Gratitude Blessing

Returning to the Self with Reverence and Grace

Anytime worry, angst and anxiety intrude, or in the stillness that follows the rising of emotions and the softening of edges from the self-love ritual—there is space for gratitude.
Not the forced kind. Not the “be grateful it wasn’t worse” kind.
But true, embodied, sacred gratitude—for your breath, your body, your heart, and your becoming.

This blessing is meant to be spoken aloud or read slowly after a ritual, meditation, bath, moment of reflection or “in the midst of it all” speaking it to center yourself on what is deeply true even when you don’t feel it.
Let it be a gentle honoring of everything you’ve carried, and everything you’re releasing.

Thank you, body—
for holding me through every storm,
for breathing when I could not,
for carrying the weight of things I never should have held.

Thank you, heart—
for breaking open instead of closing down,
for still choosing to love,
for whispering truth even when no one else would listen.

Thank you, spirit—
for staying,
for rising,
for remembering who I am beneath the forgetting.

Thank you, sacred self—
for returning to me again and again,
for waiting with open arms,
for being the home I never truly lost.

And thank you, life—
for this moment,
this breath,
this chance to love myself in ways I was never taught.

May I walk forward softened but strong,
rooted in grace,
lit from within,
and never again ashamed of the beauty that I am.

Gratitude is not a bypass—it is an anchor.
It doesn’t erase what happened. It doesn’t demand that you feel okay.
But it gently reopens the heart… and reminds you that even after everything, you are still here.

You are sacred. And that is indeed holy.