S13 EP2: Thinking This Way Will Change Your Brain
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Gratitude is a real thing. It’s not a mystical practice or reserved for highly functioning people who are killin’ it in life. We are talking about the kind that exists right alongside chaos, exhaustion, grief, and pie. In this episode we unpack why gratitude isn’t a personality trait but a skill you build like a muscle… preferably without punching anyone who tells you to “be thankful!” We reveal the science behind why gratitude rewires your mindset, calms your stress, and shifts your default reaction from doom-spiraling to grounded optimism, even when life is throwing all the plot twists at you. And we had to keep with tradition and tell you to “eat the damn pie” so do it!
(00:01:14) Welcome and why gratitude feels hard
(00: 04:26) What we’re grateful for this year
(00:12:00) What we’re “unsubscribing” from forever
(00: 19:00) Messy gratitude around the holiday
(00:22:48) The science behind gratitude
(00: 28:00) How to practice gratitude when it feels impossible
(00:31:14) Gratitude when it comes to your workouts
(00:33:10) how to make your brain work for you
(00: 38:01) Motivation, resilience and surprising moments
(00: 48:57) Thanksgiving without food morality or shame
(00: 55:03) Gratitude doesn’t mean pretending everything is fine
(00:58:55) Hot takes: turkey, football, stuffing & more
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| 0:00.0 | The idea that you can practice to find positive moments and it will become easier to find those |
| 0:09.2 | positive moments is really something I'd love you for you guys to take out of this because |
| 0:13.1 | it might feel weird at first. It might feel like a little bit forced. But if we use little moments on a daily basis to practice that, when you're hit with a big |
| 0:26.7 | moment when the bus comes in and hits you with some real actual hard shit, you're prepared. |
| 0:35.5 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:36.8 | We've had some of the most incredible guests coming to you these past |
| 0:41.1 | couple of months. The amount of expertise and knowledge on these cutting edge topics is something |
| 0:48.9 | we really hope that you enjoy. And if you do, it would make a huge difference to us if you could rate, |
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| 1:02.6 | all of the things that are really important to you. So give us a love, give us a lot of love, |
| 1:09.3 | and don't forget to subscribe so you get all our new episodes. |
| 1:14.3 | Hey guys and welcome back to the Thick Live Save Lives Podcast. I'm Kelsey. Hey Kelsey. I'm Rachel and I'm |
| 1:19.8 | feeling so, so grateful today. You know how some days you just have to talk yourself into the fact that you're feeling grateful? |
| 1:31.1 | See, this is what I really want to hit on with this podcast. |
| 1:35.1 | Okay, it's Thanksgiving week. |
| 1:37.6 | And we're all being told that, you know, we have, we're, there's lots to be grateful for. And sometimes you just feel like |
| 1:48.1 | reacting to that with punching someone right in the face. No, just me. Some of us feel that way. |
| 1:55.6 | I feel like we can, you know, like everyone can come at it from their different angles. |
| 2:01.2 | Thank you for leaving space for me on this day to do that. |
| 2:05.3 | But here's what I really want to talk about with this podcast is A, there is always, always something to be grateful for. |
| 2:16.1 | And two, see how did that um however you want to list things |
| 2:23.2 | okay and two being grateful is not a personality trait that people are born with it is a skill |
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