In this special Thanksgiving episode of Soul Decodes, Dr. Tia Jolie Phillips and Sarah Tirri hope to inspire listeners to fully embody gratitude not just during Thanksgiving but as a daily-waking practice. The assertion being that the quality of one’s ‘external manifestations’ are of a tangibly higher caliber if one mindfully cultivates gratitude with the aim of creating a healthy mind. (Her book, The Mirror World discusses this phenomenon.)

The women discuss Thanksgiving’s cultural significance in the U.S. versus the U.K. Sarah notes that Thanksgiving was absent in British culture and her gradual appreciation of its spirit only occurred after she immigrated to America.

Tia Jolie expresses skepticism about the historical origin of Thanksgiving, suggesting that this treasured narrative might not be factually accurate. ...