Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

What are you thankful for ?#thanksgiving #thankful #gratitude #thanksgiving2024 #MentalHealth

26 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube monologue, Dr. Jameca Cooper encourages viewers to consider gratitude regardless of whether they observe Thanksgiving, noting the holiday’s complex history and its overlap with Indigenous Peoples' Day. She emphasizes that thankfulness is a personal mindset rather than a ritual tied to a specific day. Cooper then shares a personal milestone: she is grateful for having left a toxic relationship that attempted to diminish and change her. The piece blends historical awareness, mental‑health perspective, and personal empowerment, ending with an invitation for the audience to reflect on what they are thankful for this season.

You don't have to celebrate Thanksgiving to be thankful. You can be thankful even still, even though it's Indigenous Peoples' Day, because we already know who discovered this place or who was already here when we got here on the boats. Whole nother topic. But what are you thankful for this season? Let me tell you what I'm thankful for. I'm thankful for no longer being with a very toxic person that thought he was going to try to keep me down and change me from being the wonderful person that I am. So what are you thankful for?