spiritual health

  • Attitude of Gratitude

    Attitude of Gratitude

    With all the people reaching out to offer help and or prayers, I am trying hard to stay in a mood of gratitude. It helps with the severe pain and keeping me out of crying and feeling sorry for myself. I will have to have surgery within the next week or two. I will be

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  • Peace and Serenity

    Peace and Serenity

    A dear friend is having surgery this morning, please join me in praying for his speedy recovery. 🙏I would like to share with you my theory on Peace. Oxford defines peace as “freedom from disturbance; tranquility.” Tranquility is defined as “the quality or state of being tranquil; calm.” Webster’s defines tranquil as “free from agitation

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  • Love and Like

    Love and Like

    Let’s look at the difference between Love and Like, not just in a measure of romantic feelings, but also in the rest of our relationships, including with ourselves. Oxford defines relationship as “the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected.” The state of being

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  • Hope vs Fear

    Hope vs Fear

    Today, rather than talk about the difference between a feeling and a state of being, I would like to talk about how a positive state of being prevents a negative feeling from becoming an overwhelming state of being. I am talking about Hope versus Fear. My favorite definition of Hope comes from Wikipedia “an optimistic

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  • Guilt vs Shame

    Guilt vs Shame

    Yesterday we touched on the difference between an Emotion or Feeling and a ‘State of Being.’ I have some combinations that I have found life changing. I was first exposed to the difference between the two concepts while reading a book by Dr. Brene Brown. She has studied and talks on the difference between Guilt

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  • Emotion vs State of Being

    Emotion vs State of Being

    First thing I need to say to one of my Besties is, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Stay Crazy! 😜Have you ever contemplated the difference between an ‘emotion’ and a ‘state of being?’ They are actually different and that difference is important. As I hinted at yesterday I feel that living a life full of positive ‘States of

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  • Disengaging is a healthy thing

    I had an epiphany yesterday. I realized that the last few arguments, two doozies and one tiff (yes that is what we called it as we were apologizing, 😆), I’ve been involved in were made worse because I refused to disengage. The two “doozies” have both thrown my world into a spin-out. I remember my

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  • The New Journey Takes Flight

    Let me introduce myself, I’m Tiffany Raikes MSN APRN FNP MLT-ASCP. If you don’t understand that alphabet soup, that’s okay. What it means is that I’m a Family Nurse Practitioner who has been learning and growing in medicine for the past 35+ years. I started in EMS with my local Rescue Squad as a teenager.

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