Grateful to be sober and enjoying my family. Grateful for the holiday music and just sitting on the couch. Grateful for my family and that we were safe yesterday from the high winds. Grateful that we didn’t run out of power. I still need to get a generator…it’s expensive. I’ll start saving up.
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Nice work protecting your recovery. It’s so fragile. It’s so easy to drink, it only takes a moment.
126 days of freedom isn’t nearly as easy. Thats how it’s done. Taking action to keep it safe.
It was a friend’s birthday yesterday. They invited me to go have prime rib dinner, but it’s at a bar/restaurant. Drinks would be flowing. Even though I feel that I could’ve had dinner without drinking, I felt I needed to protect my recovery by not going.
Now im grateful to celebrate another day of continuous sobriety with you!
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I’m so grateful to live in such a beautiful part of the country. Everywhere I look fills me with wonder, and I’m certain that I’ll eventually be that old woman known for walking these mountain trails with her dog. I love where I live. 
This is Ouray, Colorado… one of my most favorite little mountain towns. It’s beyond lovely on winter nights.
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Wow. That is absolutely stunning. Thanks for sharing and please keep posting pics!
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Thank you! 
I’m in a sharing mood. 
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@JasonFisher Thanks for sharing and very cool you stayed away from that dinner outing. That showed major insight into your alcoholism. It is always good to hear from those deeper into their recovery say they chose to stay away from situations that might jeopardize their hard work to stay sober. I hope I never forget what a shit show my life and health were when I drank. I love what you said about “protecting” my sobriety. I hadn’t thought of it like that. Protection is a great word and visual. Take care and thanks again. 
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Geez @ShesGotMoxie ~ stunning and yes, you are blessed to live in such a gorgeous community.
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Good evening all,
I’m grateful for Christmas lights, and music. I’m grateful it’s chilly here but there’s no snow. I’m grateful for a warm house, plenty of food, family to love and that love me, and for hope.
Everyone have a wonderful evening 
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Grateful to finally feeling open to sharing I am sober with anyone in my world vs hiding it away like it was some shameful secret. Grateful I am learning to embrace and love every dark, dirty, shameful, socially unexceptional shadow part of myself. Grateful to be on Day 356 of Self Kindness and 342 days of sobriety.
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I’m grateful to God thank you for guiding me through today clean and sober. I’m grateful for my recovery. I’m grateful for ALL my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes. I’m grateful that I just had a nice walk home from work with my music. I’m grateful that I don’t go back to work until Wednesday afternoon. I’m grateful for this practice of finding gratitude, which I rarely have to find it, it is usually there or barely beneath the surface. I am grateful for cognitive behavioural therapy. I’m grateful my sister asked if I still had the Christmas ornament she gave me that said “2020 stink, stank , stunk” (that really opened some thoughts and feelings… hear they come 
) I didn’t have the heart to tell her I don’t think I do. It is not that I don’t get it but I crushed 2020 and 2021. I’m grateful that compared to the shit I put myself through for decades and the huge differnces in my life since I started this recovery journey on Nov. 10, 2019, which is not my clean date but even more important it’s the day I stopped “digging” my grave. So ya 2020 and 2021 may have not been great for everyone else and I feel there pain, I have lived it too but I don’t have to say it sucked and keep an ornament that is the opposite of how I am trying to think. I am grateful for 2020 and 2021 because, I got sober, I got clean, I quit smoking, I got vaccinated and wore masks (I never saw doctors or got vaccinated I was too angry at everything and paranoid),I got family back, I got a place to live, I got a job, I got a doctor, I got my teeth all fixed and a smile back. I got to meet, help and be helped by literally hundreds (maybe more) of people at 12 step meetings, treatment centers, online(TS), cooking them meal and breaking bread together, listening to their stories, giving them advice and getting lots too, walking them to apointments and helping them apply for housing and doctors, welfare and disability. I’m grateful I had people doing the same for me during my journey and I will continue to do my best to never forget it. I’m grateful that I type out these thoughts and that it helps me and the added bonus that sometimes I hear it helps someone else. I’m grateful that the two football teams I follow put on a good show, they both lost, in overtime, to thier respective defending league champions (weird) I’m grateful that I have decided I am going to attend my cousins wedding in another province(look out Stella) this March (God willing) I’m grateful I can save some money and take my first ever trip. I’m grateful to God. I’m grateful that my house has been quiet and that someone other than me cleaned it up yesterday. I’m grateful for Netflix and Disney+ I’m grateful to go do my meditation now that I think about it.
God bless you all. 
&
p.s. You are awesome. Ya you.
p.p.s. I am sorry in advance @M-be-free49 but I am telling our friends here that you are ok, I am grateful that you let me know.
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Good morning!
I’m grateful to have come through another weekend without alcohol
I’m grateful to have a job I mostly enjoy.
