Good evening all,
I’m grateful for the beautiful weather here. I’m grateful for my family ( people and animals), I’m grateful for hot tea, I’m grateful for a safe and cozy home. Grateful to have you guys.
Everyone have a wonderful evening 
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I am grateful to be closing my eyes on another sober night.
I am grateful to have been asked to chair a homegroup members 1 yr cake tonight.
I am grateful that even though “the chair dun share” I spoke up and let him know how grateful I am for him. How his respectful nature has helped me more than he could ever imagine. He has helped me learn to be vulnerable infront of men and I really feel blessed we are homegroup members.
I am grateful for the men and women in recovery who take recovery seriously and are showing up for all the right reasons.
I am grateful for my parents and the early morning text from mom, " water is on to boil " which alerted me that my power must be out.
I am grateful that they have a gas stove and that we both have wood burning stoves to keep our houses warm.
I am grateful that the power was only out for half of the day and that school is flexible online. What can’t be done today will get done another time.
I am grateful that I still have 3 dogs for me to kiss and cuddle. Having each other makes the loss easier on them as well.
I am grateful that my massive order of literature came all at once and I am excited to dig into it.
I am grateful for my crystals, for all the energy and beauty they bring to my life.
I am grateful for the reminder that the way we use words is very powerful. I am rethinking how I speak about food.
You know… I might go off on a tangent here. I often feel like I have these huge epiphanies, I come to all these realizations, I have these “aha!” moments where everything makes sense then I forget. I forget and I just go off track into old behaviors, thinking old thought patterns until I have the same fricken realization again. I can’t even say to myself “wow when are you going to get this?” Because I got it a long time ago. It’s more along the line " When you going to hang onto it?"
This shit with food and thinking of it as energy instead of calories… I already thought about this. I had this great idea a long time ago I probably even posted about it. But I just can’t follow through with these new behaviors or new thoughts for a long period of time. I forget…
Anyways that’s my rant I am grateful that I can change the title to add “… and rant thread” if we get the votes.
Grateful to get that off my chest and not to feel like a fraud.
Grateful for my life today and that you are all a part of that.
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Vote no. But you may rant 
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Just grateful today for solid, deep, natural sleep every night.
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Grateful for the first real snow of the season even though I need to go into work.
Grateful I’m getting my booster today.
Grateful to come home home tonight and give that free trauma conference a listen
Grateful to be able to sleep through an entire night without having to get up to pee. Ah, sobriety.
Grateful for the abundance of love in my life and that I’m starting to let go of the feeling that I don’t deserve it.
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I’m grateful @Its_me_Stella shared about having an epiphany and then, after time, just forget about the useful and helping insights. And a while later rediscover them! I’m soooo into this my whole life long 
Grateful I’m not alone with this because sometimes I think I am really good in talking about all kinds of healthy, useful, mindful things but forget to use my knowledge on myself and my life 
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Over to some happy gratitude: I’m grateful our new couch arrived today. I’m grateful my husband payed half of it. I’m happy and grateful my old boy takes a first seat with me on it. I’m grateful we have a rwalky good pizzeria nearby. New furniture calls for pizza to celebrate. Ok, I call for pizza. Had my last pizza in november.
And I’m grateful for the chill sunny weather. I love winter (when it behaves like winter).
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@erntedank I am in complete agreement! @Its_me_Stella I have been reading through prior journal entries and TS posts and I feel like there’s this spiral pattern where I am learning, saying “AHA!” Then forgetting and relearning…however, I also say spiral instead of cycle because there are new (maybe tiny) shifts and growth even in the remembering of the epiphanies. It’s familiar and I feel like it sticks a bit more or at least differently and new elements or ways of applying the lessons appear. Interesting you should bring this up (thank you!) because I’m noticing this lately. Time to journal about it and maybe pick out some new ways to maintain the message. I’m grateful you shared!
I’m grateful for another night of deep and restful sleep, even if it wasn’t as long as I’d like. Grateful for cuddles and affection from my partner and my pupper. Grateful that depression’s heavy weight on my chest (heart) and clouds behind my eyes continues to dissipate this week. Grateful I’m finding my energy and motivation to thrive.
I’m grateful that I’ve found a dentist finally and have built up the courage to go and start getting some very serious issues dealt with. I’m grateful to be overcoming some fear around that and that I have support to continue and follow through before toothache becomes debilitating - there were times in the past I would have found any way to numb myself rather than go to the fucking dentist. What a dummy.
