In this special Thanksgiving episode of Therapy Thursday, Chelsea looks at the idea of gratitude and how it can be beneficial to incorporate gratitude practices into our daily lives.
Episode Highlights:
- The science behind gratitude practices and why they shift our perspective a bit
- Support and advice on buffering the effects of stress especially around holidays
- Different ways to incorporate gratitude practices into your day
Quotes:
“Gratitude is not meant to be something that you use to cancel out the bad things that are going on in your life.”
“When someone is using some sort of bypassing technique on you, it’s a downplay of your emotions…it’s an oversimplified way of dealing with a much more complex issue.”
“When I hear stuff in the wellness space about reducing your stress or minimizing, or having any sense that you can have any control over it, is a little annoying to me.”
“You look at what you already have, you’ve already accomplished, you’ve already maintained, and being grateful and show gratefulness for those things.”
“I have just seen too many Instagram posts, too many Facebook posts of ‘this is the secret to happiness’…they’re just crap.”
“It really just takes a few minutes out of your day to reorient your brain toward gratitude.”
“A gratitude practice is based on the idea of brain plasticity – that we are able to change the way that we think our thoughts automatically.”
Links:
The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage: http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/
The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429
