Thanks so much 
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Good morning gratidudes!
I woke up with a crushing headache. Not due to a hangover what Iām grateful for. Iām grateful for my understanding and caring husband. He doesnāt mind that I will spend the day doing pretty nothing because I really feel horrible. Iām grateful my cat tries to purr the pain away (I also suffer massive cramps from my period today). Iām grateful my mum gets a pedicure and a haircut. Iām grateful she still manages the visit to the shop alone. Iām grateful for frozen food from christmas I can serve today, no need for cooking. Iām grateful I found the energy to get up and go to the bathroom. Headache is crap. Iām grateful when itās over!
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I feel like I have been writing novels on here lately, and I get self conscious about it so Iāll keep it simple today. Iām grateful for books and reading things that teach me about myself. I am grateful that when I write how I am feeling (like what I just said about being self conscious) that it helps me understand myself (I might feel that way because sometimes I feel like an outsider and that for whatever reason I donāt belong here, symptom of a larger issue). Iām grateful to be developing routines and to continue to show up for myself. And I am grateful for big love, for the chance to have a big romantic love in my life but also big love all over the fucking place. It matters. I matter. Maybe if I say it enough Iāll start to believe it more. Iām grateful I will keep trying to be a better version of myself but that my mantra everyday now is āI am enough.ā
Always grateful for my amigos here.
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I get the self conscious feeling. I get it with every one of my posts here - short or long. I read your posts, I learn and gain and grow with your and othersā words here. So I am grateful for what you write.
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Iām grateful @erntedank started my morning with a chuckle 
hope your headache fades soon.
Iām grateful for the home office Iām slowly putting together. It is a challenge in a small one bedroom apartment but I am grateful for the space Iāve carved out and the focus itās bringing me.
Iām grateful for new habits and routines that are starting to come as second nature. Iām grateful for change.
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Thank you for saying that - it was pretty much what I needed to hear. I feel the same and get so much from reading your posts and othersā, too, and Iām always grateful when I can relate to people.
P.S. Itās good to see you! Took me a hot minute to connect the dots 
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Thanks, you too! Itās good to be connecting here again. I felt like a name change was due. I also thought people would recognize my selfies and my dog. I actually hope Iām more recognizable by my dog then my face on this site. 
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Yup, I saw your selfie and recognized you, then your pic of your sweetie confirmed it
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I am grateful for my NA meetings and my Sodas N Scribbles class on Wednesday nights.
I am grateful for my sober community.
I am grateful for my brotherās car.
I am grateful for real friends.
I am grateful for my house and the people living in it.
I am grateful for the courage and heart to do whatās difficult and best for me and my sobriety.
I am grateful for my parents.
I am grateful for my sisterās whom I have yet to make amends.
I am grateful for my ex-husband.
I am grateful for my life.
I am grateful for this app and forum.
Today . . . I am grateful for my Jesus and the love , life and truth found in the Word.
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You are more then enough and you definitely do belong here.
I love writing and reading others freaking essays on how much they are grateful for.
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Thank you, love! 
I feel the same about you.
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Ha! Ha! 
. I like your sense of humor !!!
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Write those novels! I read each of them to the very end and sometimes go back up and read them again. This thread and you are my therapy, my sunshine. I love your thoughts. 
P.S. 
Please donāt take my sunshine awayā¦ 
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Iām finding the longer Iām sober the more past trauma I pushed aside with alcohol is coming forward. Sometimes it surfaces in an odd blue unbidden mood. Do you journal? I find sometimes it will come forth as Iām journaling and Iāll have an Aha! moment. āOh thatās whatās been simmering below the surface and making me feel off!ā Once itās manifested to my conscious self I can deal with it.
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I read everything, too, and totally agree. Thank you 
My spirit is lifted up 
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It is nearly impossible to catch up here or in the checking in thread. Our community is huge. Which is good and overwhelming a bit for me. Itās like when numbers of members are growing and I am backing off.
I am grateful I do logg in.
I am grateful to be sober for some days now.
I am grateful for warm water, warm showers, having my now favourite vegan cheese in the house, not for long 
I am grateful I am listening more and more to my body and take more healthy decision. I am less impulsive,still a lot but much less. I caused much damage in active addiction being so impulsive, hurting others and in the end hurting myself the most: being lonely and alone.
