018: Creative Gratitude

Gratitude seems to be overlooked by a lot of people. We may have heard about it being this really great thing that can help improve our lives and bring us more happiness but our brains want to hear something new and exciting.
In this episode, I am going to be sharing something a little different and that’s the importance of creative gratitude. I believe if we can get a little more creative in our gratitude practices, it can be something that we start and stick with in our daily lives.
Take a listen to hear about all the benefits of having gratitude and my 5 creative ideas for cultivating your very own creative gratitude practice.
What you’ll find in this episode:
A story from our creative community
Why you want to be creative with your gratitude
The 5 benefits of having gratitude
5 creative ideas for making a creative gratitude practice
Read the transcript of the episode below:
 Unless you've been living under a rock, you have probably heard how amazing and beneficial gratitude is for our mental health, but how do we really access those benefits? This is episode 18: Creative Gratitude.
Welcome to the Committed to Create Podcast. I'm Lisa Funk, and I am so excited to hang out with you here as we talk about the power of creating with our hands and our minds. I like to keep it real, remind you that you are not alone and share specific ways that creativity and mindfulness can help us live even more meaningful and joyful lives. I am so glad that you're here.
Hello, and welcome back to the podcast. I'm so excited to be with you guys today. Again, I just am so grateful that you're tuning in. It's really an honor to share these thoughts with you. And I am excited for today's topic before we get started with that, I wanted to do a segment. This is a new segment called our creative community.
I wanted to do this segment so that I can occasionally highlight different members of our community who are using creativity or lettering to find that creative outlet, to have a meaningful, mindful practice of creativity and share with you so that you might be inspired that you too can do this and see the benefits from it.
So I got this message that said, I got my friends books from you months ago, and I have absolutely fallen in love with lettering. I knew for a long time I wanted to learn lettering, but I never felt comfortable committing to a class or a brand until I found Hand Lettered Design. I've battled anxiety and depression for 10 years. And I'm a huge advocate for breaking the stigma. As a first time mama leaving my beloved job as a nurse to stay home full-time two years ago, I had struggled to find an outlet, something that could just be mine. Depression hit me hard. And after getting some med adjustments, I found myself lettering and practicing every single day. It has been the most wonderful thing. I love the opportunity to be creative and to embrace positivity through writing and words. I cannot say thank you enough. 
I love hearing these stories of other members of our community who have struggled or haven't made time for themselves to have an outlet, to have a hobby, to have something just for them that is fun and meaningful and relaxing.
And I think that all of us could use a little bit more of that right now in our lives. So, if you haven't yet found a little bit of a creative outlet or hobby, I just want to encourage you to give it a shot, give yourself the permission to try it. And I hope that you will, and let me know how it goes.
That is our segment today about our creative community.
Right. Right. I am really excited to get into today's topic, which is creative gratitude. So I don't know if you are anything like me, but when we hear about one thing so many times, our brain almost shuts off. It's like we stop hearing it. We stop listening. And I feel like that's kind of, what's happened with gratitude.
We've heard that it's a really great thing and that it can help us and improve our lives and bring us more happiness and improve our mental health. But we've heard that so many times that it's like, okay, okay. Our brains want to hear something new, our brains want to hear something exciting. Our brains want to feel like we're lighting up with new ideas, something more interesting than the same old thing we've heard so many times.
And that's why today we're talking about creative gratitude. Because I believe if we can be creative in our gratitude practice, that it can be something that we continue doing instead of feeling like, oh yeah, I've heard that a bunch. And I'm sure it's great, but it doesn't seem like something new and different.
We always think there's something new and different that's going to be the answer, that's going to be the silver bullet to solving all of our problems and helping us to feel incredibly happy all the time. Well, let's just stop and say for one, it's impossible to be happy all the time. We're not supposed to. We aren't robots. We are human beings that are here to experience a range of emotions, but I love feeling the emotion of grateful. I love feeling gratitude in my life. It feels so good. And so, I want to share today. Some of the benefits of gratitude that we may not always think about, and then some very actionable ways to be creative with our gratitude practice.
