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Standards

Editorial Policy

How A Handful of Blessings chooses topics, checks claims, names writers, dates articles and handles corrections and commercial links.

The standard we hold ourselves to

This page describes how A Handful of Blessings is made. It is here so that you can decide how much weight to give anything else on the site.

Bylines

Bylines are real people with real archives attached. If you disagree with a piece, you can see what else the same person has written and judge accordingly.

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.

Publication dates

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.

The drafting process

  1. The writer collects what they already know and marks the parts they cannot support.
  2. Those parts are checked against a primary source, an operator document, or direct experience.
  3. What survives step two goes into the draft. What does not is cut.
  4. A second person reads the draft for claims that sound firmer than the evidence behind them.

How we choose what to write

A subject earns a page when somebody has asked about it twice, or when we went looking for the answer ourselves and came back empty handed.

A minority of outbound links are commercial. None of them have ever changed a sentence that was written before the link existed.

Requests to soften a verdict are declined, and we keep them on file. More than one has become the subject of its own paragraph later.

Corrections

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.