Gratitude in Recovery: How to Actually Practice It Without Lying to Yourself
Everyone in recovery preaches gratitude. Almost nobody tells you it can feel completely fake when you're hurting.
In this solo episode I get into what gratitude actually is in recovery — the difference between the performative "#blessed" version and the real thing — why it's so hard early on and after a relapse, and how I practice it without lying to myself. I talk about grateful for the rock bottoms, the boring wins of sobriety, gratitude as an action instead of a feeling, and the traps to avoid (bypassing, comparison, forcing it).
This isn't "be positive and your problems disappear." It's a…
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