
I’m 42 and last week I caught myself saying ‘I’m so lucky’ about something I was clearly unhappy about and that’s when I realized I’ve been using gratitude as a way to gaslight myself for at least fifteen years
For years, I thought I was mastering emotional maturity by immediately finding something to be grateful for in every frustrating situation—until I realized I’d been suffocating my real feelings under a blanket of forced positivity.







