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Welcome to Destination Marriage, a podcast about successfully navigating the winding roads of marriage. Whether you are newlyweds, engaged, looking to get married, or have been married for years, we want to share with you how we have navigated those winding roads over the past 19 years in our marriage. Join us on this journey as we talk about real life experiences in a marriage and what we have learned along the way.
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Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
- Timeliness of Thanksgiving, Covid-19 & practicing gratitude
- What is gratitude? Expressing thanks for something in your life whether it’s tangible or intangible
- Is it harder or easier to practice gratitude during Covid?
- Contentment vs. Complacency
- Contentment is a state of happiness or satisfaction. Gratitude and contentment go hand in hand.
- Complacency – being self-satisfied or secure in a given situation, often unaware of negative realities or harmful possibilities
- Benefits of practicing gratitude:
- Trains your mind to place more energy on the positive instead of immediately going to a negative
- Provides motivation to keep moving forward towards life goals (this goes back to when we discussed celebrating small wins)
- Improves your overall physical health
- Builds self-esteem
- Boost immune system
- Mental health benefits
- Improves relationships
- Sets a positive example for your children or those around you to do the very same.
- 7 simple ways to practice gratitude:
- Gratitude journal
- Send a note to a friend thanking them for their friendship
- Take a moment to enjoy the outdoors
- Take turns at the dinner table to acknowledge something you’re grateful for
- Thank your spouse for something they did for you that day or week (discuss some examples)
- Embrace challenges and turn them into opportunities to grow (challenge of 2020 did we choose to grow, learn something new or crumble?)
- Gratitude jar (place notes in a jar of things you are grateful for and take one out when you need a reminder or having a challenging time
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