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Expressing Gratitude

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This document discusses expressing gratitude and how it can positively impact one's life and psyche. It recommends taking time to appreciate positive experiences and relationships, being grateful for both good and challenging things, and specifically thanking others. Expressing gratitude requires seeing connections between people and nature, acknowledging how others help us, and reframing obstacles as opportunities. The document encourages processing life through a grateful lens even during difficult times.

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Expressing Gratitude
Expressing Gratitude Louise Stanger Ed.D, LCSW, CDWF, CIP
About Dr. Louise Clinician, Social Worker Educator, Trainer Author, Blogger Wife, Mother, Grandmother Adventurer
Have you contemplated the great mysteries of Life? How do you view life and death Are they inextricably tied together? Researchers have found when you lose something, research suggests you value it more
Have you taken time to smell the roses? Savoring positive experiences makes them stick in your brain and increase the benefits to your psyche. Close your eyes and imagine a pleasurable experience
Expressing Gratitude
Expressing Gratitude
Expressing Gratitude
What experiences can you recall ? What experiences do you savor ? Who do remember and why?
Do you take Good things as Gifts or Entitlement ? The Opposite of Gratitude is Entitlement -believe yourself as special
Seeing with a Grateful Eye Requires that you see the web of Interconnections in relationships with nature and other other people Recovery = showing up and being of service , making amends
Be Grateful to People Not Just Things
Take Notice How others help you How you acknowledged their help How you benefited from the interaction Say thank you with purpose and meaning
Specificity is Paramount The more specific you are with another, the more genuine gratitude feels I appreciate being told exactly what is working and what is not
What three, four or even five people did you thank today for a specific thing that enriches your life?
How do you Thank outside the Box? Your loved one for allowing you to explore your own behaviors Your boss for firing you Your boyfriend or girlfriend for ending your relationship Your interventionists for getting you to treatment
Gratitude is a Critical Life Process Its easy to feel grateful for the good things Its critical to when devastating things happen to us to be grateful (When Bad Things Happen to Good People ) Life is suffering ( Emmons - Life is temporary -Buddah
Processing Life thru a Grateful Lens Does not mean denying Negativity Instead it means realizing you have the power to transform an obstacle into an opportunity It means reframing a loss to a potential gain and recasting negativity into positive channels
How will you express Gratitude?
Available On Amazon and at Rutledge
Available On Amazon
Call or email Dr. Louise 619-507-1699 www.allaboutinterventions .com Drstanger@allaboutinterv entions.com

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Expressing Gratitude

  • 2. Expressing Gratitude Louise Stanger Ed.D, LCSW, CDWF, CIP
  • 3. About Dr. Louise Clinician, Social Worker Educator, Trainer Author, Blogger Wife, Mother, Grandmother Adventurer
  • 4. Have you contemplated the great mysteries of Life? How do you view life and death Are they inextricably tied together? Researchers have found when you lose something, research suggests you value it more
  • 5. Have you taken time to smell the roses? Savoring positive experiences makes them stick in your brain and increase the benefits to your psyche. Close your eyes and imagine a pleasurable experience
  • 9. What experiences can you recall ? What experiences do you savor ? Who do remember and why?
  • 10. Do you take Good things as Gifts or Entitlement ? The Opposite of Gratitude is Entitlement -believe yourself as special
  • 11. Seeing with a Grateful Eye Requires that you see the web of Interconnections in relationships with nature and other other people Recovery = showing up and being of service , making amends
  • 12. Be Grateful to People Not Just Things
  • 13. Take Notice How others help you How you acknowledged their help How you benefited from the interaction Say thank you with purpose and meaning
  • 14. Specificity is Paramount The more specific you are with another, the more genuine gratitude feels I appreciate being told exactly what is working and what is not
  • 15. What three, four or even five people did you thank today for a specific thing that enriches your life?
  • 16. How do you Thank outside the Box? Your loved one for allowing you to explore your own behaviors Your boss for firing you Your boyfriend or girlfriend for ending your relationship Your interventionists for getting you to treatment
  • 17. Gratitude is a Critical Life Process Its easy to feel grateful for the good things Its critical to when devastating things happen to us to be grateful (When Bad Things Happen to Good People ) Life is suffering ( Emmons - Life is temporary -Buddah
  • 18. Processing Life thru a Grateful Lens Does not mean denying Negativity Instead it means realizing you have the power to transform an obstacle into an opportunity It means reframing a loss to a potential gain and recasting negativity into positive channels
  • 19. How will you express Gratitude?
  • 20. Available On Amazon and at Rutledge
  • 22. Call or email Dr. Louise 619-507-1699 www.allaboutinterventions .com Drstanger@allaboutinterv entions.com