Me too!! Actual relaxing. Not chasing the bottle and recovering.
Look at us go!
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Iām grateful I can separate my feelings of worthiness from other peoples behavior.
Iām grateful for a poetry book I have that says:
Once you realize
everything
everyone
thinks,
says
and does
is just a reflection
of themselvesā¦
You stop taking things personally.
Iām grateful I can be kind and loving and not internalize when someone I love is closing me out.
Iām grateful that this takes practice. That itās really triggering for me. Iām grateful that I will not drink it away or let it become a part of me. Rather love myself extra and let it go.
I am grateful for the little miracles in my day.
Iām grateful I woke up.
Iām grateful I love and feel love every day.
Iām grateful for laughter.
Iām grateful I can be silly.
Iām grateful for yummy food. Iām grateful it gives me energy to do all the things I love.
Iām grateful for stillness, for living in the moment.
Iām grateful that when I feel overwhelmed I can take a deep breath and remind myself that Iām ok and to trust the process 
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I know I sound like a broken record, but am I ever grateful I ended up not travelling. I didnāt realize how much I just needed some unstructured downtime. Grateful I can take this time without over-filling it with activity or to-do-list-ing. (Or, yes, putting myself on a wine drip.)
Iām grateful I did some adulting today. I was feeling grumbly about needing new winter tires, but I got them today and wow! Iām grateful I have cash in the bank to buy these things. (I had to be at the appointment by 9am though, and I havenāt had to be anywhere before mid-afternoon the last 5 days. Lord love me, getting out the door on time was like leaving for a months-long transatlantic voyageā¦)
Iām grateful I have 5 more slow days ahead of me. Some more adulting on the paperwork front, getting my consultancy books caught up for Jan. Also have to have a few tough conversations about boundaries, and not avoid them. But I will do these with naps and walks and chats and yoga and snacks and fun stuff too.
Speaking of funā¦ Iām grateful we have so much of it right here! The t-shirt made my day, @Soberbilly! All but three of the stuffies of my youth have long moved on, but George is a keeper. He arrived when I turned seven. Thatād make him 45 yrs old now, so itās understandable that his eyesightās not what it used to be, but his company is as good as ever. (Still grateful, M and D. Always.)
I hope itās okay with you all if he and the Man with the Yellow Hat are honorary Gratidudes?
Iām grateful for my recovery.
Iām grateful for another day. 
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Iām grateful to meet you and yours, and see your lovely surroundings, LAB!
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Late morning gratitude. Iām happy and grateful @M-be-free49 has a good, relaxing down time with a bit of adulting 
I feel with you. You exactly packed in words how I feel
Iām grateful I slept in. Again. Iām still in bed - itās 10 a.m. here - because Miss Marple sleeps on me. Iām grateful thereās nothing I must do. Iām enjoying these days between christmas and new year so much. Iām grateful I donāt spend them crying, feeling sad or depressed. Maybe this peace of mind and soul is the result of a lot of therapy and working on myself. Maybe itās because over time everything changes. Maybe I found relief through the insight that life as I knew it is finally and officially over. Dealing with facts is fine, what stresses the hell out of me is this back and forth, this uncertainty I had to live with. Iām grateful for facts 
Iām grateful for another lazy day and that I will do some adulting, a little bit. Iām grateful Iām allowed to relax as much as I want and when I hear the nagging voice in my head I pet a cat until the voice is purred away. Iām grateful for my quality of life.
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Grateful for sobriety
Grateful for healthy kids
Grateful to be a little more productive today
Grateful for walks with the family
Grateful for free veggies
Grateful for nice smelling body lotion
Grateful my book review was accepted to a publication
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Grateful I took the dog around the neighborhood on this balmy 30+ degree morning, he seems to be enjoying himself so much more on our walks these days. Grateful for the quiet, and grateful I made it to the bus on time lol. Grateful not to feel fearful of the future so much anymore, and grateful to be excited to do things and see people.
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Grateful for an open water swim with my brother.
Grateful for a cup of hot tea and a warm sweater after the swim.
Grateful for a good nightās sleep.
Grateful I have not been hungover since March.
Grateful to build my resolve to not drink this New Yearās eve. It will be a special one, this year.
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- Iām grateful I can/could just sit here and feel, then concentrate, on Bensonās warm beating heart on my lapā¦ā¦
ā¦ā¦ā¦.What a nice little grounding exerciseā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ - Iām grateful last night around 9 I was able to fix the loose door handle to out back. Only because I was sober. That would have waited until tomorrow, if I remembered, or the next day.
- Iām grateful my, not handy, but sober brain, thought it would be so much easier to tighten it up while itās still together as opposed to trying to fix it if it fell off.
- Iām grateful for the little things like that
- Iām grateful my wife and I had fun walking to the club in the snow for lunch yesterday. We felt like kids on a snow day from school.
- Iām grateful Iām not a bar fly anymore. Iāve lost my wings. That easily could have been us having lunch cocktails at the bar until happy hour. It was us. Almost every fucking day.
