🎗 How would you rate your gratitude practice? Could it use some revamping?
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"Gratitude practice benefits include health and well-being perks like reducing anxiety, decreasing depression and improving sleep, and also by allowing us to stay present."
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Read 10 Questions To Bring More Awareness To Your Gratitude Practice at the link in bio.
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🏡 Did you ever consider the relationship between your happiness and your level of gratitude toward your home?
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"If you find yourself challenged by your current surroundings and losing sleep over it, you may want to take up a practice of daily gratitude towards your home."
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Read 6 Ways To Enjoy Your Home Through Gratitude at the link in bio.
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Get your "ship" together and launch into a great week!
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🚀 MotherShip Tip of the Week

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💡 Each day, write down at least 3 things for which you're grateful. Do this first thing in the morning. Keep it simple. Don't overthink it! Look up from your device, there are examples all around you!
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The tip of the week is brought to you from MotherShip, our mom life management system - with an app - to help moms get their SHIP together!
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“I now practice gratitude as part of my daily journaling by listing three things I’m grateful for before I write anything else. Many planners now have space to list what you’re grateful for. I highly recommend this simple practice that gets you focused on the good stuff to start your day!”
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Perhaps you have a gratitude practice, but are you teaching your kids to have an attitude of gratitude?
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"Creating a grateful family culture is a challenge in our entitled, indulgent age. Yet research has confirmed what we intuitively know that practicing gratitude and being grateful are keys to a happier life."
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Read 5 Gratitude Practices: A Grateful Family is a Happy Family at the link in bio.
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Thanksgiving Day 2020 is 48 hours in the dust. Is it already forgotten? Are you back to the 2020 thanks for nothin' mantra? Or, are you riding the endorphins of a day devoted to gratitude?
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I admit it was sad being without extended family. Yet, I didn't mind the quaint celebration.
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Full disclosure, being with just my immediate family this year made me realize that I spend little time with these people on a typical Thanksgiving day. The kids are usually running around with their cousins while the moms/aunts cook and catch up over a glass of wine in the kitchen and the dudes settle in on the couch to watch football.
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Side note: The Detroit Lions play every Thanksgiving. Around here, football is as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey.
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So, I made it a point to be grateful for just the four us having this time together. There may literally (hopefully) never again be another Thanksgiving like this in our lifetime.
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2020 has taken so much from us, but can we admit that, along the way, it's also given us some gifts we never could have expected; even - dare I say - some things to be grateful for?
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It's awkward to have gratitude for something like a pandemic but there's something to be said for finding the silver lining amidst difficult circumstances. In fact, there's actual evidence that cultivating gratitude physically changes your brain and boosts happiness. And that's something 2020 could certainly use more of!
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So what's stopping us from making gratitude a priority on a daily basis?
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Read more at the link in bio to discover 5 ways to make gratitude a daily habit for the whole family.
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In our Podcast Playlist, we chose a sweet, classic story for you to listen to with your kids. Check it out at the link in bio.
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Did you have an obsession with Shel Silverstein back in the ‘80s like me? I would read and recite his poems. I saved my copies of ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ and ‘A Light in the Attic’ and now my daughter loves to read them.
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In the Happy Monsters Podcast, enjoy the reading of Silverstein’s book The Giving Tree. Talk about how the tree gives all she can to make her favorite boy happy.
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And then pull out your old Shel Silverstein poetry books if you have them and show your kids your favorites. Mine is a cute one called ‘Sick’.
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Here are 5 simple ways to actualize the abundance of gratitude on a daily basis.
#1 Wake up grateful
Yes, it’s a choice. We all have bad days but when we start our day with gratitude we’re more likely to avoid those “woke up on the wrong side of the bed” days.
Here’s what to do: When your alarm goes off, say thank you. If you’re the praying type, it might look more like a prayer. If not, simply say the words “Thank you for this day!” That’s it. It’s that simple.
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#2 Identify 3 things for which you’re grateful
Again, keep it super simple. Do not overthink it. Look around you, there are tons of things to choose from, pick 3. Here’s an example: coffee, sunshine, books. Boom, it should be that easy.
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#3 Write it down
Some of you read that and thought, “I’m not doing that.”
Look, I’m not asking you to write a novel. Simply jot down: “I am thankful for…” and then the three things you already thought of in #2.
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#4 Say it out loud
When you are grateful to someone, say thank you. This is not a lesson from Miss Manners. It’s good for both parties (the giver and the receiver) when you show appreciation and it will go a long way for the emotional wellbeing of both of you.
