I'm grateful to be part of a community that pulls together during adversity. I feel more confident and more cohesive because of this experience. I wish this could be my family!
I'm grateful further to finally find a space where I am understood and not judged or fixed. I haven't felt that even my closest friends understand what I am going through or how to support me (not their fault). I feel so relieved to have found a space where I can explain my energy deficits, my grief, my trauma, my challenges, and not be told to start running and exercising, or go for a walk, or get out of the house... where someone just listened and said "You are not alone" and "I experience something similar" and "You are not the only one to go through this". It's such a relief to feel supported and understood. I feel hopeful. I feel I might find a solution. I feel like I have more power now to move forward with next steps to enhance my life.
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I'm grateful for good ideas and good books. I've been reading this great developmental book called "Yardsticks", about children ages 4-14. It's given me much more insight into their abilities and needs, as well as great ideas to use in the classroom!
I've really felt my creativity wane this year, with all the health and energy problems with which I've been dealing. I used to feel inspired and BE inspiring, and I feel sad that such a large aspect of Who I Am, has dwindled. I am used to being full of energy, ideas, and enthusiasm. But for nearly a year, it's hard to even get out of bed. I'm hoping that all the $$$ I'm spending on health care will work and will bring ME back to ME. The more I teach, the more I realize how little I learned in my graduate program. Very little focus on child development and learning rhythms through transitional stages. So I am grateful that I have been at a school that encourages and mandates learning in these areas! I have learned so much and I am a better educator for it! I am grateful for learning and book and the ideas that spawn from both! Today I am grateful for my wild, 3-d, cinematic, multi-chromatic dream life. Yes, Dream Life. My dreams are so vivid, so realistic, that when I call them to mind, my heart will race like it did within the dream of zombies I had. Ack! Yes, Zombies! Why!!?? That was terrifying and too real, yet I am still grateful for such life-like workings of my brain while the rest of my body sleeps. I'm grateful that I can awaken from all my dreams recently, in this warmly toasty bed!
1) A heated bed pad, because one of the Top 15 feelings in life is getting into a warm and toasty bed. Another in the Top 15 is waking up in a warm, and toasty bed to reach over and smack the snooze and burrow deeper into that warmth; makes getting out of bed difficult!!
2) Downtime: relaxing my mind and body after a challenging day with some silly KDrama where the actions of the characters make no sense in real life at all, but serve to extend the length of the series; plus watching So Ji Sub do his absolute best in these silly dramas. Plus, So Ji Sub, period. 3) Waking up and feeling good, having energy, and feeling optimistic. What a change for which I am so grateful! Today will be a good day. I'm not at "great" yet, but I'm working toward it! I have tools, I have ideas. Now if I can just get myself back into an exercise routine!! I'm grateful for feeling good, feeling energetic, feeling positive and optimistic, and feeling hopeful! OMG YAY 😁 !
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iGallivant......is practicing gratitude every day for 365 days. Began on April 22, 2016, let's see how life changes over the course of this next year! Archives
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