Happy Birthday!
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I am grateful for the ability to identify with other addicts in and out of the rooms.
I am grateful for all of my lifeās experiences.
I am grateful for the knowledge that breath has so much power, it seems like all the professionals in my life are directing me into new breathing techniques to alter my state of mind and body.
I am grateful that the stars always seem to align for me. People are put into my life at the perfect time, I am given opportinuties at the right time and as long as I dont get in the way everything is amazing.
I am grateful for recovery literature new and old, and also for the ability to read and share it with so many people around the world.
I am grateful for all the shout outs lately. Thank you. 
I have been having some very powerful moments of connection in my life that I am very grateful for. I canāt seem to find the right words to express that gratitude though, " Iām grateful forā¦", just isnāt enough.
I am grateful for wishes, the power of beliving in something, having faith and love.
I am grateful for all of you.
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Good evening all,
Iām grateful my daughter is feeling better, sick kids are so sad. Iām grateful for chicken noodle soup from Costco because I suck at cooking. Iām grateful that today was sunny and breezy and pretty perfect temperature-wise. Iām grateful for exercise and how much it improves my mood. Iām grateful for my parents, and everything they have taught me.
Everyone have a wonderful evening
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Today I am grateful for
Being able to reflect on a lovely weekend, rather then a wasted weekend
Having a good night sleep
For finding being sober easier allowing me time to work on me
For a shorter working week
For my dog who keeps me safe whilst camping
For being healthy despite hammering my body and mind with alcohol for over 20 years
For making efforts with my friends
FOR YOU ALL
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Iām grateful for having the courage to change the things I can.
Iām grateful for not being bitter and twisted.
Iām grateful that despite not always making healthy choices, I get told I have a beautiful body and young looking.
Iām grateful the sun is shining.
Iām grateful to see my sponsor in 2 hours time.
Iām grateful for a good nights rest.
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Morning,
Today Iām grateful for my honest realisationā¦ I need help. Being here helps enormously but I need something more.
Iām grateful for my courage to admit that to myself and to you.
Iām grateful that Iām not drinking today. 
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Grateful for sobriety
Grateful for family
Grateful for breakfast with friend
Grateful for study group
Grateful for eating mindfully today
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Always something to be grateful for!
My puppy Freyja
My supportive fiance
To be happy to wake up again
To see my cardinals this morning
To wake up sober another day
To feel pain, reminds me Iām still alive!
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I am grateful to be sober after a few days of being sick and craving the old āmedicineā that I used to sooth my illnesses with. I am grateful for the insight Iāve had as to why that had such a strong pull. I am grateful I had a strong and loving relationship with my parents for many years. I miss them more than words can say. I am grateful that they grew and changed over the years. When I was young they were very unaffectionate and never showed love in a outward way. That was how they were raised and they didnāt know any other way. As my siblings and I grew up and started our own families we became exposed to our partners families that were more demonstrative of their affection. My husbands family was a boisterous big Polish family that lived to embrace, kiss and laugh. They were like sunshine to a plant long overshadowed and I responded greedily to it. My husband and I raised our kids with that open affection and we spread it to my parents, who responded to it like I did. My family changed and grew into one that hugged and kissed and laughed. Yet the little girl inside me is a product of the unloving upbringing and she still feels unloved even though the woman I am today KNOWS she was loved. That first taste of whiskey as a sick child in a hot toddy was as my first taste of love. It is my first memory of my dad being tender and loving to me. Feelings of love and warmth all wrapped up with the taste of a hot whiskey toddy. Iāve been sitting with this for a bit now and trying to sort out my feelings. I just miss my dad so much it hurts.
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Hi All, Grateful for the healthy life choices presented here on TS.
Grateful for support from sponsor and lots of people.
Grateful to know mindfulness techniques to reduce the stinking thinking.
Grateful that spring is on the way!!
Peace and joy to you 
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This is HUGE! What are you going to do?
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Today Iām grateful that Miss Lupe is just an old lady pup who gets tired and cold and that she isnāt unwell. Iām grateful we have been able to take longer walks on clear pavement and less frigid temps and that when we get home she gets the zoomies and acts like a puppy at 10 years old! Iām grateful she has an iron gut and can eat pretty much whatever and not be phased. Not that I want her to get into things she isnāt supposed to, but itās not anything to be worried about usually. Iām grateful for her health and for all the comfort and joy she brings to our life.
Iām grateful to have made plans with my parents to drive up for a visit later this month. Iām grateful to be feeling emotionally and mentally well right now to be excited for them to visit. Iām grateful that I can let go of guilty feelings about not always being excited to see them when Iām not doing well. Itās something Iāve come to accept that I am not always in the best place to be fully present and wholehearted with people, even those I love most. Iām grateful to be learning these things about myself and learning how to accept pieces of myself that I used to wish were different.
Iām grateful our friends gifted us a small full-sized fridge that is now in our basement and full of NA beverages, fizzy waters, yogurts, mocktail mixers, etc. Iām grateful that when my husband slipped and called it a ābeer fridgeā I just laughed and laughed! And then we both laughed! 
At one point it certainly would have been a beer fridge and would have enabled some serious binging for both of us. Iām grateful those days are long gone and it will stay that way on this path we are on now. For me, one day at a time. Iām grateful for that.
Grateful for my amigos here. 
