I enjoyed coffee with Y. Joel Wong over the holidays. Joel is a tenured professor in the Counseling and Counseling Psychology Programs at Indiana University. One specialty of his is gratitude and its link to well-being.
I met up with Joel at Hopscotch Coffee in Bloomington so I could express a belated form of gratitude to him for being part of a Q and A session hosted by my employer during the last Asian American Pacific Islander Month.
After graduating from college in his home country of Singapore, he pursued graduate studies in counseling psychology at the University of Texas at Austin before being hired by Indiana University.
One thing I learned from Joel is that expressing true gratitude goes beyond simply saying “thank you” for something someone’s done for you…