Tiffany Nicole Fletcher

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Contemplative Practice, Embodiment, Emotional Support, Facing Challenge, Grief, Healing, Love, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Resilience, Self-care, Spiritual Practice, Wellness

The Practice of Savoring

In July, my aunt Hilde left her body. After suffering from a brief illness, she left us to be with the Lord forever. During her life, she carried a beautiful joy for many things: music and singing, delicious food, travel, writing and reading, fashion, and for her service as a nurse, service she fulfilled for nearly 50 years. She lived with a true “zest for life,” as my mother calls it; she loved celebrations and gatherings, and had so many amazing experiences during her lifetime.

I was sitting in the park thinking about her, as I looked upon the horizon, where the sun was setting in a gorgeous array of colors. I thought about how our souls are given this bodily vessel and how to have that experience is a blessing. We tend to lose our awareness that it is a gift to dwell in a body, even if that body has aches and pains or things we might wish to change.

Black Women's Health Updates

Black Women’s Health Update – August 14, 2024

Welcome! Below is a selection of the latest research and updates related to Black women’s health.

In addition to the studies and reports below, I lift up the lived experiences of Black women, experiences which have often already confirmed for us what the studies and articles report.

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American Cancer Society launches major study of Black women’s health

The American Cancer Society has launched VOICES of Black Women, a study enrolling over 100,000 Black women between the ages of 25 and 55. The largest study of its kind, it will focus on behavioral and environmental cancer risks and outcomes, to better understand how the lived experiences of Black women may affect their cancer risk or mortality.

A new discovery has been made toward finding a cure for lupus

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have identified a cause for lupus – a cellular defect that appears to drive the disease process. Their study shows that reversing the defect may reverse the disease.

all i ever wrote, Contemplative Practice, Digital Offerings, Emotional Support, Healing, Healing Journaling, Morning Pages, Personal Growth, Prayer, Resilience, Self-care, Spiritual Practice

New e-book! Healing Journaling: Writing in the Presence of God

I’m so excited to share a new resource with you! Now available for digital download is Healing Journaling: Writing in the Presence of God.

Journaling has been a practice of mine since I was a child. My mother still gifts me the most beautiful journals for my birthday, and I wonder if she prays over them before giving them to me, because I always end up experiencing beautiful revelations through the journaling I do in them.

Healing journaling helps you know yourself and God better

Healing journaling is meeting yourself and God on the page through your most intimate reflections. Journaling can be a form of prayer, a true spiritual practice, when approached with intention. It can help you:

Develop your relationship with God

Understand yourself better

Foster your personal development and growth

Discover your wounds so that they can be healed

Find and develop your personal voice

…and so much more!

This 26-page resources guides you through five healing journaling practices, with tips for how to incorporate them into your life. You’ll gain encouragement and practical tips for starting or developing this practice, which will help you strengthen your connection with God and with your own heart.

Emotional Support, Facing Challenge, Faith, Grief, Healing, Love, Mother Wound, Peace, Personal Growth, Resilience, Self-care

Facing the Mother Wound: A Letter of Healing for Daughters and Sons

Dear beloved one,

I am writing with a note to you, daughter or son of a mother.

If the mother experience you’ve had in this life has been a perfect one, this letter is not for you.

This letter is for those with a mother wound. A mother loss, mother pain. Mother scars.

Black Women's Health Updates

Black Women’s Health Update – April 23, 2024

Welcome! Below is a selection of the latest research and updates related to Black women’s health.

In addition to the studies and reports below, I lift up the lived experiences of Black women, experiences which have often already confirmed for us what the studies and articles report.

To be reminded of the latest updates, sign up here for my monthly newsletter.

Let’s get into these updates!

U.S. Government Issues Guidance Prohibiting the Practice of Performing Sensitive/Intimate Examinations Without Consent

In a huge milestone for patient consent, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance requiring medical providers to obtain patient’s written consent before any intimate examinations, particularly if they are done on patients under anesthesia. Yale University bioethics researchers found that Black patients are four times more likely than white patients to report having received unconsented pelvic or prostate exams.

“Informed consent includes the right to refuse consent for sensitive examinations conducted for teaching purposes and the right to refuse to consent to any previously unagreed examinations to treatment while under anesthesia,” noted the letter.

A study of patient portal responses indicates discrimination in healthcare

A new study found that when patients belong to minority racial and ethnic groups, their patient portal messages to their provider were de-prioritized; they were less likely to receive a physician response and more likely to receive a response from a nurse.