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Iām grateful to be up early to watch the sun rise. I love seeing the glow coming up behind the mountains before I ever see that first peek of the sun.
Iām grateful Iām learning how to deal with competing thoughts and emotionsā¦ feeling joy and sadness at once, wanting to believe an issue has a concrete answer, but seeing two or more sides of it. I used to shut those thoughts down with drinking, because I didnāt want to deal with the messiness of it all. But when I stay with these tug-of-war emotions, I learn a lot from the complexity of how Iām feeling. Contradictory thoughts and emotions can be uncomfortable, even frustrating, but Iām learning to tolerate them, and itās giving me the power to understand who I am and what I need to stay sober. I hope that makes some sort of sense. I feel like I end up rambling sometimes. 
Iām grateful for curiosity. I would choose learning over knowing any day. Curiosity reminds me that Iām alive.
Iām grateful Iām learning how to step away from people and things, to take a little time just for me, without feeling a need to apologize.
I feel immense gratefulness for finally realizing that the so-called boredom that comes along with sobriety isnāt boredom at all. Itās a deep calmness, one that I can fill with music and reading, walking and photography, hobbies and fun chores, like making soaps and spice mixes. I donāt want to just sit anymore while life is happening around me. I want to jump right in.
Iām grateful for the new folks I see here, thankful for their shares, because I never want to forget what it felt like to be in active addiction. I know those memories will grow dim with sobriety, but I donāt want to lose them completely. I always want to remember how far Iāve come.
Iām grateful for yāall. Much love to you
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Makes so much sense to me. And being curious about what weāre feeling might shed light on this and help us navigate, too! I appreciated your share today a lot. It resonates with me.
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Yes ^^ this ^^ Iām struggling with this. I feel like a hamster on a wheel going round and round. I feel unloved > I know Iām loved > I felt unloved > I know I was loved > but I feel unloved> UGH!!!
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I understand this, because Iāve felt unloved, too. For years and years, I either fought for love, begged for it, or drank myself into a stupor to not have to deal with feeling that I wasnāt deserving of it. The more I love myself, the less I feel a need to be loved by others in a way that āmatters to meā. Some people are incapable of showing love the way I do, and I canāt allow that to get in the way of the knowledge that I am truly loved. It may not look like I want it to, or feel like I think it should, but itās love. 
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Today Iām grateful for being alive, especially after a very lonely depressive weekend. Iām grateful my kids who bring love and joy into my life. Iām grateful for craft which allows to use mind and hands to create beautiful objects. Iām grateful for my father who continues to support me.
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I grateful Seekingsolace just did gratitude and the thread it at the top this morning.
Iām grateful I woke up feeling just ok this morning. Itās better than still drunk or hungover.
Iām grateful my coffee was good and strong and grateful to be working on my hot tea.
Iām grateful we didnāt have to go to the vet yesterday.
Iām grateful Maverick didnāt throw up yesterday.
Iām grateful for my night time meditation with Mavy tucked into my arm pit and shoulder.
Iām grateful for the lovely phone call with my niece/daughter yesterday. I knew she would answer the phone āWhatās wrong?ā We never talk on the phone. No reason. After trip talk plans, we keep talking and it was fun. God Bless her heart, sheās come a long way and has been through so much as a child growing up with parents in active heroin addiction. I learned so much from that kid. Especially the phrase, āUncle, I just ran out of hate,ā I mean after what her parents put her through I donāt know if I could have run out of hate for them.
Im grateful to be sober for this next big life adventure or chapter in my life coming up this year. God willing we have a lot of big plans and changes coming up this year. Itās kind of frightening thinking about it sober. But also a great big calming sober challenge. I just got to do the next right thing. One step at a time. No rush. Iām grateful for all my blessings.
Iām grateful for Stellaās sunrise pics and Moxies mountain pics. You keep that shit up! Iām grateful yāall are enjoying it sober. It feels so good that way.
Iām grateful I got to watch the sun indirectly, slowly light up all the ponderosa pines on the west side of my house. Itās not a heavenly light show, but slowly and surely, I got to see them go from a dark green to a lit up brighter happy awake green. Iām grateful for the peace and quiet of my mornings. And Iām learning to find beauty in the littler things. Iām grateful Iāve been wowed many times with Gods magnificent beauty when Heās showing off.
Iām grateful for daughters and niece/daughters and Iāll be able to add granddaughters to that list too. Of course Iām grateful for my son too. I guess I wouldnāt be having a granddaughter without him. Eeeww! 
Iām grateful for all the Tom Petty music I listened to yesterday. Canāt beat it play it 
Iām grateful to share here every morning.
The Benefits of Gratitude
Someone who is grateful is the polar opposite of the person who feels that they are owed something by the world. They have the gift of enjoying and valuing what they have, which makes them rewarding friends and companions.
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Recently Iāve gained so much. Iāve been reminded that thereās so much joy around me if I go after it. Iāve been appreciating what I have and where my dedication has taken me.
A short gratitude list:
A better attitude
Found my singing voice
Closing in on my workout goals
10% raise at work
My family
My loving girlfriend
Walks with my dog
Financial freedom
A cozy home
29 days sober
Feel free to share your gratitude list 
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Always something to be grateful for!
My puppy Freyja
My supportive fiance
To be happy to wake up again
To see my cardinals this morning
To wake up sober another day
To feel pain, reminds me Iām still alive!
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