The superpower you didn’t know you had🧡

Hi friends,

I know Thanksgiving comes packaged with a lot of outdated narratives — turkeys, pilgrims, a whole bunch of cringe. But there’s one thing I still appreciate about this time of year: the reminder to pause and feel grateful.

Gratitude really is a superpower. It isn’t just a “good vibe” practice — it literally shifts the brain. When we take a moment to focus on something we genuinely appreciate, the brain strengthens the neural pathways connected to safety, resilience, and possibility. It’s like giving your nervous system a small flashlight in the dark . Even the tiniest spark of gratitude can widen your perception, soften tension, and create momentum in other parts of your life.

As you take stock of what you’re grateful for this week, I want to invite you to include your body in that reflection.

What is your body story? 

In what ways has it carried you — quietly, fiercely, imperfectly — through your life?

And I don’t mean only in an athletic sense. Yes, maybe you played sports, got injured, rebuilt yourself one slow day at a time. Or maybe you were in an accident and had to learn to trust your body again. Or maybe you’ve navigated illness, childbirth, heartbreak, burnout, or any number of experiences that reshaped what you’re capable of.

And listen — I’m the last person who wants to spiritually bypass or use gratitude as a way to pretend everything is fine. In my own life, I’ve learned that genuine gratitude often lives behind the harder emotions. Sometimes you have to feel the grief, the frustration, the exhaustion first.

But the wild thing is that once you do, gratitude shows up almost like the light at the end of the emotional tunnel. It feels like a deep emotional metabolism — a moment when the body digests what the mind has been carrying for too long. There’s this quiet recognition of everything you’ve survived… and everything your body keeps doing for you without being asked.

Gratitude begins to feel like spaciousness — an inner widening, a capacity to hold all the contradictions, the pain, the joy, the becoming. And it often lands in the body like a full-body exhale, when something within finally softens. 

In that space, there’s often awe: that somehow, all the scattered pieces of your past, every lesson your body has lived through, every setback and rebuilding, have shaped the version of you standing here today. Gratitude becomes less about “being positive” and more about honoring the truth of your story — the resilience etched into your muscles, the wisdom in your nervous system, and the simple miracle that you’re still here, still moving, still becoming.

So I hope that somewhere on your gratitude list — this season, this year, or even this decade — you add your body. Not as an afterthought, but as a companion that’s been with you through every version of yourself.

Wishing you a grounded, nourishing holiday week — full of slowness, warmth, good food, good company, and whatever kind of rest your body’s been asking for.