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science of well-being to your everyday life. I'm your host, Miranda Anderson, a public health nurse,

Master of Applied Positive Psychology, and Mom health nurse, master of applied positive psychology,

and mom of three, here to help you access some strategies for lasting happiness and fulfillment.

Each episode is a candid conversation, meant to help you feel less alone in the ups and downs of your everyday life.

Listen in for some tools to feel more practically happy.

Hey there, friends. Today you're listening to episode number 310 of Practically Happy. And I wanted to talk today about creating a culture of

gratitude and verbal validation. We are headed into Thanksgiving week here in the United States.

And there's a lot of talk about gratitude right now, particularly about giving thanks for the things that you appreciate.

And verbal validation, verbal gratitude is one of many ways we can express gratitude.

I want to share a little bit more about the benefits of expressing and receiving this type of verbal gratitude thanks and also share

some ideas for creating a culture of gratitude at home, particularly surrounding verbal validation

and some reasons why I feel like this is really important. And I actually have a kind of fun,

new perspective on the importance of this culture after having

started my full-time job. So I'll share a little bit more about that. To get started today,

let's begin with a short update and a life lately. I am just about to begin my second month of full-time employment in this second half of my life.

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