The Gratitude Mentor

“We wait for G-d to bless us while G-d waits for us to accept the blessing.”

— Betsy Otter Thompson

Shift From Disqualifying Your Gratitude During Challenging Times To Understanding That You Can Be Both Grateful And Uncomfortable At The Same Time

Shift From Only Being Grateful For What’s Present To Also Being Grateful For What is Absent

The absence of pain after you heal from an injury or illness.

The absence of tension from a person who no longer works with you.

The absence of ants invading your kitchen when they finally disappear.

The absence of the lawn you don’t have to tend now that you’ve moved from a house to an apartment.

Shift From Being a Reluctant And Resistant Receiver To a Gracious Receiver

Many of us are good “wanters,” but we may not be good receivers. We all have a lot of practice wanting, but when we begin to get the things we wanted, we are often so unskilled at receiving that it’s almost as if we never got them at all.

Soul Shift: Shift From Bemoaning Things As Burdens To Cherishing Them As Blessings

It’s so easy to allow our gratitude for the blessings and abundance in life to be swallowed up by the contractive habits of grumbling, complaining, and whining about situations, possessions, and people whose existence we should be cherishing.
-Dr. Barbara De Angelis