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If you’re hoping to express your thanks for all the good things in life this year, we’ve got a collection of gratitude quotes to help. After all, Thanksgiving is the season for gratitude.
The American Heart Association called gratitude “a good medicine,” pointing to research that shows practicing it can improve sleep, mood, immunity, depression, anxiety, chronic pain and disease.
How then do we practice gratitude during such times? I am a social psychologist who runs the Positive Emotion and Social Behavior Lab at Gonzaga University. I teach courses focused on resilience ...
And while it can be hard to avoid self-pity entirely, mentally strong people choose to exchange self-pity for gratitude. Whether you decide to write a few sentences in a gratitude list or ...
A lot has been written about gratitude over the past two decades and how we ought to be feeling it. There is advice for journaling and a plethora of purchasing options for gratitude notebooks and ...
Yet, Americans are living in a very stressful time, worried about their financial situation and the current political upheaval. How then do we practice gratitude during such times? I am a social ...
In the landscape of positive psychology, gratitude stands out as a practice with remarkable transformative potential. But what if its impact runs deeper than we previously understood? Recent ...
I teach courses focused on resilience and human flourishing. I have researched and taught about gratitude for 18 years. At the best of times, awareness of the positive may require more effort than ...