Episode 400 – Happy Thanksgiving Week & A Heartfelt Thank You

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Episode Number: 400

Episode Title: Happy Thanksgiving Week & A Heartfelt Thank You

As we celebrate Episode 400 of The Everyday Life Balance Show, this special Thanksgiving week episode is a heartfelt love letter to gratitude, growth, and you.

In this conversation, Pascale honours the journey so far, explores the three levels of gratitude (for blessings, for what works, and for what doesn’t seem to work yet), and gently invites you to see your life through a more loving, appreciative lens.

You’ll be guided to notice not only the obvious gifts in your life, but also the hidden blessings inside your challenges, and to let gratitude become a daily practice that soothes your nervous system, lifts your spirit, and reconnects you to the Creator and the people you love.

Podcast Highlights:

[00:54] Warm welcome, celebrating Episode 400 and Thanksgiving week

[01:53] Why gratitude is such a powerful antidote to fear and negativity


[02:27] The 3 levels of gratitude and how they show up in everyday life


[03:33] Level 3 gratitude: finding meaning and growth in challenging experiences[04:30] Simple daily gratitude rituals you can start today


[06:30] Invitation to deepen your practice with The Gratitude Experiment series


[08:10] Closing blessing of love, peace, and appreciation for you

Resources:

The Gratitude Experiment Series (Episodes 366–372) – 7-part guided journey into gratitude on The Everyday Life Balance Show:


https://www.theeverydaylifebalanceshowpodcast.com/episodes/?page=2 (The Everyday Life Balance Show)


 

The Everyday Life Balance Show – All Episodes
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Happy Thanksgiving Week & A Heartfelt Thank You

In this tender, milestone episode, Pascale celebrates 400 episodes of The Everyday Life Balance Show and invites you into a gentle exploration of gratitude as a way of living.

She shares her personal love of giving thanks to the Creator, family and friends, and to the quiet helpers who cross our path and she introduces the 3 levels of gratitude:

• Gratitude for what we receive

• Gratitude for what works

• Gratitude for what doesn’t seem to work yet


You’ll discover how each level invites you deeper into trust, inner peace, and emotional freedom. Through heart-centred reflections and simple practices, this episode encourages you to see how life is not happening to you, but for you — even when it’s hard.

Pascale also extends a special invitation to continue your journey with her 7-part series, The Gratitude Experiment, so you can keep cultivating gratitude long after Thanksgiving week has passed.

 

Table of Contents

1. Celebrating Episode 400 & Thanksgiving Week

2. The 3 Levels of Gratitude

3. Gratitude for Challenging Experiences

4. Everyday Gratitude Rituals for Midlife Women

5. Extending Love, Appreciation & Peace

6. The Gratitude Experiment Invitation

7. Conclusion
 

Celebrating Episode 400 & Thanksgiving Week

Pascale opens the episode by welcoming you, beautiful soul, and acknowledging the sacred milestone of reaching Episode 400.

She shares her heartfelt appreciation for your presence — whether you’ve just discovered the podcast or have been listening for years. This opening sets a tone of warmth and reverence, reminding you that you are part of a living, breathing community of women choosing love, growth, and inner peace.

With Thanksgiving week as the backdrop, Pascale reflects on how easy it is to get swept up in fear, comparison, or negative news, and how consciously practising gratitude can gently bring us back to centre, to hope, and the truth that we are supported.

The 3 Levels of Gratitude

In the heart of the episode, Pascale introduces a simple yet powerful framework: the 3 levels of gratitude.

• Gratitude for what we receive

The obvious blessings: a warm home, food on the table, a loving message, a body that carries you through the day.


This is the “thank you” we offer for the visible gifts in our lives.


• Gratitude for what works

The projects that go well, the nourishing conversations, the new habits that support your well-being.


Here, Pascale encourages you to pause and notice what’s flowing, instead of rushing past it or taking it for granted.


• Gratitude for what doesn’t work so well

The setbacks, disappointments, and confusing seasons.


This level invites you to open your heart and ask:
“What is this here to teach me?”
 “Where might I be growing through this?”


