A Thanksgiving Conversation on Gratitude

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hi friends and welcome to this Thanksgiving Day episode of Three Cups and a Dash of Spirituality. I'm Michelle, and today felt like the perfect moment to slow down, to breathe, and to lean into some true gratitude energy. Carissa and I take this opportunity to check in with ourselves, to talk honestly about what gratitude looks like in real life, especially during a season that can feel both joyous and overwhelming. The conversation unfolded in such a grounding and needed way. So whether you're cooking, traveling, or taking a quiet moment for yourself, we hope this brings you a little clarity and warmth to your day. Happy Thanksgiving. Now let's dive into gratitude. Hi. Hello. I am so thankful too. I know it's like, welcome back, girl. You've been gone a little while. I have. School's getting PhD programs have been kicking my butt. I know. There are seasons for everything, and this is definitely a time of put your head down and just do what you gotta do. And I'm feeling that energy too as we enter this holiday season. I do believe Stacy's feeling that energy a little bit because she's not here with us today, so she is missed, but huge shout out to her. Hello, Stacy. Hi, girl. I never say girl, but it just sounded right. Again, welcome everybody to our Thanksgiving episode. I do have a quick story of synchronicity or timing that I want to share. It can be tied back, actually, to Thanksgiving. So this is a perfect episode. The other day, my husband was invited to go to the Dallas Cowboys game. They were playing in Las Vegas, Nevada against the Raiders. So we plan to take the trip. Of course, he's dragging his feet, and we get in the car and he's he goes, I need to grab something to eat. And we don't really do fast food a lot, but sometimes when we travel, we do. I'm like, well, McDonald's is right there. It's very quick. He's like, no, I think I want Wendy's. And I'm like, okay, we can go to Wendy's. That's fine. But you know it's gonna be super crowded because it's like at a truck stop. Oh. So I wasn't too happy about it, but I'm like, let's give him this day. You know, he's so good to everybody else. Today he can have this day of him. So we drive out to where the Wendy's is. First thing that happens is we get lost because it's a huge truck stop. We go into the back area, and then we're being delayed by all the trucks that are blocking our exit out. So that's frustrating. Well, then we come around and I find where the Wendy's drive-thru is. So I finally get in the drive-thru line only to pull up and have them say to me, we do not accept cards today. Our card reader is down, you need cash. And you need to think about that, and I'll be right back to you. So there's a delay there. And so we're scrambling, we find the cash. So then we have to wait for our food. So this delays us probably 20 minutes. And by that time, I'm irritated, but I'm thinking there's a reason why this is delaying us. I may never know what that reason is, but there's a reason.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Fast forward two hours, we get to the I-15. We're about to take Frank Sinatra drive to get to our hotel. It's right there. We can see it. We can see the stadium. It's so exciting. And a police officer on a bike pulls up and blocks my ability to get onto that street. So I'm kind of looking at him, going, okay, this is really weird. And he walks over and he goes, Hey, are you guys cowboy fans? And we're like, Yeah, he's wearing a jersey, a cowboy hat, definitely fans. And he goes, Wait right here, get your cameras out because their buses are coming by with police escort. Oh yes, it was so incredibly cool. It was a moment I never wanted, but a moment that I got. And in that moment, it felt like such a synchronicity. It felt like the universe was working with us because they gave this gift to my husband. Had he not gone to Wendy's, had he not, you know, delayed everything, we would have missed that moment. But we were the very first car there, and it was really, really cool.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Oh, that is cool.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

And I share that it is a Thanksgiving story because they always play on Thanksgiving Day, even though this didn't happen on Thanksgiving Day.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

And it's gratitude too. Thank you so much for giving this. Thank you so much for the delay. It's just frustrating when you don't know you don't get the positive feedback on why you're delayed. That's the only, that's when it gets frustrating.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

It does get frustrating. You know there's always a reason for it. You may never know what that reason is, but it was tangible this time. I I knew why we were stuck there. And it's so funny, I then had to eat a little bit of crow and say to my husband, good choice at Wendy's. Like you wouldn't have had that moment if you didn't do that. So that was a little bit difficult, but not really. I was just happy that we got to see that. I love that. Anyhow, just a few minutes ago, you said a word that I think we're gonna talk about today. And that is the word gratitude. It's the season. It is the season for gratitude. It's a season for doing, for, you know, stepping into stillness, for appreciating. And that's, you know, all a part of gratitude.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

