Gratitude Through Hard Times: Finding Positive Benefits Through Our Darkest Hours

Uncomfortable conversations. Brave conversations. Vulnerable rumblings. In Daring Greatly, author Brene Brown describes a rumble like this: A rumble is a discussion, conversation, or meeting defined by a commitment to lean into vulnerability, to stay curious and generous, to stick with the messy middle of problem identification and solving, to take

with at our experiences—co-creating safe spaces and meeting wonderful people—with recording profits and trying to “go bigger.” And then I began to buy into my own hype, valuing social climbing and monetary wealth over the well-being of myself and others.

The more frequently we feel grateful and show gratitude, the higher our baseline of well-being and the less frequently it’s diminished.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl

journey.

Frederickson says that “gratitude arises when an individual perceives that another person has acted intentionally to improve the beneficiary’s well-being.”

If you could give credit or thanks to one person in your life, that you don’t give enough credit or thanks to, who would that be?

The Plague of Ingratitude

The gratitude stopped flowing.