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The Wanderer's Guide to Cosmic Fabulosity

The Wanderer's Guide is the adventurous way to explore wellness, spirituality and purpose all infused with a dash of fun, humor and lightness of being. A fierce advocate for de-stigmatizing mental health, DW has pledged to break down barriers to negative beliefs surrounding mental health with everyone he meets. He is a tell-it-like-it-is psychotherapist, life and executive coach in private practice. This podcast explores how to overcome barriers to thriving, set the pace for gaining forward momentum and engage strategies for building a life where we live the fullest expression of ourselves. An introvert with a clumsy streak having face planted more times than he can count on life's journey, DW brings this unique expertise to exploring and discussing wisdom and its application from the greatest minds both current and from the past. With a laugh at himself and all of humanity's capacity for struggle, DW takes a lighter look at the pitfalls of enlightenment, the slippery slope of personal mastery and the luminous side of self-study. Come and enjoy the wander!

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The Wanderer's Guide to Cosmic Fabulosity

Embodied Gratitude: A Practice for Wellbeing

January 31, 2022 • DW Long • Episode 23

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In this episode of the Wanderers Guide to Cosmic Fabulosity, DW speaks about the benefits of gratitude as a practice. Bringing in some scholarly material as well as opinions from personal experience, DW explores how gratitude not only positively impacts our brain but our overall wellbeing and daily life.

The episode contains a guided embodied gratitude meditation which will be featured as a stand alone episode for those who wish to practice without the chat at the beginning.

All the best!

Here are some articles for reference should you want to read a bit more:

The Cultivation of Pure Altruism via Gratitude: A Functional MRI Study of Change with Gratitude Practice. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | www.frontiersin.org 1 December 2017 | Volume 11 | Article 599

Decomposing Gratitude: Representation and Integration of Cognitive Antecedents of Gratitude in the Brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, May 23, 2018 • 38(21):4886 – 4898

Effects of gratitude meditation on neural network functional connectivity and brain-heart coupling. Scientific RepoRts | 7: 5058 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-05520-9

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For more information about DW, check out his website at www.mcscoach.com
TikTok: @gabberflasted
Instagram: @dwlongofficial