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Cultivating Thankfulness - Episode 8 Unexceptional Moms

Cultivating Thankfulness - Episode 8 Unexceptional Moms

Unexceptional Moms: Hope and Encouragement for Special Needs Parents vor 9 Jahren

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Join Erin and me as we talk about cultivating thankfulness. Life
can be challenging and messy, yet choosing to be thankful can
change our outlook in life. From the show: In the midst of the hard
and messy of life, we can choose to be thankful. Ellen shares how
she has been cultivating thankfulness for the year 2016. It started
with a hard 2015 and a realization that something needed to change.
Ellen had spent so much time focusing on the bad, that she needed
to switch her focus and focus on the good. This year has not been
easier, but her outlook in life has changed dramatically. Ellen
wrote about her plan at the beginning of the year, you can read
that here: Erin and Ellen discuss Ellen's latest post and go
through the different areas in which special needs parents can find
thankfulness. Read the post: Research shows that cultivating
thankfulness has a positive impact in several areas of life.
“Gratitude is an attitude and way of living that has been shown to
have many benefits in terms of health, happiness, satisfaction with
life, and the way we relate to others. It goes hand in hand
with mindfulness in its focus on the present and appreciation for
what we have now, rather than wanting more and more. Feeling
and expressing gratitude turns our mental focus to the positive,
which compensates for our brains’ natural tendency to focus on
threats, worries, and negative aspects of life. As such, gratitude
creates positive emotions like joy, love, and contentment which
research shows can undo the grip of negative emotions like anxiety.
Fostering gratitude can also broaden your thinking, and create
positive cycles of thinking and behaving in healthy, positive
ways.” Melanie Greenberg PH.D If you want to learn more about the
psychology behind it, you can read the rest of Dr. Greenbergs
article . Ellen mentioned she chose thankfulness over gratitude
after reading something that resonated with her. Gratitude is
a feeling, thankfulness (or thanks-giving) is an action. And don't
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