No matter what the trauma was that they were recovering from, they said, “when you are grateful for what you have I understand that you understand the magnitude of what I’ve lost.”
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Of often we’re afraid to be grateful for what we have, especially in front of people who’ve gone through great trauma and loss cause we think it’s insensitive. But it’s really hard because those of who don’t want to be grateful, to show a picture of our child to someone maybe who’s lost a child, what they see is “not only are you not going to talk to me about your child, me talking about my loss and child is not on the table either.
From the Netflix special Brené Brown, A Call to Courage: