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Self-Soothing: a gratitude ritual
Self-Soothing is Self-Love in Action Create a Self-Soothe Kit I have been making great use of a self-soothe kit I made last year and I would love to share that with you. I was guided to make my kit by Vanya Garabedian, LCSW who uses it with her clients who are in recovery from addiction. …
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Have You Thanked Your Water Today?
Drinking in Water. Drinking in the Universe. Drinking in Gratitude Water is sacred. But how often do we drink it without a thought? Mindlessly stirring it in to our food as we cook? We are taking an element into our body. An element that we can’t live without. An element that connects us with the…
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Spring Blooms by the Light of the Moon
Seeing Spring in a New Light Spring Equinox Full Moon Last night to celebrate the spring equinox and full moon I decided to go outside under the full moon and immerse myself in nature. I love being out in nature and I am often grateful for plants and flowers and wildlife and weather and mountains…
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Meditation and Gratitude
Quieting Your Mind to Make Space for Gratitude Find Quiet to Find Gratitude Sometimes gratitude hits me out of nowhere like a punch to the throat. Leaving me overwhelmed and choked up with emotion. Other times it is a whisper of a thought that taps at my attention. Noticeable but just barely. Often when I…
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All the Brilliant Things of 2018
Download: Reflecting On Your Year With Gratitude Reflecting on the Brilliant Moments This time of year brings such mixed feelings for me. At times I feel extremely connected and valued. Other times I feel lonely and insecure. I go from feeling happy to sad to relaxed to bored sometimes all in one day! The introspection that…
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A Recipe for Getting Out of Your Own Way
Do you know how all this gratitude started for me? Living Your Best Life Before gratitude became the focus of my work and even before I started practicing gratitude, I used to use it as a tool to help people on their path to creating the life they wanted. I was doing health and wellness coaching…
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Ceremony and Ritual
Why I am all about rituals. Intention and Actions in Sequence I’ve been mentioning rituals for awhile now. Even sharing some of the gratitude and healing rituals I enjoy practicing. But I have never really talked about why I am all about rituals and ceremony. I love the word ritual. There is just something about…
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Grief and Self Touch
Appreciating your body with touch. Intentional Self Touch During Times of Grief I have been thinking a lot about grief and loss. There are people in our gratitude community who are experiencing profound losses right now. And there are people in my other communities, people in the country and all over the world, who are…
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Waving Your Flag
Putting it all out there. Loud and Proud Gratitude If you had a flag of your states of being what would be on it? What are you all about? What do you live by? Would your flag declare gratitude or love or peace or spirituality or fun or growth or something else or all of…
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Steps Before Practicing Gratitude
For those days when it doesn’t emerge spontaneously. Cultivating Gratitude Some days gratitude emerges beautifully and unexpectedly like a wildflower sprout whose seed carried by the wind took refuge in a tiny patch of dirt that lay at rest. It wasn't planned. It wasn't expected. It wasn't even desired. But there it is. Thriving. Other…
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Choose Carefully the Words After “I am”
I am worthy. The Power of "I am" Another result of a gratitude practice is that every day that we write, "I am grateful for _________," we are declaring who we are as grateful. This is extremely powerful. The words we choose to say after "I am" truly, and in all ways, define us. It…
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Practicing Gratitude Without Attachment
Grateful for nothing in particular and everything all at once. Searching For Something That is There I sat down last night to write down the three things I was grateful for. Doing a mental inventory of my day searching for things I appreciated. Last night was one of the easy days. I was grateful for…
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I Thought It Was a Good Luck Spell
Ha! I am not a gratitude witch after all. I Said Thank You Because I Wanted More You’d think I have this gratitude thing figured out by now after six years of this daily practice. But that’s why this is called a practice. There is no point of arriving. It is all becoming. Becoming grateful.…
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Planting in Your Soul
What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout. ~Rumi A Perfect Time to Look Within Today, the day after the eclipse, the day after the new moon, is a great time to look within and get clarity on what you are wanting to plant in your soul. There is a rich tradition of farming…
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I Have To Admit I Haven’t Been Feeling It
This isn’t the first time. What has worked for me in the past? It's There in the Moment and Then Poof I usually do my daily gratitude practice right before bed. I have tried other times but before bed is what works best for me. But every once in a while I go through a…
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Awash in Pleasure
Don’t you miss feeling good? You Deserve To Feel Good For so many of us pleasure is not part of our daily lives. If it happens, great. But we do little to facilitate it, welcome it, create space for it. Then when we want it we expect our bodies to just quickly move from…
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If You Want To See Something Ugly
This Basquiat quote is just so damn true. Seeing It All Do you want to see the ugliness in the world? Do you want to see the beauty in the world? It isn't really a choice. We have the capacity for both. But we just have to remember that if we want to see…
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What I Love About The One Word Resolution
Don’t ignore the problem but staring at it is not the way forward. The Way Forward We have arrived in 2017. A new year. A fresh start. I hope you have taken some time to reflect on 2016 with gratitude. Before you jump into your New Year’s resolutions (if you do that sort of…
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Being Grateful Without the Desire to Possess It
Staying grateful through the holidays. A Beautiful Exchange That Inspired Me She complimented me on my earrings. And then she added “they are great on you.” She explained that in many cultures when you compliment something, and seem to be captivated by it, the custom is to give it to them. So she said…
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Macgyvering with Gratitude
I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving & Receiving! We Don't Always Have What We Need, or Do We? I never really thought of Macgyver as being grateful. Actually I haven't thought about Macgyver since I was about 12 years old. But all that changed today when I heard a podcast by the creator…