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Welcome to Silver Linings Everywhere: A Publication Centered on Optimism, Gratitude, and Kindness
Welcome friends!
You’ve stumbled upon Silver Linings Everywhere, a publication for remembering the many things to be grateful for in life and for sharing our encouraging optimism with a world that dearly needs it!
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There are silver linings everywhere
These days, social media, news media, and the blogosphere are filled to the brim with discouraging negativity, fostering unnecessary hopelessness and despair. Yet, when we set our devices down and look around… life is full of wonder and joy wherever we look; if we can only pause, breathe, and look deeply with gratitude and compassion.
I started my Medium journey as A Kind Companion a little over a year ago, with the heartfelt intention of sharing my personal healing path through grief and chronic pain, alongside the mindful philosophies that have helped me discover my inner peace. I discovered that even pain and disability (asthmatic, as well) are things we can practice being grateful for, and that gratitude significantly softens the pain.
It was, and still is, my sincere hope to be a kind companion to each and every one of you…
