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Reclaiming Our Birthright of Joy by Mary Gelfand

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Part 2 was posted yesterday In my earlier piece on joy I wrote about collective joy—the kind that can be experienced in larger groups of people engaging in a shared experience that brings them a sense of joy and connection, like dancing in the streets. Here I’m talking about a more personal kind of joy, shared […]

Reclaiming Our Birthright of Joy by Mary Gelfand

Researcher and therapist Brene Brown writes “I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration.” 

So I collect and savor joyful moments.

Last winter I began a new journaling practice which asked me to list something for which I was grateful every day. Because I was actively seeking to bring more joy into my life, I also started listing the things that bought me joy. It did not take me long to realize that the two lists were virtually identical. Things I was grateful for almost always brought me joy, and vice versa. Thus I figured out for myself something Brown discovered in her research. 

She says “I never talk about gratitude and joy separately …. In 12 years, I’ve never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.”

Actively practicing gratitude is a good strategy for bringing more joy into your life.

Collective Joy as Our Birthright by Mary Gelfand (part one)

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What are you grateful for today?

Gratitude is a huge part of my practice and I’ll put some links to my Gratitude focused blog posts below as well.

GENERAL LINKS

ACCESSIBLE PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

I read a lot of peer reviewed articles as part of my process through my diagnosis. Here are some fully accessible articles that I have read around gratitude practice.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES THAT REQUIRE PAYMENT OR UNIVERSITY ACCESS

RELATED BLOG POSTS: GRATITUDE PRACTICE

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