The Art of Gratitude Podcast with Margaret Alvarez
Interview with Kristi Nelson, author of Wake Up Grateful
May 4, 202436 min · 7,179 words
Show notes
In this episode I visit with Kristi Nelson. She is the author of Wake Up Grateful: The Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted.
Highlighted moments
I don't have my own birth children. I don't have my own kids. And so there's something about something that's going to outlast me, you know, not just a piece of my artwork or pottery or a piece of jewelry or something that I get to pass on, but there's something that will actually outlive me.
“it's not really a total memoir, but it's like a theoretical book about, it's a guidebook about how to live your life gratefully, but it tells this little bit of my story on purpose because it's then grounded in something that isn't just woo woo or Pollyanna ish”
“gratitude is grateful for the green lights, but gratefulness and grateful living actually appreciate the yellow lights and the red lights too, because that's look and go, look, it's green is go, but it's stop, stop for the red light, look at the yellow lights, that's yield, that's notice what's around”
“you don't substitute something good or that you're grateful for for something hard, because that's like spiritual bypassing or toxic positivity that we like replacing. And what I always say is it's about how to companion the difficult thing with the difficult things. You companion the truth of joy, of love, of delight, of beauty”
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