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

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

“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

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True belonging comes when you can show up exactly as you are—when you don’t have to change who you are to be seen and heard.

But as good as my life looked good on paper, I felt the polar opposite: broken on the inside. The more people mentioned my success,

There were many factors that led to my NSSI in late 2021, but I know for certain that a lack of flow was among them. At the time of my episode, I just couldn’t reach that challenge-skills sweet spot. There were some parts of my life that were too challenging, like 7:47’s extraordinarily rapid growth and the fact that I’d taken on way too many proje

more I felt like a fraud.

the deep poverty of the soul that afflicts the wealthy—and that the poverty of the soul in America was deeper than any poverty she had seen anywhere else on Earth. I had architected a life of scarcity and competition, rather than one of joy and abundance, and found myself in the depths of soul poverty as a result. My friend Scott said that

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