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Grateful for Getting Older

by Kristi Nelson
Having a birthday offers me the welcome reminder that it is nothing short of a…
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Gratitude: A Radical Approach to Life

by Kristi Nelson
Cultivating, practicing, and sustaining gratefulness as an approach to life is radical – because it…

Dankbaarheid: een gelegenheid om te oefenen

by Kristi Nelson
Het klopt dat we kunnen zeggen dat we altijd iets aan het oefenen zijn. Het…
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Training Our Trains of Thought

by Kristi Nelson
Difficult mental and emotional patterns can teach us a lot about developing positive patterns, if…
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Standing our Sacred, Grateful Ground

by Kristi Nelson
Grateful living asks us to connect with those things that matter most deeply to us,…
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Dankbaar voor dankbaarheid in moeilijke tijden

by Kristi Nelson
Ik moet eerlijk zeggen dat er momenten zijn waarop ik als directeur van A Network…
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Heroic Hearts: Love in the Face of Anguish

by Kristi Nelson
To love in the face of fear is bold. To love in the face of…
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Heroic Hearts: Love in the Face of Despair

by Kristi Nelson
To love in the face of fear is bold. To love in the face of…
Stories of Grateful Living

Making Grateful Living a Grateful DOing

by Kristi Nelson
The more that we allow our hearts to expand to love, deeply appreciate, and feel…
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It’s All About the Glass

by Kristi Nelson
If, as they say, life is like a glass, and we are the way we…
Stories of Grateful Living

Finding Gratitude in Familiar Places

by Kristi Nelson
There is nothing for which I am more thankful than my capacity to be grateful.…
Practices

Appreciating Sufficiency

by Kristi Nelson
Notice the enoughness of your life in any way that you can. Allow feelings of…
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Kristi Nelson

About the author

Kristi Nelson is the author of Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted. She served as Executive Director at Grateful Living from 2014 - 2022. Kristi is a long-time, Stage IV cancer survivor.

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