Methods and Mindsets
IN THIS LESSON
Gratitude That Actually Supports Your Healing
Tired of Being Told to "Just Be Grateful"?
You've tried gratitude journals and lists. And somewhere along the way, you noticed something wasn't working.
Maybe gratitude started feeling like a way to silence your pain instead of sitting with it. Maybe you felt guilty for struggling when you "should" be thankful. Maybe someone told you to focus on the positive when what you really needed was to process something difficult.
Here's the problem with that: forced gratitude can actually harm your recovery.
When we use gratitude to skip over difficult emotions, we don't heal them—we bury them. And buried emotions don't stay buried.
What If Gratitude Could Coexist With Your Pain?
The Both/And Gratitude Check-In is built on a powerful idea:
You can feel grateful AND struggle at the same time.
Instead of replacing difficult emotions with positive ones, this worksheet creates space for both. You acknowledge what's hard. You notice what's good. And neither one cancels out the other.
That's authentic gratitude—the kind that actually supports healing.
Ready to Practice Gratitude That Actually Heals?
No toxic positivity. No forced reframes. Just a trauma-informed approach to authentic gratitude.
