You can be grateful and still completely overwhelmed

Love for your life does not cancel out the fact that your life may be asking too much of you right now.

6 MIN READ

WHAT RESEARCHERS KNOW

Mixed emotions are ordinary in demanding roles. The pressure to prove gratitude can make people less honest about strain, even when naming the strain is the first step toward changing it.

WHAT THIS MIGHT MEAN

You do not have to make your hard day less real in order to appreciate what you have.

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW

No feeling comes with a moral score. Gratitude does not mean you should be able to absorb unlimited demand, and overwhelm does not tell the whole story of your love.

THE 30-SECOND VERSION

Gratitude and overwhelm are not opposites. A mother can adore her children, recognize what is good, and still feel flattened by the pace, responsibility, noise, or lack of room in her own day.

MAKE IT EASIER

Try finishing this sentence without correcting it: ‘I am grateful for ___, and I need ___.’ Both parts get to be true in the same room.

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