Mustard Seeds & Mega-Gifts: A Community Gratitude Journal – November 30, 2012

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 until the end of the year 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.

Gwyneth Mason, LPC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma writes . . .

I am new to this group and I am also new to building my own private practice.  I am excited about this venture and very grateful to my colleagues and friends who are therapists as they help support me emotionally and by guiding me to even greater growth.

My most important friend is Rita Crockett in OKC. She helps me by asking good questions in a non critical way. This helps me to look at my own growth in positive, supportive ways. This Thanksgiving I am grateful for a friend / colleague Rita.”

Success coach, author, and EFT practitioner Elana Peled in Byfiel, Massachusetts writes . . .

I am so grateful to find so much support for my new business on the internet. I’m sure I’ll be a frequent visitor.  Thank you.”

And, this week, . . .

I received a letter from someone in South Dakota who is looking for mental health services.  He lives in a tiny community and the nearest mental health professional was about a hundred miles away.  This week I am grateful that with the help of my network of therapists and the computer, I was able to refer him on to Becky Kuch, LPC-MH in Aberdeen, South Dakota.”

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.