I’m grateful that I reached out and engaged with this community. The acceptance, grace and kindness that I’ve found here, and that I gratefully and genuinely return to each of you, has filled my heart. This morning I even felt like in time I can learn to extend those feelings to myself as well.
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Im grateful to see the sober days growing, and grateful for the gratitude growing. I’m very grateful for my own gratitude training, that my brain is looking for things that are right and positive this morning and allowing me to be excited as I get ready for my first short day of “onboarding” at the new job.
I’m grateful for the time I got to spend one on one with my man yesterday, I just really wish it could have more impact on the whole days outcome but his brain is already hijacked and it’s gonna take the whole army again to get that straightened out. Grateful that I’ve been able to let go (a little bit😬) and not lose focus of what is going well in my life.
I’m so very grateful for the afternoon with my daughters. My oldest picked up the bill for lunch (which just about drove me nuts, I mean here i am finally in a position to do something for them of which they are so overdue) and said “happy birthday (to him) and happy 6 months to you mom I don’t wanna hear it.” My heart just about burst. My girls are something else.
Here’s to another day of gratitude, recovery, and focusing on MYSELF. 
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I’m grateful Alice is on my lap with a mouth full of blanket, tamping and purring away this morning.
I’m grateful for dog nose nudgies.
I’m grateful I found a lump on Benson yesterday. I’m grateful we have a vet appointment for the 2 dogs today anyway. Usually it’s the other way around. A few days after a vet appointment we find a lump 
I’m grateful my grown up children are having a good time visiting with each other in Dallas. The cousins are meeting each other. One on earth and the other in the oven 
. I’m grateful for the indescribable feeling that both my children are becoming parents at 6 months apart.
I’m grateful for home movies.
I’m grateful I was a pain in the ass lugging around the big cam-corder recording my babies back when?
I’m grateful I converted them to DVDs.
I’m grateful we watched one of them last night and I videoed short clips and sent them on to a family group text.
I’m grateful my son wrote back.
“You menches are feeling left out aren’t you?” 
He’s a good therapist. Im grateful when he pulls that shit on his dad. I’m grateful it was such a fun night together apart because of technology and we didn’t have to do FaceTime.
I’m grateful my short ribs came out great last night. Especially the mashed potatoes and gravy part. It was all the butter 
I’m grateful the Bills are on tonight!
Let’s Go Buff-Alo!! 
I’m grateful to continue working on myself as I’m am still finding it kinda fun these days instead of a chore. I’m grateful maybe that means I’ve really surrendered 
Just for today 
Am I right!?
If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude about it. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
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Today, I’m grateful for many of the basic luxuries we have in this day and age. Many people don’t know that Rome had indoor plumbing, but this was lost when the society collapsed. There is so much that we have that we don’t give a second thought about because they simply are a mundane part of our life. Flip a light switch, the light comes on. The weather turns, change the HVAC system to accommodate, flush the toilet and the goldfish is whisked away to its burial grounds, etc., etc.
And it doesn’t have to be a societal collapse, but an “act of god” type of situation. In this case, I am grateful not to live on an island. I don’t have typhoons and hurricanes to worry about crashing in and taking out precious infrastructure. Earthquakes, yes; giant ocean storms, no.
So my heart goes out to the people of Puerto Rico and to the great nation of Japan as the two deal with these kinds of storms–Puerto Rico being the more devastated of the two overall with their power grid being taken completely out. So much of our life today needs that power grid.
The mainland United States power grid, in general, is not very solid in its vulnerability to many threats. I’m grateful that today everything works as I expect it to. I’m grateful that while I am not “rich”, as we might generally consider such a thing, that I am rich because what I consider “the basics” is actually “rich” and “luxurious” when considered on a historical level. In fact, the very idea that I am able to communicate these thoughts for you all to read, with such ease and clarity, is a thing of wonder to be truly grateful for.
