The importance of practicing daily gratitude.  Training your mind to see the good things is especially necessary when going through a dark season and negative things are shouting for your attention

Transcript:

Hello, my name is Tiffany, and welcome to the podcast, Working on Amazing.

As I said before, this podcast is specifically designed for women who are going through a divorce, going through a breakup, have lost their main person in their life, and you feel like you're starting over midlife.

If that's you, you're in the right place.

You are not alone, and you're so welcome here.

Now, like I said before, each of our episodes will fall under one of five main categories, right?

So we had spiritual health, mental health, physical health, financial health, and growth and goals.

So today's episode, we're going to focus on the mental health aspect, and we're going to be talking about gratitude.

Gratitude is one of my favorite topics.

I really, it has made such a huge impact in my life, and I'm really excited to share it with you.

And while I know that it is so deceptively simple, we hear about gratitude because we have this national holiday called Thanksgiving, which is great, right?

We have a holiday where we are thankful as a nation.

We set aside, however, somehow, maybe that numbs us to how precious gratitude is.

Maybe because I'm not sure.

And I think when you live life day in and day out, it's easy to become numb.

You have to choose gratitude.

But let's really talk about the daily practice of gratitude.

Not once a year, not I'm just thankful, but really focusing on making it a priority and folding it into our daily lives and our daily routine.

It makes such an impact and such a difference.

It made a massive difference in my life.

And it's slow.

It's not like a light switch.

Oh, I practice gratitude.

Now my life is suddenly better.

It just slowly changes the trajectory of your thoughts.

It slowly curves that back in a much better direction.

So I'll tell you a little bit about my personal journey with gratitude.

I probably was just moving along through life.

Yes, I'm thankful, but it wasn't necessarily a focus.

And then I heard somebody talk about it probably 18 years ago.

It's about 18 years ago.

And this man talked about gratitude.

And it really just resonated with me.

I thought, I need to practice that.

I need to really absorb and take in and do what this man is talking about.

Because at that time in my life, I was a very young mother.

I had a three-year-old and a three-month-old.

And we had just moved.

And it wasn't a good move, if that makes sense.

Sometimes you move because it's, yay, we found a better job and a better house.

And sometimes you move because you have to and it's sad.

And this was a because we had to kind of thing.

And in my marriage had all these stress fractures in it.

And I felt like I was doing everything to hold it together and hold on and make it work.

And like I said, you've got the hormones of being a young mother to like three months old.

I mean, that was a small baby.

So I had moved cities.

I had moved away from my family and my friends to a brand new place.

So I was not in a great space mentally.

I wasn't super happy and excited with my life.

It felt like kind of a dark season.

And so when I heard gratitude, I knew when this guy spoke about it, it was just like, I knew that that's what I needed to focus on now because it was so dark.

And because it did feel like everything was ichy, I had to focus on the positive.