Daily Gratitude List. Gratitude is the air of recovery

I am grateful for a husband who talked me through my drive home last night so I would pass up the liquor store.
I am grateful for work and progress made on many projects today.
I am grateful for my kids who love me and I can five hugs too.
I am grateful for all of you and your candidates. It keeps me honest too.

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I am grateful for warm clothes. Christmas music (yeah I went thereā€¦) I listened to some today and it put me in a great mood. Donations, because thatā€™s where I got most of my clothes when I first got sober because I didnā€™t have anything and now I have so much that I can donate to others who need stuff. Diamond dots. My cat. Space heaters. Knitted hats. Being sober af. Home cooked food. Good company. Pumpkin spice Frappuccinoā€™s. Fall sweaters. Laughing and humor. Bonfires. And God because literally without Him none of this would be possible. I have so much positivity in my life since I got sober it amazes me. Grateful to be grateful.

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Eric congrats on 22 months!!!:partying_face::tada::yellow_heart: What an incredible feat, inspiration, goal. I hope you have fun in Austin. I love it there. Iā€™m originally from Texas and havenā€™t been back in so long.

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Today, I am grateful for another sober day.
I am grateful for my partner, wherever you may be.
I am grateful for change.
I am grateful for another day we can all share alive.

I am grateful for my daughter.

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I am grateful to be sober and hangover free.

I am grateful to have a job that I can go to tonight to make money doing something that I feel passionately about (mental health).

I am grateful that I was able to get some aleep eventhough I feel a bit tired I should be good to get through the night.

I am grateful that i have hot water and can take a shower soon to wake up more.

I am grateful to be here with all of u. :two_hearts:

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Good evening fam-damā€¦

I am grateful for my kiddo and her efforts to communicate her feelings with me.
I am grateful for skills I have learned like active listening, validation and all the very important ones that are specific to being a mother to her.
I am grateful for Zoom and all the driving it saves me.
I am grateful that I made a choice last night and I was at peace with it right away. There was no second guessing, or wishing I had made some other decision. I made my mind up and forgot about it, how refreshing is that?
I am grateful for online shopping, and for the mail service. If I didnā€™t already loathe Xmas shopping I surely do now. I am grateful to have some money to spend on presents ths year.
(Christmas 2021 will be light, we want for nothing.)
I am grateful that I can recognize when my addict is taking over my brain. We had an interesting conversation last night as I drove BACK into town 45 mins to get two MORE ferns. I recognized the conversation but instead of " If the light turns green I will go straight home, if it turns red Iā€™m turning right to the beer store." The conversation went like " If both those staghorned fern are there I will call my sponsor on the way home and tell her what I have done, if thereā€™s only one I am not calling anyone and if thereā€™s none Iā€™m getting my ass to the Monday night meeting."
We do recover.
:orange_heart::blush::seedling:

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Iā€™m grateful to God for guiding me through another productive day clean and sober. Iā€™m grateful for my recovery. Iā€™m grateful for my family, friends, TS and all you gratidudes. Iā€™m extremely grateful for the hour session I got with my addiction counsellor today, I needed it, and it helped, hope I can get them easier moving forward it took months to get this one since they are short staffed. Iā€™m grateful to be feeling a little nervous about my job interview tomorrow and to be willing to feel and accept said feelings. Iā€™m grateful to be home safe, sober and clean, in bed almost ready to pray, meditate and sleep. Iā€™m grateful for my friend Eric and that he has 22 months sober, so happy for you and very glad to be sharing this journey with you, youā€™re here when I need you and I will gladly do the same for you, love you big guy @Dazercat
God bless you all. :v: & :heart:

p.s. Donā€™t forget to smile and breathe, it feels good. Ya you!!

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Grateful to be half way through a so far successful posting

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Grateful to be sober and clean. Grateful I got through the hormonal and anxiety-ridden day I had yesterday.

Grateful my date had the patience to help me through these two days with my anxiety and insecurities.

Grateful that I am starting to recognize my thought patterns / intrusive thoughts about self harm and eating, the feelings of anxiety and the impossibility to focus. Can only break it if I realise what is going on.

Grateful I have a secure situation financially, possibility of buying food, have my own bee, own apartment. Grateful to move to a new apartment with amazing people. I feel safer and more comfortable living with other people.

