When Gratitude crosses over to the Dark Side
Have you ever thought of how often you’ve been asked to be thankful, feel grateful or to count your blessings? We have been told that practicing gratitude is good for our Mental Health and overall wellbeing and we’ve seen this in terms of Social Media challenges, hashtags, making gratitude jars or even having gratitude journals. While Gratitude can be a very grounding experience, we need to be conscious that there is a dark side to it which we need to be vigilant of. The dark