You know, I have a list of quotes about gratitude. Can I share some? Because they're really cool. And I really needed, I've been so busy, I forgot to do my three gratitudes every morning, and I can tell you I feel the shift. It's more like new, I allow more negativity to come in. So gratitude is such a huge spiritual and psychological gift, and it's so easy to use. So here's one. The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mirrored in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to higher frequency in consciousness, and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion. The illusion, and I'm adding this in the illusion of whatever's going on in our life, we still can feel or be in the state of joy. And that to me is what gratitude is sitting in joy.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

I love that. I love your description of that. That quote was spot on. And actually, I have a list of questions about gratitude in different forms through the holidays. And your quote just answered many of them. But I'm gonna ask you these questions also because I think it's important to really step in and feel what gratitude is like in everyday life. And maybe it'll help the listeners shift into that as we're in this holiday season.

SPEAKER_01 7:41

Love that.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

So the first question I have, and yes, Scout my Chat GPT helped me come up with these questions, and I'm so grateful for you introducing me to Chat GPT.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

It's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

Okay, so the first section of questions is under the topic gratitude is a spiritual practice. And here's the first question: How does gratitude shift our spiritual vibration or frequency during the holidays?

SPEAKER_01 8:11

I love that. I think that, I mean, what we were just talking about when we started the podcast is that I think we get so overwhelmed and bombarded with everything we have to do, all the people that we have to please during the holiday season that we forget to stay in gratitude. And without gratitude, we could start feeling stressed and anxious and frustrated. And if we can stay in gratitude, we can stay in joy, which keeps us in the flow, right? Of just living in your intuitive place or space, I say a space instead of place.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

And I love that. And I will piggyback off that because my answer correlates or it kind of goes very well with your answer. When I think about gratitude during the holiday season, I think of it as a balancing thing because mentally and spiritually, we're wanting to step more into that gratitude. We want to be thankful for the things and the people and the experiences around us. And we want to still our mind and have those moments of reflection. That's what we want emotionally, that's what we want spiritually, but physically, there are a lot of demands being put on our time, our place, and all those things. So I see gratitude really as it shifts into the holidays, it's kind of trying to just find balance. And sometimes that's okay, just to have balance.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

But in the end, we leave this, I don't know, third-dimensional reality. Let's just call it that. And I remember when my grandfather was on his deathbed and he was able to get up and just sit on the couch and have a cup of coffee. And he was so happy, just because he loved coffee in the morning. That was his thing. Just to have that sip of coffee. I mean, can we really just get down to the small things? And you know what's really interesting, Michelle? I just this was I read every morning, like little meditations or something. And I was just reading something about an experience this woman had where she was up in Vermont, Vermont, and these two psychologists took them in for a study, and it was a group of people, and they said, Grab seven items that mean the most to you. Like you, you, you don't ever, ever want to lose them. I mean, they could put a picture of their kid on the item. Like, who knows? I they didn't go into detail. But anyway, they got the seven items and they took them into a cave, and every entrance of that cave, further deeper and deeper in, someone will stand there and said, Okay, it's time, give up your, give up your next one you can't live with. And then when they get to the end and they're going back out of the cave, you have to give up that last one. And it was psychologically and emotionally and spiritually profound about learning to uh let go or grasp. And gratitude is about letting go in a way.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

Like here's an example. Let's go back to the coffee situation. You could, I am so grateful for these sips of coffee and the warmness on my tongue and my throat, versus why don't I have a private jet?

SPEAKER_00 11:31

I don't know, something like that, right? Right. Or even as simple as, oh, why do I have to get up so early in the morning? Not stepping into gratitude first thing, stepping into frustration, a lower vibrational energy, instead of just stepping into something you look forward to that does bring joy to your life.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

And letting go helps us move into that higher vibration versus grasping. Definitely.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Yeah, no, that's so true. Thank you for sharing that with us. And I do really like the idea of finding gratitude in the small moments because I say every day when I give my faith talk, let me find joy, which could be substituted with gratitude in the small things, because those small things become bigger things. And that is our life that's been lived. So I completely understand and celebrate what you just said.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

Yes. And I am on my deathbed. I'm not going to be wanting to, I don't want a private jet, but let's just say it. That's what I would want. I'm not going to be wanting to sit in a private jet. I'm going to want to be sipping my hot, my piping hot cup of tea. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

No, that that's a good thing to remember. One of the other questions I think you kind of already answered is how do you personally recognize when you've slipped out of gratitude energy? And how do you find your way back to it?

