When Melissa’s father died unexpectedly, grief consumed her. She often woke to her heart racing in the middle of the night, and her thoughts were difficult to shut off. Out of desperation, she tried something that felt almost trivial: writing down three things she was grateful for each night.
It seemed pointless at first, but within a few weeks, she started feeling less anxious and her days began to look a little brighter. Gratitude did not erase her grief, but changed the way her mind processed it.
