@Singtone Have a wonderful trip to and visit in France! Hello to France from me! ( I thought you were going to the UK ). Wishing you and your family every blessing … I am so proud of you and the gift you have given yourself and your family! Joyeux Noël
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NOW I want to make cupcakes that look like little cacti 
I’m glad you opted for a cozy night at home instead of braving icky weather- I was stressed just reading it haha
Sweet dreams 
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I am grateful for Love. I am grateful for the love that has been given to me throughout my lifetime. I am grateful for the love that I have given, presently give and am able to give. I am grateful for all of you.
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I’m walking this path alone as well. I’m grateful that so far I’m the only one that has addiction problems in my household. My older kids seem to have a healthy balance, my wife has half a drink maybe once a year. I always worry about my kids and substance abuse but that’s just borrowing problems i don’t currently have.
I’m grateful for you all.
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Wooohoooo! That’s a lot of good news before your trip. Keep yourself and all your work in mind as you move through the stressful parts of travel. And enjoy the sights and sounds!
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Good morning all
I’m grateful to have this community in my life.
I’m grateful to not have felt any cravings yesterday, that was the first day of the 51 AF days that I did not have to actively concentrate on managing a craving. Yay!
I’m grateful to have made a vacation plan for later this week that is pretty COVID safe. It is easier to generally be COVID safe as the hubby and I are introverted and plan our vacations to typically not be around many people. Sobriety will make this even easier. I planned and paid for this trip back in April when we were hopeful to be headed out of the pandemic instead of facing the new variant.
I’m grateful for public libraries and the ability to check out online books for free as I’m reading like mad these days and loving it!
I’m grateful for a warm and safe home.
I wish you peace.
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I’m right there with you man. I’m the only person in my family who is part of the cool kids club, at least as far as I know. My wife is always willing to listen but she has never had a drinking problem so she can only understand so much.
I’m beyond grateful for this place and you all as well because I didn’t know anything about addiction when I started, other than the fact that it was killing me. I really have no one in my personal life to talk about it with because no one else has the same issue. I’ve learned so much here!
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Good morning Jason.
I’m grateful to see you checking in somewhere on TS.
I’m grateful to have got my 5 minute meditation challenge in again this morning before my gratitude list.
I’m grateful for my late afternoon sunset walk down to the beach yesterday. Boy I really needed that. It was so beautiful and I was so sober I just started crying again. I took lots of pics and couldn’t wait to share. Now that I got that out of the way. Next time no pics @JasonFisher just me. Sober. God. Beautiful Sunset. In the moment. Enjoy and feel the power of it all. 
I’m grateful for all the great restaurants around here and that we are blessed to be able to visit them for our pleasure.
I’m grateful tomorrow night we got plans to see my daughter and her now 40 year old husband 
. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. It just means I’m fucking old. Since I’m gonna be a Grampy I better get use to it.
I’m grateful for my Internet friends on TS and Twitter.
I’m grateful for my health.
I’m grateful for my struggles. Bullshit. I’m trying to be grateful for my struggles and learn from them.
I’m grateful how wonderful I felt on yesterday evenings sunset walk. I’m grateful I can do more of those.
I’m grateful we are going out to a really nice restaurant in Beverly Hills tonight. I’m grateful I will get all dressed up for it.
I’m grateful Christmas is coming soon.
I’m grateful for my cats and dogs.
I’m grateful for cat zoomies presently as I’m writing this. Daisy!!
I’m grateful I read this this morning. I absolutely needed this 
Fantasies about what is or is not “fair” keep us in resentment and self-pity
Living Clean.
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I’m grateful for good rest, good food, and a warm, dry place to make it all happen.
I brought home some crab. I had a crab feast last night. I rarely bring crab home, because they are so much work, and I’m too tired to deal with them while they are fresh. I’m a sea food snob. It has to be fresh and well taken of. I’m glad I did it. It was delicious.
One of them pinched my thumb. I decided I wanted to eat him. He gave me the motivation. I am grateful.
My last break, I had some cravings I had to work through. It kinda boggles my mind how I can feel so strong and grounded in recovery one day, and the next my brain tries relentlessly to sabotage me…
After putting some thought into it, I have come to the conclusion that it’s OK. I have alot on my plate.
The hard-core work demand of the crab opener. My goals happening. Fear of success, fear of failure.
I saw the Keta posted for sale on Facebook. He was asking 50 thousand for it. 15 thousand was the price. Thats what I have saved.
