365 Ways to Give Thanks

Brenda Shoshanna's structure here is smart: gratitude as a daily practice, one concrete act per day for a full year, ranging from personal thank-you gestures to strangers, to appreciating religious and ethnic holidays, to everyday acts of giving back. As a credentialed psychologist and seasoned author, Shoshanna brings both professional grounding and accessible warmth to the material. Publications including Publishers Weekly, Body and Soul, and Tricycle have praised her work according to publisher materials. The spiritual framework is inclusive rather than denominational — it acknowledges multiple faith traditions without being rooted in any one of them, making it compatible with a broad range of readers. The honest caveat is that 365 daily entries can feel repetitive over a long haul. A useful companion for anyone who wants to make gratitude genuinely habitual rather than occasional.