Hi everyone,
Welcome to the Forum’s new topic!
We have heard your feedback, so we will be regularly posting new topics to give you the chance to reflect on your journey so far. We will be including content around topics such as gambling harms research, news articles, reflections from GamCare staff, and more.
This week’s topic is gratitude. According to Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence gratitude is a state of mind that lets you notice the good things in daily life that come from outside yourself – or even paying attention to your life’s little pleasures. Anyone can build the skill of practising gratitude and this approach benefits emotional and physical well-being in many different ways, including:
Gratitude can also be important in recovery as it can help to shift our attention and highlight reasons and motivations to continue a recovery journey. There are many ways we can start to practice gratitude in our lives including: writing down things that you are grateful for, saying thank you more often for the small things and trying to slow life down so you have the time to recognise the small things!
Over to you!
So, what are your thoughts?
Has your story so far affected your sense of gratitude?
Do you feel you practice gratitude or is this something you would like to do more?
We would love to hear your reflections below.
All the best,
Lulu
Online Peer Support Team
Hi
Gratitude and appreciation is a healthy expression of how much I value my self and other people healthy attitudes towards life and spirtual values.
Sincere carrying Gratitude and appreciation also leads to healthy fearless emotional intimacy.
Gratitude and appreciation indicates how much I care and value my self and other peoples healthy values.
It is very important to heal our pains which also means no longer feeling guilty ashamed or embarressed by our healthy past.
The recovey program is about healing our pains, facing and reducing our fears and to stop being hard on our self and other people.
I was not a bad person or an evil person I was just a very stressed out and very emotionally vulnerable person who had been emotionally traumatized in my very unhealthy child hood.
Love healing and peace to every one.
Dave L
AKA Dave of Beckenham
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