A Letter of Gratitude to the Universe: Chapter 1 of ???

I've always known that there is an absurd number of things for me to appreciate in my life currently, but it felt important to make a record of it for posterity sake.

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Dear reader,

I won't waste your time belaboring and/or continuing to beat the dead horse about the significance, importance, and benefits of a gratitude process for people. It is a straight up established principle that practicing gratitude regularly is healthy & helpful. It helps establish new neural pathways in the brain that support you moving towards a more fulfilling life for yourself.

Now that we have gone through all that, let us dive in to my sincere & heartfelt letter of gratitude to the Universe that has given me far more than a punk like myself deserves:

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For those of you that might not know, despite being a therapist, I have been a chronic worrier for as long as I can remember, dating as far back to when I had not even grown my glorious beard yet (we are talking single digit ages compadres).

To help mitigate and ideally reduce the impact of these worries, I try to remind myself of all the insane things in my life I need to be grateful for in my life.

Universe, I am now going to do my best to regularly express my gratitude for the myriad of blessings you continue to bestow to me, starting with the foundation that almost all my other wins & successes rest upon:

• My absolutely astounding wife

  • I'm sure one day I will make sure to write more about this, but I 1000% believe that there is nowhere near enough words to accurately describe the impact choosing an amazing partner in life can have for someone.

  • For those of you that know her, you are already aware of how amazing, impressive, and straight up bad ass my wife is each day in her own life. For myself personally, I have been lucky enough for her to see the potential for what I could become one day in the foolish & ridiculous jabroni I was back when we first met when we were 18 years old. 

  • I know that this is a post about something I am grateful for, but I would be lying if I did not constantly feel wholly undeserving of getting to spend my life with my amazing wife. We were fortunate in January of this year to pass the point where the two of us have been in a relationship together for more than 51% of our lives, and I count every day as an absolute blessing.