I am grateful my cats are doing so fine.
I am grateful tomorrow is Friday. I am grateful we had some sunny days with cold and clear air this week.
I am grateful for some nice talks at work. I am grateful I am fine sitting next to the department I worked in before and which caused some of my problems , now known as challenges and learning fields.
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Grateful to not be hungover, or in jail, or in the hospital. No one is mad at me. I feel good. Planning on a big day today.
I took a second this morning to imagine how I would feel if this were not the case. I am so grateful for another day sober. I made it through yesterday.
I saw the sunrise today and it was nice. The kitties were being all snuggly because it was cold. I put some chocolate in my coffee because why not?
What are you grateful for today?
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I am grateful to be listening to my little dog snore (not as grateful when it woke me up at 5:30 but what can you do?) and drinking a mostly warm cup of coffee on my comfortable couch.
I am grateful for my son in so many ways. He is killing it with his own handy man business that he started about 6 months ago. I am grateful he gave me the time to go over things I need built for my shop last night and Iām grateful I can support him this way. I am grateful I wasnāt in my active alcoholic phase when he was little and I was able to keep my promise to myself to not drink around him. I drank plenty when he was with his dad but did well not drinking when he was with me. Iām sure he still has damage but at least not that, much.
Iām grateful that Iām not spending so much energy and time thinking about when and how I can start drinking every day.
Iām grateful that Iām sober so that I can start this business and Iām grateful that I have this business and all the time it takes to open to distract me from wanting to drink.
Iām grateful that for the most part, Iām really not thinking about drinking much. Itās such a relief and it really does feel different this time.
Iām grateful for this app and the people on here. Reading everything from so many different perspectives helps so much, thank you all.
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Iām grateful I figured out why Iāve been feeling low lately. Ever since I joined the community, I read literally everythingā¦ the check-in thread, gratitude thread, as well as most of the active random threads. When I was sad over the weekend, I struggled to come here and at least share my gratitude, but I did. I also didnāt read the check-in thread for a few days and surpriseā¦ my spirits lifted tremendously. I didnāt realize how weighted down I felt after reading some of the shares there. So for now Iām going to strictly limit the time I spend on that thread. Like many of you, Iām a sponge. I have to be careful with what my porous self soaks up. Iām grateful I finally snapped to this. 
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Iām grateful for this wonderful cup of coffee 
Iām grateful I figure out just the right amount of water and fresh ground beans for my Chemex. I just eyeball it. I know I could measure it but I donāt want to.
Iām grateful for Minnie getting up on the couch with me this morning and letting me work her over.
Iām grateful for soft kittens, especially my chonky girl.
Iām grateful I had no problem telling my wife to be careful yesterday at lunch when she was ordering wine because I didnāt want her to fall asleep at dinner when we go out with my daughter.
Iām grateful I expressed my feelings about it and let it go. Iām grateful she didnāt fall asleep by the end of dinner last night with my daughter even when she had a side car. She told me before hand she was just going to order one. I said are you sure? She said just 1. Of course she had wine after. But it was a nice dinner out and the 4 of us had a great time.
Iām grateful I was able to surrender to her drinking.
And Iām grateful that Iām reading and learning that I will have to constantly surrender. I know Iāve theoretically surrendered. But Iām gonna have to constantly surrender. Iām grateful I reckon some days will be better than others for me. Just like everything else in life.
Iām grateful Iāve seen my God work, and that I constantly need to learn and relearn to turn to my God first. I guess, as it is, or was a progressive disease this addiction and codependency of mine. So is my recovery? Progress not perfection. Right Stella?
Iām grateful for the overcast day today. And my day is full with dog business, chiropractor, lunch at my favorite funky cafe, and more doggy business, and blood work for me at my doctors. And probably dinner out. No shit.
Iām grateful I get to see all my doctors while Iām here. It does suck. But Iām still grateful. I can feel both.
Iām grateful I slept in this morning by accident but I still made time for myself.
Grateful for Gratidudes!!
Gratitude is the memory of the heart
Jean Baptiste Massieue
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