Giving Up is the Easy Option!
Faith....Something that was easy to push to the side but yet something I never gave up! The situation naturally looked bleak and doctors couldn't quite figure out the answer to why. Why wasn't I getting pregnant? How did my tubes become blocked? Why wasn't I ovulating quality eggs? Why wasn't the deepest desire of our hearts being manifested? My flesh wanted to give up but my spirit was SO much stronger than that! I cried. I prayed. I cried more than I prayed and then I praye
Determination Over Defeat
Faith over Fear. Patience over Frustration. Pain with a Purpose. If you have been following my journey towards motherhood or have read my book, Miscarried Joy, then you know that my husband and I are standing in faith and believing God for children. Three of them to be exact. With three miscarriages behind us you can probably imagine how easy it is to become discouraged. But we choose not to be, at least most of the time. After losing three babies, I am so anxious for another
Your Focus Determines Your Gratitude
"Tanika, how can you say that 2016 was an amazing year when the ONE thing you were praying for did not happen?" A few people asked me this question when I mentioned how incredible 2016 has been to my husband and I. Now, don't get me wrong. We encountered quite a few disappointments ranging from 12 negative pregnancy tests, discovering that my fallopian tubes were blocked, a loss of income within our household, frustration with the journey to parenthood, loss of people we thou
WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT: Miscarried Joy Hope Filled Giveaway
What an exciting time it has been over the past two weeks with the Miscarried Joy Hope Filled Giveaway. The main message of my book is to help readers Move Beyond Incredible Pain to Extraordinary Faith! This is not something that is achieved overnight but rather over time. In the spirit of giving and building Faith, the winner of this giveaway will receive the following prizes: A FREE Copy of Miscarried Joy: Moving Beyond Incredible Pain to Extraordinary Faith A 3-month subsc
Pushing Through the Pain
"Discouragement leads to doubt, unbelief, and temporarily blinds us to the truths and power that Christ possesses." (~Tanika Fitzgerald) Discouraged! That is an accurate description of how I felt when I woke up this morning. The time on my phone was 5:32am and thoughts of "What's wrong with me? Why aren't I getting pregnant?" began to run through my head. So guess what I did. I ran a Google search of "causes of infertility". Now I can't even count the amount of times I have d
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