What is Gratitude?

Written by: Maritza Barrera, LMFT

It may not be what you think.

Everyone has heard of gratitude. But how many of us have taken the time to consider both its meaning and purpose in our lives? 

As a therapist, I often hear clients say things like, “I mean, I’m grateful for [fill in the blank], but...” And after hearing this time and again, I began to see the ways in which our “gratitude diet” has become yet another self recrimination for our own humanness.

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