I’m grateful for a warm and safe and loving home.
I wish you all peace today.
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Good morning all. I’m grateful for this community. Even when I slipped I silently read the posts and long so bad to be able to post and feel what I was reading again, but I know I couldn’t because I wasn’t sober at that moment. Back at day 1 but it’s better than not being here at all. Have an amazing day, and thank you all for just being YOU!
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I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful for a short walk in the sun.
I am grateful I enjoy the challenging workouts without stressing myself how I manage them.
I am grateful I found the motivation to participate in an online yoga class tonight.
I am grateful I had a good night’s sleep using my ear plugs.
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Trigger warning, about rewarding myself with booze.
I’m grateful, so fucking grateful, to have made it out to Santa Monica, what a fucking day yesterday 
I’m grateful when Daisy put the window down she didn’t fly out onto the 405 
I’m grateful when the wife pushed the button on the hatch by accident at the Carls Jr. the cats were to scared to move
I’m grateful when the gasoline light came on we were only 10 miles away from the condo.
I’m grateful we realized we are way too old for this shit and this will be our last adventure out here.
I’m grateful to have my little Burner on my lap and Minnie right next to me on the couch. My cool modern contemporary fire in the fireplace. And my coffee 
oh I’m grateful how great my coffee taste this morning with out a crushing headache. Usually after a day of traveling with 4 cats 2 dogs and the wife, it’s quite a fucking production from start, packing up the day before. Rounding up 3 terrified cats. Alice is cool. She’s been traveling for 15 years 
And finishing up, staggering home drunk from
R and D Kitchen a block away. Usually I would have rewarded myself with massive amounts of liquor and wine and my more liquor at home. And ya I, thought about those martinis 6 hours in on the drive. I romanticized them touching my lips. And I followed through and thought about how awful I would feel and the shocking number of them I would have consumed. And the 3 am shower with my hands in my head, heart pounding uncontrollably, praying to God to take away the pain. Why did I punish myself so much? That’s no reward for a job well done or “Deserved.”
I’m grateful I’m rewarding myself with a great start to my Holidays feeling awesome, badass, and clear headed and calm.
I’m grateful last night I was not stumbling around the city block in the dark with a drunk wife and 2 dogs for their final whizzies. How dangerous was that?
I grateful God protected me all those years. I am grateful to still be alive after all the stupid drunk blackout shit I did. I’m grateful that’s in the past. It cannot be changed. It really doesn’t matter today. I’m grateful where I am today. Right now. So fucking grateful. I don’t deserve all I have. Maybe I do? I’m grateful I finally woke the fuck up and I’m going to protect everything I have with all my heart and soul. Especially My Sober Date. I’m gonna fight for that fucker because I’m worth it. Why did it take me so long 
? Today. It doesn’t fucking matter. I’m not drinking today. And I’m probably not drinking tomorrow. I’m gonna feel good today. And I’m probably gonna feel good tomorrow
I’m grateful to have a place like this to get my feelings out with y’all. You guys are the best 
You are more special than words can say……please travel safely each and everyday.
I don’t know who the fuck said that but sounded like a good day to steal it.
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I’m so grateful to know you here, Eric. I can’t tell you how often just reading your gratitude has helped keep me going. I relate. It’s sad and wonderful at the same time! You make my days. Much love to you
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Today I’m grateful I survived a busy and partly stressful day. I saw a bad car accident on my way home and it made me grateful me & family &
friends are ok. I’m grateful for getting home safe. I’m grateful for ambulance and the good healthcare in our country, I don’t take it for granted, I know others.
Grateful for delicious leftover pumpkin soup from yesterday. Grateful the day is over and I go to bed sober 
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I’m grateful to God please help guide me through today while remaining clean and sober. I’m grateful for recovery and my recovery. I’m grateful for ALL my family, friends,TS and the gratidudes. I’m grateful for music and exercise. I’m grateful for humor and laughter. I’m grateful for clean clothes, warm coffee and showers and the wonderful smells that accompany all three of those. I’m grateful I made my bed. I’m grateful for the twelve steps and the principles they teach.
God bless you all. &
p.s. Don’t forget to smile and breathe, it feels good. Ya you!!
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I’m SO grateful I am sober.
I am grateful I’m self employed and do not have to listen Christmas music all day like I was forced to at previous jobs.
I am grateful all the Christmas orders are shipped and only one is still out in the shipping universe.
I am grateful for the glorious peace and quiet of the phone no longer ringing off the hook with customers making unreasonable Christmas demands.
I am grateful for the beautiful sunshine and hot chai tea.
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I’m grateful to have had terrific weather for traveling to some medical appointments. I’m grateful to have good medical insurance. I’m grateful to be sober, have a loving family and have all of my TS family
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