Hello, my loves. Welcome back to the show and welcome back to another practice of gratitude.

Since it's Thursday today, I want to take our practice just a little bit deeper. And for this one,

I want you to give yourself a bit of space and time.

So not just going to the first thing that comes to the front of your mind and then moving on with your day,

but actually letting this become a part of a really anchored present self-care practice.

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Today I want to bring our awareness to something that we're grateful for now that took a really

long time to alchemize into gratitude. Something that you know you actually feel a sense of

gratitude for in this moment, but when it actually unfolded, you were everything but grateful.

I'm talking about that difficult thing that came your way, that really painful experience

that you had to have for whatever reason, that challenging time in your life, that uphill

battle, that thing that maybe irreversibly changed the very

fabric of your being. And as it was happening, as you were going through it, as this difficult

thing was coming your way, the idea of gratitude felt a million miles away. But here you are today and you're able to look back at that

experience. And even though it was difficult and painful and all of those things continue to

be true, you can actually sense some real true gratitude in your heart because that experience

brought you a place you needed to be. Or because a learning came out of

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