A daily gratitude practice is just that, PRACTICE! So when I am confronting something challenging my mind goes to what I can be grateful for in the difficulty, what my strengths are and what the possibilities are as opposed to what used to be my pattern, heading toward the negative right away. It has helped me to keep my “pity party for one” shorter when something doesn’t go as planned in my life. Nowadays, I can actually find gratitude for the shitty stuff of life! Sounds funny, but it’s no joke. Because without the darkness we can’t appreciate the light. I hope you’ll share how your group goes! How exciting!
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Today I’m grateful to be migraine free. Still headachy, pressure, but it’s different. Sending headache free vibes to my sister @Its_me_Stella - I know the pain well. May you get through this bout soon. At the same time I’m grateful to know what that pain is like, because I appreciate the days without it even more.
Grateful that my home is feeling so lovely lately. My partner and I have made good strides in maintaining things on a schedule and I’m grateful for his willingness to pitch in more. He has said more often that “our house feels good.” And the state of my home is a reflection of my mental state - that’s become obvious. I’m grateful for the energy to keep things up and that Eric follows my lead. And that being sober makes it all possible.
Always grateful for my amigos here. 
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You also inspire me.
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Today I’m grateful for good colleagues, interesting and productive meetings, cats on the desk, videoconferences, delivery service, my brain and memory in full function. And I’m grateful for beeing tired and go to bed now 
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I’m grateful I got to work from home today. I’m grateful that when I feel anxious or agitated I have healthy ways of working through those feelings instead of drinking. I’m grateful that I worry less these days. I’m grateful for movement. I’m grateful that I’ve been able to use all my farmers market finds. I’m grateful that when planning for Thanksgiving with the fam I’m not worried about how much alcohol/ what kind/ and how soon I’ll be able to start drinking it. Im grateful that I’ll be bringing things for mocktails so I won’t feel left out.
I was cleaning out my garage yesterday and I found a lot of empty wine bottles. I was (mostly) a closet drinker. At first I felt a lot of shame throwing them out. It’s hard thinking that’s where I was 43 days ago. But then I felt proud that I’m not. I’m grateful I don’t drink. I’m grateful I don’t have to hide it anymore. I’m grateful all of my relationships have improved since I stopped drinking. I’m grateful for my support system ( all of you) that have carried me this far. I’m grateful that I took all of the advice, suggestions and encouragement to heart. I’m grateful I was at a point in my life that I was open to receive it. 
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
Nelson Mandela
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Good evening all,
I am grateful that I made it through this day where every little thing that could go wrong did. I’m grateful that I do this gratitude “practice” and it has allowed me to take these things somewhat in stride. If I were still drinking I would have found every reason to be angry, resentful, mean, and of course that would mean I deserved a drink even more. Today ( after my toddler like meltdown all alone in my closet) I chuckled a little thinking of how to put a grateful spin on the day.
I’m grateful I have you guys here. I’m grateful that we are all trying. I’m grateful that tomorrow is a new day, and I’m going to make it a better one!
Everyone have a wonderful evening
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I’m grateful to God for guiding me through another day and helping me stay clean and sober. I’m grateful for my recovery. I’m grateful for my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes. I’m grateful that this practice has allowed me to help myself and others. I’m grateful to watch it work for other long time gratidudes such as @Sunflower1 @Its_me_Stella @M-be-free49 @Dazercat to name a few. I’m grateful to say to @MagicILY I do gratitude everyday so that when something big happens or two many little things Its almost second nature to find the silver lining, I find it makes acceptance of difficult things much easier, I wish you all the best with your class you will be leading. I’m grateful that I know that I can come to this thread anytime and ask for help and get it. I’m grateful for the rain coming down. I’m grateful for the good dinner I made. I’m grateful for the cards and chess I got to play this evening. I’m grateful I have an appointment tomorrow morning with my employment counsellor, she called and asked me to come since she found another opportunity for me. I’m grateful for music and laughter.
God bless you all. 
&
p.s. You are amazing, good job. Ya you!!
