Gratitude Practice
The best way I know how to teach is through experience. Life has blessed me with my opportunities to learn and grow. Some may call them challenges. Others may call them tragedies. My mom calls them BS. She believes in me so much that she thinks I deserve a life of sunshine, butterflies, unicorns and fairies. I love her to the stars and back! Part of my Gratitude Practice is keeping my perspective on this BS (in honor of Mom, I will refer to it all as such), knowing that if I let myself look at the BS through a victim's eyes, I let the darkness in. I trust that I am only dealt a hand I can deal with. I believe in myself to know that I will survive, THRIVE actually! So, when the BS stacks up and makes my perspective waiver, it is this internal strength, and that of my family and friends, that keeps me on tract. This is the key to my Gratitude Practice. If there is a time where I'm a girl feeling fat, ugly, unsuccessful, or any of that other very human, normal behavior, I k