It's often said that grief is a process and a journey. You never fully overcome it, rather you find ways to navigate, understand and live with it. Charla Grant has been on a journey. After a number of years of unsuccessfully trying to start a family with her husband and countless amounts of heartache, Charla lost her daughter Olive in childbirth. Navigating through her grief and coming to terms with her journey with infertility, Charla discovered how powerful gratitude can be as a resilience tool. Creating a habit of finding her "crumbs of joy" even on the darkest days, Charla was able to shift her mindset and focus on making what she already had, enough.

Armed with her morning ritual of coffee and gratitude, Charla started The Grateful Hearts Club with original illustration blank gratitude cards for anyone to write their affirmations on. Now, Charla coaches people in her gratitude workshops, helping them understand what gratitude is, how it can help in day-to-day life, how to channel it into a tool of resilience and mental strength as well as ways to start building these positive habits into routine.

She joins the podcast to share her story and how she came to start The Grateful Hearts Club, how gratitude helped as a coping mechanism during a really difficult time and ways that all of us can change our thought-process and start appreciating what we already have as opposed to fixating on the things that we don't have. The world could use more people like Charla.

You can find out more about The Grateful Hearts Club on Instagram @thegratefulheartsclub and thegratefulheartsclub.com

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