Ep. 160: SNAP, Decolonizing Gratitude, Remembering Deeply and Gratitude Part One

Gratitude isn’t about counting blessings — it’s about remembering the people, systems, and histories that make our lives possible.

In this opening episode of our Gratitude Series, Ben and Jamesa reclaim gratitude from individualism and performance, grounding it instead in interdependence, justice, and care.

We explore:
 🌾 How gratitude became aesthetic and performative — and how to reclaim it as relational and transformative
 🥣 What the threat to SNAP benefits reveals about how our culture has forgotten shared care
 🌍 The difference between colonial gratitude and ancestral gratitude
 💭 How remembering our ancestors and the land can return gratitude to its roots in accountability and reciprocity

This conversation is an invitation to remember deeply — to practice gratitude not as denial or comfort, but as a quiet act of resistance in a culture that teaches us to survive alone.

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