I am grateful for willingness, and action. I am grateful for the safety of my homegroup. I am grateful that last night my heart led that way in my healing. I dont share too much in meetings about my ED; But last night at the end of my share, or at least what I felt like was the end…
I am grateful that I was able to shed light on some darkness, to expose some of my sickness that didnt need to be a secret. We had a massive Christmas potluck on Monday past there were upwards of 80 people there. Our table was choosen to get food first. All the food tables were lined up around the edge of the room and all the people tables were situated in the middle of them. I am grateful that I pushed through the fear, and I made myself be the first person to get food at the event. I am grateful that I didnt load my plate full of shit I wouldnt eat just to “look normal”. I am grateful I was able to calm myself in that moment of complete panic. When I sat down with my very empty plate and the shame started to surface, I shared with the girl behind me about how hard it was for me and she gave me a hug. I am grateful for the love and compassion I have around me everyday including the love and compassion I recieve from myself. I am grateful I take care of myself today, at least I am trying my best.
I am grateful for the members who listened to me last night while I let that go, for the members who shared afterwards and crosstalked (lol) thanking me for my vulnerability, and for the members who told me that they love me so much.
Hi Miranda,
I reread my post and started to cry. I miss my little super Max. Riley is also having hard time, she’s very neurotic, more than her usual self. I know animals grieve when they lose a buddy, and this is her 2nd in a couple years.
I’m so happy to hear you’re doing well and huge congrats on 100. I’m doing ok otherwise. I will most likely adopt again. Waiting for the perfect old man to come in my life, too bad they’re always broke.
I’m grateful for Riley napping next to me.
I’m grateful for the time I had with Max.
I’m grateful for my son and his twin boys.
I’m grateful for being able to work from home, especially on snowy, icy days like today.
I’m grateful for a warm home and having the furnace guy come in November as preventative instead of waiting until January when the furnace usually decides to breakdown.
I’m grateful my 18 yr old SUV still gets me where I need to go.
I’m grateful I have enough stuff and everything I need.
I’m grateful for keeping in touch with the rescue after adopting Max.
I’m grateful for all the unbelievable hard work that they do to save and re-home dogs.
I’m grateful my faith and belief in God has helped me every day.
Finally, TGIF!!!
I woke up feeling wonky on a day off and checking in here was the answer to my lack of balance. This statement brings me peace @Bootz.
And this statement will rule my day @Pandita. I was feeling overwhelmed with all my choices today so I’ll sit back, listen for the harmony and jump in when I can.
I am grateful for this sober life, for each and every one of you fighting the fight and for virtual connection when my brain feels squirrelly.
@maxwell I loved seeing the safe and loving home you gave to sweet Max. I am so sorry for your loss. Thanks for enriching that sweet pups life and giving him a safe place to pass on.
I’m grateful I’m learning the difference between real fear and my brain being scared because I’m trying something new.
I’m grateful the only persons emotions I control are my own.
I’m grateful I can be forgiving and think in shades of grey.
Love and let go I keep repeating when I need to hear it. I breathe and say it again.
I’m grateful for all the colors of my day. That I can be happy and sad. I’m grateful I can allow all my emotions as they come up.
I’m grateful I love being outdoors and that it’s warm enough to swim and take walks.
I’m grateful I’m sensitive. That it’s not always easy. That sometimes I think it would be easier to be cold and aloof. But I’m learning that easier isn’t always better. That the choice to love IS the courageous one.
I’m grateful every little step I make, I learn and I keep going.
Life is a practice.
I’m grateful that when gratitude seems hard I can come here and always find it
I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful I called a former colleague after I didn’t pick up her call. It was what was good for me yesterday.
I am grateful I can pick up my laptop today. My neighbour repaired it.
I am happy I got myself motivated to suck coconut oil first thing in the morning.
I am looking forward to my friends coming in some hours.
I am grateful I can still follow my yoga session at 8.
I am grateful I have enough.
Today im grateful for my health and ability to move about without pain.
