Drawing Gratitude

Katie McCurdy
8 min readMar 31, 2020

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Today, as COVID-19 social distancing, quarantines and hoarding occupy our minds and cause worldwide anxiety, I want to share a practice that has helped me stay semi-grounded over the past few years: visual gratitude journaling. And like many gratitude journal stories, this one began during a particularly low time in my life.

About three years ago, I was loving my work in healthcare design consulting and was a generally happy…

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Katie McCurdy

Designer and researcher focusing on healthcare; founder of Pictal Health; autoimmune patient; chocolate-eater. katiemccurdy.com and pictalhealth.com