By walking you through these levels, Pascale helps you see gratitude not just as a list of “nice things”, but as a spiritual and emotional practice that transforms how you relate to life itself.

Gratitude for Challenging Experiences

This section focuses on Level 3 gratitude, which is often the most stretching and the most liberating.

Pascale gently acknowledges that it’s not easy to feel grateful when things seem to be falling apart or when your heart feels heavy. She doesn’t sugarcoat the reality of pain, grief, or uncertainty.

Instead, she invites you to shift from:

• “Why is this happening to me?”
to

• “How might this be happening for me?”


By approaching your challenges with curiosity and compassion, you start to see:

• Hidden strengths that were awakened in you

• Old patterns or beliefs that are ready to be released

• New directions or deeper alignment that emerge from the disruption


This is where you move from victim to victor, not by denying your feelings, but by allowing gratitude to shine a small light in the dark corners of your experience.

Everyday Gratitude Rituals for Midlife Women

Pascale then shares simple, sustainable ways to weave gratitude into your everyday life, especially if you’re a busy midlife woman juggling many roles.

She suggests practices such as:

A 3-line evening gratitude journal
: Write down three things you’re grateful for before bed — they can be tiny, ordinary moments.


Heart-centred morning moments
: Place your hand on your heart when you wake up and whisper, “Thank you for this new day.”


Pause-and-thank breaks
: Throughout the day, when something kind or supportive happens — even a stranger’s smile — silently say, “Thank you.”


Pascale reminds you that gratitude is energy, and what you focus on expands. When you choose to notice what’s working, what’s beautiful, and what’s loving, you begin to feel lighter, calmer, and more supported from the inside out.

Extending Love, Appreciation & Peace

In this section, Pascale widens the lens of gratitude beyond the personal and invites you to:

Give thanks for the people who support you — family, friends, colleagues, and quiet angels in your life.


Appreciate the peace of your immediate environment, especially if you live in a country free from war or major upheaval.


Remember that the ability to love, to give, and to appreciate is itself a profound gift.


She gently anchors you back into the awareness that gratitude and love are deeply connected — and that every time you consciously appreciate something, you are contributing to more peace, within yourself and in the world around you.

The Gratitude Experiment Invitation

As the episode nears its close, Pascale invites you to deepen your practice through her 7-part series, The Gratitude Experiment (Episodes 366–372), available on The Everyday Life Balance Show.

She briefly describes how the series guides you through:

•            Unlocking everyday happiness


•            Offering gratitude as a gift to yourself and others


•            Harvesting hope in difficult seasons


•            Practising mindful gratitude in the present moment


•            Adopting an attitude of gratitude as a way of being


•            Writing your way to a more grateful mindset


•            Reflecting, renewing, and rejoicing in your growth


You’re encouraged to either binge-listen over a week or savour one episode per week, allowing gratitude to become a gentle, ongoing journey, not just a seasonal practice.

Conclusion

Pascale closes this milestone episode with a heartfelt blessing, letting you know how deeply grateful she is for you, your presence, your willingness to grow, and your commitment to choosing love in a world that often forgets it.

She invites you, this Thanksgiving week and beyond, to:

Notice what is working


Honour the lessons in what is not


Keep your heart open to the gifts of love and gratitude


You’re left with a sense of warmth, connection, and possibility, and a clear reminder that you are not walking this path alone.

With love, light, peace and joy,
Until next time… 🌷💖

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FULL TRANSCRIPT

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Beautiful soul,

Welcome to The Everyday Life Balance Show and to a very special episode — our 400^th episode.

First of all, I want to say a big, big heartfelt thank you. Thank you for pressing play, for walking this journey of love, balance and inner peace with me. Whether this is your very first episode or you’ve been with me for years, I am deeply grateful for you.

This week, as many of you celebrate Thanksgiving, our collective attention turns to something very dear to my heart: gratitude.

You know by now that I am a lover of giving thanks:

• to the Creator,

• to my family and friends,

• and even to the strangers who cross our path and offer a smile, a kind word, or a helping hand.


