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Practices

Approaching Daily Tasks with Leisure

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
A daily practice of giving time to what requires time and deepening your relationship to…
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Articles

Leisure: The Art of Loitering

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay shows how leisure is a natural outcome of living gratefully, inviting us to…
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Articles

A Passionate Hope That Endures

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay introduces passion and endurance as fuel for grateful hope and illustrates how this…
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Practices

A Path to Liberating Yourself from Fear

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This guided practice will help you notice fearful thoughts, examine them, and commit to holding…
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Articles

Becoming a People of Possibility

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay explores the key ingredients of hope: humility, possibility, and faith — and invites…
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Articles

The Grateful Life Is a Liberated Life

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay shares how fear limits your perspective and how living gratefully offers a liberating…
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Practices

Clearing the Clutter for Hope

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
Before you can explore and further cultivate a hopeful heart, you will take inventory. This…
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Articles

Grateful Hope As an Attitude of the Heart

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay makes a distinction between individual hopes and hope as an attitude of the…
Articles

Discovering Wholeness Through Integration

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay shares a path to wholeness through integration; invites you to discover meaning in…
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Practices

Awakening to Life Beyond Perfection

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This guided visualization invites you to envision today as your last day, gathering the expectations…
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Articles

The Possible Is Always Present

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay illuminates how the practice of grateful living leads to a clear perspective from…
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Articles

Gratefully Navigating the Holidays

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
Holidays can elicit awe, joy, connection, hope, and memories. However, their nourishment can also be…
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Joe Primo, Grateful Living

Joe Primo, Grateful Living

About the author

Joe Primo is the CEO of Grateful Living. He is a passionate speaker and community-builder whose accomplishments made him a leading voice on resilience and adversity. Gratefulness for life, he believes, is foundational to discovering meaning and the only response that is big enough and appropriate for the plot twists, delights, surprises, and devastation we encounter along the way. A student of our founder since his studies at Yale Divinity School, Joe is committed to advancing our global movement and making the transformational practice of grateful living both accessible to all and integral to communities and places of belonging. His TED talk, “Grief is Good,” reframed the grief paradigm as a responsive resource. He is the author of “What Do We Tell the Children? Talking to Kids About Death and Dying” and numerous articles.