Who is tuG for…?

tuG is for me, for you, the impatient, the unsure, the grateful, the still trying to figure things out, the faithing it till you make it kind of people.

About tuG

At seventeen I remember being in a car heading to the mall with friends and thinking how grateful I was to be me. Me was living in a foster home, my dad had recently passed on and my mom was newly out of recovery, working to get her six children together under one roof. I never had a home per say, but I felt loved. And I was organically grateful for the things I did have. Of course, life has happened,
cumulative events that made me work at my state of gratefulness. One day, from a darker place of the soul, I penned tuG after my journal entry. Shorthand for thank you God. And tuG was birthed. I believe if the only prayer you say is tuG …thank you God; that is enough.

Why tuG?

Psychology and mental health researchers in the past few decades have established and overwhelming connection between gratefulness and good health. The effects of gratitude, when practiced daily produce feelings of long-lasting happiness and contentment. When we express and receive gratitude our brain releases dopamine and serotonin, the crucial neurotransmitters that make us feel good. They enhance our mood immediately. We all could use a lil tuG, a visual reminder that every time you feel grateful you are saying more of this, please. A visual reminder that gratefulness in advance is the most powerful state of being.

Here a tuG, there a tuG, everywhere a tuG, tuG