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There is good news and much to be grateful for in the quest for more wellness. Almost 80 percent of women aged between 50 and 69 will survive at least 10 years beyond treatment for breast cancer today, while data from the early 1990s shows just 59 percent of women in that age group survived for 10 years after a breast cancer diagnosis.

“If we can focus our energy on the positive progress and fight for the cure rather than against what is wrong, we can create a shift of energy,” added Carrin. “This approach can be taken to any situation we are presented.”

Our other causes the Wavelet women plan to celebrate with gratitude in the future are heroes such as firefighters, soldiers, policeman, and other everyday heroes. They also plan to show their gratitude for all they have and what the future holds by supporting the environment, underprivileged children and education. The goal is to raise enough to have quarterly causes.

One of the jewelry pieces created is being called "Branches of Hope" and it is meant to symbolize survival. “Every woman has survived something,” Cheryl adds. “It could be an illness, loss of a loved one, divorce, or a move -- and sometimes all of those at once! For anyone that has displayed courage or strength this is a great gift to say, "I am proud of you; you made it." For you, it is a reminder that as the seasons sometimes weather a tree, it is those same seasons that bring out its true strength and inner beauty. It says that no matter how life has been there is hope for how life can be. The seeds of hope lie within us the same way they were in the tree before it became the symbol of strength it is today.”

Wavesofgratitude.com also serves as a social network where visitors can write their own gratitude stories and send pictures of the people to which they have given the jewelry or pictures of them wearing it and telling what it is that has them feeling grateful.

Giving hope to the other millions of people who will find themselves unemployed or underemployed this year, the Waves of Gratitude founders hope to reach 6 million people by June of 2009 and send a message that their focus on gratitude can shift not only their own lives but the lives of those around us. “We cannot control the world, but we can control how we choose to live our own lives. We chose to live in gratitude.”