Jamie Hess Explores Gratitude, Resilience, and Meaningful Change in New Book The Gratitude Shift
10 Nov 2026
Gratitude is often treated as something we feel when life is going well. Jamie Hess takes a different approach.
In her new book, The Gratitude Shift: An A-to-Z Guide to Reset Your Mindset & Transform Your Life, Jamie Hess explores how gratitude can become a practical tool for navigating setbacks, building resilience, and changing the way we respond to everyday life.
Written with bestselling author and editor Lou Aronica, the book was released November 10 by Rock Point and is organized around 26 gratitude practices, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each chapter combines guidance, real-world stories, and an interactive exercise or reflection designed to help readers move from understanding an idea to putting it into practice.
Rather than positioning gratitude as positive thinking or a way to ignore difficult circumstances, Hess focuses on how a shift in perspective can create greater agency. Her approach grew in part from her own experience rebuilding her life after addiction and developing the gratitude-centered practices that would later become the foundation of her work.
The Gratitude Shift: Jamie Hess on Gratitude, Resilience, and Growth
Hess has spent years exploring the relationship between gratitude and personal transformation through her work as a keynote speaker, professional development coach, media personality, and host of The Gratitudeology™ Podcast.
The podcast centers on the moments when people begin to see difficult experiences differently and turn pain into purpose. The Gratitude Shift expands that idea into a practical framework readers can return to when they need greater perspective, confidence, or clarity.
For leaders and organizations, those themes extend beyond individual well-being. Hess connects gratitude with resilience, engagement, purpose, and the ability to move forward when circumstances feel difficult or uncertain. Her keynote, Unlocking the Power of Gratitudeology™, similarly focuses on helping audiences use perspective shifts to support growth, productivity, and stronger workplace cultures.
The book’s A-to-Z format is designed to make those ideas accessible rather than prescriptive. Readers can move through the practices in order or return to individual concepts when they need a reset, making gratitude less of an abstract ideal and more of an active practice.
The Gratitude Shift reflects the central idea running through Hess’ work: people may not control every chapter of their story, but they can influence how they understand it and what they choose to do next.
The Gratitude Shift is available now.
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