Day 24: End of the Year Gratitude Jar: A Collective Celebration
This month, 7 Cups launched video and audio therapy! To celebrate, we’re doing 25 days of Gratitude, Self-Care and Personal Growth. Read more here.
As the year winds down, it’s a perfect time to pause, reflect, and appreciate all that we’ve navigated, learned, and achieved. Gratitude, an act of recognizing and expressing appreciation for our blessings, has profound effects on our mental and emotional well-being. It not only encourages positive thinking but also helps us cherish our experiences and moments of joy, no matter how big or small.
As a community, let's bring an exciting twist to the traditional “gratitude journaling” approach with the "End of the Year Gratitude Jar" activity. This isn’t just a jar, but a vessel of our collective positivity, a source of community celebration.
Participation Guidelines:
Visualize a virtual, collective jar. Now, imagine folding a tiny piece of paper, writing a note of gratitude - something you are thankful for this year - and placing it in our collective jar. Your note can be about anything - personal growth, achievements, moments of joy, lessons learned, or even the challenges that made you stronger.
In the comments below:
1. Share something you're grateful for from this past year. Try to be as specific as you can; the tiny alleys of our lives often hold the greatest joys.
2. If comfortable, share why this particular aspect has stirred a sense of gratitude in you.
3. Feel free to share more than one note! The more notes of gratitude we gather, the richer our collective jar becomes.
We look forward to witnessing and sharing in the beautiful expressions of gratitude that truly make our community special.
Great full for the opportunity to listen to members on 7 cups, especially this time of year.
I'm grateful for home and my kids, because they give me purpose and my home is my comfort zone
I'm grateful for my family, my privilege (in having good food, being able to attend school, being able to go on vacation, etc), my friends, my books, and more... :)
@SoulfullyAButterfly I'm grateful for freedom, I'm grateful to share this safe place with people from all walks of life, that I call my family. Thankful to see love and faith in others eyes, they keep the spark of life alive ❤ thankful for the colours God paints the sky, and our hearts with ❤❤
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Grateful for all the delicious food bought by my mother for me
Grateful for my father who tries to mediate when there are conflicts between my mother and me
Grateful for being able to get on some foreign websites unavailable in my country with the help of Cloudflare
Grateful for my teachers who are knid and helpful to students
Grateful for a chance to visit the nuclear power plant
Grateful for netizens friendly to me
Grateful for all inspirations occurring to me when writing fan works
Grateful for myself when I choose to live to the end of this year instead of giving up (I am not ill. I am just tired and afraid of so many things that I have thought of giving up more than one time)
I'm grateful for being healthy and having a healthy body for letting me do the things I want to do ❤
Grateful for for love and for from others 💕💕💕
Grateful for traveling and making adventures explore new things and places
Just a few so far on my list I'll add more later 💕❤💕
grateful for me finally being assertive. i think before this year always let people take advantage of my depression. but now i’m finally taking control of what i want and my boundaries. so grateful even though not ideal to have such big bad situations. grateful they happened because they made me grow! :) happy new year everyone
@SoulfullyAButterfly Grateful for my parents, they make my ship sail every day even through the most turbulent waters I find my anchor in them.
I know my physical and mental health has not been at a good place for a while, and hence an eventful saga happened to me this year without choice. (Sorry I would not like to share for privacy reasons)
Despite me strongly hurting, tormenting, disturbing, stressing my family, they stood strong and most importantly they didn't give up.
I don't know the best words for them to share my gratitude, other than the easiest "Thank you". But still I think what they probably prefer would be that I take care of myself, than self-neglect.
Grateful for my daughter, my work and my courage to move forward
@PriyankaMukherjee
I believe nothing is more precious in this world for a parent than the child. Courage is definitively something to be grateful for too!