I’m grateful the weather will give us a reprieve with some warmer temps on Saturday so we can grill steak and shrimp in honor of our buddy Chucho. He will have been gone a year on Monday and where does the time go…
I’m grateful to have made a serious dent in my organizing project yesterday and spent some time making my space beautiful with some of my little treasures. I’ve got the energy and motivation to keep on it today and I’m looking forward to it. Im grateful that these types of projects are exciting now and the dread I’ve felt lately about doing stuff, any stuff really, is waning. That’s an indicator of depression waning, too. Deep breaths. It still doesn’t all have to be done at once. Breathe…
I’m grateful for my amigos here. 
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Yeah that right there!! I blame my adhd for my lack of focus. I need reminders, that’s why this community is so damn important to me. I hate to say it but seeing people fall and how quickly shit unravels for them is a real good reminder for me. Seeing people who seemingly have zero problems maintaining sobriety isn’t nearly as helpful, it just makes me question what I’m doing wrong.
Ok sorry about that. Today I’m grateful for posts like @Its_me_Stella 
. I’m grateful for my sobriety, sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s hard but that’s usually dictated by how much work I’m putting into my recovery. I’m grateful when i have more time for my recovery work. I’m grateful for everyone here, i wouldn’t have made it without TS. I’m grateful that i know i will not drink today. I’m grateful for my amazing wife and children. I’m grateful for my 4 dogs and 4 cats.
Edited to say raise some stake and shrimp for Chucho. You’re in my thoughts @RosaCanDo my friend.
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Good morning…feeling like gratitude is lacking in my life. I can robotically list the things I am grateful for. But I’m not “feeling” them.
It just occured to me that my gratitude list reminds me of my list of sins as confessed during (Catholic) confession as a child. Father, forgive me for I have sinned. I lied 3 times, I fought with my sister 4 times, I disobeyed my mother 2 times.
Anyone been there? Generic and quantifiable. Like my gratitude list. Although I DO have a list of things that I am grateful for, and they are legitimate, I feel the need to be grateful for the less obvious things and the things I’m internally struggling with. Like my living situation and relationship with SO.
I AM grateful for this …
I am 10 months plus 2 days sober
I have been working out consistently for a year (I am typically a start and stop exerciser)
I am at a weight I am happy with (at the beginning of January. Whaaaaaat?)
I have two adorable cats and although the dog isn’t technically mine, I feel as though he is
My goal is to think about deeper things to be grateful for. Dang it! Maybe I am making this too complicated.
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I am grateful that one of the first things I read this morning was @Its_me_Stella post/rant. I surely resonated with me.
I am grateful for the beauty in the snow we’ve been getting. I spent so many years of my life hating winter largely due to having SAD but what a waste. I focused on the negative so hard I could not see the beauty in the frozen winter. I am grateful I can now see the beauty, bask in it’s glory and be uplifted by it.
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This!!! I focus on the negative and miss the positive!!
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I am grateful for 3 days without drink. 2 nights of uninterrupted sleep and 2 days of clear mind.
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yep and thats ok i do sometimes too, i think thats pretty "normal:
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I have complicating issues and overthinking mastered. Hey…everyone has to be good at something, right?
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I was in a sort of funk recently, looking around my apartment and getting ready for work. I felt like an idiot, because I wasn’t happy and wondering what the hell was wrong with my gratitude.
Then it occurred to me: Gratitude isn’t being happy 24/7. It’s being mindful of what you have and how far you’ve come.
In the last 6 months I went from the shelter to my own place, have a bank account, debts are being paid, I’m about to take online classes now that I have internet.
And, 5 people at work, almost half of our crew, are out with COVID, so there’s lots of overtime to be had. So, I’m grateful for my continuing good health, grateful that my relapse didn’t cost me my job, and grateful for this app!
Cheers!
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I’m grateful to God please help me be better today than I was yeaterday and to remain clean and sober. I’m grateful for my recovery. I’m grateful for All my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes. I’m grateful I joined in on a zoom aftercare for a few minutes before leaving for work. I’m grateful to be early enough to work that I can enjoy a coffee before I start. I’m grateful for the twelve steps and the principles they can instill if you can become honest, open minded and willing.
I’m grateful for music. I’m grateful @Its_me_Stella has been getting support you deserve it, thank for being here.
God bless you all. 
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p.s. I see you Eric good morning.
p.p.s. You are all amazing. ya you!!
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I’m grateful 
I’m grateful for my health.
I’m grateful my back doesn’t hurt.
I’m grateful I forgot my iPad upstairs and I can just walk upstairs and get it without pain.
I’m grateful my health check ups are going well.
I’m grateful I passed the dental test yesterday.
I’m grateful when he was all done and headed over to the wife I spoke up and said something doesn’t feel right. After he finished with the wife he came back and fixed it.
I’m grateful to see Brian’s mug.