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The reason I keep coming back to this thread, and its not always to post, is because it is easy for me to forget where I was. It is easy for me to get comfortable where I am in my recovery and start to wallow in self pity for things like my headaches for example or fibro. Bringing gratitude to the forefront of my mind keeps me humble. On hard days I have to peel back to the core and just be grateful I am alive… but that’s ok because that’s something huge to be grateful for.
Even on the days I can’t find gratitude in the morning I come here and read other people’s lists. Soemdays I cry, somedays I spit coffee across the living room I laugh so hard, other days I just smile because I get it and I have been there too. It’s those things that will get me through my day and by the time night falls I have lots to be grateful for because I am still sober, I have my family and I have all of you.
Gratitude is another tool in my recovery tool box. It’s not one of those stupid wood files that nobody ever uses. It’s the well used claw hammer that I will never go without.
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I am grateful I am learning more about myself and being sober is helping me to see my issues and changing them bit by bit. Babysteps. I am grateful for acknowledging a thing like babysteps.
I am grateful for fluffy fur.
I am grateful for the nice weather we have this week, just a bit foggy, not typical November here.
I am grateful for being calm atm after the surgery. A huge stone fell from my chest.
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I am grateful my friend Dan is not suffering anymore.
I am grateful for the ride I recieved to and from a meeting tonight
I am grateful I have my intake “interview” for the DBT group tomorrow morning.
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nice…well said
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I’m grateful to be home.
I’m grateful that even though I feel like shit this morning from traveling I know this will pass. It’s not from drinking and it’s not from being hungover. And actually after being up for an hour coffee, cats, and dogs, and my chair and fireplace and a little Advil and my ice pack on my back, and more coffee, I’m starting to feel better already.
I’m grateful I don’t have to live with headache pain or migraines constantly. I hate being grateful for things like that because good friends and family I know suffer with migraines and headaches and it’s part of their lives. I don’t know how they do it. 
God bless and continue to give them strength and take away their pain.
I’m grateful I get to make my own coffee this morning. I’m grateful God made the coffee bean. Who else could have don’t that?
I’m grateful for the peace and quiet of my little town. And that it doesn’t have great restaurants because if it did it would be just another big city.
I’m grateful for my time I got to enjoy in the big city SOBER and gratefully blessed I can travel to them and always come home here where the cats and dog live.
I’m grateful for my wife.
I’m grateful for my life.
I’m grateful for my family.
I’m grateful for all the connections we made traveling back and forth to Texas. It was perfect traveling if there is such a thing. Except gettin up at 4:30 am yesterday. But I’m grateful I can get up when needed and that I’m good at it if there is such a thing. I’m grateful I don’t have to get up at 3:45am for my breakfast shift at the Mag. I don’t know how I did that for years.
I’m grateful for you all.
I’m grateful for my gratitude practice. It works if you work it and damn it. We’re all fucking worth it!!!
It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness.
Anonymous
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I’ve been on a crab gear grind. We will be finished rigging our crab gear today. There is more work to do in preparation for the season.
We are taking a couple days off. I’m grateful for that.
I’m grateful we have nice gear.
I’m grateful my tweaky co worker hasn’t been around and won’t be crabbing with us and I won’t see him or know he’s sneaking a hit off his meth pipe wheen I’m sleep deprived like I did last year.
I’m grateful for the example he gives me of how grateful I am the have escaped that evil drug.
I hope he escapes it one day too.
I’m grateful to be sober.
This forum is 95 percent of my recovery support group. I do like to go to aa but I rarely get to.
It’s been working or me. This place feeds my strength at saying no to that first drink.
It only takes a moment to have a drink, or do a line, or take a hit off a glass pipe on the ocean, hungry, angry lonely and tired.
I’m grateful for being able to say no.
After being sober for close to ten years I took a drink. That was ten years ago, this month.
I took myself on a ride I wasn’t expecting. I thought it would be easy to quit. I was wrong!
I’m so grateful to be sober today.
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Today I am grateful for:
- the unexpected heart to heart I had with my fiancé tonight and the laugh we had realizing that we are perfect for each other because we are both utter misfits. Two odd pieces in a giant puzzle where everything else seems to match the picture on the box, but somehow you both don’t.
Two ‘wrongs’ sometimes do make things right.
Happy sober Wednesday everyone.