Thanksgiving is a beautiful reminder to pause, breathe, and count our blessings.

We live in a world where negative news often shouts the loudest. It can feel as though fear and separation get more airtime than love and possibility. But there’s always another side of the coin: what’s working, where we are supported, and how love continues to show up in our everyday lives.

The 3 Levels of Gratitude

I like to think of gratitude in three levels. You might like to notice which one you are living in more often, and where you’re being invited to grow.

Level 1: Gratitude for what we receive


This is the most familiar form of gratitude. It’s giving thanks for all the goodness we receive in our lives:

• A warm home

• Food on the table

• A loving message from a friend

• A body that carries us through the day


It’s that simple “thank you” for the visible blessings.

Level 2: Gratitude for what works

This is gratitude for the positive experiences:

• The project that went well

• The conversation that brought you closer to someone you love

• The new habit that supports your well-being

• Here, we notice what is flowing, and we consciously appreciate it, instead of taking it for granted.

Level 3: Gratitude for what doesn’t work so well


This is the most powerful and sometimes the most challenging level.

Level 3 asks us to be grateful even for our difficult experiences:

• The setback

• The disappointment

• The season of confusion or loss


At this level, we open our hearts and minds even more to Love and ask:


💫 “What is this here to teach me?”


💫 “How is life supporting my growth through this?”

This is where we begin to shift from victim to victor.

We recognise that life is not happening to us, but for us. When we bring awareness, compassion and curiosity to our challenges, we start to see the hidden blessings and the invitations to grow. 

Keeping Gratitude Alive in Everyday Life

Gratitude is not just for holidays or special occasions; it’s a beautiful daily practice.

You might like to:

• Keep a simple gratitude journal and write down 3 things you’re grateful for every evening.

• Take a few mindful moments in the morning to place your hand on your heart and whisper, “Thank you for this new day.”

• Pause during the day to say, “Thank you,” in your mind whenever something small and kind happens.


As you know, everything is energy. What you focus on tends to expand.

If you constantly focus on whas wrong, unfair or missing, your world will feel heavy and tight.

But when you focus on love, blessings and possibilities, you begin to attract more of that energy into your life. You start to see the greatness that is already here — and more flows in.

So, this week, be very gentle and very intentional with your focus. Let gratitude become part of your feel-good routine.

Extending Love and Appreciation

As we extend our love and appreciation today, take a moment to remember:

• The people who support you — your family, your friends, your colleagues, and the quiet angels in your life.

• The peace you enjoy in your daily environment, especially if you live in a region free from war or major catastrophe.


These are not small things. They are profound blessings.

As we give thanks to our Creator, to life, and to the people we love, we rekindle one of the most precious gifts we’ve been given:
✨ the capacity to love and to give.

A Special Invitation: The Gratitude Experiment

If you feel called to deepen your gratitude practice beyond this week, I’d love to invite you to explore my 7-part series called “The Gratitude Experiment.”

You can find it by going to my website and searching for “gratitude”:

Week 1: Unlocking Happiness (Episode 366)


Week 2: The Gift of Gratitude (Episode 367)


Week 3: Harvesting Hope (Episode 368)


Week 4: Mindful Gratitude (Episode 369)


Week 5: Adopt an Attitude of Gratitude (Episode 370)


Week 6: Writing Your Way to a Grateful Mind (Episode 371)


Week 7: The Gratitude Journey – Reflect, Rejoice, Renew (Episode 372)


You might choose one episode each day this week, or make it a gentle ritual for the next seven weeks. Let it be a loving gift from me to you.

Closing Blessing

As we close this 400th episode, I want you to know this:

🌷 I’m grateful for you.
For your presence, your courage to grow, your willingness to choose love, even in a world that sometimes forgets it.

May this Thanksgiving week, whether you officially celebrate it or not, be a tender reminder to:

• Notice what is working,

• Honour the lessons in what is not, and

• Keep your heart open to the gifts of love and gratitude.


Happy Thanksgiving week, beautiful soul.

I’m sending you lots of love, light, peace and joy, to you and to your loved ones.

Until next time,
Pascale 💖