Daily Gratitude List. Gratitude The Air Of Recovery

Congratulations that is an amazing accomplishment!

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Good morning all,
Iā€™m grateful my family has what we need. Iā€™m grateful my kids love me like they do. Iā€™m grateful my dogs are always so happy to see me. Iā€™m grateful for my husband. Iā€™m grateful for sunshine.
Everyone have a wonderful day :heart:

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Gā€™morning yā€™all :sunny::yellow_heart:

Iā€™m grateful the synapses are firing this morning. I may overload yā€™all with my thoughts on the Our Brains and Recovery thread, but Iā€™m taking them as they come. Iā€™m grateful for some extra time today to focus on the good stuff.

Iā€™m grateful for books and the ability to read. Iā€™m grateful when I come across my own thoughts and learn that someone else had them a dozen years ago, a hundred years ago, and even thousands of years ago. In those moments I feel connected to the author, and itā€™s a coming-home feeling.

Iā€™m grateful for good mornings and I love youā€™s. Iā€™m grateful for the beautiful people in my life, near and far. :purple_heart:

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:muscle:Thatā€™s awesome! Congrats!

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Iā€™m grateful for a later than usual gratitude list this morning. Iā€™m grateful to be back home. Again :grimacing:
Lately I never know where the fuck I am or where Iā€™m waking up SOBER and HANGOVER FREE! So donā€™t even try. Iā€™m grateful thatā€™s kind of been our life. Our family and irl friends never know where we are. Iā€™m grateful to have such an adventurous life. And Iā€™m more grateful I am enjoying the shit out of it sober.
Iā€™m grateful Benson is chuffing in his bed like he canā€™t actually be bothered to bark.
Iā€™m grateful I had 2 grays on me last night at 4 am
And I didnā€™t get shredded. Iā€™m grateful to come home to the love of, butt waging tails and jumps, and tripping kitty bashes on my feet.
Iā€™m grateful Iā€™m calmly proactive now.
Iā€™m grateful I donā€™t/wonā€™t to get all worked up after talking to some bozo on the phone who doesnā€™t know shit about ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦fuck :blush:
Iā€™m grateful I calmly call around until I get some answers. Iā€™m grateful I donā€™t take it out on the bozo, I mean person, on the other end as they are probably doing their best. Or maybe just having a bad day etcā€¦ā€¦ :thinking: maybe theyā€™re trying to quit drinking and stay sober :thinking:. I donā€™t know their story.
Iā€™m grateful a big check cleared today, I forgot to transfer funds before I wrote it :grimacing: it would have been pretty embarrassing. Iā€™m grateful my attitude was ā€œSo What?ā€ Itā€™s a totally easy fixable problem and an honest mistake.
Iā€™m grateful for all the new fun stressful sober excitement challenging my life.
Iā€™m grateful Iā€™m retired.
Iā€™m grateful I think we might have found a pet/house sitter for upcoming trips. They were recommended highly by my real estate agent who knows everyone. Iā€™m grateful I have 3 fantastic real estate agents. Maybe 4 :thinking:
Iā€™m grateful for slow and steady.
Iā€™m grateful for yā€™all
Iā€™m grateful :innocent:
:pray:t2::heart:

Today only happens onceā€¦.
Make it amazing :heart_eyes_cat:

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Congratulations Duncan, our True Founder and OP,
on your 3 years of a free better you :hugs:

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What a beautiful thing to see this morning. Iā€™m so delighted you shared. Youā€™re awesome dude.
:pray:t2::heart:

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I am grateful to be still sober.
I am grateful for fresh and colourful food. It makes me a bit happy.
I am grateful for breathing. I was almost exploding at work. I have an idea of the reason and it makes me sad. I am grateful I used the breathe app when I was boiling.
I am grateful I ran today and my foot is not hurting. Itā€™s been 6 weeks since my last run. I have no intention to run often anymore.
I am grateful I like most of my colleagues.
I am grateful I have enough work.
I am grateful I got out of bed and spend 15 min with yoga. Itā€™s much better than the news.

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Grateful for everyone here. I really donā€™t know that I could do it on my own right now or ever really.

Iā€™m also grateful for my mom today. Sheā€™s my 1st test client for a fitness business Iā€™m trying to very slowly build, reminding me not to let my health/fitness flame die.
It matters so much to me but my mental situation obscures that so many times.
She revealed today that sheā€™s lost 4lbs on my program already in abt 2wks (a steady, healthy rate), while Iā€™ve been nothing but doubting my abilities.

