Sarah Drew Promotes Lifetime Film at 45, Citing Father’s ‘Aggressive Gratitude’ Advice
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Updated · Fox News · May 23
Sarah Drew Promotes Lifetime Film at 45, Citing Father’s ‘Aggressive Gratitude’ Advice
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 23
Sarah Drew, 45, said her pastor father’s advice to fight fear with “aggressive gratitude” helped her through panic attacks while she was six months pregnant with her first child.
The “Grey’s Anatomy” alum said he urged her to counter anxious spirals by naming blessings aloud, a practice she says shifted her mindset and remains her main tool against fear.
Drew shared the story while promoting Lifetime’s “When I Said I Do,” airing Saturday, in which she plays a widowed search-and-rescue K-9 handler who finds love again.
The film, inspired by Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black’s 1999 duet, fit Drew’s preference for hopeful, faith-inflected stories; she said acting itself feels like an expression of her Christian faith.
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