Key points

Gratitude leads to happiness and resilience and by combatting the negative and bolstering relationships.

It is difficult to feel gratitude now because of pervaisve fear, rage, hate, marginalization and insecurity.

We can overcome the barriers to feeling and expressing gratitude through behavioral processes.

Co-Authors: Kadijah Booth Watkins and Charles Spenser Egnatz

It’s that time of the year. The holidays.

We all know it. Families are making plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. We’re already seeing holiday ads on TV, pop-ups on our websites, and on social media . With Thanksgiving as the beginning, we celebrate giving thanks, being grateful.

But as we say at Passover, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” I was raised a secular Je

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