So in preparing for the podcast today, I was reading about the study done at UC Berkeley about a bunch of patients that were struggling with their mental health. And they did a research project where they had control groups and they had some of the patients do a gratitude practice where they wrote gratitude letters to people who had influenced them and who had made a difference in their lives. And they wrote these letters every week and they then did a followup to see if there was a big difference. And there really was a huge difference in the people who had done the gratitude practice and the people who hadn't.
And I wanted to share some main points about gratitude. Some of them are relating to that study and a couple others from other places, other sources that I'll share. 
So the first is that gratitude changes our narrative. I am huge into the mind and how we create with our minds. I was in therapy for many years. I've also done a lot of life coaching. I've become certified as a life coach. I'm very fascinated by the mind and how, what we create with our minds either consciously or subconsciously can drastically affect how we feel and how we act in our lives. So the first one that says gratitude changes our narrative is so key because what we think, the story that we tell, the thoughts that we think in our heads are what create our feelings. It's why we feel great or why we feel terrible. 
So if we are incorporating a gratitude practice, that gratitude that what we're thinking about, being grateful for, it's going to cause positive emotions inside of us, as opposed to a negative narrative that is going to cause negative emotions.
So one of the main benefits of gratitude is that it changes our emotional state because it's changing the thoughts that we're thinking. We are intentionally thinking thoughts that are going to be positive and cause positive emotion. 
The second thing, and this does come from that study at Berkeley, is that gratitude helps us even if we don't share it.
I think that sharing it can be really beautiful and bonding a bonding thing for people, but they noticed that when they had people write these gratitude letters, even if they didn't send them, even if they didn't share them with the person, just the act of writing the gratitude letters was so helpful in improving their mental health.
Number three is that the benefits of gratitude take time. So you may not feel immediately better right after you've done the gratitude list or written the gratitude letter, but you need to remember that it takes time that it builds on itself. So even if you don't feel super happy or amazing right away, trust in the process and know that over time, having a consistent gratitude practice really will make a difference. 
Number four is that gratitude has lasting effects on the brain. There have been numerous studies, but one from Indiana university that showed, they used an F MRI scanner to look at the medial prefrontal cortex and saw distinct differences in those who had been practicing gratitude and those who hadn't. When we are practicing gratitude, we really are training our brains to focus on these positive thoughts and emotions. And over time it changes our neural pathways and our brain is so important in how we feel and function that having a gratitude practice really does have lasting effects on our brain.
Number five is that gratitude encourages generosity and service. I feel like this is the best cycle ever, because you start out with a gratitude practice. You feel these positive emotions from that, which encourage you to want to help and serve others, which in turn helps you feel amazing in which case your gratitude increases.
The cool thing about this too, is that when we feel grateful and in turn, start serving and helping others, that increases our connection and our relationships, it strengthens our relationships with other people. 
If you have struggled with mental health or have looked into the research, you probably know that a lack of connection can really affect the levels of depression and anxiety that people experience.
And so this really amazing side effect of gratitude, which is connecting with other people through service and generosity, is such a great side effect that can really benefit us. 
So now we have covered some of the benefits and you might be like, all right, I'm in. I believe that the benefits are real. I believe that they last, and it's not just someone that anecdotally is telling you, oh yeah, gratitude's great. You should try it. It is real research that is showing us that it can really change our brain and our mental health over time. So then once we're convinced and we're converted to the idea of having gratitude be a part of us and being grateful. It's hard to just say, okay, I'm just going to be more grateful.
I'm just going to try to be more grateful. We have these thoughts that kind of chase each other around. We can't always just decide now I'm going to be really grateful. That would be like me saying now I'm going to be super organized. I would love to be super organized, but I need a plan. And that's the same thing with gratitude.
