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.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for being his rescue person.
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!! 
Happy Saturday morning
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.
Ahhh!! I love this!! Thank you!
10 days!! That’s a giant first step. And in my opinion it is the hardest. Keep going!
Before too long this will be your new normal!
Today I’m grateful for having a better way to live!!
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❤️
” and get it to the dealership and we should get it back this morning.
) of her car. As she dug out the manual 
we know fuck all about cars
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.
. 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 
I’m grateful for the socked-in kind of day it is. For the long sleep - I needed it. For the frost coating every tree, shrub, and even the tall grasses outside my window. I’m grateful I might not leave the house today (I know this is how the calf was fattened, but a day or two here and there can’t hurt!) - it will be sunset at 3:45pm, after all. 
I’m reflecting on this time last year. To whoever broke into my basement storage unit? I still think about you…
You could see my car booster pack/jump starter, and I think it called to you first - worth a couple hundred bucks and still in the box. (And I hadn’t used it once. It came with more cautions than a viagra commercial, so the few times my old putt-putt needed a boost I called motor vehicles or a friend.) No real loss, but I felt so intruded on and looked to see what else was missing…
Because it was only a few weeks before Christmas, I had some Christmas things handy too. A large Christmas gift bag with wrap in it, and those gifts you get where, if you’re minimalist me, you (confession) re-gift: ho-ho-ho mugs, socks with reindeer, etc. Things from well-meaning co-workers and neighbours who don’t really know me. You took that bag. You needed gifts to give. It softened me to you.
I could see you went through my bag of old clothes and as you took nothing, I think you must be male. You took nothing else.
I reported the incident to my condo managers as I’m supposed to, who filed it with the cops but obviously petty theft isn’t high on anyone’s list of unsolved cases. One of the staff with the condo management association said there was a halfway house nearby - you know, for alcoholics - and that it was probably someone from there. I had, about a month earlier, set down 16 months of sobriety and picked up a wine glass, and one month in - I was struggling to moderate. I wanted to punch her for not understanding us. That is, if you’re even an alcoholic. But I didn’t say anything.
A few days later I realized the backpack was missing. The one that used to be my Dad’s. He had died about 3 and half years ago, at that point. I thought I would use the day pack, and I tried to, but a heavy combination lock was looped to one side and Dad had taken the code with him. It still makes me laugh. You took that too, and I’m grateful to you for it. I’ve had a year to come to terms with needing to let go of some other things of Dad’s (in different, more secure storage). They need to be used, after all, and I am not a packrat, never have been. I wish I could give you first dibs on those things.
To whoever broke into my storage unit last year? I hope you are doing better this year.
I’m grateful for the roof over my head. That I have more than enough. That I have never had to steal. That I get to recover - 5 months 3 days today.
I’m grateful for another day.
Hello,
today I am grateful for being clean, for getting up motivated to live life.
today I am grateful for the love of my family and my higher power.
Today I am grateful for having the confidence and showing myself, taking on challenges in my work,
today I am grateful for having a plate on the table, for having a job in difficult times,
today I am grateful for continuing to learn. to stay clean,
today I am thankful for feeling like a winner. I love today’s reflection December 10, Narcotics Anonymous Book Winners: Just for Today.
Just for today I feel serenity and calm in my head thanks to not using.
Good night
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.
I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful for the nice day yesterday with friends.
I am grateful my laptop is back to life. Now with win11. Didn’t even know of this version. I hope my laptop can handle it.
I am grateful I could say out loud that I hate asking for help so often. My friends couldn’t understand. Maybe in a couple you don’t count asking you partner for help as such. For me it was an overwhelming feeling in the last weeks to overcome. To: fuuuuuuck, I have to ask again for help because I don’t know how or cannot do it all alone.
I am grateful for a new blanket. I tried a weighing blanket. Let’s see if it really improves my sleep. I already slept until 6 am 
I am grateful I don’t drink. I was thinking that being happy on a Saturday afternoon on a Christmas market is only possible for longer than 15 min if you already have considerable amounts of Glühwein in your system. For me there is no other explanation possible.
I am grateful I have enough.
Haha Franzi, I love it when you swear. 
Grateful for your gartitude to go to sleep with. Nini. xxx