For Spring arriving in earnest, bird sex EVERYWHERE , blooming crabapple, red bud and dogwood trees, tulips and daffodils and violets and even dandelions. Robins tweet mfing tweeting at 4:30 am right outside my window, I’m even grateful for them. The world is coming alive and I feel it in my bones.
For a solid plan for my parents to visit on May 21st for a week, after which I’ll drive back down with them to spend a few weeks with my brother, SIL and niece Maya! I have waited sooo long for this and I’m so grateful I can spend an extended amount of time there. I’m grateful my husband is supportive and happy I get to go. I’m grateful we talked about how some time apart can be healthy for us, even though I always miss him and my pupper like crazy. I’m grateful my parents will drive me home whenever I’m ready and spend another whole week here visiting in mid to late June.
For Spring cleaning, clearing out the clutter and crap that only reminds me of being drunk and depressed. Simplifying and getting a fresh start in my home.
My gratitude list for Day 11: I am grateful for this app and all of you, as well as all of the other great support and resources to help walk us through sobriety. I am so grateful for feeling good today without a hangover and to be able to volunteer and help others this morning. I am so thankful that I have a good job and that I didn’t screw that up before getting sober. Wishing everyone a beautiful and healthy day.
Almost 2 years in. The first thing that goes through my mind in the morning is how grateful I am not to be sick when I wake up.
I dont miss having to get on that crazy train just to feel normal.
I’m grateful to God please help me be better today than I was yesterday and to stay clean and sober. I’m grateful for my recovery. I’m grateful for all my family, all my friends and all the gratitroops. I’m grateful that I got up early, I’m tired it’s going to be a long day but God is great. I’m grateful for humor and laughter.
God bless you all. &
p.s. paraphrasing I dont know who…it’s about the journey not the destination so enjoy every moment. Ya you!!
I’m grateful to God I don’t drink.
I’m grateful to God I don’t depend on booze.
I’m grateful to God my children didn’t die when they were deep into their addiction.
I’m grateful to God for the miracle of recovery; God gave my children back to me
I’m grateful I will always remember April 28th for my Grammy’s birthday. She’s the one who practically brought me up and taught me right from wrong and loved me unconditionally. So many great memories. But the one that comes to mind first is always when I was 10-12ish and I told her to shut up. After church no less. We were headed through the chain link gate of her fence to go home. I got a hard backhand to the face, I never saw it coming. It rocked my world. . Best lady ever
I’m grateful I still have great memories of my childhood.
I think I will just end this here with grateful memories of my grandma
You had your maps drawn You had other plans To hang your hopes on Every road they let you down felt so wrong So you found another way
And even though you’re scared You’re stronger than you know
Lindsey Sterling
Something Wild
Today I got my vaccine. And I should be able to get my second dose before I move abroad this summer. I am very, very grateful for that today.
And on a smaller scale, lotus biscuits dipped in tea
Today I’m grateful to be tired, I could fall asleep while writing here. Grateful for my Missi cat to sleep by my side the whole night. Grateful the new, shopworn kitchen cabinet was exchanged. Grateful we can keep the original one, they are expensive and the defect is practically invisible. We’ll use it otherwise Grateful to wake up sober tomorrow
that I feel like I’m handling things better at work, I don’t feel so easily overwhelmed or stressed out, even though I have so many things to get done.
that even though my partner had a really stressful phone call with his ex, I didn’t feel the urge to get involved or get stressed out with him, I took a step back and didn’t get involved. Normally I would have had a drink and gotten too involved, but now I’m just there to support him, sober and kind.
for takeaway Chinese food. A very rare treat, but it was nice not to have to cook.
for early nights and rainy days.
for my early morning walks and getting so much more from every day because I’m not exhausted and grumpy!
for all the gratidudes and dudettes.
Nite nite from the sleepy English countryside x
I am grateful that @Frank68 is with us
I am grateful that I can already feel the effects of my new medication
I am grateful for the smell of rain.
I am grateful for the irritating curl in my hair
I am grateful for the drive I will take with my kiddo today.
I am grateful that we will have “brupper” tonight.
I am grateful for the clean sheets I will crawl into tonight.
I am grateful that the last two mornings I have woken up on my own without the aid of my doggos.
