Daily Gratitude, The Air Of Recovery #2

[Frazzetta]

Today I’m grateful to myself for managing to spend an entire very long day with new and old friends in mixed social situations, some drinking and some not, without feeling like picking up and without feeling (much, if I’m honest there was a very slight sting once) resentment at others for being able to and choosing to have a drink. I had fun, I laughed a lot, and I got to know some of my boyfriend’s friends a little better as well.

Today is my 11th anniversary with my boyfriend as well, and I’m so grateful to have found him, and built this home and family (we just have a dog but still) with him. I’m grateful he’s stuck through me with a whole crapload of drunken shenanigans and sh+tshows, and that he’s sticking with me and supporting my choice to be sober. He’s a pretty cool dude!

[Kdog]

Grateful for music. Ive been actually enjoying things a bit more lately, im grateful for that too.

[Dakotahjae]

@TMAC I have much respect for everything youve said. Excellent idea with the safe. I’m in a very similar spot with the man I’ve been engaged to for over a year. Hes back out and I actually lost my engagement ring. If that’s not a message from the universe I don’t know what is. It’s sad and hard and I miss him every moment but I won’t put my recovery on the line. So I’m with you there and I’m sorry. I know how hard it is.

[Dakotahjae]

CONGRATULATIONS!!! This is so awesome!! What an accomplishment. I love reading your posts. Thanks for sharing your wisdom here.

[Dakotahjae]

Billy congrats on 5 months. That’s phenomenal. You’ve accrued so much peace and love along the way, you should feel very proud.
This morning I’m grateful to wake up in my bed, in Mt quiet house with a day to get ready for the work week how I need to.
I’m very grateful for the couple of really good friends I have in recovery. Grateful to get to spend some time with them yesterday and hit the late night meeting after dinner even though it was past my house curfew, they are cool and said if you’re at a meeting you can be half hour late. No big deal. I’m grateful for this trust, grateful that I’m living so that I can be trusted. I’m actually very grateful that I’ve had an okay time focusing only on my self and my recovery. I’m grateful the guilt over him being out there is not eating me. I’m grateful I don’t have that hardship right now. I feel like it’s a little gift, because I don’t know if I could handle that right now. I’m grateful for the TS mantra this morning. “You have to make it through some hard days to earn some of the best days of your life.”
Wow is that true. So I fought through those days I’m sitting here clean and I’m definitely eager for those best days to come.
I’m grateful and excited to look up a recovery Dharma meeting, grateful for all the goodness that is out there waiting for me to find and explore.
I’m grateful I have what I need. @Bluekoolaid I’ve also been without anything for much of the past 5 years so shelter and food and a little money for the few things I will need this upcoming week while all my stuff is still locked away is a beautiful thing. I am grateful.

[Shaunda]

Congratulations on 5 months!

[Shaunda]

Im grateful for Dixie. Shes our cat at work. Yes we have a cat at work lol she always finds me on break and demands her pets, regardless of where i hide outside.
P.s. she lives inside in receiving but roams outside. She isnt allowed in the main store. She is well taken care of and that makes my heart so happy. Its a huge emotional support at work actually and im grateful we have her.

[Cjp]

Checking in greatful as all heck

Greatful we are home safe
Greatful i didnt drink at the wedding
Greatful for my sobriety, 147 days free
Greatful for my loving husband and his sobriety
Greatful Boscoe is home with us
Greatful my car took us nearly 900miles safely
Greatful i didnt get a speeding ticket
Greatful for love
Greatful for family
Greatful for sobriety
Greatful i caught up on the threads

[Dazercat]

Congratulations on your 5 months clean SoberB

I’m so glad you’ve joined us.

[I.cant.We.can]

Way to go. Five months is fantastic.

[Its_me_Stella]

Good evening.

I am grateful that this busy weekend is coming to a close. I am grateful that I felt very relaxed while I shared last night at the speaker meeting. I am grateful for the meeting topics and how they worked very well with my “story”. I am grateful that if there’s one thing I know very well, its my story.

