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Cherishing Our Connections

by Kristi Nelson
Deepening our capacity for presence, perspective, and possibility in our relationships can transform our experience…
Research

How to Talk with Kids about Gratitude

by Greater Good Science Center
(July, 2019) A delightful, short video illustrating how parents can have conversations with kids to…
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Br. David Steindl-Rast on Purpose and Meaning

by Lisa Bennett
In a predominant focus on purpose, however, we often miss the meaning of life —…

Commencement Speeches to Inspire

by The Grateful Living Team
Each year at this time, millions of college students around the United States participate in…
Meditations

Living an Abundant Life – A Talk and Guided Meditation

by Jeff Carreira
It will take work to bring the wisdom of what is shared here to life,…
Articles

Cultivating a Practice: Grateful Living as a Way of Life

by Kristi Nelson
Cultivation is a form of practice and harnesses the energy of purposefulness. We can cultivate…
Stories of Grateful Living

Worst Christmas Became Most Memorable Christmas

by Laura Grace Weldon
I could only tell her that whoever left her porch that night must have wanted…
Articles

Why a Grateful Brain Is a Giving One

by Greater Good Science Center
The neural connection between gratitude and altruism is very deep, suggests new research.
Practices

A New Story

by Siobhan McClory
My father was a seanchaí (the Gaelic word for a storyteller/historian)—not by trade but in…

You are Me and I am You

by Pierre Pradervand
More and more we are witnessing how an ever-growing number of people are developing an…
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Articles

Give from Great Fullness

by Kristi Nelson
How might we cultivate gratefulness as a way of being rather than settling for gratitude…

In the Nourishment of Appreciation

by Kristi Nelson
Everything flourishes in the nourishment of our appreciation: plants, people, the Earth, moments. When we…
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