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#5 Be grateful for the yuck
Ugh. This one’s hard. Let me rephrase it… On any given day, we come up against “opportunities.” We’ll define these moments as life experiences that don’t go our way.
The goal here is to learn from them. If we can catch ourselves in those moments and see that silver lining, we will find we get over things much quicker. Then, when we take it to the next step and make the choice to feel grateful for these “opportunities,” that’s when we grow.
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Are you teaching your kids to have an attitude of gratitude?
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"Creating a grateful family culture is a challenge in our entitled, indulgent age. Yet research has confirmed what we intuitively know that practicing gratitude and being grateful are keys to a happier life."
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Read 5 Gratitude Practices: A Grateful Family is a Happy Family at the link in bio.
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It’s awkward to have gratitude for something like a pandemic but there’s something to be said for finding the silver lining amidst difficult circumstances. In fact, there’s actual evidence that cultivating gratitude physically changes your brain and boosts happiness. And that’s something 2020 could certainly use more of!
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What did Thanksgiving look like for you this year? Did you make space for gratitude? It’s a powerful practice and it shouldn’t be reserved for just one day.
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Rather, gratitude should be thought of as a movement; for the power it wields is remarkable. Are you intentional about practicing gratitude daily? Much like drinking water, we do it and we know it’s good for us. But, is there really intention behind it? When we make gratitude a daily habit, the benefits are abundant.
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What is The Grace Experiment?
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The Grace Experiment is a movement.
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It’s how we incorporate grace into mom-life.
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It’s an experiment because grace isn’t always a high priority for moms and so we have to work at it.
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We have to sprinkle in the grace, tweak it, then put it to the test against our mom-struggles.
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It’s a movement because with time and practice, the experimenting results in a new normal; a better way to approach mom-life… with grace!
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This week in the Grace Experiment, we are exploring one of the 8 habits for mom-life: GRATITUDE
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In our private group on Facebook (link in bio), we have a challenge for you. Write down 10 things daily that you are grateful for. In the group, we’re also challenging you to post a photo of something you’re grateful for each day.
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Will you join us?
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Do you have a daily gratitude practice? Share it in the comments!
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We’re doing this work in The Grace Experiment this week and we invite you to join us. Meet us in our private group on Facebook (link in bio) and get in conversation with other moms. We share our struggles and our wins and lift each other up. Will you join us?
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​In this podcast episode:‍‍‍ Spectacular Failures Blue Apron find out how the pandemic gave the meal-delivery kit industry a new lifeline. But what happened when it almost went belly-up?
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This 35 minute episode is one you can listen to with your family and check out more @failure_show spectacular failures with your crew.
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Plus subscribe to our @spotify Podcast Playlist for curated podcasts moms will enjoy. Updated each week!
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As moms, we are burdened by, what I like to call, the food trifecta.
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There’s the meal-planning aspect – the comprehensive coordination of all the meals with all of the activities, the recipe researching, the creation of the grocery list, the shopping, the prepping, the cooking, the disgruntled eaters, the mystery of the leftovers, the guilt of throwing food away that either never made it to a recipe or was forgotten in the back of the crisper (what was that furry stuff anyway?)
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Then, there’s part two of the trifecta – your responsibility to grow healthy humans. This process often involves smoke and mirrors, song and dance, and staunch negotiation. On repeat. Every day. It’s as if you’re the lead attorney in the people vs. all things green and you must convince the jury (your kids) that all things green are not only innocent but good. They’re not buying it. Case dismissed! What? Wait! Come back here… where are you going and where did you get those cheeZpoofs?
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Finally, there’s part three – your eating habits. It’s no secret that this is often the first thing out the window. Why do we do that? Do we feel selfish? Is it because someone should finish those remaining chicken nuggets that your toddler knew better than to consume? Otherwise it’s wasting! Maybe it’s because we think we have time to work on ourselves “later”… What? After you declutter the basement and finish that scrapbook? Mmmhmm.
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If you don’t take control of the food trifecta, it will haunt you daily. It will eat your mental wherewithal for lunch, and it will negatively affect your long-term health.
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So, what can we do about it? Read how to take control at the link in bio.
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We wish you a safe and happy Thanksgiving! It might look different this year but not even 2020 can undo the true meaning of thanksgiving - gratitude - because it lives in our hearts. We appreciate each and every one of you and thank you for supporting Grace in the Race by simply opening your email to read our newlsetter each week. We are humbled and grateful for the opportunity to serve you!
Love & Grace - Rachel & Amanda
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