I am grateful that @M-be-free49 's cup is more full than not as she goes into this emotional time with her mumma.
I am grateful that @Dazercat and wifey have been spoiling themselves with delicious meals together.
I am grateful that while I type my gratitude my body responds with tears and goosebumps because these days I am alive.
Good evening all,
Today I’m grateful for dinner together and talking- all 4 of us- around the table. Some of my best childhood memories are sitting around the table at dinner talking and laughing.
I’m grateful that I did 30 minutes of yoga today and felt satisfied with that instead of feeling like I didn’t work out hard enough.
I’m grateful for my family near and far, and for all of you guys.
Everyone have a wonderful evening
I’m grateful to God that it’s day 467 of my recovery from drugs.
Tonight I’m grateful today is over and I’m home in bed, clean, sober and safe. I’m grateful that in the face of intolerance and chaos I was able to keep calm, if i wasn’t sober today would have been awful. A fellow client who has been a kind and gentle soul where I do my volunteering, a young man who identified as gay and male but starting to transition was treated terribly for a few days now and left today as a result. I’m grateful to have met him and that he is aware that he can call me and some of my friends for support. I’m grateful I had an AA step working meeting tonight and that my homework is forcing me to start making amends. This shit is hard but it’s what I asked for by joining the group and getting sober and I need to recognize, acknowledge and remember that. Easier said than done sometimes
I’m grateful for my fellow gratitroops.
God bless you all. &
I’m grateful for the quiet night I had after a busy day.
I’m grateful I can hang out with difficult emotions and not need to find the wine escape door…
I’m so grateful for all of the support and companionship and camaraderie here and in my real life. I’m definitely not hanging out with all this stuff alone.
That I am having a good week, good for mood, good for food, good for attitude! (Oh man, that was cheesy, but I do love cheese.)
That I felt pretty yesterday, which hasn’t happened in a while, and I got my first suntan/burn of the season!
That I have been getting shit done! My home has felt like a hangover, lots of disorganization and clutter, leftover chaos from depression and even back from drinking days. I’m getting through it and it feels good to get things in order. Spring is starting to feel like another fresh start and I am so grateful that there can be a fresh start every single day.
For my husband, who doesn’t like the term alcoholic (I struggle with labels, too) but has reached acceptance that his wife cannot drink alcohol. More importantly, she (I) do not want to drink. With his acceptance comes an easing of the pressures that have existed in the past to “just be careful and moderate” or “here, just taste this…you can just have one,” etc. He finally is seeing the truth, and I am so grateful - he also is seeing the benefit of severely curtailing his own consumption of alcohol, and we are having way more fun together as a result. He sees that I am happy and he wants to be a part of that, too. What a switch from me drinking to make him happy…wtf was that even about. Twisted.
I am extremely grateful to be on my 11th day without alcohol. I feel really good today and appreciate the spring weather giving me additional pep in my step. I am grateful for the welcoming meeting of women I experienced yesterday and the busy evening of work last night to keep my mind productive and satisfied. I am most grateful for the wonderful night of sleep I had last night and waking without a hangover. Oh and every podcast I listen to lately features guests who are sober and talking about it even though that’s not really the basis of the show – God? Universe? Serendipity? To whomever it is, I am grateful!
I’m a grateful for my home. I’m grateful to call my small but cozy apartment mine. I’m grateful for the safety of my home. Im grateful for the warmth it gives me now the weather is getting chilly. I’m grateful that I live alone and I can do as I please in my home. I’m grateful that I have birds singing outside my window from sunrise till sunset. I’m grateful for free electricity and hot water so I can enjoy hot showers twice a day. I’m grateful for my couch blanket because it keeps me warm and cozy. I’m grateful for my breath because it means that I am still alive
, blooming crabapple, red bud and dogwood trees, tulips and daffodils and violets and even dandelions. Robins tweet mfing tweeting at 4:30 am right outside my window, I’m even grateful for them. The world is coming alive and I feel it in my bones.
& 
After church no less. We were headed through the chain link gate of her fence to go home. I got a hard backhand to the face, I never saw it coming. It rocked my world. 
. Best lady ever 
Grateful to wake up sober tomorrow 
