#ThankfulThursdays 8/18/2022

Gratitude is important for wellness–it can improve mood, tolerance to pain, improve blood pressure, improve sleep, reduce inflammation, and the benefits go on. I have devoted Thursdays to publicly showing gratitude, because no matter what is going on in life, if you’re alive, there is something you can give thanks for.

This week, I’m grateful for the quiet time I had to be with my thoughts looking at the view in my hotel room,

the support of friends, some who drove a good distance just to support me, some who shipped flowers just to show how proud they were, many who bought books, and who listen to me and always are there when I need them—I have amazing friends.

For the successes I’ve seen,

for my babies—who often remind me I’m the “best mom ever” (for now at least 😊), for safe travels and the rain that came at the close of my drive, for confirmations, for new beginnings, I give thanks.

What are you grateful for this week?

#ThankfulThursdays

I started this page/blog as a part of my personal journey towards mind/body/spiritual wellness. After having migraines completely turn my life upside down, I needed to be re-centered. Within two weeks of one another, I posted an article on the touting the health benefits of gratitude and had a spiritual week that brought me to a personal need to practice more gratitude

Since then, I have implemented #ThankfulThursdays. Once a week, I commit to take some time to stop and list in public things I have to be grateful for, no matter what kind of day I’m having–what kind of week I’ve had. And you know what, it has been amazing. Honestly, I try to practice this attitude daily, remembering to be thankful in moments that seem darkest has been the thing that keeps me from losing myself at times.

You see, the troubles didn’t stop with the migraines, and they won’t go away after this patch of troubles goes away either. But I as long as I’m breathing, I’ll have something for which to give thanks, and it’s important to remember that!

See some of my posts in these compilations:

#ThankfulThursdays: A Compilation, Part 1

#ThankfulThursdays: A Compilation, Part 2

#ThankfulThursdays 8/18/2022 – Kim Sims, MD

#ThankfulThursdays: 8/31-9/8/2022

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