We need a plan. We need to make this practical. And I love having practical advice and actions that we can do. And the research does show that having a gratitude practice, something that we do intentionally is what really makes the difference in people who benefit from gratitude, changing their mental health and their emotional state.
So I wanted to share five creative ideas for some creative gratitude. Like I said, sometimes we just need to mix it up. We need to think of new ways that we can practice our gratitude. Think about it, write about it, do it so that we can. Keep doing it so that we don't just get bored so that our brains don't turn off to it and think, oh yeah, I've heard about that. It sounds nice, but I'm not really incorporating that into my life.
 So I'm going to share five ideas and just pick one, maybe today, one that resonates with you that you might want to try, and maybe you have some other things that you do. I would love to hear what those are. And maybe after this episode, you'll come up with some other ideas. I love all of the ideas. So I'm going to share five today, but let's keep this list going. 
Number one is write it down. I believe so strongly in the power of writing. Obviously I love lettering and that is part of the reason why. Our brains focus on things differently when we put a pen in our hands and onto paper. A pen, a pencil, a crayon, whatever your choice of writing utensil might be. It changes the way that we focus and the part of our brain that gets used. 
And so whether you have a little journal where you write down what you're grateful for every day, Or you have it as part of your planner, if you are like a physical planner person and there's a little bit of space on your planner, use that space to write one thing that you're grateful for every day.
And I like using the rule, you know, if you're going to make up rules for yourself, that it needs to be different every day. And that way it keeps me thinking of different things. And I'm not just writing something really generic, like my family, which I am super grateful for my family. But when I give myself the encouragement to mix it up and write something different every day, my brain gets more creative. My brain starts thinking about other things that I am grateful for and it increases the depth of my experience with that gratitude. 
I wanted to share a little story about when I went away to college and I was feeling a little homesick. And my mom is like my BFF and we chat all the time and we're big talkers and we're both, you know, open. And I love sharing all my emotions with her and she's just gotten, you know, that she's gotten to be that person in my life that I just go to. And I feel really lucky. I know not everyone has that kind of relationship with their mom, but that has been the case for me. 
And so when I went away to college and I was really, really homesick and sad, one day, I remember calling home. And this was in the days where you just call the home phone. I'm sure I had like the phone card, the long distance calling card. Do you know what I'm talking about? Is anyone else old enough to remember when you would buy the card? Oh my gosh, this is really taking me back. 
Okay. So then when I would call home, I was just calling the home phone and whoever picked up, picked up and I was calling to talk to my mom cause she was just the one that I normally talk to and I was really emotional or sad.
And she wasn't home and my dad answered the phone. And so I love my dad and I shared with him how I was feeling. And it was really cool because he might've had some different responses or ideas for me than I might've normally done. And when I expressed how I was sad and how I was feeling, he encouraged me to get a piece of paper out and write down a blessings list, which is basically a list of all of the things that I was grateful for. And while I had been really feeling down and focused quite a bit on myself, to be honest, this gave me the chance to take a pen to paper and to kind of get out of my head and think about all of the things that I was grateful for.
I wrote big things and little things, and I filled up a whole first page and then I turned it over and filled up the whole back page. And once I got started the ideas of what I was grateful for just kept flowing and I really did feel different afterwards. I really did feel a change in my mood. So as cheesy or cliche as it might be, it really does help to write down what we're grateful for, and if we can make it a consistent practice that will help us even more. 
Another creative idea for gratitude is to make a gratitude poster. So one time I had someone in my life that was feeling sad and I knew that gratitude had really helped me. And so I decided to make a poster for this person and write down one of my favorite Proverbs, which is gratitude is a memory of the heart. And I just shared this with them and said, as an idea that they might just write down one thing on the poster every day that they were grateful for. And they did. And shared with me that it was a really meaningful experience to see that poster get filled up with different things that they were grateful for. Again, the big things, the small things, everyday things. It really does change how we feel. 