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Today I am grateful for another excellent sleep and waking with energy and enthusiasm. I am grateful for my pain-free days of late, and that I continue to be making progress in the fight against headache and migraine. I am grateful for long talks on the phone with my Mami and how amusing it is when she switches to Spanish because she wants to tell me something about my dad but heā€™s in the vicinity! I am grateful for the videos my mom sends me of my niece and how she is growing so healthily and so fast :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: She is starting to find more words and calling her grandparents ā€œitoā€ and ā€œitaā€ - short for Abuelito and Abuelita. We have all been calling them ā€œLitoā€ and ā€œLitaā€ so she is close! I am grateful that I will see them all for Thanksgiving soon! Iā€™m grateful that I found my friendā€™s bunnies to be doing just fine, living their busy bunny lives of sleeping, nesting, eating, pooping, chasing each other, and hopping along through their tunnels. Exciting lives! I am grateful I have time to spend tending to my houseplants today and can already feel the sense of calm that brings to me. I am grateful that the Pfizer vaccine has been approved for children 5-11, since so many of my friends and family have kiddos that age and have been living their lives holding their breaths for what seems like an eternity, even as kids are back in school.

Always grateful for my amigos here. :heartpulse:

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Today I am grateful to read about such special experiences as photo adventures and abundance of crab; an amazing egg sandwich that sounds like the perfect meal; and a trip to Austin (canā€™t wait for the day I get to such a cool place!); and ferns, because you can never really go wrong with ferns! Reading your posts brightens my mornings. I am grateful my team won the World Series!!! But I am even more grateful to have watched it with my son without the thought of a drop of alcohol. So grateful to be tired this morning because of staying up late to see my favorite team in celebration of their win as opposed to being hungover. I am also grateful for standing up for myself and my work team yesterday at the completion of a challenge where my teamā€™s totals had not been updated, and, thus, we were ranked wrong. Normally, Iā€™d have dismissed it with my ā€œoh no you go ahead itā€™s okā€ low self-worth bs, but yesterday I politely ā€œdemanded a recountā€¦lolā€ jkjk. I was kind and gracious but knew something was off and a competition is a competition. We came in 3rd instead of 5th place! Nuff gloating. I hope everyone has a very ā€œBraveā€ day!!

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I am so grateful i finished work today.
I am grateful I have an apartment I really like, itā€™s calm and there is nothing missing. I am grateful that it has become so easy to get things done digital. Although there are negative sides. When I remember going to the bank in person to send money to someone. I am grateful someone invented email.
I am grateful I have posted about getting cats and many people encouraged me beyond all the ifs and whatā€™s and my worries. There have been so many problems but I had so much help and open ears and eyes to solve them.
I am grateful I have enough money to pay all my bills.
I am grateful that my friend will give me a ride to and from the hospital especially as she has to get up early on her holiday, too. I am grateful I can accept her offer. Wouldnā€™t been possible when I would be drinking. I would have asked maybe but been ashamed to accept an offer.

I am grateful to be part of this thread.

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Iā€™m grateful to be up waaaaay to early. In the darkness. Sober. Not hungover. Cat and my coffee. And my fireplace. I love fireplace season.
Iā€™m grateful Daisy is still on my lap and we had a great time purrfest. Just me and her. Before I dump her off at the kennel :scream:
Iā€™m grateful I just spent time with her. No screens. Maybe just a few prayers. But basically just me and Daisy. :kissing_cat:
Iā€™m grateful I live in a ā€œdark friendlyā€ neighborhood up here in the mountains. I always thought it was funny. Or stupid. ā€œdark friendly.ā€ But this morning is the first time I really appreciated it. The few stars we can see, through all the ponderosa pines, were screaming at me this morning. Look at me! Look at me!
Iā€™m grateful for my positive influence on Twitter. It maybe be the tiniest drop in the ocean. But Iā€™ve noticed, when I get on Twitter now, I see more recovery tweets, and pets and nature tweets, and just a few memes :shushing_face:. So much nicer than the political turmoil that I had built up. The political turmoil and horrible news is out there. I didnā€™t get rid of it. But Iā€™ve built up a nice balance leaning more to goodness and support.
Iā€™m grateful for my trip coming up and the money Iā€™ve saved the past 2 years to splurge a bit on ourselves in Austin.
Iā€™m grateful I booked a spa treatment day for myself on Monday. Iā€™m getting my first facial :shushing_face: and foot treatment :blush:
Iā€™m grateful my wife will see her 2 long time college girl friends and bridesmaids and they can get caught up. Theyā€™re even going to let me come to lunch with them. :shushing_face: No other husbands allowed :joy: what an honor :pray:t2:
Iā€™m grateful for you all and that I can share bits of my life here.
Have a gorgeous day or night wherever you maybe be :pray:t2::heart:

Gratitude, laughter and music work miracles for me.

