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When You Can't Feel Grateful (And What That's Really Telling You)
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When You Can't Feel Grateful (And What That's Really Telling You)

The practice of gratitude is very popular, and for good reason. We know it does amazing things for our minds and bodies. There are a plethora of gratitude journals, gratitude apps, gratitude meditations out there. You may be one of those people who regularly declares, "I should be more grateful." And yet you still feel unsettled, discontent, restless, and now guilty on top of it because you ought to be grateful, but you're not. Not really. Not in a way that is felt. Not in a way that transforms you.

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