This is a fairly common thing for a lot of us to do, I think at Thanksgiving time, a lot of people will, you know, make a thankful tree. And I think that's amazing, but if we can incorporate this regularly into our lives and into our family's lives for us and for our kids, we can see those benefits all the time, not just in November.
The next idea for creative gratitude is our Creative Lettering Journal. So this is the first workbook that I ever created that I wanted to share with the world to help them learn how to do lettering, but I've always enjoyed lettering as not only just a fun way to write and a cute way to write, but I've always used it as a way to be more mindful and to improve my emotional state. Because as you know, I struggle sometimes with a negative voice in my head and the negative emotions that come along with that negative voice. So when I created this first workbook, the Creative Lettering Journal, it teaches you how to do faux calligraphy, but it's all based on gratitude.
So the words that you're writing to learn how to connect the letters together and how to, you know, do some bounce lettering and some flourishing, a little bit of flourishing in there. They're all words that relate to gratitude. So then when you go on in the workbook, there are pages of quotes that all relate to gratitude, and I have made them a light gray so that you can trace the lettering design and learn a little bit more about the layout and how the flourishing works when you're laying out a quote.
But at the same time when you're practicing these layouts and you're lettering these quotes about gratitude. Your mind is going to be focused on this positivity, which means your thoughts will be turned to these positive ones and that affects your emotions and your emotional state. So I love offering this idea of using the Creative Lettering Journal as a gratitude practice, because it has all of these great quotes for you to trace to practice your lettering, and it also has reflective journal prompts that go along with those quotes. 
I wanted to share a few of the journal prompts here because it can be a great way to reflect on gratitude and can be a fun and creative gratitude practice in and of itself. So one of the quotes in the creative lettering journal that I have for people to trace is "thinking of things we are grateful for is a healing balm."
And I share a little bit about how, when my brother passed away, seven years ago, we had another family who had recently lost their son tell us that they had started a list of blessings, of tender mercies, things that they were grateful for that happened really soon after their son had passed away. And they gave that idea to our family.
So even during those first, really hard few days, right after my brother had passed away, my family started keeping a list of tender mercies, these blessings that we were seeing, even in the midst of this incredibly heartbreaking and tragic time for us. And we would get together and kind of compile these tender mercies into a list and share them with each other and focusing on that gratitude, even during that really hard time, was so healing for us.
And it just gave us hope that even in the midst of trials and challenges, there really are things to be grateful for and things that can start to heal us. So now when I talk to someone who is going through a really hard time, I often offer this experience that we had when we were mourning my brother, but also able to write down the things that happened that were just such incredible blessings. It might've been someone bringing a meal or someone offering to help with our kids or things that just seemed a little too coincidental to just be a coincidence. Real blessings that we believed came from God, but they were often brought to us through other people and it helped us to kind of have some comfort and some hope through that time.
Now I will say when someone's going through a hard time, I do not just jump to this. I don't say, oh my gosh, you're having, you're having such a hard time. Why don't you just be grateful? Why don't you just focus on gratitude instead of feeling sad for years? I just had to say that because I want you to know that compassion always comes first and validating our emotions is so important and I am never wanting to use gratitude as a way to ignore how we feel and to dismiss really important feelings that can be hard to feel.
It's hard to feel grief. It's hard to feel sad. It's difficult when these hard things come up in our lives. When we want to include the hope and include the belief that things can get better and that there can be comfort along the way, focusing on the blessings and those little moments of gratitude can make a huge difference.
