Finding Grace When You’ve Done Everything Right (But Feel Empty)

What does finding grace look like when you've checked every box, built the life and business you were supposed to want, and still feel like something's missing? In this intimate solo episode, I talk frankly about the quiet ache of achievement without fulfillment. Through personal stories and scientific research, you'll be reminded why gratitude is not just about saying, "thank you." It's about building a life practice that brings more abundance, joy, and resilience. Show Notes | Transcript Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's a necessary ingredient to living boldly, especially for women over 50. This episode highlights the mental and physical benefits of gratitude, and offers practical tips for fostering more gratitude in your life. You'll also learn about upcoming changes to the podcast, plans for a transformative retreat in June, 2026, and an invitation to attend my Awakening Your Inner Light online workshop. You'll discover: Why complaining becomes a habit (and how gratitude breaks the cycle) A simple nightly practice that strengthens your connection to something greater How to write gratitude letters that heal—even to those no longer here If you're ready to stop performing and start feeling again, this episode is your permission slip. So, grab a cup of tea and let's get into why gratitude truly is the "spice of life!" Resources: Attend the "Awakening Your Inner Light" workshop on Nov. 20, 2025: bit.ly/innerlight2025 Learn about the upcoming Good Grief Retreat: gloriarand.com/good-grief-retreat Join the Soulful Women's Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soulfulwomensnetwork Receive daily inspirational email messages: bit.ly/LoveLightNotes Need support? Go to engagewithgloria.com to schedule a call. Connect with Live Love Engage: Send Gloria Grace a message ☕ Support the podcast ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating LinkedIn: Gloria Grace Rand Facebook: Gloria Grace Rand YouTube: Gloria Grace Rand TRANSCRIPT - Finding Grace When You've Done Everything Right (But Feel Empty) Welcome: The Power of Gratitude Practice for Women Over 50 Namaste. What are you grateful for today? Have you thought about being grateful for anything today? I hope you have. I'm grateful that you are here listening and or watching on YouTube. And that's what we're gonna be talking about today. We are talking about the power of gratitude, finding grace in gratitude, just appreciating gratitude for gratitude's sake, all of that. And what that has to do with living life with purpose and living life fully and loving deeply and engaging authentically and all the wonderful things that we've been talking about on this podcast for, can you believe, the last six years? Yeah, it's hard to believe that it's been that long. I can't believe it. But anyway, yeah, we're gonna get into all that in just a second. But for those of you who seem to have just stumbled onto this podcast today, I wanna welcome you and introduce myself. I am Gloria Grace. I am a confidence catalyst who empowers women over 50 through my love method and energy healing. to boldly live life on their terms.   Finding Purpose Through Daily Gratitude And this is such a big topic for me, living life boldly and doing it with gratitude. Sorry, my eye just moved to, I have a vision board up on my wall, and in the middle of the vision board it says, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And that's really what it's all about, isn't it? I know life can be, challenging sometimes we all have our ups and downs when we're trying to grow our business when we're trying to just live life and especially this time of year as I'm recording this it is the middle of November and it's actually my daughter's birthday today as well. Happy birthday Allison and It's, this is the time of year where things just start getting really hectic, you know, with holidays and end of the year planning. And we've talked about that on this podcast a little bit. And I know we've talked about gratitude as well, but since Thanksgiving is coming up in a couple of weeks, I figured let's talk about it again because gratitude is the spice of life is what is coming to me.   Why Gratitude Matters for Living Authentically Well, yeah, I guess you could say that. I think. If you're not grateful for being alive, if you're not grateful for whatever you have, even being grateful for things you don't have. Without that expression of gratitude in your life, Life can be pretty lonely and unpleasant even, and expressing gratitude It just gives us more to be grateful for. I mean, plain and simple. And like I said, I know I've, I probably talked about this when I was doing, earlier this year, I was doing these Wisdom Wednesday videos on LinkedIn. And I know that I definitely talked about gratitude on there. So if I haven't talked about it on the podcast, you might want to. check me out on LinkedIn and see if you can find those old recordings somewhere. I'm sure if you search my name and then you search gratitude, maybe search Wisdom Wednesday as well, I'm sure it'll come up.   