Your Personal Gratitude Guide
Hone your writing practice and deepen your sense of gratitude.
An Ecology of Gratitude:
Writing your way to what matters
Named one of the top ten tools for journaling creatively by Lynda Monk, director of the International Association for Journal Writing.
An Ecology of Gratitude: Writing your way to what matters is an inspirational and practical guide that encourages readers to slow down, pay attention, and write their way to what matters.
Structured as a 30-day series of anecdotes, field notes, and writing prompts, author Lorraine Widmer-Carson embroiders the science of gratitude with personal stories of lived experience, urging readers to open their eyes to wonders, revel in possibilities, and move toward a better tomorrow.
Gratitude Ignition Guide: Notes for My Leadership Self
“The Gratitude Ignition Guide is an excellent tool for people looking to master how they show up as a leader. Whether you are just starting your gratitude practice or you’re a seasoned professional, Lorraine will ignite sparks of vitality and joy in you.”
Steve Foran, Founder, Gratitude at Work
For over 25 years, writing has inspired me creatively. I have learned to understand the importance of relationships, reframe events, and keep looking for insights that may challenge my usual impulses and hard-wired habits of mind.
Ready to write your way to a brighter tomorrow? Sharpen your pencil, find a quiet desk, and open your journal to a blank page. An Ecology of Gratitude is designed to be your gentle guide and caring companion.
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From the Author
For over 25 years, writing has inspired me creatively. I have learned to understand the importance of relationships, reframe events, and keep looking for insights that may challenge my usual impulses and hard-wired habits of mind.
While my family, neighbours, and friends were paying close attention to the impacts of COVID-19, I spent hours researching the science of gratitude and processing my learnings through the filter of my own lived experience. By reading voraciously, taking online courses, making notes in my journal, writing on index cards, and organizing my colourful post-it notes, I focused on the thing that mattered most: writing the book.
While writing, I was inspired by the writings and science that reinforced my lived experience. Now, I want to use the messages in my books as educational resources, challenging all who see themselves as leaders to cultivate higher levels of positivity and connectedness. Interwoven with anecdotes and writing prompts, An Ecology of Gratitude invites readers to find the courage, to write with impunity and explore their personal depths with honesty and integrity. My goal is that others will be inspired to face each day with more courage, creativity, and a deeper understanding of the transformational power of gratitude.
Ready to write your way to a brighter tomorrow? Sharpen your pencil, find a quiet desk, and open your journal to a blank page. An Ecology of Gratitude is designed to be your gentle guide and caring companion.
With gratitude,
Lorraine Widmer-Carson
“Gratitude is a social contagion that needs no vaccination. It is the great rhizome of humanity that connects us to our hearts, our souls, our actions, and stitches us into our place in the universe.”
- Lorraine Widmer-Carson
Kind Words
“As a writer, I have often thought of having a journal but never actually started one—until now. An Ecology of Gratitude is entertaining and provides useful tips on putting pen to paper in a clear and meaningful way. The writing prompts make you think about your life and why we should be thankful for even the smallest things. This is definitely a book for today.”
Louise Hodgson-Jones
IMPACT Magazine Inspiration Issue
“Widmer-Carson combines research and her own experience to explore one of our most important sources of joy, generators of compassion and coping mechanisms. An Ecology of Gratitude will motivate and energize readers to pick up a pen and start writing.”
Mary Pipher
Author of Women Rowing North and Letters to a Young Therapist
“There are many books that reference gratitude journaling as a meaningful practice for well-being and resiliency. This new book is an excellent deep dive into the benefits of gratitude journaling, and it also offers many writing exercises and prompts to support you in developing such a practice.”
Lynda Monk
Director of the International Association for Journal Writing
“Lorraine launches us on a journey into self. When we go within, relax into and fully experience the moments of our lives, gratitude for the magic of being, nudges our creative urges, moves us forward, and deepens our engagement with life on all levels. Gratitude Ignition Guide is a beautiful launching pad for a fuller life.”
Karen Close
Editor, Sage-ing With Creative Spirit, Grace and Gratitude
“Lorraine offers an intelligent, heart-centered, and passionate look at the transformational power of gratitude and personal writing as ways to generate well-being, insight and growth. If you want to spark positive change in yourself, others and our world, I highly recommend the Gratitude Ignition Guide.”
Lynda Monk
Director of the International Association for Journal Writing
Want to keep reading?
Check out this list of articles, references, and books for more insights on gratitude.