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You Don’t Have to be Grateful to Improve Your Mental Health
Kate Hastings Show
English - February 07, 2022 20:09 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness Business Careers education health mindset personaldevelopment coach fit fitness miami mind program Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Gratitude when it is possible. However, while some from gratitude, for most it is challenging. The reason has to do with an overactive nervous system. For many survivors, the reactive part of the brain is in charge much of the time. This is not because they do not try—or do not want—to be positive. Their nervous system holds them in a constant state of reactiveness. The pain of trauma has left them feeling “not good enough,” ashamed, guilty, injured, and unworthy. Their upper brain is not engaged enough to overcome those feelings and contemplate gratitude on an on-going basis.