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Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #4 + 2026 Wrap-up

Full disclosure: I’m writing this while emerging from 24 hours spent in a fairly deep pit of despair. Friday involved a deluge of hard, non-bloggable stuff, and it took the wind out of my…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude
  • Mar, 04, 2026
  • 21 Comments

Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #3

Is February zooming by for everyone else?? Just me? I know it’s a short month to begin with, but it feels like my life is currently on fast forward and I’ve lost the remote!

In…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude
  • Feb, 25, 2026
  • 29 Comments

Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #2

For anyone joining for the first time—welcome! Here’s a peek at last week’s basket of fresh “FIGs”.

Before I dive into the literal dozens of FIGs we’ve collectively gathered over the past seven days, I…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude, Life
  • Feb, 18, 2026
  • 29 Comments

Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #1

In the words of my friend, the Grinch, IT. IS. GO. TIME.

I think February is a wonderful month to lean into a gratitude practice. At least in my part of the world, life starts…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude
  • Feb, 11, 2026
  • 38 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 30 January

Well, that was a doozy of a week!

My part of the world (and honestly, most of North America, it seems) got walloped with winter. It was absolutely frigid and, to add insult to injury,…

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  • FIG Collective, Happy Things Friday, Life
  • Jan, 30, 2026
  • 49 Comments

Five FIGs At the End of a Heavy Week

A quick reminder that one week from today—next Sunday, February 1—we’ll start tracking FIGs. For more information, here are all the details about our online gratitude crew.

The world has felt especially heavy…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude
  • Jan, 25, 2026
  • 46 Comments

The F.I.G. Collective: Announcing the 2026 Edition

It’s backkkkkkkkk.

I was on the fence about running another round of The F.I.G. Collective this winter because of… life! But then Stephany posted about her experience participating in this group practice last February….

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude, Habits, Joy
  • Jan, 12, 2026
  • 58 Comments
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