More thankful, less stressed? Researchers from Irish universities carried out a study with 68 adults and found that gratitude has a unique stress-buffering effect on both reactions to and recovery ...
Anyone who has tried to change a habit or a deeply ingrained way of viewing life knows how difficult this can be. We can all make temporary changes, but we soon slide back into old habits unless we ...
Gratitude is more than transient thankfulness or a courteous acknowledgment. When expressed and experienced regularly, gratitude can alter one’s psychological and physical health. Gratitude involves ...
Zephyr Kendzierski never thought much about gratitude until they entered recovery for substance use disorder in 2006. Neither did their wife Kathy Flores, until she survived a brain aneurysm in 2007.
Thanksgiving Day in the United States is a date reserved for gratitude. Also overeating, but that’s another story. Like a safe way to deep-fry a turkey indoors, gratitude can be hard to find - even on ...
On Nov. 19, I reached 18 years of sobriety. It looks neat when written as a number, but it represents anything but a neat journey. Thanksgiving has always been a complicated season for me. It has ...
While society at large turns its interest to gratitude in November, National Gratitude Month, some researchers spend their whole years—and careers—studying what gratitude means, its benefits, and how ...
Gratitude is arguably as quintessential to Thanksgiving as turkey, cranberry sauce and the kumbaya story of Pilgrims and Native Americans coming together. The word “thanks” is, after all, right there ...