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Today I’m grateful I woke up well rested allthough I had nightmares. Still wondering if I didn’t set the alarm yesterday or I just didn’t hear it??? There was a alarm-missed message on my phone 
Grateful I enjoyed the morning with busy chores, funny cats, working through the to-do-list of the week. I really enjoyed it. That’s kind of feeling weird. I’m grateful I know this is partly because of the medication change kicking in, it can’t be that attitude and missing my husband and our life disappears within days 
I’m grateful for the livestream of the Queen’s funeral from London. I loved the ceremony, it touched me deeply.
Grateful I will go to bed early, I feel tired. I hope I sleep well. I want to do some garden work tomorrow and need to be rested 
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Day 602. I finally got a decent amount of sleep. Grateful for a conversation I had last night with one of my regular customers…
Yesterday at work, (I work at a truck stop) I was talking to a regular customer, who takes showers at our store a few times per week. We usually chat while he is waiting for his turn in the shower. Today, out of nowhere he says, without knowing my history of recovery, “Man, today is 36 days without a drink for me. It’s hard but so worth it.” That sparked a 30 minutes conversation about sobriety, and how stupid we were in our drinking times. It was awesome to just connect with another guy trying to stay sober.
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Today I am grateful to be focused on my recovery. I am extremely grateful for my children, my family and my friends who are supportive of my dreams and goals. Although I struggle, I know that better days are coming. Expressing gratitude helps me put my life into perspective and shows me just how blessed i actually am.
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Welcome to one of the best resources for staying sober!
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Welcome Faith, I’m glad you found us.
This thread is a huge tool in keeping me sober. Either writing my own gratitude list each day or reading others list their gratitude. Collectively, we got a shit load to be grateful for when we are sober. Pull up a chair. The lights are always on.
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Welcome to the forum!
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Yeay! Way to go!
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I am so grateful when this happens too.
It’s happened 3 times for me with my Endodontists, a trainer and a massage therapist. Usually I initiate the conversation. But it’s just so cool that there are other people willing to talk about it out in the open separate from The Rooms. Anyway…. I just love it when that happens.
Congratulations on your 602 
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I am grateful to be sober and hangover free.
I grateful to be watching tv in bed with Will. 
I am grateful for days like today when I don’t have any cravings.
I am grateful I was able to help my Mom yesterday and see the fam.
I am grateful to be here with everyone. 
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I hope your tooth is better or was fixed. I’m also terrified of the dentist. I don’t think it’s the dentist as much as the memories around it. Everytime I would make it a point to go and continue, something happened. My mom passed, going through my horrible relationship, medical issues. And my dentist, like most, always asked how I was, my answer was always fine. I don’t know if people open up, but I never do, so people probably think I’m fine, which I almost never am or was.
Flash forward, I was doing okay until covid hit, which basically turned me into an agoraphobic who drank a lot and only left my house if absolutely needed, haven’t been back to the dentist. My work turned 100% remote, my grocery store started & still offers drive up and go. There is no reason to go out, except to walk Max, due to his age, laziness (per the vet) and blindness, that takes at the most, 9 minutes.
I will probably be spending money on those dental implants some day, I heard they’re insanely expensive.
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Thank you
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I am grateful another member of AA followed me out of the meeting to extend the hand.
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Congrats! What an amazing accomplishment!
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@Chiron something is so powerful and calming to me about your post, thank you. I was walking home in near catastrophy state, but as I read your post it reminds my addict brain that I’m not in catastrophy. I am safe. I am clean and I am sober. I am borrowing too many troubles from tomorrow and even yesterday and your post pulled me back in.
Thank you.
I am grateful to be back to near center (centering anyways, I’ll take it!) and realizing I have to give myself some grace. I have a lot changing around me, nearly everything is changing, actually. Work, home, all at the same time and it’s a lot. But I’m safe. I’m ok.
Grateful for the strength I keep finding in myself to keep pushing, great times are just around the corner.
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