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Okay, so listeners, for the listeners who have ADHD, it is because they're dope, negativity is a dopamine hits for us. So if I start my day stressed, worry, negative, it is gonna be, I may not even get back to it. Honestly, that's just how the brain is. It's so hard for someone with ADHD brain type to get back to it. I have to start off positive. Honestly, I was so overwhelmed and stressed when we first met, when we're meeting today, that I mean, after five minutes of us talking, by you listening to me and me listening to you and connecting and then stepping into gratitude, that was a big shift. So I would give this an example. Call someone who is willing to really hold space and listen to you, who has the time to do it, and vice versa for them, and step into positivity and gratitude. And that can pull you, pull you up out of it.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

Yeah. And I would say I recognize that I've slipped out of gratitude when those lower vibrations come in and I can't escape them. I immediately feel more anxious. I feel anger, I feel frustration, and I don't even know for sure where it's coming from. It's just so generalized. So in those moments, I know that I need to take a moment to ground myself or center myself. I do find that taking a walk sometimes helps, clearing my mind, looking around me, stepping into find things around you right now that you're grateful for, or giving myself five minutes to think about this problem and then releasing it for the day. Doing little things like that that help me step back into finding that balance of gratitude.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Because life is hard sometimes. Yes. Um, but it always has things to be grateful for. There's always things out there that will bring you joy. And now we're just throwing the holidays onto that, also. And so I have a couple questions about holidays and gratitude. Why do the holidays magnify emotions, both the joyful and the heavy? And how do you think gratitude helps us navigate that?

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Oh, that is amazing. I mean, the first thing that I think about when I think of heavy for holidays, especially if you go around family members, you just sometimes regress. You know, like if you have a lot of siblings and you go back into the household, you just start, and it could be good regression, being goofy and silly, but then you know, you could regress fighting by like you were 15 again. So part of that is also regressing to a younger maturity. Your maturation goes down a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

Yeah, falling into old patterns or yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

That's a better way to say it. Falling into old patterns, yes.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

Yeah, no, that's so true. And how many of us do it? I know I'm guilty of doing that. I do sometimes find that the heaviness from the season comes from just not being in a good mental space, having a challenge that you're dealing with, an anniversary of a loss that you're dealing with. And for me, knowing, and this always chokes me up just a little bit, that there are so many people out there right now struggling through the holidays. And everybody is saying to them, have the best day or Merry Christmas. And you're just trying to keep up that facade, but inside you're wondering why you can't be happy like anyone else. And then you take that on. So that's where I think some of the heaviness comes from. And the joyful is just taking that moment, if you can, and stepping into those small things, like you said, that you're joyful, like a candy cane. How much happiness does a simple candy cane bring me? Or seeing a child sit on Santa's lap or having my family around the table. So really trying to step into those things that ground me and those things that bring me joy. I'm wondering if I answered my own question, but I think I did.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

What spiritual lessons do we learn from moments that don't go as planned during the holidays?

SPEAKER_01 17:15

I mean, we learn a lot when we suffer. I mean, one, we learn we learn not to grasp, right? That's the illusion of control. The more we grasp and try to control everything. And things sometimes need to happen for evolution. Like, for example, you're around a family member who is not very kind and they trigger a bunch of people. Well, maybe we all needed to be triggered. Maybe they need to be in that situation to trigger other people before for all of us to evolve and go, okay, here we go again. I'm in the same pattern, like you said.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

