Against Despair
by Tiffany Nicole Fletcher
Still yourself a moment and feel the
music of your brave heart beating. Strong
organ, with so much work to do,
is supporting you, again. Pick a wonder:
do you have toes to tap, eyes to witness night
surrender to daylight, ears to hear
your child’s laughter? A home? How many
days have you survived until now? How
many days have opened to welcome you?
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 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.
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It’s my joy to share this new digital download, Affirmations and Prayers for Empowerment and Solace.
This 26-page PDF contains the personal affirmations that have kept me afloat through all kinds of seasons. There are affirmations and prayers for grounding, blessing, self-compassion, navigating grief and sorrow, embodying power, calling in help, blessing, abundance, and protection. One of the themes threaded throughout the affirmations is embodied safety – body as home, as safe home – which makes them particularly soothing for survivors of trauma.
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So happy to announce that my poem “The Woman with the Issue” is featured in Heart of Flesh Literary Journal‘s Issue Seven, released today.
This poem is a reflection on Luke 8:43-48, the story of the woman with the issue of blood. It’s a poem about difficulty and despair, daring faith, relentless hope, relationship, and healing.
Continue ReadingI am excited to share that my poem “The Process” is featured in the Fall 2021 issue of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing.
This year Snapdragon Journal has been focusing on grief, including how it shapes us and how we move through it. The fall issue centers on bargaining, the third phase of the stages of grief as outlined by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
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