It triggered me. His brother posted it. His brother is a tweeker piece of shit. He is probably just throwing it out there trying to scam a quick buck, seeing if anybody would pay that much.
I got pretty worked up when I saw that. Another trigger.
There’s been some other boats I have my eye on too. No matter what happens. I will be OK.
So, instead of feeling bewildered about how, and where those cravings came from. I feel strong and focused because I didn’t act upon them. I’ve figured out why, and adjusted accordingly. I’m proud and grateful.
Skipper has been acting weird. Moody, impatient, he makes a plan, then changes it without telling anyone and then gets frustrated and pissed off because nobody is on the same page as him. We are all frustrated with that. Morale wasn’t good last trip.
This is why he couldn’t keep a crew. This is why he was sober when I started. I knew when he started drinking again, it would progress to this. Here we are.
I’m grateful that’s not me. I’m grateful for the example he is showing me. It starts out fun, but always turns to shit.
I’m grateful for all the bad examples I have in my life. Tweeky… What a waste of talent to end up a methed out loser…
My old best friend. Hungover every day. Miserable.
I’m grateful for my good example Matt. A couple years ago everyone looked down on him for being a junkie
Today he is a respected member of this po dunk coastal town.
Me too. I was a inconsistent drunk. Today I’m a respected member of our community.
I am grateful!
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Good morning! Your photos are beautiful! I’m grateful we get to share the amazing things we get to experience here.
I’m grateful for you!
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Sorry to hear about “your” boat being posted for that ridiculous price. I can’t wait to see the post telling us when you’ve bought one, even if it isn’t that one 
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This fills my heart.
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I am grateful I am saved
I am grateful I got out of the house and went to the gym
I am grateful I have a safe sober home to feel comfortable everyday
I am grateful my daughters boyfriend is a nerd 
I am grateful for health after over three decades taking it for granted
I am grateful for the love I feel
I am grateful for warm clothes in cold weather
I am grateful for 4 months of freedom wow
I will always be grateful for you
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I’m grateful that this migraine is passing and I was able to get some rest. I’m grateful my husband has two weeks of vacation and we can spend some quality time together. I’m grateful that my family checks on me but doesn’t get too concerned if I can’t respond right away when dealing with a headache - screens are not my friends at those times. I’m grateful that I’ve got my appetite back and there is food in my fridge.
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Good morning family.
I am grateful to be nearing the end of my NA Christmas get-away. It’s been amazing, my spirit is overflowing. I am grateful that I allowed myself a hot chocolate and reset my sugar timer. I was feeling like I “wasn’t allowed” one which is a huge issue for my eating disorder. I am grateful that I was able to talk myself through a timer reset that I was calm and rational when I made the choice. In therapy we are taught wise mind and I believe I used wise mind to allow myself a hot chocolate. ( sounds silly but realatively big step for my sick mind) I am grateful I feel no shame or remorse around my choice and that I made it to 77 days without sugar. Onto the next huge round of days without sugar!!! Learning to balance my addictive behaviors with an ED has been the biggest challenge I have faced. I never realized any of this… I never ate when I was on drugs and I never ate when I was drinking… the years before when I was actively in full blown ED my addict was just a baby. Being an addict is like playing a game of whack-a-mole, you smack one addiction down and another one pops up.
I am grateful to have had lots of deep chats with the women I came with. We have learned each other on a different level.
I am grateful that my animals and child were well taken care of by my parents while I have been away. I am just so grateful for my parents.
I am grateful for the consistency of TS when my life is a little chaotic. I am grateful that my chaos today is 20% of my chaos before.
I love my life.
@JasonFisher sorry for responding to you. 
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Welcome back 
I’m grateful you made and dealt with a wonderful decision on having that hot chocolate. And that you feel no shame or remorse. That is a wonderful gift you’ve given yourself.
Enjoy that feeling.
You deserve and have certainly earned it.
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Ahhh I’m so happy you had a good weekend. Just reading your update made me smile 
Love you
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I’m grateful to God thank you for guiding me safely through part of this day, 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 can check in and post this while on my dinner break.
God bless you all. 
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Edit. 4 hours later…
I’m grateful to be home in bed reading and posting, get ready to say my prayers, do a meditation. Watch an episode or two of Once upon a Time on Disney+ and fall asleep.
