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.
Perhaps you noticed that there were no posts this week! That’s because I was doing some work out of state and had some technical difficulties using the hotel’s online services. I’ll be back next week on schedule. And, in the mean time . . .
I’m very grateful that I had an opportunity to spend 5 fabulous days in Morristown and Park Ridge, New Jersey and in Nanuet, Peekskill, Poughkeepsie, Hudson, Saugerties, Rhinebeck, and Hyde Park, New York meeting colleagues and working with clients, too! A special note of gratitude for finally meeting one of my favorite music therapists, Roia Rafeiyan of The Mindful Music Therapist face-to-face!
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 wanted to share my gratitude for families in therapy with who are able to see the positives that each family member provides. I had a family last night where the first thing out of their mouths was the positive improvement that the parents had seen in their son and the son saw in his parents. I am grateful to see families make such great progress. It helps me know and understand that therapy is assisting in growth.
Welcome back, Lyndsey! What a really cool thing to be able to see . . . how your modeling that positive feedback has paid off! Nice job!
I’m so greatful for the wonderful, caring, talented professors and teachers I’ve had in school for they all instilled a hunger for always learning and to think for myself. Which now I find it so much fun to learn the ins and outs of private practice. Including marketing, financials, and continuing to build my therapeutic skills.
Hi, Liza! Welcome back! I love your comment it makes me remember some of my amazing professors, too, like Riley Harvill, Doug Norton, Cynthia Chandler, Dennis Engels, and John Hipple. It’s funny . . . I can’t say that I appreciated all of their efforts at the time. But, today, I can honestly recognize very specific contributions that they have each made to the professional counselor that I have become. I do certain things in very specific ways thanks to their tutelage along the way.