In advance of Turkey Day, I’ve seen many of my friends from the alternative healing community take up the torch of the Thanksgiving Challenge.  The challenge is about daily gratitude — participants find one thing a day to be grateful for until the big day of gluttonous overindulgence.

Here on Chronic Twenties the purpose couldn’t be more profound.  We blog a lot about diseases and our restrictions and the meds we’d rather not take, but we rarely have good cause (or remember) to blog about the positive.  It’s hard to see the good stuff at the moments when we’re reflecting on our disease — having an illness doesn’t exactly feel uplifting.

However, in light of the Thanksgiving Challenge, I’m going to post one thing a day I’m grateful for until the big feast. 

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Today, one week from Thanksgiving day, I’m grateful for my yoga mat.  It has been a vehicle for so much healing and positive change in my life.   Before, I was an unhappy junior staffer at a communications firm; now, I’m a smiling yoga teacher.  Who knew a piece of sticky, cushiony synthetic material could be so transformative?

What are you grateful for?