RANT immenant
I’m grateful that I spoke up and told my housemates today, NO we don’t sneak our old discharged housemates in to stay, for the next two months, and have to live a lie, trying to convince me/us to not tell the treatment center. Let him move back in and believe him when he says it’s everyone else’s fault but his own that he got asked to leave, sounds way too familiar, as I used that excuse a trilllllllion times when I was still actively using and drinking. I’m grateful I can admit it makes me angry that some of my housemates want to live this way. There is seven bedrooms here, four currently that should be getting filled with people who deserve a chance to live in a sober home but the treament center won’t fill them now as two of them have peoples stuff still sitting in them attracting mice and bugs It’s probably dirty in those locked rooms, garbage, dishes who fucking knows. Part of me has come close to booting doors down and cleaning it up and punching people in the face… you guys have heard some of this before. Gratefully I refrain from acting on those impulses now. Another room is being used by a guy who was supposed to find a place and move out months ago for relapsing, repeatedly and now he is attempting and convincing the other guy to come back in and boycot leaving, grow up and move on there is myself and two other guys living here trying to make it work and your Bullshit is making it really hard, way harder than it needs to be. I’m grateful that I still care, it doesn’t matter that I am moving forward and out, hopefully in April. I deserve to have a good stay here for the duration. I want that for anyone in this program. I wanted it for these guys that I live with, that have lost there way, in my opinion, or at least for now they have. I’m grateful I can admit that maybe I need to let it go but I am not perfect. I have been an ear and support and a friend and a cook and cleaner, you fucking name it to these guys and they want to not care repeatedly for a year plus now… I am fucking over it. There is an empty, clean room, beside mine that could be filled but I know they won’t fill it. I flat out, at one point, suggested that they don’t until things get straightened out, even though I could use a new guy to maybe pitch in on some good clean living around here. Sadly I am being very judgemnetal, I know, it is a defect I need to work on again. Everyone here is depressed as hell lying around doing nothing to change anything, makes me partly depressed too, hard to believe they all went through the same program I did. They did enough work while in treatment to get in here then
everything stops. when they move in, I keep watching it happen. Guys get into one of the numerous houses this program has then go back to sitting around collecting welfare and disability, watching t.v., play video games and complaining about being bored and depresssed. Ahhhhh Let it go Brian. Here I go trying to control everything again.
Dear God. Take my will and life guide me in my recovery show me how to live. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Amen
I’m grateful for the brisk 25 min. walk home while listening to some tunes. I’m grateful my bosses gifted me some salted carmael bread for Christmas that I’m gonna try a piece of before bed. I’m grateful for humor and laughter. I’m grateful to spit out some of that rant, there is probably more, thanks for listening, sorry for the cursing. I’m grateful I have a phone appointment scheduled with one of my counsellors tomorrow and she’ll likely listen to even more of the afforementioned rant and hooefully help come up with a solution not just what they have been doing which is nothing while telling me to focus on me. You fucking live with them, like this, oh wait you wouldn’t like it or put up with it either. Lol Anyway
Serrenity now LMAO
I’m grateful I know I will get through this like I already have been. I’m grateful I get to go away for a few days over Christmas to stay with my parents and will get to visit my sisters and neices. I’m grateful to try and calm my mnd as I go for to the mediation thread now, wish me luck.
God bless you all. &
p.s. Don’t forget to smile and breathe, it feels good. Ya you!!
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I am grateful my friend suggested this sober time app almost two years ago and eventually, months later, pointed out that I should look into the talking sober part. One of the best things I have done for my recovery. I am grateful for so many here. I’m grateful for all the moderators but honestly particularly @Lisa07 @Mno the two I have the most history with.
I’m grateful for the long term and always newcoming GRATIDUDES you are my faves, without a doubt, that’s my truth.
I’m grateful for people like @Dragonflygirl82 and @apes2020 @anon53116147 and more on the selfie thread.
@Joy and @Tomek @ Tyler ? damn it I forget his handle but I know he is still going strong always mentioning so many on the check in thread.
I’m soooo grateful for my talking sober ROCKS. I hope everyone can find some here too. I try to be my absolute best in large part because of you three. @Its_me_Stella @Dazercat @M-be-free49
I’m grateful that if things go as planned, God willing, I will get to meet an adorable Mbefree in person soon enough, sorry for spilling the beans M, but I am excited.
God bless you all. &
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Today I am grateful for Joy. For all the joy I have had, presently have and hope to have. Sometimes joy can be fleeting… sometimes hard to find or feel. I am grateful that I appreciate the simple joys and that they make me happy… a kind word, a pretty sky, a flower, good hearts.
Grateful for all of you.
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