What are you grateful for?
If you are new to our online community here at Private Practice from the Inside Out, welcome! And, if you have been with us before, welcome back!
As a way of building our “gratitude muscles” and to help our colleagues build theirs, too, every Friday we will be hosting Mustard Seeds & Mega-Gifts: A Community Gratitude Journal. Here you can share the large and small gifts and opportunities that come your way while building your private practice.
This week I am particularly grateful for those of you who have taken the time to comment right here on this blog . . . . It’s so helpful as a blogger to not be posting words out into an empty online abyss! It means so much to me to be able to enter into conversations with you, share what I know and learn from you, to be stretched and nudged . . . yes, and even corrected and challenged by you. Why? Because every bit of that supports me and our mission here at Private Practice from the Inside Out. Thank you!”
If you would like to build your own gratitude muscles by sharing your appreciations with us, here is how our gratitude journal works . . . .
- It will post weekly on Fridays.
- Your job is not to just be a passive observer but to contribute to the post by sharing something that you are grateful for.
- Just send an email note of appreciation related to anything that supports you growing your practice and put “Mustard Seeds” in the subject line.
- I’ll post it the following Friday as part of our community gratitude journal!
- And, if you forget to send an email, you are welcome to just add your appreciations to the comments of the weekly post!
- Afraid you’ll forget or slack off on sharing what you are grateful for? You can sign up here to receive blog updates for Private Practice from the Inside Out (that you can use as nudges and reminders to share your appreciations) in your email inbox.
Research indicates that by consciously savoring those large and small gifts that come way, our joy and ability to recognize other opportunities are intensified.
I am thankful for my husband. His friendship over the last 7 years has made life sweeter. More specifically related to the counseling profession, his support over the last 3 years in grad school has helped bring me closer to my goal of being a professional therapist. I’ve recently discovered that not everyone really “gets” what we do or appreciates the power of therapy, but he does. He believes in what I do and he believes in me. I am filled with gratitude.
Tara – I can so relate! I can’t say that my partner “gets” what I do but she definitely “gets” me. That support at home is huge for those of us who spend our days giving giving giving to others. It helps us refocus, rebalance, and restore so that we are ready in the morning to do it all over again. Thank you for the reminder!
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I’m very greatful to the Private Practice from the Inside Out community for generously sharing their advice and thoughts. Especially, those who are already in private practice and share their wisdom with up and coming therapists.
And, Liza, I am grateful for the “new blood” that continues to enter our field and to enter our online community here!
I’m grateful for my Internet connection. This is one of these things that I don’t notice until it is missing and when a storm took out my modem yesterday, I went about 24 hours without the Internet. While I did have some things that I could do, there were several things that I started to do and got to a point where I needed to reference something on the Internet. Most of these things would have taken a total of about a minute on the Internet, but I could go no further without the information I needed. It has reminded me to be grateful for the little things that are part of everyday life.
Yes, Lauren! That’s true for me, too! I have a colleague who is constantly dissing the Internet – bemoaning how “isolated” and “disconnected” our culture has become because of it. I so disagree! I feel like my circle is larger and my world is enhanced because of the information and the connections that I am afforded through the use of social media. I, too, am very grateful!