This Is How You Think - A Personal Growth and Mindset Shift Podcast Why Feeling Grateful Can Be Difficult: How to Practice Gratitude (Do This First)
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Dec 3, 2025 Why do typical gratitude tips often fail? The discussion dives into internal barriers like unprocessed emotions and negative attention habits that hinder authentic gratitude. Personal stories reveal how trauma shapes our outlook, making negativity a default. Before gratitude can take root, it’s essential to process and release those blockages. Finally, practical tips and community insights provide fresh, engaging ways to cultivate a lasting gratitude practice.
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Three Layers That Block Gratitude
- Undigested emotions, judgment, and attention habits fill internal space and block gratitude.
- These three layers create a negativity loop that prevents meaningful, consistent gratefulness.
Trauma Revealed The Negativity Root
- Jule Kim discovered childhood traumas (held up at gunpoint at three) that explained long-standing negativity.
- She links unprocessed early events to decades of carrying undigested emotional pain.
Why Gratitude Practices Often Fail
- Gratitude opposes undigested emotion, blame, and threat-scanning, so it can't stick when those dominate.
- Practicing gratitude too early acts like a band-aid on a deeper wound and will likely fail.
