Tag: #resilience

• Shattered Pieces: UNLV Fostering Scholars Speech

  Have you ever been washing dishes and knocked over a glass? If you have quick reflexes, maybe you catch it midair. But if it shatters, what do you do? Do you sit there dwelling on the mess, or do you roll up your sleeves, clean it up, and move forward? That’s my life. Some days,…

  Tiara Christopher

  May 24, 2025

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  #faith, #fosteryouth, #god, #resilience, education, lasvegas, speech, UNLV, youth

• Becoming a Balanced Boss: Mastering Mental Health in Leadership with Nat Trodahl

  “It’s okay to just have a bad day.” – Nat Trodahl At the Becoming a Balanced Boss: Mastering Mental Health in Leadership conference, Nat Trodahl was our closing speaker. I had met her earlier that day while waiting in line for lunch. Actually, she met me. I had just finished networking and was ready to…

  Tiara Christopher

  October 8, 2024

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  #Empowerment, #resilience, health, psychological, psychology, theory, wellness, women

• My Beautiful Nightmare: The Journey from Losing Isaiah to Losing Elizabeth

  “It’s not about how you start; it’s about how you finish” The pain of losing a child transcends mere loss; it is a profound trauma that touches every facet of my being. My experience, paralleling the narrative in Losing Isaiah, where Halle Berry’s character faces systemic bias, reflects not just personal grief but a broader…

  Tiara Christopher

  July 29, 2024

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  #BlackWomenStories, #CriticalRaceTheory, #EmotionalHealing, #EmpowermentThroughPain, #HopeAndHealing, #JusticeAndEquity, #LosingElizabeth, #LosingIsaiah, #MotherhoodStruggles, #MyBeautifulNightmare, #OvercomingAdversity, #PersonalJourney, #resilience, #StrengthThroughStruggle, #SystemicBias, #TraumaRecovery, intersectionality

• Embracing Wellness: Integrating Yoga, Faith, and Self-Affirmation for Holistic Health and Resilience

  What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? Maintaining health and well-being involves a multi-faceted approach, and for me, yoga plays a pivotal role. As a wellness specialist and certified expert in various alternative healing practices, I integrate these methods into my routine. My approach to yoga, particularly as a certified trauma…

  Tiara Christopher

  July 24, 2024

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  #EarthaKitt, #Empowerment, #FaithAndWellbeing, #FaithBasedHealing, #HealingThroughYoga, #HealthyMindset, #HolisticHealth, #InspirationalReading, #Journaling, #MayaAngelou, #MindBodyConnection, #Mindfulness, #MotivationalQuotes, #PersonalGrowth, #PositiveLiterature, #PositiveThinking, #resilience, #SelfAffirmation, #SelfLove, #SpiritualGrowth, #SpiritualWellness, #TraumaHealing, #WellnessJourney, #YogaForTrauma, #YogaPractice, #YogaTherapy, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2009, mentalhealth, wellness

• Surviving Accidents: My Journey Through Resilience

  It seems I’ve always been unlucky or prone to accidents. My first accident happened when I was about six years old. My older sister Lonisha, who was only 12 at the time, was responsible for taking me to and from school. She used her bike for transportation, with me perched between the handlebars. One afternoon,…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 19, 2024

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  #accidents, #caraccidents, #my, #mystory, #neardeathexperiences, #resilence, #resilience, #survivor, #testimony, #trauma

• My Story

  My name is Tiara Christopher, and I’m here to share my journey of survival and resilience. I want to encourage you with my story and show you that it is possible to overcome anything and become everything! In 2019, the US Census Bureau reported the average African American household income was $43,000. Let’s break that…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 19, 2024

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  #autobiography, #blackexcellence, #blackpower, #blackwomen, #book, #bookingagent, #chapter, #faith, #family, #god, #memoir, #mother, #mystory, #mytestimony, #pain, #power, #preview, #proposal, #rainbows, #resilence, #resilience, #self, #share, #snippet, #survivor, #testimony, #trauma, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1972

• Rainbows

  My life has been a series of temporary inconveniences, which were blessings disguised as problems. Before I tell you more about where I am going, I’d like to paint a picture of endless possibilities. Through my story, I want you to feel empowered by what I’ve been through and where I’m going. By the end…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 19, 2024

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  #autobiography, #book, #bookingagent, #chapter, #faith, #family, #god, #memoir, #mother, #pain, #power, #preview, #proposal, #rainbows, #resilence, #resilience, #self, #snippet, #survivor, #trauma, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1972

• Chapter 3: Them vs. Me

  It’s not enough to paint over a deteriorating home because underneath that lacquer is a home rotting at the base. The infrastructure needs repairing, but the fresh paint gives the illusion from the outside that the home is a fresh start, to a new and less complicated life. Berkeley is five miles from Oakland; but…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 17, 2024

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  #autobiography, #book, #bookingagent, #chapter, #chapter3, #faith, #god, #memoir, #mother, #pain, #power, #preview, #proposal, #resilence, #resilience, #self, #snippet, #survivor, #trauma, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1972

• Chapter 2: Mama, I’m Right Here!

  I never had Mother’s undivided attention; so I deliberately misbehaved, thinking that was the way to get it. One day, I tried to get Mother’s attention by devising a plan to destroy Jeanne’s toilet. I thought that if I’d broken her toilet, she wouldn’t want to watch me anymore and Mother would have to watch…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 17, 2024

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  #autobiography, #book, #bookingagent, #chapter, #faith, #god, #memoir, #mother, #pain, #power, #preview, #proposal, #resilence, #resilience, #self, #snippet, #survivor, #trauma, #two, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1972

• Ch.1: Cracked Foundation

  If we compare my life to a house, my parents are like the footings to the foundation in my life. In my case, the footings to my foundation are disproportionate, unstable, and insecure. Yet somehow, I’ve crawled out of the pits of the dirt and rebuilt my foundation by slowly repairing the footings which have…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 17, 2024

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  #autobiography, #book, #bookingagent, #chapter, #chapterone, #faith, #god, #memoir, #mother, #one, #pain, #power, #preview, #proposal, #resilence, #resilience, #self, #snippet, #survivor, #trauma, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1972