Building Gratitude (rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

One of the hottest trends to come out of the self-help world over the last few years is gratitude. And it's no surprise, gratitude has been found to be one of the greatest indicators of overall well-being. I'm usually pretty skeptical about things that get hyped quite as much as gratitude has been - I mean when you see the list of things that a gratitude practice can help with it's pretty easy to roll your eyes. I mean can gratitude really do all those things that people say it can?

Today we'll be exploring the mechanisms that make gratitude work - and also perhaps tempering some of the hype around it - then we'll be looking at ways we can find things to be grateful in our lives as well as looking at some ways that we can start a gratitude practice.

And I'll admit, this episode is a little less ADHD-focused - but gratitude was something that was on my mind, for reasons that I get into during the episode. And so even though this episode is a little less ADHD specific I still think everyone can get a lot out of it.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Gratitude is showing thanks and appreciation and it has a tremendous impact on our brains. Gratitude can help us release build our relationships, regulate stress, improve sleep quality, build self-esteem and make us happier.
One way we can practice gratitude is through mindfulness and seeing all the things in our lives that are going right. It's easy for us to latch onto the negative things that happen during our day. We'll miss all the things that went right because when things go according to plan they can often become invisible.
We can also practice gratitude by journaling or writing a letter to someone in our lives that has greatly impacted us.

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0:34.5	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:40.6	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD, and also COVID-19.
0:47.5	Well, had.
0:48.9	Well, I think I'm getting over it, and for those of you wondering, yes, I did get vaccinated.
0:55.3	It's just that this delta variant is incredibly contagious. So with that in mind, I'd like to encourage everyone
1:00.6	listening to keep wearing their masks and really trying to limit that social interaction.
1:05.1	Take it from me, COVID sucks, and I had a fairly mild case. And yeah, that's how my time off has been going so far.
1:13.4	Oh, and I also had a wildfire like a quarter mile from my house, so that was fun too.
1:17.9	With all that, I don't have a new episode today, so we're going to be revisiting one on gratitude.
1:23.0	Even with everything I've gone through in the last few weeks, I still have a lot of things to be grateful for, a supportive family, a roof over my head, clean drinking water. But I also want to
1:32.8	be clear here that gratitude isn't about denying your problems. Even though there are a lot of
1:38.0	things I can be grateful for, I still have problems in my life. I mean, I still got COVID,
1:43.3	and trust me, you don't want COVID.
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