How Gratitude Improves Mental Health and Well-Being So why is gratitude so important? Because I'll tell you, for me, for one thing, it makes me feel good. I bet it makes you feel good too. When you start thinking about things that you are so happy that you have, or the people in your life that bring you joy, or the clients that you have, or maybe just being grateful that you get to get up in the morning and you know, kiss your spouse, or you get to play with your cats. I have cats, or your dog. But just to be so appreciative of whatever it is that you have. It can wipe away any bad mood that you have, because let's face it, things happen in our lives that knock us off balance or certainly you know you pick up the phone and look go scroll through social media or go to your news website and you're bound to look at something that could make your blood pressure rise. Well that's no way to be folks.   Living Fully and Loving Deeply: The Connection to Gratitude I, we've been talking about here, we've been talking about for the last six years on this podcast about how to live fully, love deeply and engage authentically. And gratitude plays a role in all of that. If when you're not grateful, for what you have. When you go around feeling miserable and complaining, and I know people like this. In fact, I was raised by someone like that, God rest her soul. My mom, she was a lovely lady in so many ways. She taught me, I mean, she taught me how to read when I was three years old for crying out loud. And she fostered in me a love of reading at an early age, because we used to go to the library, take out books all the time. She also fostered in me a good sense of justice and being able to, you know, to know right from wrong. And the importance of taking care of people who don't have as much as we have.   Learning Gratitude and Compassion Early in Life I don't know if I've talked about this before, but I remember one Halloween and maybe I was, I don't know, seven or eight years old possibly. Maybe even a little bit older probably because You know i'd already spent several halloween's going out and collecting candy you know saying trick-or-treat as we do here in the united states and you get candy well one year i remember that. I didn't go trick-or-treating for candy. Instead, I went trick-or-treating for UNICEF, the organization that helps children all over the world, helping them to be able to have enough food and, I think, medical treatment and things like that. I don't know exactly what their mission is, but I know that that's what I did. I remember carrying some little probably a cardboard container or something and going to my neighbor's houses and saying trick or treat for UNICEF. And I don't remember feeling like that was a burden. I was happy to do it. And I think that's, again, that's what I'm grateful for is that my mom taught me that it's important to think about others who are less fortunate than you are. I could always have, we have plenty to eat, and she could always get me candy some other time, so I could do this that time instead.   Breaking the Cycle of Complaining vs. Practicing Gratitude And I know I was starting to say that she did also like to complain. And I remember we would go out to eat at a restaurant and she would complain about her meal. And, and that happened frequently. And I think that because that just sort of became a habit that that's, she always seemed to have something to complain about. So, all right. So, so yeah. So when you're complaining, like I said, I love my mom, but this was a bad habit that she had of, instead of being grateful that we had money to be able to go out to eat to a restaurant, that she had a job that supported us, she would complain instead.   How Focus and Visualization Shape Your Reality And I do believe that being grateful for the things that we have in our lives just brings more to us. Because the converse is true. You know, what you focus on expands. And if you want to focus on having things to be grateful for, then be grateful for what you have now. And even express gratitude for things that you don't have. Because you can get into visualizing and I've got, oh, okay. I've got cats in the background that were, one had been sitting on a chair for a very long time and the other cat decided, it's my turn. So I'm grateful that I have cats that amuse me, even while I'm trying to record a podcast like this, but it's okay. okay where am i going with this all right let's focus focus sorry i'm letting the cats distract me i don't know or maybe not you know um oh i know what i wanted to talk to you about about gratitude so This is gonna be a shorter podcast than normal.   Life Transitions and Reinvention: What's Coming in 2026 ...