200 - The Science of Gratitude: Can a Gratitude Practice Regulate & Rewire the Nervous System?

High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm

Michelle Grosser – Inspired by Mel Robbins, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Dr. Becky Kennedy

Education, Time Management, Anxiety, Productivity, Nervous System, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Emotional Regulation, Parenting, Somatic Tools, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Overwhelm, Work-life Balance, Burnout, Mindset

4.9 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Did you know that gratitude can lower stress, promote relaxation, and help you regulate your emotions? To be honest, for a long time I had a gratitude practice where I’d quickly jot down 3 things I was grateful for every morning, but I didn’t feel like it made much of a difference in my life. My gratitude practice didn’t have much of an impact because I didn’t understand the science of gratitude. I didn’t know that I needed to embody gratitude for it to regulate my ner...

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0:00.0	In order for a gratitude practice to quote unquote work or to have any impact, it has to be
0:07.7	embodied.
0:09.1	Gratitude is not just something that we say, right?
0:12.1	Like when our kids just say, thank you.
0:14.7	Like that is being polite.
0:17.4	That is that is acknowledging, right?
0:19.6	Someone else doing something for you that's that's
0:22.6	expressing gratitude but it's not embodying gratitude and if we want gratitude to have an impact
0:29.5	in the way in which our brain functions in the hormones that are released in our brain these feel
0:34.7	good hormones that we talk about right that dopamine and that serotonin if we want to start rewiring our brain, these feel-good hormones that we talk about, right, that dopamine and that
0:37.8	serotonin, if we want to start rewiring our brain as a result of the gratitude that we experience,
0:44.5	we have to actually allow ourselves to really feel what it is we're thankful for.
0:52.6	Welcome to the Calm Mom podcast, the show for ambitious women ready to get off the Hot
0:58.5	Mess Express.
0:59.9	I know you've got a lot going on.
1:02.1	You work so hard.
1:03.4	You're raising an incredible family.
1:05.8	And sometimes it can be overwhelming.
1:08.2	I'm your host, Michelle Grocer.
1:09.6	I'm a certified master life coach,
1:12.4	attorney, wife, and mom. And years ago, I was right where you are. I was running a busy law
1:18.2	practice while raising a family, and I was on the fast track to burnout. I thought I just needed to be
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