Long, winter mornings. Not ideal for a lot of people, I’m sure, but there’s something quite beautiful about long, dark mornings. The days are short, but it allows you to wrap up in a warm jumper & jacket, and to sit and drink hot chocolate.
Having a job. Ideally, not what I’m not intending on doing long-term; it may be for only 6-8 months while I work on other things that are coming in the pipeline, but it is helping to pay off two holiday’s that I’ve booked for 2023, and with Christmas on the way shortly, I’ll be needing all the money I can get!
My sobriety. Since giving up alcohol, I’ve been able to forgive myself for the person I used to be, and I am now able to live a purposeful, prosperous & fulfilling life.
My sobriety, day 165 free
Sleeping in til 8am
AA
Fellowship
Able to buy groceries
Able to be mobile
My mom
My hubby
Boscoe, of course
A day of self care
Trying a new therapist today
A ladies aa mtg tonight
Everyone here fighting the good fight
I’m grateful I’m up early hangover free and sober. And basically pain free as well. Working on my hot green tea. Cat plugged in
Fireplace and Gratitude. It’s a beautiful morning.
Im grateful we voted yesterday.
I’m grateful for the upcoming fall adventure that begins today for us. Im grateful I’m rested and ready.
I’m grateful for my family. Wife and children and their 3 spouses and my grandchild and grandchild on the way and all our pets. I’m grateful we’ll get to see them soon. Not all together, but we will see them all. Im grateful the old dog girl came clomping over to check on me, and the old cat girl on my lap, and get a much deserved pet.
I’m grateful again for the power of waiting last night. Now if I could just get rid of the guilty feelings while waiting I would be cured well not cured but I’d feel better about waiting. But it did work. Just in the knick of time too, I was about to cave. Luckily I couldn’t find my martyr hat.
I’m grateful for nature and all it’s different forms and uniqueness. Music. Laughter. Full moons. Sunrises and sunsets. The airplanes flying over head. And squirrels and the skunk we saw last night hopefully staying 2 houses away where we saw him.
I’m grateful I hear my wife moving around in the master bedroom getting up and we can get our day underway.
I’m grateful for gratidudes!
Today’s Reminder: I see my recovery as a healthy way of life that I can gladly share with others. Today I am actively pursuing a better life because I am working on myself.
Courage To Change
January 28 “Just for today I will have a program. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it.”
Just For Today
Early check in today, it’s 5 pm, but I’m already tired. Today I’m grateful for a normal sleep, not good, not bad. Grateful I found the energy to put away all the stuff my husband droped in the living room 2 months ago. It now looks neat and proper again. Grateful the cats like it too.
Grateful I cooked for myself yesterday and today. Grateful my old boy is sleeping next to me and Missi is sleeping on my lap. Grateful for coffee with a friend. Grateful I texted my husband some things I needed to get off my chest. I don’t expect any reaction. I only needed to adress it to the right person. There is no sense in chewing things for 100 times in therapy when only a clear statement to the person who is responsible helps. Grateful I sometimes get a glimpse how to take my responsibilities and give his back to him. Especially when it comes to emotions and our partnership. Learning, work in progress. Grateful that my cats love me unconditionally.
I am grateful for oneness and all the ways nature and the human body mirror each other. Our finger prints and the rings of a tree, the human placenta and the tree of life. These things make days like today so much easier. My understanding of exsistance and the paradox of it all gives me peace.
I am grateful for the years that Lyric has walked beside me, for the time she happened into my life. I was about 3 years into my relapse and at the begining of my depression, things had just started to get bad. I am grateful that she was the last puppy left and that nobody wanted her. I am glad that Lyric saved my life.
I am grateful for her freckles and her very soft fur. I cant believe I am going to say this, but I am grateful for that crazy noise she makes when she is excited. Lol. I know that I will always look back on that crazy shrill, its something I will never forget.
I am grateful for the way she runs up to my feet and sits her little butt on the floor for pets and that shes just been the most wonderful little rooster eating girl ever.
I am grateful that I have a choice today to save her from suffering and that I can be present with her for her last couple of hours.
I am grateful that she will fall asleep pigging out on liver treats.