I’m grateful for my walk to the beach in the thick marine layer. I’m grateful I hiked down the steps all the way to water and sat by myself and did my meditation challenge.
I’m grateful for this place I’m living in currently and blessed to be able to enjoy it to my fullest. And know I will be ready to let it go. I’ve been fighting letting it go. But it’s time. I’m grateful I can fill it with gratitude to make it easier to say good bye to Santa Monica. We can always visit and stay in nice hotels when we visit my daughter in Thousand Oaks.
I’m grateful my daughter tested negative for Rona and we finally get to see her again Saturday night.
I’m grateful for all my Al-Anon literature. I’m grateful I know all the stuff that I’m reading. And I’ll be grateful when it sticks 
I’m grateful even though I get bullshit about always having to work on myself. It’s really the only person I “get to” work on.
I’m grateful for this sober forum.
I’m grateful for this incredible thread of people from all over the world.
I’m grateful I’m sober.
I’m grateful for all the people that help me stay sober.
I’m grateful I read.
Other adult human beings are not my responsibility, no matter how closely their lives may intertwine with mine. My one problem is to improve my own way of living and looking at life.
One Day At A Time In Al-Anon
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Today I am grateful to have another restful night, fed and warm and safe.
I am grateful for my recovery community and the meetings I attend.
I am grateful that I can be happy for and proud of my fellows for gaining employment even though it was the position I was trying to get.
I am grateful, even, for my lonely nights and feelings of rejection because they bring me to a place of surrendering and listening for my Higher Power.
I am grateful I am no longer chasing after ‘friends’ and a certain ‘man’ (child – excuse me as I hiccup) that doesn’t care or invest in me.
I am grateful to be living in a home where there is no drama or relapsing.
I am grateful to have much healing quiet time to sort through my pain and pieces of my past I must let go.
I’m grateful I can sit through my own uncomfortableness and have not a single thought about drinking or using today.
I am grateful for all of you, your posts and shares and support.
And I’m grateful for the ability to walk and the path I’m about to enjoy after signing out today.
Oh … And I’m grateful for my court hearing being pushed out to the 19th.
I grateful to be grateful 
Alison
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I am so grateful that at 11:57 tonight I will be sober for one week.
I am also grateful for the last year and everything it taught me. I started last year saying “I’m not going to drink until I lose 20lbs”. I did just that, I didn’t drink from Jan 2-April 30th and I felt so amazing. So much energy, I felt like I was 30 again (I’m 47), I was so clear and doing so well.
But I couldn’t accept the fact that I couldn’t drink ever again yet. I was legitimately scared to drink again because I knew the path it would lead me down but I wasn’t ready to accept sobriety yet. It was all shrouded in the guise of losing weight.
But I knew it. I knew I am an alcoholic. I knew I couldn’t moderate, and I knew I needed to reframe everything around being sober. But I spent a couple months trying to regulate and failing, and then just drinking as much as I wanted.
But the whole time, I was holding in my head and my heart how great I felt when I wasn’t drinking. And I planned it all out. I prepped myself for this time for almost six months. And I’m so grateful I did. All the positives I remembered are true and I am so grateful the lying I did to myself to continue to drink is over. I am powerless over alcohol and I cannot have it in my life ever again. AND THAT’S FINE.
I am grateful for my higher power Nature and how much she helped me yesterday. My aunt died and I have so so so much unresolved issues with my family and it brought everything up and I am so grateful that instead of drinking it all away I started hiking and crying and let it all out and gave it to her.
I’m grateful for my best friend who hiked with me and listened to me talk about all of it for the millionth time and didn’t make me stop talking about it and let me get it out.
I’m grateful for my little dog who also went with me and gave me his unconditional love and support that is so vital to me.
I’m grateful for my husband and how supportive and happy he is for me. I smiled in what I thought was a normal way last night but it hit him right in the chest and made him tear up and I’m so grateful for how happy a pure smile I only have in sobriety made him.
I’m grateful for this group so much. I didn’t come on yesterday and I don’t really know why but I thought about this thread many times yesterday and it gave me comfort.
I am so grateful to be sober today.
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This has been mentioned before, I think even I mentioned it, but sleep.
Just over a month ago when I decided to get sober my sleep was garbage. Maybe 2 to 4 hours of broken sleep a night. I was constantly exhausted. It left me feeling cranky all the time, made work a struggle, my desire to do anything was next to none.
Slowly sleep started getting better.
I’ve always been a person that needed the tv on to sleep… Well not anymore.
Lately, I’ll have the tv on at bedtime but ince I feel my eyes getting heavy I turn it off.
I just woke up from a solid 10 hours of sleep. No tv on, didnt fight to get to sleep and I dont recall waking up once through the night.
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