🍂Gratitude, Guidance, and a pinch of wisdom for navigating life's transitions. 🍂

Each November, we unplug to come together and honor our team at our annual firm retreat. Gratitude fills our hearts as we appreciate the dedication of our hardworking team, consistently showing up for one another and for our valued clients.

Reflecting on our year so far, we are deeply thankful for the trust our clients have bestowed up on us in times of challenge. It's a source of pride to stand alongside them, offering wholehearted support and guidance through life's various transitions.

Light me up a pumpkin spiced candle, let my feet crunch as I walk over brightly covered leaves, and zip me into a parka when the fall wind nips at my nose. I love all that is fall. I love this season, and in particular, this week of Thanksgiving, where with it brings reflections on gratitude and abundance. During times of transition or grief, it may be difficult to feel gratitude or see the silver linings, but perhaps take pause and really look.

Why I Am Grateful for my Divorce

Did I just write that subtitle? Did it just get quiet in here? Do I really mean that? Divorce is complex and it creates this unique dichotomy wherein people have to pick themselves up from the bottom and work hard to get back to themselves, hating it all the while but also experiencing gratitude for it along the way. So while my divorce was the hardest thing I have been through in my life, interestingly, I am grateful that it happened to me for the following reasons:

My divorce made me a better parent. My best friend takes issue when I say this arguing that I have always been a good mom. But the truth is, post-divorce, I am a more present mother. I value my time with my daughters because there is considerably less of it. I soak in the time I spend with them in a way I never did, or had to, prior to being a divorced mom. I am more mindful of the privilege it is to raise my daughters and grateful that my divorce exposed what I previously took for granted.

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You use gratitude like cocaine, she said.

Confusion followed the stun of my kind friend’s smack of truth, and shame infused my face as I tried to process her words.

When asked how I was doing, I’d developed a habit of reciting my blessings. With my husband on a path to a predicted death, gratitude became my instant inoculation against feelings. I could escape the pain of seeing dreams of growing old together vanishing and the impending morphine pump making its appearance.

Looking at the truth hurt. Counting my blessings helped.

In the years since, everything from life’s ordinary inevitable disappointments to the deaths of my dearest have broken my heart too many times to count. This autumn, the reality of the world’s catastrophes and atrocities are enough to crush the soul of any human lucky enough to be breathing. I still need my gratitude fix.

Back in January, I chose truth as my word of the year. Less lying to myself. More truthful about who I am and who I am not. More being truthful with others.

Find more of Susan's writing on her blog NEXT: an Empowerment Series.

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