Happy Thanksgiving, also known as almost my favorite holiday!
It’s not quite birthday level, but it includes a ton of food, running (Turkey Trots for the win), and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, so it’s right up there.
This time of year is messy, complicated, wonderful, exciting, and a whole bunch of other things to a lot of people.
It can be a very difficult time to get through, and also filled with beautiful memories.
Thanksgiving is all about being thankful, right? So today, in between stuffing yourself full of stuffing (and everything else), I encourage you to take some solo time to process everything you’re grateful for. It can be overall, in can be this year, or even just this week.
It’s important to pause and feel gratitude at every point in the year, but especially during the holidays when it’s easy to turn on auto-pilot and just try to get through it. It’s hard being a person, and it’s easy to focus on everything we aren’t happy with or have to manage. What better excuse than a holiday that literally has the word “thanks” in its name to shift your perspective and appreciate all you ARE happy with?
Take a walk (exercise is also probably super helpful today!), breathe in the fall air, and take it all in. Give thanks for you, and all of the things you’ve survived this year. Give thanks for the people who have helped you get through it. Give thanks for all of your wins, accomplishments, and even those near misses when you almost had a catastrophe but didn’t. Give thanks for whatever comes to mind, and warms your heart.
What are you thankful for?
Author: Rachel
Rachel is a licensed therapist and co-founder of Viva Wellness. She gets most of her inspiration for the blog while on the run, and if you ever need to find her, she’s probably in Central Park. If she’s not running, you’ll find her planning the next time she’s going to eat, exploring all things wellness in NYC, or raising her stress level by watching her sports teams.