I am also grateful that I have enough today, it hasnt always been this way. I am grateful that my parents always tried their best to feed me healthy food and take good care of me even though we were often destitute. I am grateful that when I was in active addiction I was so absolutely fucked up I didnt even notice that at times I was a homeless, squatting, starving, drug addict. I was so busy getting high or fixing to get high that nothing else mattered. I am grateful that I have a choice today and that I choose not to pick up. That when I put down my DOC in 2005 I never picked it up again. I relapsed to alcohol, yes, but I know that if I had started to use dope again I would have lost my child, and my life. I am grateful that I now know that alcohol is a drug, and that I am a person with the disease of addiction who needs to abstain from all drugs.

I am grateful to see Brian posting, I missed you my friend. I am grateful Billy hit 5 months, congrats! I am grateful that this is the last week of September which I do believe has been the busiest month of my recovery. I am grateful that I have a life today.

[desert_rose]

Congratulations, Billy Your posts are so peaceful and beautiful. Grateful for you being here with us.

Grateful I had a long weekend visiting friends.

Grateful it was a long road trip and we made it there and back safely.

Grateful I have a wonderful husband who views things with more clarity than I do. Who asks me gently to let go of things when I really need to.Who nudged me to propose activities for all our friends that would allow them the freedom to choose to join or not to join. Who told me I need to stop trying to manage everyone’s relationships and let things flow the way they will.

In the end, the time away was wonderful. I’m grateful I’m learning to let go of control over things I have no business trying to control. And be ok with it.

I’m grateful my kids reconnected with their long-time friends.

I’m grateful I had some time in the sun with one of my best friends. A long walk and talk with the other. And the fact that they are not best friends anymore is now ok with me.

I’m so grateful for sun, beach, hamburguers, ice cream, football, unexpected surprises, and for being strong and healthy enough now to play with the kids activelly instead of sitting back with a drink. I’m grateful for diet 7up and cranberry juice. I’m grateful my friends now understand I have no interest in drinking anymore. I’m grateful my husband was able to enjoy his drink with the husbands, and that my friends were not drinking much or expecting me to join in.

I’m very grateful I said to one of my best friends, without thinking - “i don’t drink anymore.” Not “I’m not drinking today”, but “I don’t drink anymore”

I really loved the fact that it just came out that way. I’m so happy. So very grateful, now that I thought about it I’m almost at the verge of tears.

[Dakotahjae]

I am grateful to be up early enough to do my gratitude and gather myself before work. I’m grateful for the focus and clarity I have now that I’m back on my own. I’m grateful I got my cup filled to the brim last night at my homegroup. It’s been difficult to fill recently and it felt really good to have it filled effortlessly. So grateful for that familiar feeling that things are going to be alright, just keep doing what you’re doing. Grateful that those feelings of out of control panic are subsiding.
Grateful to be able to go to work while feeling ok top of my game, I’m beyond ready to get in this groove and flow of recovery again. Grateful for this 193rd day of sobriety. Grateful for the friends ive made along the way, grateful it makes my life so much more enjoyable. Grateful for my recovery, grateful that I’m recovering so much from my life, for the quality of life Im getting from my recovery. It is a beautiful thing.

[KrispyMac]

I am grateful to be inching up on triple digits!!
Grateful to have come off of 2 medications.
Grateful to have my daughter home for a few days.
For being able to help a woman feel beautiful for her grandson’s wedding.
For perfecting my meatball recipe.
For a productive Sunday.
For Halloween stores.
For stores with shopping carts.
For my love of reading.
Grateful to be starting another week refreshed and sober!

[Cjp]

Good morning sober fam!

Im so very greatful for…

My sobriety, 148 days free
Boscoe warming my heart and making us laugh
My parents for watching Boscoe while mom and dad are at work
Waking up before my alarm
Sobriety and all the blessings
My gratitude practice
A busy day today, hoping it will be productive
Hope
Faith
No hangovers!
Everyone here sharing their sober journies.

Let us go out and slay the day soberly!

