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Tag: Gratitude

  • Therapy Thursday

  • Get Grateful: Gratitude Writing Challenge – Day 3

    Tap into your senses. What do you love to eat? What do you love to see? What do you love to smell? What do you love to hear? What do you love to touch? Food, drinks, movies, flowers, coffee, music, that one cute word your son or daughter says wrong, your cozy blanket, your comfy…

  • Get Grateful: Gratitude Writing Challenge – Day 2

    What are you grateful for that is around you? Your physical surroundings (such as a house, car, country, city or state), external surroundings (such birds chirping, sun shining, rain falling) or emotional surroundings (such as the love you feel for or from someone). Walk yourself through the past 24 hours in detail and make a…

  • Get Grateful: Gratitude Writing Challenge – Day 1

    What did you do today that you felt good or you enjoyed? Today was an exciting day! I planned my first hike as Event Organizer for my hiking group, King County Hiking and Mountaineering Group. I escaped from my comfort zone in two ways: stepped up to the role of group leader and hiked on a rainy,…

  • Gratitude

    What are you grateful for this year? How will you express your gratitude? Gratitude is good medicine. — Robert A. Emmons, professor of psychology at UC Davis 10 Reasons to Practice an Attitude of Gratitude, year round Gratitude Empowers You Visit www.gratefulness.org, which is an “online sanctuary” designed to foster grateful living. It can be very…

  • Kindness and Gratitude Calendar

    30 DAY CHALLENGE How to be kind and express gratitude?  Print, post, and practice one positive act a day!  

  • Monday Motivation

    No matter how rocky, rough, or challenging we forecast for this week, we need to be positive, present, and persistent… be grateful for the obstacles in the road as they make us stronger in the end. The light at the end of the tunnel will soon come and we will welcome it with a fresh, new…

  • Thankful Thursday

    July Gratitude Challenge Schedule 5 minutes each day to reflect on 5 things that bring you gratitude. Big or small, family, work, or personal related… You choose. Write each thing in a journal, post-it note, or your smart phone… You choose. When the ‘going gets tough’ or you are faced with seemingly unbeatable challenges in…

  • Spring for Hygge

    As the winter chill comes to an end, we need to continue one winter trend: Hygge Pronounced HOO-guh What is Hygge? It is a Danish wellness concept and often translated as “coziness.”  A Danish anthropologist, Jeppe Trolle Linnet, Ph.D. refers to it as “a situation that is pleasant, relaxed, devoid of demands, where you can be…

  • Monday Motivation

    Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire, If you did, what would there be to look forward to? Be thankful when you don’t know something For it gives you the opportunity to learn. Be thankful for the difficult times During those times you grow. Be thankful for your limitations Because they give…