needs.
Unarmored.
Honest.
Awake.

A man aligned with truth, not ego.

I see you 🙏🏼❤️

An awakened woman isn’t here to make you comfortable.
She’s here to make you remember who you are.