And maybe it's for them to evolve too, because maybe it'll be in the right audience that they hear themselves and hear what isn't being received well. Right. Exactly. Looking at that question, for me, I think having an experience that doesn't go as planned helps to create also a shared memory or a shared experience with people that hopefully in time they can laugh about. The only example I have, and it's so stupid, a couple years ago, my mother-in-law made the gravy for the turkey and she set the pan down in the sink, and I thought it was dirty water. So I dumped all of our gravy down the sink. Now wasn't that a spiritual thing? No, it wasn't a spiritual thing. I felt really bad. I felt embarrassed. I watched everybody step into scarcity and only take like a little teaspoon of whatever was left. And I did feel really bad about it. But now it's a memory we all share and we can laugh about. Like, oh, remember that time mom or my wife or my daughter dumped it down. And they just bring humor. And I know that can go either way, but I do think when something doesn't go as planned, if you can find humor in it or give somebody grace in those moments, it is something that helps you grow as an individual, but also within that group of loved ones and family members.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

Yeah, so true.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

What role do you think intuition plays in family gatherings?

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Hmm. I mean, I'm a Scorpio rising. So we are really good at reading the room and power plays and relationship dynamics and following the intuition. Sometimes it's not fun. I'm just gonna start there. Sometimes it's not fun. It can be lonely, and you feel like you're the only one seeing things.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

And yeah, that that has been my experience also. I would say that intuition kind of plays a role in everything when you know your family too. You know the dynamics of that family. And if you can see, like, oh, this might trigger so and so. So I won't put these two next to each other at the table. So I think intuition comes in there. It's just kind of knowing and remembering. So maybe is it intuition? Is it just a good memory that there are other things going in and where can I step in and just gently nudge it in a way to avoid conflict and that it flows for everybody? Well, here's a good one, Carissa. How do we protect our energy when the holidays feel chaotic and overwhelming?

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Well, I'll talk about me. I have I have five planets and 12, so I need alone time to decompress. I mean, I just have to. So it could be going for a walk. I mean, I came from a big family and just going for a walk outside.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

I love that. And I have done that many, many times. And, you know, sometimes I hope my family doesn't listen to these episodes or wonder, oh, did I cause that stress? But for me, it's just as an impact. It's overload, it's like chaos, it's like spending all day to get ready and then needing a moment of pause, but then you don't get that because everybody's coming over. So for me, I do try to find mindful moments. And it might just be walking into my bedroom, looking at my closet, finding my favorite pair of shoes, and just being thankful or grateful for those shoes, but just stepping away or doing a mindful exercise, going outside, taking three deep breaths and trying to ground with what do you see, what do you hear, what do you feel, what do you smell, something like that. But something else I also do is I create boundaries where I can be part of the group, but I separate myself from the group also. And people look at me like I'm crazy. When I jump up and start doing the dishes, but to me, that gives me a little bit of autonomy from the group. Like I can be a part of it and I look like I'm a part of it, but mentally, like I'm distracted and doing something else. So I'm not getting stressed out.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Yeah. And it's mindful too.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

It is mindful. Yeah. Very much so. Would you jump in and do dishes?

SPEAKER_01 22:22

No.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Not your thing. You don't find joy in that.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

I do not find joy in dishes.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Do you like my demonic voice? I do like your demonic voice. Well, let's shift over now then to synchronicities, signs, ancestral support. Do you notice signs and synchronicities during the holiday season? Is it easier for you to step into those?

SPEAKER_01 22:51

I think so. I mean, it especially was hugely relevant after my grandfather passed away. And I'm gonna look out for it. I'm glad you brought that up because I'm gonna look out for it this Thanksgiving. And what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna ask him, I'm gonna ask him to send me a yellow leaf. We're going to New Mexico. Are yellow leaves pretty prevalent there right now?

SPEAKER_00 23:16

I would think they're past leaf season.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

I don't know. I don't know. I will ask for a yellow leaf. Because if it's not, that's great. Because it could be in a painting. It could be in who knows. I'm gonna ask him to send me a yellow leaf.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

And you're gonna come back and share whether or not you got your yellow leaf.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Yes, I will.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Okay. That's really cool. I looked at that question and I said yes and no. I feel like I am so blessed in getting synchronicities and signs from my guides that I feel like I get them all year. Is it more during the holiday season? Why I say yes and no is life is so busy. It's so chaotic. Am I gonna even notice it if it's there hitting me over the head? I don't know if I am. Exactly. If I can be distracted by the busyness. But again, going back to the question I answered earlier earlier, there's a moments of stillness in there. I mean, we need that for our overall well-being. And so something that happens when it's chaotic may not register until later when things go a little bit quieter.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