I wanted to share another quote from the creative lettering journal, along with the journaling prompt that goes with it. And the phrase is "many people with very little are very happy." So I have that in the book that you can practice tracing and it has a beautiful lettering layout. And then it has a journal prompt, which is: While so many people really believe that money buys happiness, that has not been my experience. Of course, having enough money to meet your basic needs definitely affects your happiness. But beyond that, I really don't believe that it does. And I know there's actually research that backs this up, that having enough to meet your basic needs does affect your happiness, but beyond that, material possessions don't seem to correlate to more happiness. So let me continue: while traveling in very poor areas of the world, I have found some of the happiest people that I've ever met. I thought about my life back home, where I enjoyed so many luxuries and conveniences that these people didn't have, but they seem so much happier than me.
It made me realize that I really don't need money or things, material possessions, to be happy. And the journaling prompt is to just think about this, to think about the things you have in your life that don't necessarily cost any money,  that make you happy, to think about people that you may have encountered in your life that didn't need luxuries or expensive things to be happy. And to just reflect on that and journal about. 
So there are many more quotes in that creative lettering journal about gratitude with journaling prompts. And if you're interested in learning how to letter using faux calligraphy, but also having this opportunity for a gratitude practice, this can be a great option.
All right. Number three, for the ideas for creative gratitude is from that study that I mentioned before, and it's to write gratitude letters. I loved this idea and I actually really loved the idea that you don't even necessarily have to send them. Of course, it would probably make someone's day to know that they had made a big difference in your life.
But I think if I had only the intention of writing them, if I were going to send them, I may not do it because there are a lot of people in my life that have made a difference for me that I might not know where they are now. I've had teachers that have made a huge difference in my life. I don't know if I could get ahold of them.
Of course it would be great. And I probably should try to do that for some of them, but I don't want that to keep me from doing this creative exercise, this creative gratitude practice of writing letters to people that really mattered to me in my life. So, for example, I'm just going to share one person here to get you, maybe to get your mind thinking.
And that was my math teacher. When I was a sophomore in high school, I had a teacher named Laurie Sase. If you're listening, Laurie, I'm just kidding, I'm sure she's not listening, but she was amazing. I never thought of myself as someone who was good at math or understood math very well, but she had the most amazing way of explaining things and she would not rest until she had come up with a way to explain math so that we could understand it. And not only that, she was the most kind and caring teacher. I remember one day she asked me to stay after class and I was like, oh, okay. What did I do? Did I mess up? Did I, do I need to retake a test? I knew that I, you know, wasn't exactly always a natural at math.
So I stayed after class wondering why she was asking me to stay. And she just said to me, it seemed like you aren't yourself today is something going on. Are you okay? And there was something going on and I'm sure that it was, you know, something minor, but having her notice and care about me was so amazing.
She cared so much about all of her students. And I got the best grades I've ever gotten in math in that class because she explained things so well and her determination and creativity and how she taught and how she cared about us made me want to spend the extra time learning. I didn't feel like she just gave us the information hoped we can learn it and good luck. She really cared. And it would be so great for me to write a letter to her and I will try to find her address. But I think that even if we write these letters and don't send them, it can be a beautiful thing. So that is idea number three, to write the gratitude letters and actually in the Creative Lettering Journal, I have some coloring pages in there and in the back I have a couple of coloring pages that you can cut out and fold to become thank you cards. So that can be a really great way to practice gratitude. 
All right. Number four for creative gratitude is to do a gratitude meditation or a gratitude walk. So these are both ways that you would use gratitude in your mind.
One way that I use gratitude meditation is when I'm praying. And it really helps me to think a little bit ahead of time of the things that I want to express gratitude for, but just taking the time, whether it's a prayer or just a meditation, where you're just thinking in your mind and kind of making that mental list of the different things that you're grateful for.
And pondering on that and spending the time to really sit in that and feel the gratitude for the things that you're grateful for is so amazing. And going along with that, you can do this type of gratitude meditation while you're walking. And sometimes I think it's helpful to be moving. Not all of us can just sit and meditate in that particular way, but even when we're moving, we can do this gratitude practice.
