I’m grateful for pizza dinners
I’m grateful that there are Christmas trees up all over work. I’m grateful that it makes me feel warm and cozy.
I’m grateful that during a stressful week I’ve been able to stay calm and take things as they come.
I’m grateful for the now.
I’m grateful that I can just appreciate each day for what it is. As someone who has always looked to the future, the better, and spent a lot of time in my mind on my spaceship it’s a practice to stay in the now.
It’s not always easy but I’m seeing the beauty in each tiny moment. They are easy to miss if you aren’t looking or always looking ahead.
I’m grateful I randomly started studying moon phases last night. I’m grateful I love learning, just for the fun of it.
I’m grateful for my sobriety
I’m grateful for my silliness
I’m grateful for night swims and hot showers
I’m grateful for my life
Grateful to read words here tonight that I could have put down myself. Yes, @Frazzetta, a full calendar is a huge source of overwhelm/anxiety for me. And @PinkyP, I kindly declined an event too (it would have been about 4 hrs of small talk. Do-able but depleting), in favour of some M time this weekend. Delish, and not wrong! Grateful I get to practice this.
And then there’s the row of journals on my shelf. I’m not sure I’ll get rid of those, but the daytimers and calendars of the last decade? I used to go through them and mine out the good stuff - notes or days to keep record of. I’d put this off until recently. Just had a stack of the last decade of daytimers. I’m grateful I can look with loving kindness (mostly) at the person (me) who wrote “bonk” on hangover days. So many plans for new beginnings, fresh starts. So many bonks. The cycle of it.
I’m grateful to be done with it, the cycle.
I’m also grateful for loving kindness and compassion meditations, because oh - how the shame kept me in the cycle of bonk.
Grateful for plans tonight that I wanted to keep. Dinner with a former mentor turned friend. It was fun, sure, but I’m grateful this friend has the grace and confidence to see me as an equal and in doing so - give me quite the boost I need right now.
Grateful for my cosy bed and sleeping with the window cracked. Just in case I forget it’s winter.
Grateful to have had a super productive day and feel some ease around my stock level for an up coming Christmas market. I am grateful for all of the support I have and continue to recieve from my friends in recovery. I am grateful that the pieces I make are recieved well.
I am grateful to be laying in bed beside my 17 year old kid. Never in a million years would I have laid in bed with my mom watching Disney + when I was 17. It wasnt that I didnt need it, or that I didnt want it… I was already caught up in a deadly cycle of self sabotage and self destruction by then. I am grateful that I never stopped needing my mom, even the years when I couldnt face her. Those were actually the years I probably needed her most.
I am grateful for the time I spent with my parents today. Our daily dominoes games have been cut drastically in the last year and I notice. I am grateful that I have stopped feeling guilty and that I just make time when I can.
Grateful for walk in showers stalls and super cute bullies who dont mind standing in the shower to get cleaned up. Grateful for the way my daughter looks at Nugget, she is really starting to bond with her which is so nice. My kiddo has been overwhelmed with all the dogs in her life, now that its quieter I think she is actually enjoying the 1 dog we have.
Grateful for the women who trust me with their stories, the ones who show up every week, with their step work questions done, ready to dig in.
I am grateful that I have an 8 am yoga class booked and I am hopeful that it doesnt snow too much overnight.
Here we go twinnie, countdown starts in the morning. Im grateful for you all.
Morning check-in: I’m grateful I woke up before the alarm. Double grateful because I woke up from an exhausting nightmare. Again. Grateful my old boy rests on my chest and his soft, fluffy tail wags over my face from time to time.
I’m grateful for the sharings of @M-be-free49 and @Frazzetta about a full calendar possibly triggering anxiety. I agree, I sometimes feel overwhelmed and insufficient when I face a day/week packed with lots of work/meetings/etc. Thank you for reminding me of the anxiety aspect. I’m still working on not hiding my anxiety behind surrogate feelings.
I’m grateful for the FRO thread. I’ll switch there to rant about nightmares.
Have a sober day everyone
The sun is about to come up, finally some light around here. Happy to be wearing my neon bright pink wool socks (a gift from a neighbour) and my strong moring coffee. I am grateful for kind words on a gloomy yesterday (thank you @Soberbilly) and the cheerful bird picture @Bootz shared. I am grateful for laughter with colleagues and their willingness, to walk new paths with me. I am grateful for inspiring literature and the smell of cinnamon, clover and other christmas spices in my house. I am grateful for another day.
Grateful I didn’t drink yesterday.
Grateful to be on day 7.
Grateful my meds are helping my migraine.
Grateful for a job I like with a great boss and cool coworkers.
Grateful I can be there for a struggling friend.
Grateful I have therapy tomorrow.
Grateful for the colder weather.
Grateful I’ll have this community for support over Christmas holiday.
Grateful for a random day off
Shopping day with a friend
The option for early voting
My french press
Warm slippers
Blooming peace lilies
Checking off items on a to-do list
My cough finally being gone (after 4 long weeks)
A tidy home
This TS community
One more day without booze.
