Gratitude
Gratitude is an important emotional and mental health practice. Regularly taking the time to slow down, reflect on what we are grateful for, and express that gratitude strengthens and nurtures our emotional and mental well-being, while helping us be more resilient in the face of stress and suffering. Rituals, traditions, and practices of expressing gratitude and thanks can be seen in almost all cultures, religious and spiritual traditions, as well as many medicinal and healing traditions. Research has proven the positive impact practicing gratitude has on mental and physical illness and suffering. Cultivating strong habits of practicing gratitude is both prevention and treatment.
LiveWell educates and engages our UW community on gratitude through the services, events, and resources below:
Services
Gratitude Postcard tabling for student groups & campus partners
LiveWell offers Gratitude Postcard tabling throughout the year as a free add-on service to the activities and events of other campus partners, such as departments or Registered Student Organizations. Our Peer Health Educators will come to your event or program, bring our uniquely designed postcards, table and share resources and education, and then mail all collected postcards. Please submit a Gratitude Postcard tabling request if you’re interested in LiveWell providing this educational service at your event.
Events
Annual campus-wide Husky Gratitude Challenge
LiveWell and our wonderful campus partners celebrate the practice of gratitude through our annual Husky Gratitude Challenge, typically held in autumn quarter, where we see how much gratitude we can collectively express and mail out all over the world.
7th annual Husky Gratitude Challenge: November 17-21, 2025
Postcard tabling stations for 2025: Stop by one of LiveWell’s Husky Gratitude Postcard stations at these amazing campus partners to write some notes of gratitude to those in your life- and then LiveWell mails them for FREE anywhere in the world.
- UW Recreation
- Academic Support Programs (MGH 274)
- Career & Internship Center
- Husky Health Center
- Maple Hall Residential Life office
- HFS Central Office in Terry Hall
- Kelly ECC
- Odegaard Library
- CIRCLE
- Husky Union Building: D Center
- UW Counseling Center
Follow LiveWell on Instagram for updates, including live tabling with your Peer Health Educators!
2025 Husky Gratitude Postcard Design Contest
Thanks to those who submitted postcards in the design contest this year! A big congratulations to the following winners for 2025 and the new designs that will be showcased for this year’s Husky Gratitude Challenge:
Anh Bui: Undergraduate Architecture & Urban Learning
Alessandra Fernandez: Undergraduate student: Pre-sciences
Augusto Barón Cruz: Graduate student: Public Health- Global Health
Gratitude Postcard tabling pop-ups
Throughout the year LiveWell may offer Gratitude Postcard tabling pop-up events – stay connected with LiveWell events.
In our current excessively virtual world, postcards offer a much needed break from screens and are a special way to reconnect with the people you care about.
Resources
Past gratitude postcards
