Grateful my restaurant bills are much less expensive now.
Today is Saturday and I have nothing on my calendar, I am so grateful for that. I have choices today because my life is not conducted by drinking and drugging. I am grateful that humility has become one of my most practiced spiritual principles, it keeps me on even playing field with the rest of you. I am grateful for love and the power to give that away. I read that if we think of happiness as a spiritual principle we will feel happier. I heard something at a meeting " I made a decision to stop using and I haven’t picked up in over 30 years, why can’t I make a decision to be happy?" Grateful for people’s shares, I get so much from them. Grateful that I managed to clean up when I did, and I have hope that I can find some strength.
Frankly you all.
I don’t think addicts want our advice. That’s the last thing my son and daughter wanted when they were in recovery. I think we just want to be heard.
Edit: and acknowledged
I really wanted to order a mocktail when I went to the play the other day. I wanted a virgin Bloodymary. I was so paranoid that they would accidentally make it with booze that I stuck with tonic water.
Day 34 and I’m grateful for my dream of being in a house on the first level, each room congested, cramped, cluttered but then I walk up a sturdy wooden staircase and there are rooms with lots of windows, sunlight, sweet smells and safety. All my dreams of houses prior were of rusted spiral staircases, dark descent, anxiety, dread to a basement with no windows. Grateful to now be awake, hopeful and sober.
That reminds me when I accidentally got real coke instead of diet coke. Many many years ago when nobody cared. The next time I ordered I was so paranoid that I tested it with a glucose test stripe and was only calm when it said low
I essentially meant offer “support”, but it seems that some jumped on the word “advice” and ran with it. A few days ago, a newly sober person posted how they were feeling and what they were dealing with that day, and my empathy for them overwhelmed me. I had been working through the same feelings. I told them that and relayed to them the things that were helping me. They came back later that day to say that they had taken my “advice” and it carried them through the day. I immediately felt like I’d been punched in the gut, because I’m in no position to offer advice. On the other hand, showing that empathy and support helped someone get through their day. I’m trying.
Grateful today for another sober Saturday. Love it…love it. Staying around the house…puttering around the kitchen…hanging with the doggie. So grateful for my life and the peacefulness of it. Glad that i stopped drinking and that my weekends dont consist of wall to wall vodka from am to pm. That i can and choose to enjoy life sober as I head into day 53 in the early morming hours tomorrow .
Good evening all,
I’m grateful that even though I worked today, it wasn’t to bad. I’m grateful that I came home to a clean house and dinner thanks to my wonderful family. I’m grateful to have time to relax and unwind. I’m grateful that I have tomorrow to do what I want. I’m grateful for books and documentaries. @ShesGotMoxie congrats on 30 days!!
Everyone have a wonderful evening
Today I’m grateful for- my marriage, the chance to explore change, ability to live a new way, having options, being able to recognize when I’m in a state of “want” instead of grateful, feeling good, being healthy, my amazing body and all it can do, last but not least clear air!!! Walks and bike rides in clean air, I’m so grateful.
So grateful for my life and the peacefulness of it. 
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