Listen Thursday, November 23

How would you like something that promised greater happiness, a stronger immune system, more blood flow to the brain,  greater well-being and more? Sounds too good to be true, huh?  Welcome to the power of a gratitude practice!

I’m so excited to feature my friend and gratitude expert, Deb Hawkins, at the Café on Thanksgiving.  It’s the day we Americans, we supposedly come together to  give thanks for the blessings in our lives. (I know not everyone here is American) Beyond the turkey and pumpkin pie, there is a power in having a gratitude practice that is intentional and daily.

Struggling with depression a number of years ago, Deb began a gratitude practice to help lift her out of what seemed like a black hole. While doing that she realized that each person has their own gratitude power buttons. These are qualities that have great meaning to you. For example, while taking Deb’s workshop, I realized that one of mine is beauty. By becoming aware that beauty is a power button, I can turn it on throughout my day. It totally shifts things for me.

Deb will share her three secrets to creating a personal intentional gratitude practice, so you can begin to bring this incredible gift into your life right now.

 Join us at the Café of Delights Thanksgiving Day at 10am pacific, 1:00pm eastern.

Deborah Hawkins has been blogging on gratitude and mindfulness since 2010, posting over 500 reflections on everyday experiences that have elevated her mood.

Rather than listing events that turned out to her liking, she examined powerful experiences of being grateful and developed a short list of what she most loves and values and practices seeing these qualities in WHAT IS.

Inspired by Eckart Tolle’s teaching, “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance,” she attributes her gratitude practice with helping her work her way out of depression and forming the cornerstone for how she chooses to live.

Through books, classes, and coaching, she guides people in learning how to identify what they are, personally, grateful for, and helps them see how these things are already in their lives.

Her books, The Best of No Small Thing – Mindful Meditations and Practice Gratitude: Transform Your Life — Making the Uplifting Experience of Gratitude Intentional, give a fresh approach to a gratitude practice that is fun, authentic, and confidence-boosting.

She has been interviewed by Jack Canfield and has guested on many popular podcasts including Your Daily Chocolate, Unlocking Happiness with Amy Dix, and Wake Up with Gratitude.