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Forced Gratitude: Why Your Gratitude Journal Isn’t Working

November 13, 2026 by Matthew Kessi

A bright fall scene at a park shows brilliant red leaves on a maple tree and fallen on the ground, so the image is mostly red, and bright with a sense of gratitude that accompanies the November season of fallling leaves. In the foreground are sword ferns covered in the red leaves.

This morning I got up at 5:30 am and prepared for a call with a woman in the UK. She'd read The Wild Cure and then booked a free Nature Alignment Call with me. This is where many of my clients come from. They get to know me through my work and then meet me "in person" via Zoom, from anywhere in the world. She's a counselor who helps domestic violence survivors. As she shared … [Read more...] about Forced Gratitude: Why Your Gratitude Journal Isn’t Working

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