On that note Iā€™m thankful for people who remind me that I have come so far in some ways that I forget

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Grateful for being able to rest a while today

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Morning,
Today Iā€™m grateful that I didnā€™t drink yesterday or want to.
Iā€™m grateful to be on this journey, I feel positive. I feel content. I feel gratitude.
Iā€™m proud of myself, for starting this journey, for staying with it and for enjoying it.
Thanks everyone :sparkling_heart:

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Grateful for the little things. I am very grateful for the well temperatured shower I just had. The last few weeks it has not been a joyful moment of the day. Water temperature was jumping from hellfire to snowstorm every few minutes. Yesterday the water guy came over and checked it out. He opened a valve somewhere in the cellar and it was all done! Some things are fixed easy, just like that.
Also grateful for some major things, like the discovery of antibiotics.They currently help my brave body fight a major infection. I donā€™t wanna know what it was like 100 years ago before. That said, I am also super grateful for my countries medical system, that provides quick help. There are so many regions on earth, where access to medicine is not a given.
It is good to have the week off and not to have to worry about my job. I needed the rest.
Every time I take a break from day to day business it feels like more and more emotions are bubbling up, wanting to be acknowledged. I am glad that happens. I know now, that its ok. They come, they stay for a while, they go. And everything will feel better afterwards. Itā€™s a step I couldnā€™t start learning, while I was still drinking. I am most grateful for that.

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I am grateful for the earth, how it can take emotions and things I can no longer hold on my own

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Iā€™m gratefulā€¦ā€¦. Fucken aye, Iā€™m grateful for so much.
A good nights rest.
Mavy knowing I couldnā€™t sleep at 4 am and coming over and settling on my shoulder and neck.
Getting back to sleep.
Bedtime mediā€™s
Wonderful Pilates instructors.
Great real estate agents.
God. Not necessarily Iā€™m this order. But yes Iā€™m grateful for God.
The desert.
The mountains.
Saguaro :cactus:
Ponderosa pines.
My wife. Again not in order :blush:
My pets.
My children. And their spouses.
All of you :hugs:
Another fucking day sober.
Drinking doesnā€™t even seem like an option anymore.
Good health.
An extraordinary year ahead ODAAT God Willing.
My fucken recovery ā¤ļøā€šŸ©¹
:pray:t2::heart::cactus:
My life is not perfect but
Iā€™m grateful for everything I have

Simple Reminders

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Iā€™m grateful for the earth, too. Iā€™m sure it wonā€™t even sound silly to some people that I stand on tree roots with my bare feet. I sit on boulders that are in flowing water and the energy flows into me and recharges my spirit. Iā€™m grateful for learning at a young age that the earth is able to take my emotions when I simply canā€™t. Thanks for sharing this, Caroline. :green_heart::evergreen_tree:

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I am grateful forā€¦
My body and the strength it is showing me.
My new friend and his compassionate nature.
My child and the effort she puts into her schoolwork.
My parents and their childlike curiosities
My home, my car and the money I have to take care of them both.
My new sponsee whose zest for recovery is refreshing.
My jeans and the fact they saved my leg from a more damaging love bite from nuggie. :face_with_head_bandage:
All the love that surrounds me everyday.
My recovery and the lessons itā€™s teaching me.

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Iā€™m grateful my son is 2 weeks sober today! Iā€™m grateful heā€™s eating healthier and eating every day.

Iā€™m grateful to have learned about The Human Library. How did I not know about this?! What a beautiful, and necessary, concept.

Iā€™m grateful for my house. It has held my home (my family and friends) for nearly 14 years now. Iā€™m grateful that I settled here after so many moves.

Iā€™m grateful to know that love doesnā€™t make everything better in a relationship. It takes effort, communication, companionship, respect, honesty, gratitude, trust, mutual intimacy, listening and feeling heardā€¦ I could go on and on. Iā€™ve always loved the thoughts of Ursula K. Le Guin from a book she wrote:

ā€œLove doesnā€™t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.ā€

Iā€™m grateful to know that love isnā€™t something that happens to us, itā€™s something we do. I want to remember that all the days of my life, even when itā€™s hard to remember. We have to keep making love. :heart:

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This.
:orange_heart::seedling::dizzy:

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Iā€™m thankful that for the past 141 days Iā€™ve been sober.

Thankful to my God Jehovah for his patience and love.

Thankful to my wife for her patience in dealing with me the past 20 years.

Thankful to be alive and well.

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Good evening all,
Iā€™m grateful I got off work early and was able to take my daughter shopping for a dress for the school dance tomorrow. Iā€™m grateful my husband made a delicious dinner. Iā€™m grateful I got my workout clothes on and tried to make myself workout, but realized Iā€™m to tired today so I will rest. Iā€™m grateful for my home and my family. Iā€™m grateful for love and forgiveness.
Everyone have a wonderful evening :heart:

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I thinks thats cool!

On the way out when I can, I like to stand in a grounded position, and connect with Mother ocean. I pull her energy up into my dantian and exhale mine back out. I prefer to be alone in that. That why I only do it when I can. I feel connected to her. We have a bond.

I feel a strong earth connection in the forest too.

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