Gratitude With Teeth: How to Thank What Broke You

# Gratitude With Teeth: How to Thank What Broke You Real gratitude isn't gentle. It has teeth.

It thanks the thing that broke you - not because breaking was good, but because what grew in the broken place is amazing. This isn't toxic positivity.

I'm not asking you to be grateful for your trauma. I'm not suggesting that abuse was a gift or that suffering was "meant to be." That's spiritual bypassing, and I have zero patience for it.

What I'm talking about is something fiercer.