I am grateful that today her spirit will be set free from a body that has run its course.
I am grateful that so far I have had the courage to stay true to my promise to my dogs of “No bad days.”
My heart breaks but its breaking softly.
I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful that the time I spend in dark places of my mind a much shorter these days.
I am grateful my relationship to my mother improved. Why and how? I cannot pinpoint it.
I am grateful I had a much better day today than yesterday. I am grateful I can acknowledge that I like being home, not running from one place to the other.
I am grateful I have a warm home, electricity, enough money to pay my bills, as far as I can say today I have nice new colleagues.
I am grateful for my sobriety. I’m now back to a stable medication for my Hashimotos and I’m really improving my diet. The gastritis was a clear warning to stop doing shit and to make a full turn.
I am grateful that I had the guts to come back here, those who have relapsed know the feeling.
I am grateful for you guys, you are helping me so so much.
I am grateful for this day and the upcoming night. I am still here
I’m grateful for my iPhone 3.
I’m grateful to be able to hear her voice as much as it hurts. I haven’t listened to these in years but I’m feeling really emotional today, possible hormonal. I just wanted to hear her say I love you but now I’m just crying. Maybe this is a release I needed. I miss my mom so much. Some days I just want to see her and hug her but at least I am lucky even to be able to hear her.
Im greatful for a productive day! 4 appointments and an aa meeting. Im greatful im finally settled at home for the night and i get an hour to myself before i have to make dinner. Im greatful i dont have to get a root canal. Im greatful the ladies mtg topic was joy. Im greatful the setting sun shined on me in the mtg. Im greatful i feel welcome and loved at that mtg. Im greatful for joy and im learning to lean into it.
I had to switch carriers and lost my daddies “i love you” messages. What i wouldnt give to have those voicemails again.
I still have text messages from my mamma…
My heart goes out to you. Sometimes we just need to cry it out for a bit.
My mum’s health is deteriorating, she was 92 in july. I’m grateful for every day alltough we don’t call anymore due to her hearing loss. I feel like I should visit her more often, she would be happy about it. I hesitate to visit her more often, it is extremely emotionally draining. I feel sad and helpless about this dilema. I’m grateful I know I can let her go when the day comes. A gift I learned from her and her side of the family: To let go peacefully and gratefully when a life ends, finding solace in the certainity that suffering ends too and there is love and a bunch of people waiting to meet again on the other side of the courtain.
I’m grateful I cry it out. And I’m grateful the cats want breakfast. I have to get up, stop crying and turn to daily chores and duties. Grateful for stabilitiy daily routines give me
I am grateful for my first breath as I woke.
I am great full for watching the sun rise today.
I am grateful for the beginning of a new day, a sober day.
I am great full for my life as a sober man.
My sobriety, 166 days free from weed and alcohol
My hubby and his 90 days of sobriety today!
Boscoe and how he follows me around, my shadow
Running water
Coffee
Pumpkin spice creamer
Being sick enough to make the change to sobriety
Cravings are less frequent
Casual dress at work
Its friday
My senses
Introspection
Health insurance
Love
Everyone here sharing in their sober journies
This morning im especially grateful to be sober. I am able to be here and present for my husband and he readies himself to detox, which is a process to be able to do safely at home when you have drabl a 5th a day for over a decade.
Im grateful he has a doctors appointment today and he will lay it all on the table. Hopefully the one that could get him in today will give him medications to assist him through the next week of hell has will be going through
Im grateful for my own experience of detoxing at home and can reassure him, and also have the information available to both of us of when to get to the emergency room. Detox is nothing to mess around with.
Im grateful my sister is a nurse practioner and lives within 15 minutes and only a phone call away.
Im grateful that if my job doesnt understand im needed at home then i can simply get a new job.
Im grateful for the peace i have about all of this and knowing that i cant do this for him but i can be here with him. " when anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, i want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that i am responsible "
Im grateful that he told me yesterday he already called the girls and talked to them about getting sober. That was huge. Hes never told anyone he was getting sober. But i also know this disease and how cunning it can be.
Im grateful for sayings like, let go and let God, one day at a time, just for today, keep it simple becauee i found ive been sayong those a lot to myself the last week or so.
