Ep. 47: It’s giving….thanks.
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December is almost here. The year 2022 is finally coming to an end. The Thanksgiving season is just the perfect time to take a step back and ask yourself, “What are the things that I am grateful for?”
In this episode, we honor the progress that we’ve made this year by taking a look back at where we are last year and where we are now. How did we get here? What lessons have we learned along the way? Listen as you ask yourself: what am I thankful for?
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR:
A look back on Fall 2021: there’s always something to be thankful for [04:13]
What are your answered prayers?
Where challenges and struggles have you successfully dealt with?
Are you still where you were in the previous year?
Where is your gratitude coming from?
What are the things that challenged your family? Your faith?
The importance of therapy—all kinds of therapy [08:04]
Somebody can help you through those feelings
Getting rid of feelings that are detrimental to your relationships
How do you maintain your wholeness when you are in a relationship?
Choosing to show up and to do the work in relationships
Doing things right for the right reasons [12:15]
Doing it because you want to be a good person, not because you get something in return
Becoming less selfish in dealing with relationships
Loving more freely
Navigating through the haze [22:51]
Centering yourself to feel gratitude amidst trying times
Let it out—write or cry about it, whatever you need to process your emotions
You are much different that who you used to be
Things aren’t perfect, they probably won’t ever be, but you’re here, but you’re continually trying—that’s something to be thankful for!
EPISODE QUOTES:
A lot of times being in the midst of trouble, in the midst of something that is not certain, wanting for a particular outcome and not getting what you want in the moment — it is hard to find gratitude. So having to peel back the layers and find gratitude in every portion of the journey, to be able to find the silver lining, and be able to say, we went through this thing, was really hard.
- Scott Hayes
Be present. Be human. Just keep going. Because once we once we get this season under wraps, (we kind of are on the other side of it, right? at the beginning or other side of it), it'll be SOMETHING ELSE.
- Shaté Hayes
Life is going to happen whether you choose to show up or not. I believe that just the ups and downs and ebbs and flows of the past year, have taught me that we have everything that we need. It ain't always gonna be pretty. But we can actually choose whether life happens to us or for us.
- Scott Hayes
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