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Good morning family

Super grateful to have started my morning with a guided meditation.
I am grateful for insight timer and the large library of free meditations it offers.
I have pretty bad ADD that isnā€™t medicated so reading proves difficult at times. I have found that having four or five books beside my bed though can keep me reading for hours. I am grateful I have found that little trick, before I would just start watching TV or scroll my phone. Gross.
I am grateful for where I am in my recovery and the inner peace I feel. I remember up until about 6 months ago I was still at a place I allowed other people to affect me. I am grateful that I, with a lot of practice, can now just allow other people to figure their own shit out. It saves me from a lot of inner discomfort.
I am grateful that I realize that no matter how much time people have in recovery we all come into recovery at different levels of illness. We all recover at different speeds, in different ways, and some not at all. I am grateful that itā€™s not my job to judge other peoples actions, reactions or responses and I am grateful that I know when I DO start to do this itā€™s the exact time I need to look at myself. ā€œKeep your side of the street clean.ā€
I am grateful for NA and the people who have been in the program for years who are teaching me all of this. I am grateful that I am teachable, and willing to do anything not to become resentful, angry and in a place my addict will convince me everyoneā€™s a fucking idiot and I should pick up. ( Now doesnā€™t that sound familiar? Sure does to me.)

Fuck addiction, Iā€™m grateful I am clean today.

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Iā€™m greatful I have my daughter and wife a job and a roof over our heads food in our bellyā€™s :pray:t2:

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I am grateful to be sober and hangover free.

I am grateful that I accept that I am and will always be an alcoholic and that I need a program of recovery to stay sober.

I am grateful that today is a new day with new opportunities and a chance to try to do my best.

I am grateful for my daily readings and prayer. :two_hearts:

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I am grateful for my health and wellness.
I am grateful to be sober and cigarette free.
I am grateful to learn from my mistakes.
I am grateful for forgiveness.
I am grateful for second chances.
I am grateful for exercise.
I am grateful for inner beauty.
I am grateful for God and Jesus because they got my back everyday.
I am grateful for healthy food and water.
I am grateful for new clothes.
I am grateful for power (electricity).
I am grateful for my mom.
I am grateful for this awesome app.
I am grateful for dreams.
I am grateful to have much better mental health.
I am grateful for connection.

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Good morning, all.
Iā€™m grateful to have a day off work today. Singapore is really multicultural, and the public holidays reflect that. Our day off today is to celebrate Deepavali, which is an Indian holiday. It symbolises the spiritual ā€œvictory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignoranceā€. Beautiful.
Grateful that I have finally worked out what to do with days off. Iā€™m going back to bed soon - my pesky body clock woke me up for work (:roll_eyes:), but Iā€™ll get the last laugh. Then Iā€™ll watch a football match that I recorded overnight (donā€™t tell me the scoreā€‹:wink:) with my daughter, and then for a nice, long walk. This afternoon will be board games with the kids. What a perfect day.
Iā€™m grateful for so many other things (and being here has brought them to mind), but thatā€™ll do for now.
Have a great day, all.

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Iā€™m grateful to God for guiding me through another productive day while remaining clean and sober. Iā€™m grateful for my recovery. Iā€™m grateful for ALL my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes. Iā€™m grateful for the AA celebration meeting tonight at my sponsorā€™s where we had four cakes for a one year, eighteen months and a couple of four years, pretty neat especially with the group only consisting of about ten of us. Iā€™m grateful for the meal I made for twenty or so at the treatment center, I absolutely nailed the roast beef tonight it was falling apart which I personally love. Iā€™m grateful that I think my job interview went really well this morning and I find out Monday if I get the job. Iā€™m grateful that I donā€™t care if I get this job, not to say I donā€™t want it, otherwise I wouldnā€™t have went for the interview, itā€™s just a welcome feeling to not desperately need it, like you know the world is going to fall apart if I donā€™t get it kinda thinking doesnā€™t exist for me anymore. Iā€™m grateful that I walked a lot, for me, maybe ten km, listening to music while going to all these places today. Iā€™m grateful that I got to text back and forth with my Mom on and off all day. Iā€™m grateful to be home safe, sound and tired after a nice long productive day.
God bless you all. :v: & :heart:

p.s. You are star, shine bright. Ya you!!

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Good evening all,
Iā€™m grateful for the good day I had. Iā€™m grateful that my son came to meet me in the garage when I pulled in to tell me about what a great day he had. Iā€™m grateful for the happiness I see in both my kids eyes. Iā€™m grateful for all of the beautiful plants that my husband and mother in law have. Iā€™m grateful that they check the plants everyday, and report to each other how everything is doingšŸ˜Š. Iā€™m grateful for living without guilt and shame. Iā€™m grateful for my life.
Everyone have a wonderful evening :heart:

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