Im grateful for having all my senses sober and not impaired.
Im grateful for the strength to keep going.
Im grateful for 10 days sober !!
And Im especially grateful for everyone on this app!!
I’m grateful to be up early at my favorite time of the week. The house is quiet and I get to enjoy my coffee and some time to write here.
I’m grateful to have no big plans for the weekend. I need some peace and quiet as the two weeks before winter break is very challenging in schools.
I’m grateful that my husband is sober now too. He learned of a terrible tragedy about one of his students yesterday and was processing this loss with me last evening. We both know that would have been even more difficult if we had been drinking. We had our tears and talk time. And we are both grateful to be alive and have each other.
I’m grateful to be feeling healthy. I swam 2 miles in the pool this week over three days. The endorphins are steady for me when it get in the pool regularly.
I’m grateful that I have a lovely vacation planned for Christmas. We are driving to Tybee island in Georgia and renting a cute house there for the week. Lots of walks on the beach and in the neighborhood will be so pleasant. Good food and time to refresh and recharge are in store. We did this trip last year and it was just great. It was my first sober vacation and I loved (and remember!) each beautiful day there.
I’m grateful to have work that I mostly enjoy. I made good progress on some challenges this week and I can see that my students are learning! Yay!
I’m grateful to have found this community. I come here several times a day and it helps me so much to remember to work on my sobriety. I am very confident that I avoided relapse this week by all that I get from reading here. Relapse stories are preventing mine and I cannot express enough how much that means to me.
I wish you all peace and a sense of calm strength as we come through the holidays.
Good morning all,
I’m grateful for a quiet start to my day. I’m also grateful there are no big plans for this weekend. I’m grateful for our home and the people and animals in it. I’m grateful for recovery podcasts, and TS. Everyone have a wonderful day❤️
Grateful sober hangover free mornings never ever get old.
Grateful I started my morning on TS writing to a friend
I’m grateful for all the very different unique friendships I’ve made here on TS in almost 3 years. You guys are worth it and are a key to my sobriety.
I’m grateful my car also decided to die at home in my garage yesterday.
Grateful we made it home the night before instead of getting stuck out in the cold.
Grateful after a few hours on the phone figuring out what to do, it was just a dead battery and we were able to jump start it in the garage “ourselves ” and get it to the dealership and we should get it back this morning.
Grateful my wife and I made a great team getting that taken care of. A dead battery may not sound like much to some. But my wife and I had a great big laugh when neither one of us could figure out how to open the hood (bonnet for my English speaking friends ) of her car. As she dug out the manual we know fuck all about cars
I’m grateful we both laughed so hard about the whole thing.
I’m grateful my daughter-in-law loved The few vintage Christmas ornaments I found for them on line to get them going on their first family, baby’s first, Christmas tree. They basically have nothing to hang on their tree and plan to accumulate special things over the years as their family grows.
I’m grateful for all of “Baby’s First.” Especially baby’s first Christmas Santa Snow Globe her Grandparents gave her for Christmas.
Going with 11 today. I’m grateful for The feeling my wife and I have for “Baby’s First,” Christmas and it has been the best Christmas ever. It’s the feelings that matter . That’s what this Christmas stuff is all about We are truly blessed to be alone during the Holidays and have loving, healthy, happy families from afar. And all our furr babies that we never leave for The Holidays.
If I learn to see everything with a fresh eye, I will find I have many reasons for contentment and gratitude. When I find myself being bogged down with negative thoughts, I will deliberately turn away from them.
Today’s reminder
ODAAT in Al-Anon.
Good morning! I’m grateful this morning I realize I need a new phone because it gets longer and longer between my gratitudes and I’m feeling a decline in my gratitude. I am so grateful to be waking up to my kids for the third weekend in a row. I’m grateful that my kids will be with me at my house for Christmas. I’m grateful for all the miracles that are happening. I’m grateful for the struggles too, for they make everything even more worthwhile. I’m so grateful to finally be graduating IOP next week. I have very much missed sleep. I’m grateful I’m so very close to gettibg my license back. I’m grateful that so much of the damage created by addiction is reversible with hard work.