Good morning all,
I’m grateful I have a later start to my day which means I can have coffee and read around. I’m grateful for my coffee pot that has a timer so my coffee is ready for me first thing. I’m grateful my older brother sent an article for us to read that explains a little about how his military career went, and how it has affected him. It was very eye opening for me, and very brave and vulnerable for him to send to us. A big step in a strained relationship .I’m grateful for Christmas lights. I’m grateful for love and forgiveness.
Everyone have a wonderful day
Early afternoon check-in: I want to write a lot about gratitude today.
I’m grateful I can stay at home today. The weather is moist and grey, melancholy creeps into my soul.
I’m grateful for this typical cycle of a typical grey day when I’m low on energy, recovering from whatever overburdening happened for a far too long time:
wake up from exhausting nightmares, allthough kind of well rested
doing morning tasks, petting cats, having breakfast
reading the newspaper, some youtube beach video spreads the sound of the sea, christmas lights glimmer
cats cuddle up and start purring away on me
I fall asleep again
Wake up. Feel dizzy and desorientated. Brew fresh tea and do some chores.
Share my leftovers with the cats, feeling happy because the house looks clean and neat.
Feeling tired after late lunch. Back on the couch. With cats. Reading and napping until it’s bedtime.
When I fall into this cycle I know I’m healing. I’m very grateful it happens. Because it means that I let go, calm down, find inner peace. That’s kind of an autopilot programm I’ve experienced all my life.
I’m grateful for therapy. Without, I think I would not have come this far in the last months.
Now I have another cup of tea and I’m grateful for the varieties of tea in my cupboard.
My sobriety, 7 whole months today!
AA fellowship
This forum and everyones support and love and perseverance
My hubby doing the dishes
Boscoe and his big personality
A productive day at work yesterday
Took tomorrow off work
Pumpkin spice coffee creamer
Its payday
Music
Christmas lights
7 fucking months sober
Progress not perfection
Eric being a badass grandpa, thank you for the smile
Topic of gratitude at this mornings meeting
knee pain not as bad this morning
my husband taking care of himself and staying home today
My HP and the knowledge that I don’t have to try to fix things
Getting things recovered at work yesterday, the place is a mess.
My morning prayer and very short meditation time
surprise money from my brother with a note that said text latter to find out what it’s for. Can’t wait to find out what he wants to get my daughter for xmas. I love surprises lol
“Big girl panties” I’m exhausted and didn’t sleep well. I’m gonna put my big girl panties on anyways and do what’s in front of me to do today anyways. If those don’t work I’ll pull out the granny’s, granny always got’er done.
Watching a lady I work with “get it” and come to life.
I’m grateful that productivity and exceeding others expectations does not define my worth.
One of my greatest fears since I was little was letting people down. Feeling like I held the world on my shoulders and that if I let it slip it was my fault, on me. My responsibility.
I’m grateful that I can sit with that feeling now and be able to explain to myself how that is just not true.
That my worth is not defined by being able to keep everyone glued together. Something that I felt I had to do growing up.
I’m grateful I can see this now and during a very stressful week I can keep reminding myself: I am enough, I am one person, breathe, eat, get sleep, take care of yourself. I’m grateful I can soothe myself without alcohol. With gratitude. With writing. With crying. With music. With just being and breathing.
I’m grateful that pain can teach me about me. That when I sit with it, it’s not as overwhelming. It’s not as scary.
I’m grateful I’m old enough to tell myself everything is going to be ok.
I’m grateful I’m learning to slow down and rest.
I’m grateful that when gratitude can feel hard, I know how important it is.
I’m grateful for my big emotions, they will always be a part of me.
I’m grateful I’m learning to share them
I’m grateful for my life
Morning,
I’m grateful for not drinking yesterday or wanting to.
I’m grateful to hear @KarenKW 's headache is improving with the new tablets and that you’ve reached a week. A tough week, you made it.
I’m grateful to be out of the bonk cycle too @M-be-free49. I have kept all my old diaries and used to draw a picture of a wine glass with a zero beside it each day I didn’t drink. So grateful to be off the merry-go-round.
I’m grateful to be fed up of the football now. It means I can retreat upstairs to the peace of my bedroom nice and early. Lovely.
Grateful so many posts resonate with me lately, it really helps knowing others are thinking or going through the same things.
Good evening, popped on for some “before bed gratitude.”
I am grateful for the spontaneous breakfast date I had with G. Grateful for our casual conversation and laughs.I am grateful that after a few deep, honest conversations where I spoke my truth we are now looking forward to Christmas together.
I am grateful that even though I think I may have over stretched my hamstring in yoga today I dont feel like I need to cancel tomorrows class. I trust myself today and I do listen to my body. If it feels bad I know I will stop.
Grateful that tomorrow is Friday which means its silver smithing daaaaaay!!! I am looking forward to setting the stone in a ring I am almost finished. Hoping the snow stays away tonight so the studio is open.
Grateful that my sponsee reached out, got herself to a meeting and is going to bed clean tonight after life rolled up on her. This loving unconditionally, without expectations and not attaching emotions to my sponsees lives is a real trip I will tell yah.
I am grateful to learn so much everyday and to have 24 hours in a day that I can practice everything I am learning. I am grateful to finally be alive.
With Norma 
