It felt good to sit around the dining table on Thanksgiving, rattling off all of the things we are grateful for. But how do we fully live our lives in gratitude?
“Joy and Gratitude go hand in hand. We are not grateful because we’re happy, rather we’re happy because we’re grateful.”
—Betty Mahalik
Brene Brown, an author, public speaker and researcher, has studied the connection between gratitude and joy. She found that people are not grateful because they are happy, but that people are happy because they are grateful. To engage in gratitude, Brene originally subscribed to the notion of an “attitude of gratitude”. However she discovered that an attitude is an orientation or a way of thinking, and that “having an attitude” doesn’t always translate into a behavior. She found that the people who most live their lives with gratitude were the ones who create a conscious practice of gratitude. Some keep gratitude journals, some repeat what they are grateful for upon waking each day, some take opportunities to spread feelings of gratitude to strangers, while some are conscious not to complain, criticize, or gossip about others. What would be the best way for you to bring “a practice of gratitude” into your life?
Sometimes there are areas in our lives that we are unable to feel grateful for. This is a red flag that signals it is time to make a change. Do you feel unsatisfied with your relationship with yourself, your spouse or significant other, your children, or your lack of a relationship? Do you want to make a change in your career, or to rejoin the workforce? Do you feel that something is missing, that your life could be better?
Unlike traditional therapy which looks to the past, life coaching is about moving forward and taking actions each week to make your life look the way you want it to. Together we will empower you to create a life you love, which will enable you to fully experience, and most importantly practice, gratitude. Life coaching can take place in person or on the phone, so location is never an issue. 100% Confidentiality is always my promise.