I'm gonna, I'm so glad we're bringing this up. I'm gonna ask my grandfather to remind me that you're here and still guiding me and helping me. Please show me a yellow leaf.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

I love that. Because that also kind of intuitively for from you goes into our next question is what's a moment when gratitude brought a sign of conference, sorry, confrontation or confirmation from spirit? Well, it hasn't happened yet. You're setting that intention out there. So I think that's beautiful. Just recently, I was feeling a little bit down, a little bit defeated. And laying in bed, I asked for a sign from my guides, and I felt one energetically take my hand and like encompass my hand. And I could feel them holding my hand with me, and I knew they were there. And so that is a recent sign of synchronicity. I did ask for a moment of calm and they provided that for me. And then, of course, I'm like, did that just really happen? Am I imagining it? Is the room too hot, cold? Like, what's causing this? But I I know, I know what caused it. I don't need to second guess it. I wonder who it was, your guide or it actually almost felt like my team. They didn't just hold my hand, it like encompassed my hand, and it felt like it was held by layers of energy. Yeah, it was amazing, an amazing moment. I know that the holidays is a time where we do, and we always miss our loved ones, but during the holidays we have that extra emptiness. How do you honor your loved ones during holiday traditions? Is there anything you do?

SPEAKER_01 26:05

You know, because of our holiday traditions are just divided and split up now that the grandparents have passed away and we bring in friends and family. I don't do any like when my grandfather passed away, we set a place for him at the table and or prayed for him. We do actually for Thanksgiving. We do pray for the ones that are that have left us and passed over. We do pray for them at right before the meal.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

I love that. I know for my mom, one of the things she does in honor of her mother who has passed is she always makes a strawberry gelatin salad. And this year, our Thanksgiving is gonna be rat relatively small. I'm grateful for my loved ones who are here, grateful for the ones who can't be here, but it's gonna be small. And she's still like, I gotta make that salad because it honors your grandma. And so that's one of the things she does. So it had me thinking along those lines, making special dishes for them, celebrating memories, or like, you know, maybe doing some of their favorite traditions. My Uncle Earl used to always love to sing that song, Must Be Santa. And so every time I hear that, I think of him. So there's ways to bring them in and incorporate them into the holidays, both at Thanksgiving and through the rest of the year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Yeah. I'll turn on Christmas music because my grandmother always played Christmas music. And one of her favorite songs was Grandma Got Ran Over by Rang Deer. So fun.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Oh, I love that. What is one way that you've personally changed this year that you are deeply grateful for?

SPEAKER_01 27:43

Gosh, I have to think about that. What is yours? And then let me think while you answer yours.

SPEAKER_00 27:50

I think I'm deeply grateful for the fact that I feel like I've changed the way that I communicate with my kids. I've always recognized that they're adults, but I really do find that now, when I listen, I'm learning so much for them. And it's hitting me in a different way than it has in the past. It's speaking to me in a different way than it has in the past. So I am very grateful for that because I want to be the best person I can be. And now I can see myself through their eyes a little bit, if that makes any sense at all. But that is one of the things that I'm grateful for this year.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

For me, it's trusting my spirit guides around finances. We are good financially. However, because I was raised with a single mom, right? That's more limiting. I still have that in my foundation, right? That little bit of that scarcity. And it's, and I'll say, but, but, and they always come back in and say, this life is not about money. You know, you're not just one day gonna wake up broke. What, what, where are you going? Like, this is not, this is life, is what it's not about. And I'm learning how to trust it. Cause, you know, you know, we say, but I like to go and do, you know, you know me. We've got to have experiences. That's in our chart. I knew. And it is in our chart. But it's just going back, going, okay, I am being responsible. I'm doing, I'm on my path. I don't have to be in that scarcity mindset. And that's the little carissa. And I am learning how to trust it more, to trust it more, to trust it more. That is one thing I'm getting better at this year.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

That's amazing. And you kind of stepped into the next question I have, which is if you could send your past self a message of gratitude, what would it be?