I’m grateful that I still feel pretty unsatisfied with my life because it just keeps me pushing for more. I’m grateful, however, for this moment in which I can see just how far I’ve truly come since this time last year when I was not clean yet. What a difference 8 3/4 months can make.
I’m grateful that an olive branch has been extended to my sister, I’m grateful that I understand I can only control my actions, I cannot control hers, but Im grateful for my actions, all the same.
I hope you’re all enjoying this season. There’s so much to do and see with sober eyes.
Much love to you all.
Today I’m grateful my high emotions and nightmares will pass soon. F@$#cking menopausal hormons , I want to be done, finito, basta with this bleeding. The last months were so comfortable and quiet without. I’m grateful I know that my endless appetite, the anxiety, the crying, the feeling needy and craving for being loved were PMS bullshit. After today’s nightmares I even had a breakdown with an episode of suicidal thoughts. Went to the bathroom, discovered the arrival of bloody aunti and wanted to kill everything below my breasts
I’m grateful for pain medication. I’m grateful for a visit at a friend, we had a good talk and laughed a lot. I’m grateful I drove home safely allthough the weather was bad. I’m always nervous when driving under bad weather conditions. I’m happy to be home again and proud that I a) did not cancel the appointment and b) I overcame my anxiety to drive in bad weather. It turned out everything went fine and I’m very grateful for it.
I’m happy Schimanski runs to the door when someone is approaching! Never seen that before. Now I have a watchcat instead of a watchdog
I’m grateful for my cats, they are pure love.
I’m tired and I’m grateful that my cozy bed is waiting for me to cuddle into pillows and blankets. With cats. Missing my husband.
I too have missed sharing my gratitude over the last few days, I can tell. I also open the app many times a day to read, like and add to my journal. I too am 8 and 3/4 months sober. I’m so grateful for my life these days.
I’ve just watched a documentary about AA on the BBC, I’m grateful for where I am in my recovery. I’m grateful for all the ways to access support.
I’m grateful to read everyone’s shares
Evening gratitude…
I am grateful to have woken up this morning with my partner and when I said, “which affirmations would you like to start the day with?” he didn’t have a clue, " I don’t do them, teach me." he said. I am grateful that he has enough humility and is still teachable to learn something from me. I am grateful to have started this day with gratitude affirmations, grateful for the heat I felt them create in my core and for the smile I walked through my day with.
I am grateful to have seen the full spectrum of addiction tonight within 15 mins. From the addict in active addiction, a hunched-over Zombie swaying between the tables of McDonald’s with fentanyl coursing through his veins; to the two NA members who took cakes tonight in a room full of clean addicts in recovery. I am grateful for the 29 years and 33 years of clean time those two men have. I am grateful that they still come to meetings, sponsor men, do service work, and continue to show us newcomers that the program will work if you do the fucking work. I am grateful for the synchronicities tonight, the gentleman who took 33 years, cleaned up when he was 33 years old and there were 33 people in the room tonight.
I am grateful that things like that fill my soul.
I am grateful for the universe, and for the program of Narcotics Anonymous.
I am hopeful that the still-suffering addicts will one day find the strength to choose themselves.
I am hopeful that one day the still-suffering addicts will see that they don’t have to do this alone.
I am grateful that I don’t ever have to be alone again.
” and get it to the dealership and we should get it back this morning.
. That’s what this Christmas stuff is all about 
We are truly blessed to be alone during the Holidays and have loving, healthy, happy families from afar. And all our furr babies that we never leave for The Holidays.
, I want to be done, finito, basta with this bleeding. The last months were so comfortable and quiet without. I’m grateful I know that my endless appetite, the anxiety, the crying, the feeling needy and craving for being loved were PMS bullshit. After today’s nightmares I even had a breakdown with an episode of suicidal thoughts. Went to the bathroom, discovered the arrival of bloody aunti and wanted to kill everything below my breasts 
