What this document is
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at A Handful of Blessings in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
Standards
How A Handful of Blessings chooses topics, checks claims, names writers, dates articles and handles corrections and commercial links.
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at A Handful of Blessings in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
You can always see who wrote a page and what else they have put their name to. That traceability is deliberate, and it is why nothing here goes out unsigned.
Martha Osei, Founder and gratitude practitioner. Martha started a blessings journal after a difficult year and has written about the practice every week since, including the weeks it did not work. She founded this site because most gratitude content glosses over the hard parts, and she wanted somewhere that did not.
Joel Whitaker, Faith and mindfulness writer. Joel comes from an interfaith household and writes about practices that hold up across traditions without flattening the differences between them. He is careful about claims, generous with worked examples, and honest when a practice did not deliver what was promised.
Clara Nunes, Wellbeing and ritual writer. Clara focuses on habits that take under five minutes: the kind that accumulate quietly rather than demanding a dramatic change in how you live. She has a low tolerance for wellness advice that sounds good but breaks down on a Tuesday morning in November.
The date on an article is the date it was published. When a change alters the advice, we update the modified date and say what changed. Cosmetic edits do not reset the date, because pretending a page is fresher than it is helps nobody.
What gets written is decided by demand, not by a schedule. A question that keeps arriving, from readers or from our own work, becomes a page. A clever keyword with no real question behind it does not.
Part of what keeps the lights on is commercial links. The verdict on a page is written first and does not bend to whether a link earns anything.
We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.
Corrections go to info@ahandfulofblessings.com. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.