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.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
I love the tangible idea of the Gratitude Jar. Thank you for that good thought to encourage us to stop and write out the things we are grateful for even amidst the hardships of work, home life, and complications of relationships.
I am grateful for my health and that I have my basic needs met. I am grateful for my friends and family, especially my daughters and many grandbabies. I'm grateful for the peaceful country that I live in and my faith to give me meaning and hope. I am grateful for the bright sunshine on a cold winter day and the holiday seasons to celebrate, like Christmas and Easter. I'm grateful for a day of rest where I can stop work, have a cup of coffee, and dream about the good things that are in my future ahead. How could I stop this great list of thankfulness when there's so much more, I just have to stop, look, and notice everything around me.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
I am grateful for myself💜 the people that supporting me too! especially the books and nature that gave me comfort the most made me feel like home💜 I love everything about my life😆💜 negatives or positives both teach me something as always💜 I am grateful i can be there for my members too💜 making them happy also made me happiest they deserve that💜❤️🤍🩶🩷💛💙🩵🤎💚🧡
I believe that I am grateful for my children's health. I am grateful for my partner's support in my health issues. I am gratefull for the food I can still provide for my family. I am grateful for not being harmed during the big fire that occurred in Greece. I am grateful !
@astralight
Those are wonderful things to be grateful for astralight. I feel sorry for all the people who suffered from the fire but glad you were not harmed.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
I'm grateful for my growth in the past year. The challenges I had which I did not know initially how to deal with made me stronger and more confident for the future.
Apart from that I feel grateful for having been safe from hurricanes, having clean water to drink, the food my garden produces and a roof over my head.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Grateful for:
-sun
-water
-soap
-books
-research
-***
-linked in
-indeed
-hands
-legs
-feet
-face
trains
-college
-uber
-lyft
-bus
-metro
-palm trees
-country air
-country
-writing
-journals
-luggage
-past, future, present
-moments
-music
-jhene aiko
-Therapy
-mental hospitals
-experiencing the "college life"
-candy, ice cream
-black cinema and films
-black community
-travel
-jobs and careers
-businesses
-countries
-science
-kindness
@SoulfullyAButterfly
On my note, I'd write about my partner, how grateful I am that he's in my life. The support of my father also matters a lot.
Finding community is vital and I'm trying to expand on this in the future.
