Want more posts like this in your life? Join the Tiny Buddha list for daily or weekly insights. My journey to living in gratitude began in 2010. And let me say that up until that time, until I was age forty-five, I was a complainer, griper, and a whiner, with absolutely no reason to complain! Luckily, I was saved from these very wasteful, counter-productive habits when I was given a blank journal one Thanksgiving season by a New Thought minister, who told us if we journaled five things we were grateful for forty days, our life would change exponentially for … Continue reading Radical Gratitude: How to Turn Your Pain into Peace