After losing my parents in 2012 and 2013, to say I was a hot mess would be an understatement. My grief counselor encouraged me to start a “gratitude journal” to get me to practice gratitude everyday, writing down three things I was grateful for. Some days all I could write was, “I can breathe,” “I can stand” and “I cried only four times today.” This article from Greater Good Magazine, a publication of the University of California at Berkeley, discusses how practicing gratitude has been proven to improve the mental health and well-being of all people—both healthy and those with mental-health concerns. I now write a gratitude journal entry almost every morning, and I encourage you to try it, too.