SPEAKER_01 29:49

Mmm, gratitude. Oh. Well, I know one, you know, a lot of people might disagree, but I had so much fun when I was young. I was a little wild. And a lot of people would say, that's not healthy. Not me, right? That's not healthy. That, God, I had fun, Michelle. Man, did I have fun. My college days were so much fun. And I'm so grateful. Thanks for just living. Oh, and you know what I just remembered, Michelle. Remember when I told y'all the story where I went hiking in Sedona and the me on my deathbed came in and thanked me for having adventures?

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

It's like, it's like that. You know, you could say, Carissa, you're in your mid-30s hiking by yourself in the middle of a desert. This is not smart. And my older self came back to me and said, in that moment, thank you for taking adventures. And now here I am thanking my early 20-year-old self. Thank you for getting out there and drinking and going wild and having fun and just not caring what anyone else thought.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

I love that. It's kind of like multi-generations, although it's you at each point or multi-decades. You got that reinforcement from older self and now you're giving it to younger self. Yeah. Love that. I would say I'm grateful for being a hot mess at times. And you're not a mess. No, younger. I was like a little bit of a hot mess. You know, there were lessons I had to learn. And while you you beat yourself up in the time that it happened, it really has evolved you into the person you are and the person I wanted to be. And, you know, maybe someone would say that's just a general answer, but really truly, I am thankful for the lessons in life and the fact that I never gave up because it taught me that I'm stronger than I ever thought. And you will bend me, but you will not break me.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

And so I'm thankful for that. Grateful for that.

SPEAKER_01 31:49

And you got to get messy. That's for the young people. You got to get messy.

SPEAKER_00 31:53

Oh, yeah. I had mess. I had mess. Yeah. But here I am today, and it's made me who I am. So I was talking about my faith talk a little bit earlier, but something else I say when I'm stepping into meditation and trying to quiet my mind, and it's resonating so much right now. And I'm so grateful that I do this and that I'm sharing it right now. Is when I'm in meditation and walking myself into it, that every moment I have already lived has got me to this moment right here, right now. And it feels so connected and so huge that that really does speak to my soul. And I'm grateful to have that realization in the moment that I'm living and I'm just living my life, but I've had to have every moment to get to where I'm at. And in that moment's meditation. So okay. Well, I have one more question. I thought it'd be a fun way to end the episode. If gratitude was a tarot card, which one would it be and why?

SPEAKER_01 33:05

Well then immediately you're just gonna be funny. The image that popped up was death, and so I'm thinking of evolution.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

I love that. I didn't know you were gonna go there. That's actually Stacy's favorite card too, which you know. But yeah, I could see that, that transformation, that moving, that growing, and being thankful for where you've been and what's to come in the future. Well, I immediately, for my answer, stepped into pentacle cards because pentacles are those earth-based cards, the commitment, the consistency, the love. And I grabbed two because I couldn't really decide between them. And the first one I grabbed was the Seven of Pentacles. And on that card, it's a person who's standing in front of a task in front of him, but it's all his hard work that is paid off. And to me, it just looks like he's so grateful, even when he has all this work to do for how far he's come and how that will help other people. So that is one of them. And then the Ten of Pentacles, which is a person in the traditional rider weight. He's sitting there, he's got this beautiful green jacket on with like reds in it, and he has dogs there, and he's got lots of pinnacles, and he just feels so settled in who he is. And in that moment, he's not thinking about everything that's gone wrong. He's thinking about the present moment, where he is, and how grateful he is for how life has unfolded. So those are the two cards that I came up with.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

I thought that was a fun way to end an episode on gratitude. And I love exploring gratitude. I love talking about it. It's uplifting, it raises your vibration. It does, and it helps you think of other ways in order to honor that or honor that part of yourself. So thank you. Thank you. So I just want to say happy Thanksgiving, Carissa. I hope you have an amazing day with your family. Thank you, you two. Thank you. Thank you. We'll have a great day. And with that, do you want to go ahead and close out this episode?

SPEAKER_01 35:08

Yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

Okay. Stay classy. Stay sassy. And stay a bit badassy. Until next time, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the moment, the little things, that glass of wine, that sip of wine, it's gonna be perfect. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Three Cups in a Dash of Spirituality. Please know that we have a full library of episodes now available on your favorite podcasting platform. Listen to it now, or you can download it to listen to it later. If you'd like to give us a review, we'd appreciate it. We love connected with listeners, and thank you in advance.