It's A Thankful Thursday!!

 

Ways To Practice Gratitude - SEL

 

Ways To Practice Gratitude

• Write out 3 things that you are grateful for everyday.
• Create a Gratitude Jar
• Write someone a Thank You note.
• Be Kind

Creative Block - Be Honest With Your Support System

The second point in Creative Block - Get Back To Trying is to be honest with your support system.

This has been hard for me to verbalize to others, friends and families included. There have been so many days that I just shutdown. It's not done on purpose. Some days are better than others and some days are just that, "a day". A day with no makeup and earrings, a litmus test for me is when I have them both on. A day when I may get dressed by sundown. Heck, it might even be a day where I have on what I had on the previous day because I slept in it. That's real talk.

One of the hardest things to do is admit that you’re not okay—especially when you’re used to being the strong one, the creative one, the dependable one. But pretending everything is fine takes energy you don’t have.  So, while I don't pretend, often I shut the world out. Grief already asks so much of you; masking your truth shouldn’t be one more burden.

Honesty creates room to breathe. It allows the people who love you to show up fully, instead of guessing or assuming. Saying, “Today is hard,” or “I don’t have words right now,” is not weakness. It’s clarity. And clarity invites connection, support, and sometimes relief—if only for a moment.

Between my sister and my three closest girlfriends, I can almost guarantee that one of them will pick up when I'm shutting the world out. In those moments I am grateful to have someone try to pull me out of that space of grief, depression and loneliness.

What's crazy to me is that I tend to be outgoing and pretty much happy go lucky. However, since Fall of 2024 my days have been so unpredictable. I honestly think that writing about it has been really helpful for me.

A Gratitude Exercise #inallthingsgivethanks

Reasons To Practice Gratitude

It's A Thankful Thursday!!!

There are various reasons to practice gratitude.

• To see the goodness in your life.
• To show abundance.
• To show appreciation.

You practice gratitude by:

• Write out 3 things that you are grateful for.
• Send a note to a relative or friend to let them know that you appreciate them.
• Practice random of acts of kindness.

Thankful Thursday

I am so grateful for the Crossroads App. 

Daily it provides space to practice gratitude which is so important to me. 🙏🏽

Take a moment each day and reflect on 3 things that you are grateful for. 

In all things give thanks.

Wellness Webinar.2 | Practice Gratitude

Evolving Takes Werk Episode 9 - Tracey Brooks With Living Legacy Financial Services

On Episode 9 I talk to Tracey Brooks of Living Legacy Financial Services. We discuss her journey to becoming an entrepreneur and making intentional time to do things that bring joy.

Thankful Thursdays

It’s a #thankfulthursday❤️ What are you thankful for today? 

Normally I write out 3 things I’m thankful for every day but here lately I can think of way more. God, I thank you for my family. I thank you for my older son who is the bomb dot com and has taken on leadership roles in our family with grace. I thank you for my younger son who is each day flourishing in his “new normal” of online learning and understanding that order brings about peace as we all try to “figure it out”. 

God, I thank you for the comforting sounds of trains and beautiful spaces to just be. I promise you I have so much more to thank God for. He’ll bring about calm in chaos. #thatsawordrightthere

I encourage you to look for the good in these times. 

Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved can stand,
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

Originally posted at Arlinda Christine Ministries