Gratitude: The simple way to improve your health in a complex world

Gratitude can greatly benefit the mental wellness, heart health, and sleep of perimenopausal and menopausal women in their 40s and 50s.

In a world of prescribed mindfulness, the practice of “gratitude” can get lost amongst the rhetoric of self-awareness and fluff of how to live your best life. What does it really mean to exercise gratitude — and more candidly, how does it benefit you?

My mother, a retired oncology nurse, always replied to my tears of complaints with a “yes, but it could …