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

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The first time you come, you come alone. The second time you come, you can bring a friend. After

We’ve been taught to repress, avoid, and hide any emotion that isn’t positive or happy. The pressure to be perfect, and to keep our vulnerabilities hidden, can be overwhelming. I’ve certainly felt it.

Those experiences continued every single night for free for the next few months, giving people the space to come and connect in authentic ways.

True connection doesn’t come from pretending our lives are perfect. True connection comes from reaching out to others during our greatest time of need.

The dots connected backwards. That non-linear life helped develop the skills and sense to build models to serve people at their most vulnerable, in ways that scientists would prove to be effective.

Gratitude can heal our suffering and our broken relationships. It can inspire us to move toward each other, and forward as a society. It can help us thrive.

He said, “the mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” It was his credo for tackling the challenges in