12/10/2025
Well-being Wednesdays w/ Tami
December 10, 2025
As we continue our year in review, this post is my favorite. I am a believer in speaking truth to fear and not letting it take on power it shouldn't have. We can't control what happens around us, but we are not powerless. Enjoy this perspective on how we can still be ok when everything around us is not.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16Z9NGugWx/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Well-being Wednesdays w/ Tami
October 16, 2024
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Anyone who has dealt with a diagnosis is familiar with fear. So many uncertainties in our lives cause emotions to stir and our thoughts to swirl. While these responses are normal, there are tools to deal with fears that arise. While we cannot control everything that happens around us, there is great power in knowing we can control our reaction to them. We are not at the mercy of any diagnosis when choosing how to face our fears.
Fear doesn't say maybe things will be uncomfortable. Fear takes us to the worst possible outcome, which is not the truth. Our bodies react physically, but there is no physical outlet to relieve it. This is where praying, exercise, stretching, calm breathing, and other stress-relieving tools should become part of our toolbox. Speaking truth to our fears can also have an amazing effect as we realize that right now, we are NOT in the worst place, and we can face whatever comes IF it comes. The future is still unknown, so we should deal with the now.
While finding gratitude sounds like the last thing we want to do when facing a trial, it changes us.
What can we find good about something so devastating? We can be grateful it was discovered, and that help is available. We can find thankfulness in the tools we gain that will help us become stronger. We might find comfort in the support of others and knowing we are not alone. When we change how we see an obstacle, it changes our approach to it. Fear and gratitude cannot share the same space.
We do what we can to change our prognosis, but what do we do if the solution is out of our hands? We have to ask for what we need, but we do it from a place of trust, believing that there is something better out there for us. With hope for our future, we take our eyes off the problem and focus on the solution. Hope reminds us that no matter what, we can be ok.
This song is powerful when we need a reminder to keep holding on and believing we can make it through one step at a time. We are stronger than we know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjF9IqvXDjY