So last winter, I started feeling more anxiety. I actually talked about on Instagram. I don't know if you would remember or not. I don't expect anyone to remember, but I had a little uptick in anxiety and it was somewhat situational. I had a situation that was really, I was really struggling with, but I knew that there were probably some other issues at hand like hormonally and things like that. And I was feeling so much anxiety. I could feel it in my chest and in my stomach. And I knew I needed to move my body and change my physiology, get my body moving. And I knew that that was going to help. And I also knew that changing my thoughts was going to help.
And of course, gratitude. So I decided to go for a gratitude walk and I left my house and I went for my walk and I told myself the whole time I'm on my walk, I'm not going to listen to a podcast, which I normally do. I'm not going to listen to music on this walk. All I'm going to do is list things that I'm grateful for.
So one thing that really helps when you're doing this is to talk out loud, which could be a little embarrassing if you are around other people, but hey, who cares? Right? Um, even if you're just really whispering the reason why it helps me to say it out loud is because when you're doing it just mentally in your mind, you can get off track so easily our minds wanders so easily.
So saying these things out loud while I was walking, kept me on track. And even then your mind still is going to wander, but just remind yourself that you're on a gratitude walk and you can even focus on the things that you're seeing. That you're grateful for the grass, the trees. The animals, the sky, the weather, whatever.
It was just what I needed. When I got back to my house, not only had I changed my movement, which helps your physiology and helps your psychology, but it helped my mental state to focus on the positivity and the gratitude. So that is the fourth idea for creative gratitude is to do a gratitude meditation or walk.
So the fifth step is to focus on our gratitude for past experiences. So your memories, things that have happened, that you're so grateful for, some of those might be hard things that have happened to you and how you've come through them. Some of them may be the joyous moments in your life. And the reason why I love that idea for creative gratitude is because you really can be creating. If you're documenting, maybe you're creating a photo book. Maybe you're creating a video. Like I talked about in last week's episode, I love putting together these videos of trips and different experiences with my family. And when I'm working on those, I can have an intentional focus on gratitude, how grateful I am for the experiences that I had with my family and the places that we went, how grateful I am for the specific people that are in those videos. And you can also just write these things down, but it's like, two birds with one stone, because you are not only focusing on gratitude, but you're also documenting and getting to save these memories to share maybe just with yourself, but also possibly with your family and your posterity.
If you are finding that it's hard to think of things that you are grateful for right now, because maybe there's a lot of challenges going on in your life. I find that looking back to joyful memories, or like I said times when you've struggled, but come through it. I find that that is a much easier place sometimes to go when we want to feel gratitude.
And so focusing on past experiences and our gratitude for them can be really helpful. And bonus points if you use your creativity to create a video or a scrapbook or a photo book or something like that, or journaling about past experiences and your gratitude for them is amazing. And I think it's super powerful.
So I hope that you might pick one of those ideas to try out this week. And I would love to hear about it if you do. I think that, you know, sometimes people can think about these ideas and be like, oh, well don't just be a Pollyanna and bury your head in the sand, and, you know, forget about the real tough things in life. 
And that's not what this is, this isn't just pretending that everything's fine. And just trying to be positive. If you've been here for any amount of time, you know, how strongly I believe in feeling your emotions and having compassion for yourself and processing those emotions. But I also believe in the power of our minds and in our thinking and focusing on gratitude brings such amazing emotions for us, that I want to offer these tools of how to make it more creative so that it's something we can continue doing.
I also wanted to mention that you may have someone in your life who is really struggling, they may be struggling with depression or anxiety, they may be going through a hard time. And generally when you're the person struggling, the last thing you want to hear is someone telling you you should just be grateful.
You should just be grateful because at least, oh my gosh, I should do a whole podcast episode on what not to say to people when they're struggling or grieving, but let's just add in that one. Yeah. At least this isn't happening at least, you know, you still have your house or you still have your, you know, car, or I don't know what you would say, but instead of preaching at someone.
