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This was the author's tenth book, which she wrote while struggling with feelings of being an ingrate and regret about her career success, ultimately finding that the process of writing it saved her life.
Bass says writing her most recent book, "Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks," saved her life.
— Episode: Diana Butler Bass, 100 Days of Gratitude
Episode: Diana Butler Bass, 100 Days of Gratitude
This was the author's tenth book, which she wrote while struggling with feelings of being an ingrate and regret about her career success, ultimately finding that the process of writing it saved her life.
Bass says writing her most recent book, "Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks," saved her life.
Diana has just written a book called Grateful all about her coming to terms with the fact that she wasn't something of an ingrate in her own life and she talks about how she went about cultivating what is sort of a life skill par excellence.
This book was not a book that I wrote out of a sense of expertise it's the tenth book that I have written which means there's been a lot of stress along the way and many of my early books were about liberal Christianity and congregational life and how all that was changing in America different kinds of religious and spiritual trends.
And so my husband looked at me and he said you know writing this book has saved you.
The new book is called Grateful, the transformative, you know, I can't remember the transformative power of giving thanks.
Episode: Diana Butler Bass, 100 Days of Gratitude
The author stated that writing this book saved her life after she realized she wasn't understanding gratitude correctly. She detailed her 100-day practice of finding gratitude even during the distressing post-2016 election period, which ultimately changed how she viewed the world.
Bass says writing her most recent book, "Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks," saved her life.
Diana has just written a book called Grateful all about her coming to terms with the fact that she wasn't something of an ingrate in her own life and she talks about how she went about cultivating what is sort of a life skill par excellence.
This book I went to and I said I'm 56 years old and I don't really think I understand gratitude.
And I remember being transfixed by what I was seeing on television that, you know, here was this political candidate yelling at us and encouraging violence at rallies and people saying things that I just never would have dreamed that I would see people say in public. These upsetting sort of episodes in the news and it was so distracting and so distressing to me that I couldn't write.
And my husband looked at me and he said you know writing this book has saved you. And I didn't realize that's what it had done.