Dear Internet,
Something we should all be doing is showing gratitude for what we have in our lives — it’s being thankful for what one has versus what one wants. Writing down gratitudes, privately in a journal or publicly on the interwebs, is an essential part of DBT and meditation as well as being really important for borderlines. Within the last week my DBT book and my mediation guru have suggested writing down one gratitude a day and at the end of week, ending the list with a total of 10.
Gratitudes and things that make me happy are a part of my carding coursework, and I track them everyday, so this should be easy to complete every week and obviously I’ll post them here every Sunday. (And I also acknowledge this is going to take me a few weeks to go beyond “I have killer hair.”)
gratitude
- My therapist for understanding
- I am not physically ill
- I have a large support network
- I am tenacious
- I have killer hair
- I have a big heart
- I try to do good things for others
- People who have faith in me
happy
- The smell and taste of pineapple juice
- Trader Joe’s dark chocolate covered pretzels
- The “Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials
- Key & Peele shorts
- Wearing my grey old man cardigan (I have two in separate styles)
- Wearing my Black Phoenix Alchemy scents, especially Bliss
xoxo,
Lisa