Tag: #resilience

• Chopping Wood: The Appraiser

  At first, I thought I was still in what Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts calls the “dangerous prayer.” As discussed in previous blogs, the prayer is this: Father God, Please remove from my life anyone or anything that cannot stand in Your presence. Strip away everything that is not of You, so that all that remains…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 28, 2026

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  #appraise, #art, #author, #autobiography, #book, #chef, #christ, #convergent, #cook, #creator, #Empowerment, #faith, #garden, #god, #gordonramsey, #metaphoricalconvergence, #nature, #peace, #plant, #power, #realtor, #resilience, #self, #survivor, #testimony, #trauma, #value, #WellnessJourney, #wood, health, identity, intertextualwriter, wellness

• Tabitha, Arise: Your Life Matters

  (Old to me, new to you. From July 28, 2025) It’s no coincidence that I just completed a personal three-day fast, much like Esther before she approached the king, risking her life to save her people. It’s no coincidence that in this same spirit of boldness, my three-year-old daughter, without prompting, often grabs my face…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 28, 2026

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• Holy Ground: Public Repentance

  It’s like someone who cannot swim. God pushed me into the deep. “I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me.” (Psalm 118:13, ESV). He pushed me so that I was falling into the deep end of the pool. I guess this type of repentance and pruning is me learning how…

  Tiara Christopher

  June 27, 2026

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  #christ, #faith, #god, #kingdombusiness, #pain, #repent, #resilience, #she, #survivor, #testimony, #trauma, christianity, church

• Intentional Suffering: Until!

  Sometimes pride and ego force us into what I like to call intentional suffering. Not suffering God assigned. Not suffering that was unavoidable. But suffering that continues because we refuse to seek the One who already has the answer. I know because I did it. And sometimes still do without recognizing it. Until. The season…

  Tiara Christopher

  May 31, 2026

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• They Pushed Me: Check on Your Strong Friends

  “I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me” (Psalm 118:13, ESV). What once felt like opposition I now understand, through Pastor Mike Jr.’s sermon, “You’ll Live” (April 5, 2026). I have entered a season of divine rerouting. Not because I was pushed. Not because I didn’t fall. Not because…

  Tiara Christopher

  May 30, 2026

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  #author, #book, #faith, #family, #god, #pain, #poem, #poet, #resilience, #testimony, #trauma

• The Necessary Thorn:What Sin Produces Within Us

  In Romans 7:8, Apostle Paul declares: “But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead” (Rom. 7:8, ESV). This is a heavy verse. Romans 7 carries tremendous weight as Paul describes unchecked sin, internal conflict, distorted desire, and the war between…

  Tiara Christopher

  May 26, 2026

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  #autobiography, #book, #christ, #Empowerment, #faith, #god, #resilience, #testimony, #trauma, #writer

• The Art of Translating Mother’s Day

  “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you” – Dr. Maya Angelou  The art of translating pain is the profound ability to articulate what hurts in a way that someone whether familiar or unfamiliar with the experience, event, or situation can understand. I did not realize it was time for…

  Tiara Christopher

  April 23, 2026

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  #Adolescent psychology, #author, #autobiography, #book, #boundaries, #christ, #faith, #family, #god, #honor, #humanbehavior, #memoir, #mother, #MotherhoodStruggles, #mothersday, #pain, #PsychologicalHealing, #resilience, #self, #survivor, #testimony, #trauma, #writer, children, health, motherhood , wellness

• 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