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Today I am grateful that my family is healthy and doing well lately. That I’ll get to see some of the people who are most important to me soon, and that my partner got approval to take the week of Thanksgiving off (since he is needed for something important at work the Monday afterward). That we are all flexible enough in our lives to roll with these kinds of changes in plans and that I am not anxious about it. That I will “get” to have a few days/nights to myself next week unexpectedly and am planning on making good use of the time. That while I feel crummy today with winter weather rolling in, it’s not because of a hangover!
Always grateful for my amigos here.
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I am grateful to be sober and heading into a new work week working with someone who is nice to work with.
I am grateful that in this moment everything is okay.
I am grateful that I am starting to learn how to say no to others when it’s a situation that will potentially set me back. It feels selfish, but I think it is necessary as I have been a people pleaser for decades.
I am grateful to have gotten some rest and will get some exercise soon too. 
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I am grateful for God’s guidance and direction.
I am grateful for signs I get from “up above”
I am grateful I am drug and cigarette free.
I am grateful I am exercising again.
I am grateful for the rain.
I am grateful for learning.
I am grateful for humor.
I am grateful for my morals and values because they help guide and direct me. They are my compass.
I am grateful for standing up for myself.
I am grateful for my mom and how much she does for me.
I am grateful for a clean apartment.
I am grateful for a working mind.
I am grateful for Narcotic’s Anonymous.
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Good evening all,
I’m grateful today was a much better day. I’m grateful I got to sleep in a little this morning, and my curse with technology lifted and I was able to use my favorite app to workout. I’m grateful that my body can exercise. I’m grateful that I have some pretty wonderful kids🥰. I’m grateful for my husband. I’m grateful for chili dogs for dinner, and watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind with my kids. My son will love it- he loves all old cheesy movies. I’m grateful to be letting go of some of the anger and resentments I built up and held on to for so many drinking years. I’m tired of it. Feels good to put it down.
I’m always grateful for this thread, and everyone on it. I’m grateful for the hope it brings me, and the smiles, and the comradery I feel.
Everyone have a wonderful evening
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I’m grateful to God for guiding me through another productive clean and sober day. I’m grateful for ALL my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes.
I’m extremely grateful that two years ago today, right about this time I was intentionally smashing my beloved crack pipe( my D.O.C.) all over a dumpster in the parking lot at the shitty motel I was staying at as I waited for the ride to finally take me to an available detox bed. I’m grateful that I never have to own any kind of beloved pipe or bottle or cigarettes again. I’m grateful that when I didn’t get it “right” after that detox stay they allowed me to come back a few more times. I’m grateful I have 663 consecutive days clean and sober and 358 days nicotine free. I’m grateful that today two years later was a much better day than that one, even though in retrospect that day was very important but I felt like absolute death, I was doing a large variety of substances including fentanyl, what a change from today.
I’m grateful I have an interview tomorrow morning for a short order cooking job. I’m grateful that I got a message from an old high school classmate that is a housing worker with an offer for a brand newly being built one bedroom apartment available in the spring and asking do I want one, fuck ya I do. I love this program and these guys I live with but my own brand new place sounds pretty good, more details will be revealed to me this week possibly not until next week, whatever. I’m grateful to be learning, patience and acceptance and other principles through the twelve step programs, they come in handy. I’m grateful my sponsee is moving into one of the supportive houses tomorrow as he just finished treatment, they have seven houses around the city including the treatment center in the program I am in. I am very proud of him and hope I can help, but wow sometimes he’s a handful and tests my aforementioned patience as I try to get him to learn some Lmao
I’m grateful for the opportunites my recovery provides and that If I put in the work as tiring and hard as it can be , it’s worth it, no more excuses, ain’t nobody taking it from me nor does recovery get given away. I put that there because sometimes I get some of my supports and sponsees to read this Lol man up or woman up all.
God bless you all. &
p.s. Sometimes I rant a bit at myself and others because I’m learning to love me and I love you. Ya you!
p.p.s thanks for listening you’re doing great.
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I’m grateful you’ve come so far Brian. It’s always such a pleasure to have you here buddy. If there are prayers out there for you to get a new apartment I’m going to find it. God willing. You’ve worked your ass off and you deserve it.
And your worth it.
Ya you
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