Instead of being prescriptive, be an example. Of you and how you're showing gratitude in your life and showing gratitude for them. And not in a way that's like, hey, look at me. I'm so grateful. But being around grateful people really can have an effect on us. It can lift us up. We really are affected by the people that we spend a lot of time with.
And so. You don't of course want to preach to them and make them feel bad. But I think that we can be encouraging and be an example. And I do also want to offer that I have a lot of people who will give the Creative Lettering Journal as a gift, because it's a way to learn lettering, but it's also, like I said, two and one, you also focus on gratitude and it can really be a boost for your mental health.
Being creative lights our brains up. And so when we combine creativity with gratitude, just imagine the amazing results and benefits that we're going to see. This is mindful, intentional gratitude. That can also be really fun. So if you have other people in your life, encourage them to come up with creative ways to be grateful so that they can continue doing it in a way that's fun for them and way that works for them. You might hear someone share how they do it, and that just doesn't work for you. I hope that maybe one of the five ideas I shared today could be something that will be meaningful for you.
But if not, I would love to hear some other ideas that you come up with. Our brains are so powerful and so creative. If we ask our brain to come up with a way that we can have a creative gratitude practice, I know that our brains will help us think of something that might work and there might be some trial and error of what helps or what doesn't, what we connect with.
But I know that when we have a creative gratitude practice that we can do consistently and ongoing. It really improves our mental health and improves the peace we feel and our mental and emotional states. 
So. I hope you're excited about this. And I would love to hear what you think you can come over to Instagram. I am at hand lettered design and send me a message there. I always post about the episodes. So you can come and share in the comments, or you can always leave a review here. I love hearing the reviews and what you're learning from the episodes and which ones really resonate with you. If you are interested in getting the Creative Lettering Journal, it is the book, the workbook that I recommend for beginners who are just starting out with lettering.
We sell a bundle on our website that has the Creative Lettering Journal, Tracing Paper, the tracing paper is so that you can put it over pages in the workbook so that you can practice multiple times. So you're not going to just go through and, you know, practice the alphabet once you're going to go through multiple times so that you can really master the letters and build up that muscle memory.
So we include the workbook, the tracing paper, and some pens for you. So we also will send you a video to help you walk through the steps of creating the script alphabet. And it's a great way to start letting. And to have a gratitude practice. If you know someone else in your life who might benefit from this, it's such a great gift.
I have so many people who come to me and say that they got it as a gift. It was their favorite gift because it's the gift that keeps on giving. It's the gift that you got can continue to use and share. And like I said, when you feel grateful, you want to share and be generous with others. And sometimes lettering is a way to do it.
We can use our lettering to create signs and cards and encourage other people. It's like I said, it's the gift that keeps on giving. So I'm going to link to that in the show notes to the Creative Lettering Journal bundle, so that you can go and grab that if you're interested. 
And I just wanted to say how genuinely grateful I am for the opportunity to come on here. To connect with you to share ideas. And it really is my greatest dream to help other people use creativity and mindfulness to find more peace and joy in their lives. Thank you so much for being here and I will talk to you next.
Links:
A study from UC Berkeley on gratitude
Creative Lettering Journal
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Jennifer L. IN LOVE!! What a perfect idea! I am a plant mama too, like Lisa. I also manage a great deal of anxiety. I got into lettering a couple years ago as a creative outlet and discovered a multitude of treasures in the lettering community! This book that Lisa created with her daughter is just perfection! It's all the feels for me! Thank you both!!!
Cinthanie C. EXCELLENT BOOK! I really enjoy taking a minute each day to slow down and apply my hand to something that is not only emotionally supportive but relaxing and fun to do!! The mantras for everyday are very helpful for me. Thank you for your work and bringing such a high quality product into my life!
Daily Mindful Lettering Kit: Live With Love

Daily Mindful Lettering Kit: Peace & Calm

018: Creative Gratitude

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046: Removing the Pressure

045: Creative Constraint
