The Pocket Therapist by Therese Borchard

Author:Therese Borchard [J. BORCHARD, THERESE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SEL016000
ISBN: 9781599953465
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2010-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Practice gratitude

GRATITUDE DOESN’T COME easily to this depressive. When my girlfriend sees a half-full glass of fresh milk, I see a half-empty glass of cholesterol-raising, cardiac-arresting agents. And when the kids’ school is called off because some road somewhere in our county apparently accumulated half an inch of snow, she thanks God for an opportunity to build snowmen with her kids.

Me? I have a conversation with God, too, but it’s much different.

However, I train myself to say thank you more often than is natural for me because I know that gratitude is like broccoli—good for your health in more than one way. According to psychologists like Sonja Lyubomirsky at the University of California–Riverside, keeping a gratitude journal—where you record once a week all the things you have to be grateful for—and other gratitude exercises can increase your energy and relieve pain and fatigue.

So I take my hand of cards and I start counting the winners: I live in a country where I get paid to whine; I have married the most empathetic and caring man in the Western Hemisphere; I have two imaginative children with all of their limbs; and I have a fridge that is currently stocked with dark chocolate.

Yep, I definitely feel better.

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