Gratitude: A Wilderness Journal to Heal Your Soul Paperback – October 19, 2025

“Gratitude: A Wilderness Journal to Heal Your Soul” is an exploration of positive change. It leads people who are in recovery from addictions, depression, anxiety, and shame to lead a better life, free from the shackles of their past. It provides a pathway to self-discovery, self-worth, self-confidence, and finally, faith.A negative world-view prevents change for the better. How can I be more grateful? Resentment, self-pity, self-loathing, complaining, comparisons, isolation, shame, guilt, humiliation, depression, loss, and a sense of entitlement rob us of self-advocacy. The world is against us. We are victims with no power to change. Negativity screams for attention.Gratitude is the prescription. We can choose to see kindness, beauty, joy, and generosity. These things are quiet and must be sought. Nature can teach us childlike awe. We can feel connected to a bigger world. We can learn to find meaning in the hardships. We can discover how every event in our lives happened for us instead of to us.Gratitude takes us from the brink of self-destruction. It shows us that there is goodness worth living for. Gratitude provides the “why” we want to even try. Read more