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Gratitude: The Balm We All Need Right Now

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During this time of global upheaval and uncertainty, there is much to be gained from the saying: “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

We are all grieving at this time… in our ways for our own reasons. Our worlds have turned upside down in the past few weeks. We were living our lives and then everything that we knew changed. 

According to Elisabeth Kubler Ross & David Kessler, there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. When my mother died, I found myself in the anger phase of grieving

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