A short YouTube talk by Amber Hollingsworth guiding listeners in an active gratitude exercise for early sobriety: identify someone who positively impacted your life and write them a thank-you letter (and ideally reach out). The exercise is presented as a mood-boosting, recovery-support practice that can increase well-being through expressing gratitude.
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Alright, today I want you to do something kind of different and I think kind of interesting. I want you to think back on someone in your life who's who you feel did something that was just so important to you. They helped you, they gave you something, they did something for you, they taught you something that you really see as just so valuable. But that person probably doesn't know that you ever thought that way or felt that way. And once you have that person in your head, maybe it was an old coach or a teacher or a friend you had a long time ago or something, I want you to write a letter to that person and I want you to tell them how whatever it was that they did and how it affected you and just basically say, thank you so much. And this really had a big impact on my life. I know you may not know that, but it was really important to me. This is going to do something huge. This is going to. This is such an active way to practice gratitude. When you do this, you're going to feel so good, you're going to get like a surge of like serotonin, like, and that's a pretty good chemical in your brain. You're going to feel better. And so today I want you to practice gratitude by thinking about someone who did something that impacted your life in a really positive way. And maybe they don't know it and you're going to reach out and tell it to them, you're going to feel better, they're going to feel better. It's just a great thing to do.
