Are you living your best life? Are you happy more often than not? I know a few things that are guaranteed to help.

At Are You Highly Sensitive, I talk to HSPs every single day. Often I ask them for their gratitudes. Research shows that a daily gratitude practice will undoubtedly improve mood and outlook. So… I had the idea to create a live document of HSP Gratitude. I hope you will join our mission to create this ambitious project. I commit to managing the document and keeping it current. 

As you read, I know you will be as touched and inspired as I am each time I read it. Some of these came from specific gratitude practices that I led, and some are from HSPs like you, wanting to contribute and create this blessing on all our lives. Use this link to contribute your own gratitude(s):  HSP Gratitude Document.

I am grateful for:

• My strong empathy
• I’m an aware and careful mom
• I love easily
• I am perceptive  and see things that most people overlook.
• The ability to grow and change (thank goodness!!!)
• Perfectionism because I do great work.
• Aunt Sally
• Thank you to my mother for always accepting me!
• Grandma
• My ex made me feel secure and safe
• emotional warmth
• Julie for truly seeing and understanding me
• Thank you, Priel, for seeing and holding me before I truly saw and could hold myself
• My mother, Suzy, and Rachel
• My maternal grandmother and my husband Ron.
• Jayne, a therapist years ago who remothered me
• My brother protected me and shared creativity. He knew me!
• Grandma Rose – you gave me unconditional love and a feeling of 100% acceptance.
• My spouse…unconditional love
• Thanks to my friend John who helped me out of a dark place
• My maid, my ex-husband, my therapist
• Evelyn, Art, Rich, Alan, Cynthia seeing, accepting, sharing your love and acceptance
• My ex-girlfriend who is now my best friend.
• Melanie, Mary Claire, and the women who are strong, vulnerable, and kind fellow business owners
• Sending gratitude to my sweet little Grandma who always made time for me. She made me feel heard and seen and loved unconditionally. I miss her so much!
• I am grateful to my late therapist, John, who saw the Divine in me; to my late Soul Friend E.B.S.; and several more…
• My late husband…
• My dad, you made me feel safe
• My dad – best ever
• Thank you, Meg, for seeing me and the child I was through my writing about her…and for loving me and her.
• Thanks savannah and jeremy for appreciating me for the way i show up and listen
• My late Aunt Zelda
• My family doctor – thank you and bless you
• My 9th grade math teacher who saw me and encouraged me.
• Auntie Maria – thank you for your love, acceptance and understanding of me
• Beth – made me feel important, loved me unconditionally
• CP  – being there when both my parents died, and so many times before
• Sending love and gratitude to Stace on the west coast. Thanks for being my cheerleader and giving me clarity on myself when I didn’t even realize i needed it
• My partner Jim and my mother, thank you for your deep love.
• Thank you Grandpa and Grandma for helping me know I was a sweet little girl 👧🏼 and a good person, worthy of love.
• Gratitude to Mom and Dad, to Nana and Margaret and Blodwyn.
• My husband, gratitude for seeing me
• 6th grade English teacher, Mr. Thach
• Thank you, Moritz, for standing by me in every difficult situation in my life!
• Thank you, Mary, for as recently as yesterday seeing my grateful heart not the shadows…
• My therapist Susan who has shown me love and acceptance
• My 8th grade teacher, Mrs. Fairbetter who SAW me and gave me sanctuary.
• Mme Mislin, you saw me very early on
• Kindness, care and generosity
• Aunt, sis and son. Thanks for letting me be me.
• Mrs. Jewson, my primary school teacher.  Thank you for everything.
• Gratitude to godmother, Kate
• My friend, my Mum, my high school teacher
• Tom, who brings me gifts every week and refuses reciprocation, so I am able to receive the gifts completely.
• My great-grandma who was very sweet to me
• Thank you, Melissa, beyond what words can say or hold for the years of you seeing me in our loving therapy sessions over the years.
• My older sister, who I didn’t know about or meet until I was in my 50s. She taught me generosity and Buddhist meditation. She opened her home to me. I felt more loved with her than anyone else in my family..
• My dad for protecting me the best he knew, my brothers who loved me, my husband who supports me, my daughter who brings me light, and my mom who is my angel helping me from the next realm.
• My friends, who bring me love and light every day
• Aging: I am grateful for my life experience and education.
• Grateful to have time with my mom while caring for her
• Financial tracking: grateful to stay solvent
• Grateful that I have so much to do each day. Keeps me busy moving and my mind focussed on daily goals.
• Grateful for the community and the opportunities to learn!
• Grateful for cohousing and being able to live alongside my 3 year old granddaughter
• My Oma
• Walking. Coastal juniper trees. Hugs.
• 1, My back feels better; 2, the sun; and 3, my 3 kids
• I’m super grateful for my husband, my best friend and my son! I can’t imagine my life without all 3 of them
• Clean air! walking, warm tea
• The beauty of autumn leaves, restful being, walking in the lovely weather
• I’m grateful for my HSP sweetheart, Matthew.
• The rain last night, flowers outside the window and this HSP program!
• Being in the company of my two year old grandson….the colors of the leaves here in NE….being able to walk and walk under a safe sky
• My health, Warm sun, and Family
• The support I receive from my spirit team, my creative birthrights, knowing why I am here
• Fresh Mountain Air, My barking dogs, The Ability to Heal!
• My parents, my health and my friends
• My cat, the vibrant leaves, the sun shining through my kitchen window
• A good dependable washing machine, and the backyard space for a clothesline. My clothes smell so full of sunshine and fresh air!
• My old friends that are still in my life
• Grateful (but exhausted) to be a rescue ‘parent’ to a HSP rescue dog. We’re emotional twins. For better or worse.
• I’m grateful that my partner is well after being sick over the weekend, for my magic studies, and for my favorite counseling clients that I look forward to talking with each week.
• Love my son, flowers in the house, a lovely warm autumn day in the UK!
• I’m so grateful for this class, which is helping me learn that reframing my life is not difficult, and giving me so many tools to help me recharge during the day. Thank you, Alane!
• Today I feel very embodied and attuned to my intuition.
• finishing my dissertation in 2009, my committee, the Institute library, the training I received at the institute, the people I interviewed.
• Grateful of my sensitive Mom’s love, care and kindness.
• My mentor and office-mate, my manager, my Mum, my colleagues, my friend.
• Passing piano exams. Grateful to my teacher and family for support.
• Grateful to be able to reconnect to my Indigenous Culture.
• Grateful for my path to becoming a therapist through Naropa University.
• Grateful for the singing recitals of my teens in which I performed well, and I felt well prepared by my teachers, and well supported by my family and my community
• Grateful that I saved a life.  30 years ago, while watching my daughters in the swimming pool, I noticed a 3 year old, and a rubber raft that was slowly getting closer to him.  His father wasn’t being attentive and was socializing.  Suddenly, the boy went under the raft, and no one noticed.  I walked into the wading pool (I was fully dressed) and fished him out. I am very grateful for that.
• I am grateful for chai lattes, sunshine, rain, warm blankets, this community, and Alane 🙂
• Grateful for the medical corset fitting I’ll be having later today. grateful for space heaters and heating pads in cold weather!
• I am grateful for my family and the love I receive from them
• Talking to my family, flowers, yummy scents like from my lavender plant.
• Grateful to live in a warm climate that is having an unseasonable round of freezing cold weather…practicing gratitude for cold weather.
• I’m grateful for getting a new fridge today.

Please share your gratitude(s) on our LIVE: HSP Gratitude Document