Ginger Healy, ATN’s Program Director was on Therapy Thursdays on Good Things Utah on Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate – ABC4.
“Healy says everyone agrees that gratitude is important, but did you know that it’s a tool for improvement of well-being and even a healing strategy? Feeling gratitude and expressing it causes synchronized activation in multiple brain regions, and lights up parts of the brain’s reward pathways. Gratitude can boost serotonin and activate the brain stem to produce dopamine. The more we think positive, grateful thoughts, the healthier and happier we feel.”
