After trauma, being grateful can make you happier and decrease negative emotions and stress. Gratitude has been shown to have many of the above benefits for happiness, health, positive emotions, and negative emotions on people with neuromuscular diseases and chronic pain, and caregivers for people with Alzheimer’s – showing that gratitude is useful not only in good circumstances but also in bad.Gratitude can make us more resilient, able to bounce back when life knocks us down. Grateful people have more closure around traumatic memories; by encouraging us to focus on the positive, it can turn a tragedy into an inspiring story of redemption.Grateful people are happier, more positive, and have better relationships, and their sense of self-worth and self-confidence increases. By encouraging us to focus on the positive, gratitude can help us see the good in our livesRead more…
