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Make Gratitude A Center-Peace This Thanksgiving Season

by Kristi Nelson
How to gather with people whom opinions and ideologies differ and finding the shared heart…
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Heroic Hearts: Love in the Face of Anguish

by Kristi Nelson
To love in the face of fear is bold. To love in the face of…
Podcasts

BetterWorldians Radio: Kristi Nelson on Gratefulness

by Kristi Nelson
(September 2016) What if we took nothing for granted? Grateful Living is a lifestyle that…
Stories of Grateful Living

When the Well Runs Dry

by Kristi Nelson
Like the river beds and lakes here, I have found myself yearning to be filled…
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Articles

Heroic Hearts: Love in the Face of Despair

by Kristi Nelson
To love in the face of fear is bold. To love in the face of…
Stories of Grateful Living

Clinging to Peaches: The Paradox of Pruning

by Kristi Nelson
I came to gardening late in life. Not till my mid-40’s did I have the…
Stories of Grateful Living

Making Grateful Living a Grateful DOing

by Kristi Nelson
The more that we allow our hearts to expand to love, deeply appreciate, and feel…
Podcasts

Stories with a Purpose: Interview with Cancer Survivor, Kristi Nelson

by Jim Skinner
Nov. 26, 2015 Kristi Nelson, cancer survivor and executive director of A Network for Grateful…
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Practices

Massage in the Moment

by Kristi Nelson
A grateful living practice for those who offer massage and other healing treatments....
Articles

It’s All About the Glass

by Kristi Nelson
If, as they say, life is like a glass, and we are the way we…
Stories of Grateful Living

Finding Gratitude in Familiar Places

by Kristi Nelson
There is nothing for which I am more thankful than my capacity to be grateful.…
Practices

Appreciating Sufficiency

by Kristi Nelson
Notice the enoughness of your life in any way that you can. Allow feelings of…
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Kristi Nelson

Kristi Nelson

About the author

Kristi Nelson is Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living and the author of Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted. Her life’s work in the non-profit sector has focused on leading, inspiring, and strengthening organizations committed to progressive social and spiritual change. Being a long-time stage IV cancer survivor moves her every day to support others in living and loving with great fullness of heart. Learn more about Kristi here.