Gratitude is my superhero. It saved me when nothing else could, and today I want to talk about how I bring gratitude into my day, to give you some ideas on how to spark gratitude at your house!

This episode was inspired by a lot of things, but this post on hope kind of outlines how hope saved me when I was lost (and how it can save you too).

In this episode we're talking about the many ways that I incorporate gratitude into my day. Some links you might find helpful:

How I use my plannerHaving EnoughThe Storie(s) of our job loss(es)

Producer: Drew Erickson

Transcription:

Hilary Erickson 0:00
Hey guys, I want to welcome you back to the pulling curls podcast. Today we're on episode 16 and today we're talking about gratitude. Gratitude is my personal superhero and today I want to share why it's my personal superhero and why I feel like it's a thing that we need more than just around Thanksgiving. Gratitude really can save you let's untangle it.

Welcome to the pulling curls podcast where we untangle everything from pregnancy parenting home routines, even some family travel because heavens knows our lives are tangled. I'm your host Hilary Erickson.

Guys, it's Thanksgiving week, we're talking gratitude. Are we just thankful for the turkey or is there more to it? gratitude is my personal superhero. And today I want to share why. So back in I don't even know what year it was 2014 ish. My husband left his job at the high school. We had moved here for that job. It was our sole job and it just wasn't working out. He was miserable. His school was a piece of work and it just wasn't working. So it was trying to find something different. And we just felt like there would be something new and great for us. But it was taking a long time to find our new and great and I was extremely depressed now situational depression for sure I was depressed because I was really worried about where money was going to come from and all that kind of stuff.

I had zero hope in my life. I was starting to be like, this is our new life. We are going to be on food stamps, I'm going to work night shift, I was so just down. And I know you guys have been in that same place too. And people would say, use gratitude to help you and I would just be like, like, we should be about the words that I was thinking in my head because I was like, That makes no sense. What on earth do I have to be grateful for he left his job, he hasn't found a new job. Like that's all I could focus on. But I decided to start letting gratitude help me out. And I have to say that starting to realize all the good that's in your life, even if it's that you have enough money in your bank account to pay your mortgage. You know, even the small things my dinner tasted really good tonight. It does start to help you to build some hope in your life. I wanted to share how I Work on gratitude in my life. There's two things that I do.

So every morning I write down what I am grateful for in my planner, I use a Happy Planner, it has three slots. So the first section is for gratitude. The second section, I write intentions for the day. And then in the third section, I write a to do list and if I have any appointments or things like that, so in the top section, I just write the things that I'm thankful for now, these things can't just be like the dishwasher or the washing machine because I am grateful for those every day, but I want them to be a little bit more personalized and exactly what I'm feeling at that point in time, but it's still definitely can be small things like my daughter folded and put away her laundry. That was a really funny TV episode that I just w...