[Sunflower1]

Good morning all,
I’m grateful for a great weekend. I got to hang out with my brother and his girlfriend from Portland. We had a simple lunch, then played games at the table for a few hours. It was fun and relaxing. I’m grateful I was able to meal prep for this week without having to do groceries. The meals might be a little weird, but they are prepped and ready to cook so I’m happy. I’m grateful I have a job that pays the bills, and coworkers that I like. I’m grateful for the milestones, and the check ins here. You all are very important to me, and I’m grateful we choose to participate in this thread.
Everyone have a wonderful day

[Dazercat]

I’m grateful to God and gratitude I still don’t drink.
I’m grateful I still don’t want to drink.
I’m grateful for my cats.
I’m grateful when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom I don’t have a crushing hangover. And usually a cat follows me back to bed for a nice purr session. And I’m grateful I have no trouble going back to sleep.

I’m grateful I worked on my “people pleasing” skills this weekend. I was the only person I pleased this weekend. Not in a selfish way. But I just did what I wanted to do and not think about how it makes others feel. I’m grateful I’m learning I’m not responsible for anyone else’s feelings but mine. Fuck, I can’t even handle my feelings yet.

I’m grateful to be working on myself . I can’t believe I’m saying that. For the longest time I’ve been sick and tired of being the only person I have to work on. I’m not the one fucking up! I’m sober! Why do I have to always work on me? I use to complain about that a lot. I’m grateful I powered through that. And I’m grateful now, I’m leaning more about myself. My past. I’m grateful that, ya it’s kind of enjoyable now, and I’m looking forward to it.

I’m grateful I’m learning to give myself a break. It took me a lot of ODAATs to get where I am now in my sobriety. I’m grateful I’m learning to apply that to my codependency issues. I’ve only been in Al-Anon 4 months and 3 days.
(Ya, I started another counter ) I bet if I remember correctly I was struggling with sobriety when I had 4 months. Of course I’d be struggling after only 4 months of Al-Anon meetings. I have to give it time. ODAAT. I think it’s working. I know ODAAT worked before. I really thought I had all the answers from my previous Al-Anon experiences 12/13 years ago. Guess what? I didn’t
I’ll let y’all know when I have all the answers

I’m grateful for all the big milestones over the last week. Some of y’all have been around since just before me and I’m so grateful to be a part of y’all’s journey. I’m right behind ya. God willing I never catch up to you

I’m grateful Mavy is all over my face with his paws and purrs telling me to wrap it up.

I’m grateful for you all and this thread and the abundance of gratitude here. We are worth it.

Today I’m grateful for my growth, regardless of how long it took me to get here.
Some Al-Anon forum on Facebook.

[Its_me_Stella]

Good morning.

I am grateful to wake up at home, quietly, with the soft smell of incense and candles. I am grateful that I am not addicted to caffeine, and that I can still enjoy a nice strong cup in the morning. I am grateful for nighttime meditations that take me into deep peaceful sleeps and morning affirmations that start my days off right.

I am grateful that beause of my recovery I have found my creativity again. I have also begun to believe in myself, trust myself and give myself a break. I am grateful for communities who have artistic spaces and our government who helps them with grants. I am grateful to feel excited about something, to look forward to something in my day.
I am grateful that my very first bezel setting wasnt a fail, and that I now live by the motto. “Practice makes progress not perfection.”

I am grateful I found time to stop by my sponsees house last night and have a good chat. I am hopeful.

I am grateful that I have a tattoo appointment today to have my shading done, and I am grateful that I have the money to pay for it.

[Frazzetta]

I’m grateful for a beautiful morning, and to feel good in my heart and mind. To greet my coworkers with joy and laughter, and to accomplish my tasks well. I grateful to feel cared for today, by my friends and family, and these knuckleheads around the office

[Peace]

I’m grateful to be sober and hangover free. Feeling cranky as hell but atleast I am aware and can give myself the space I need at the moment.

I am grateful to have this extra day to relax before heading back to work.

I am grateful that I am not poisoning myself today which would make the work week so much worse.

I am grateful for movies and tv on days like today and to be here with everyone.