- Iām grateful instead I made us stop for a fun selfie in the snow on the walk home. Donāt tell my wife
but it did make me think of a gratidudetteās snow angel selfie a 
couple of winters back M 
. - Iām grateful I shared the selfie with our grown up children group text and they thought we were āadorable.ā
(My wife does not do selfies.) - Im grateful when my wife asked āwhy do people take selfies?ā I was just able to say āit feels good.ā āItās FUN!
- Iām grateful for fun snow days with my wife, whether sheās drinking or not. As long as Iām not, itās all good! Itās Grrrrrreat!!!
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent it changes the world you see.
Dr Robert Holden
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Thanks for that fun reminder! It made me chuckle just thinking about it. 
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Hey sober fam,
Im so very greatful forā¦
My sobriety
My hubby
Boscoe
My folks
Sober sisters
AA mtgs
Motivation
Hope
Faith in the universe
A walk with my sober sister
About to work my 11th and 12th step with my sponsor
Ladies mtgs
Meditation and prayer
Feeling like i am one with the universe
Of course, this place and all of you
Peace light and love
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Happy Thursday
Iām grateful my favorite author put out a new book. Iām grateful I treated myself and ordered it.
Iām grateful I can love people without the need to control their perception or the outcome.
Iām grateful just loving someone is the the gift.
Iām grateful Iāve been taking good care of myself. That I make it a priority now. Especially when Iām feeling low. I use to put so much energy into others hoping they could fill me back up. Instead I drained myself and constantly looked to others to make me feel whole.
Iām grateful Iām learning to do that for myself. To love myself until full. Iām grateful I am really good at it.
Iām grateful for my life right now.
Iām grateful I had dinner with my mom tonight.
Iām grateful I love E and always will, even as we grow.
Iām grateful for all the silly days at work. Iām grateful Iām seen and heard there.
Iām grateful for my sensitivity, my empathy and that I remind myself that my heart and my feelings are my super power.
Iām grateful for hot tea and candles.
Iām grateful for late night walks.
Iām grateful for my sobriety 
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BOSCOEEEEEE. lol @Soberbilly you crack me up. Im greatful you are a part of this wonderful sober tribe!
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I am grateful for my cleantime and I am grateful that I can make a longer list tomorrow. I am tired.
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Grateful for sobriety
Grateful for good kids who do their best, and give me genki when I need it
Grateful for the chance to be social
Grateful for kindness of aquaintances
Grateful for cute sweater
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Iām grateful for the snow that fell off and on all day. There was almost no wind, so it had a calming effect. Big flakes that seemed to be just moseying down from the cloudy sky. Beautiful.
Iām grateful that the software support call I had scheduled today went well. (The accounting software I used 6 yrs ago, to track hours and invoice clients, has been hugely updated since.) I usually put these kinds of things off and dread them as they approach. Iām grateful the two fellows on the phone were so pleasant and patient and helpful. (They called me maāam and I didnāt mind a bit!) Just typing this, I realize that when the call was done, I exhaled, felt good, and that was enough. Iām pretty sure in the before time, Iād have cracked something to reward myself. And the day may have derailed to varying degrees from there. Iām grateful that wasnāt today, and doesnāt ever need to be any other day ever again.
Iām grateful for the meeting tonight. We were reading about Wise Intention, and something reminded me so much of the beautiful poem that @Callie posted : āThis means that how we think about another person isnāt based on their behaviour, or even on the other person at all. How we think about a person is up to us ā and if itās shaped by the practice of metta, then we can care about ever personās well-being, even the most difficult and unpleasant people we know.ā
Not everyone out there is a Gratidudeā¦ Iām grateful for new tools, for metta, and the opportunities to use them.
Iām grateful it wasnāt all adulting today! @Dazercat and @Lisa07, I canāt find the pic of my sober snow angel, but hey - Iāll do another if you do one too? We can start a new thread! The neighbours might think Iām back on the bottle, but Iāll just send āem some metta.
Iām up too late. Iām grateful I get to sleep in if I can.
Iām grateful for another day.
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Oh @erntedank! Every word youāve written the last few weeks has struck a chord with me! Circumstances for each of us have made this Christmas different, thereās no question, but as you so perfectly share, thereās beauty in the solitude, in connecting with pals near and afar, in the way the holidays stretch out like they did when I was a kid.
Iām especially grateful for your wisdom and words right hereā¦
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Morning,
Iām grateful to be on holiday and travelling home today.
Every day that weāve been here Iāve said to myself āIām SO glad I dont drinkā. I wouldāve been queuing at the pool bar at 10am and probably got myself 2 beers each time (small glasses) then moved onto cocktails, fallen asleep mid afternoon. Been a total idiot in front of my daughters.
I am sooo grateful I am where I am.
Iām grateful for 2 more firsts, Christmas and an all inclusive holiday.
Iām grateful for not wanting to drink.
Iām grateful to catch up here.
Iām grateful to be going home.
Iām grateful 
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Grateful today is Friday, despite being only a four-day week itās feeling loooong. Grateful to have a loving, kind and supportive family, grateful to be able to spend new years with them, and grateful my anxiety is diminished enough to be able to look forward to it without (very many) irrational fears. Grateful and ready to put 2022 behind me; there were good times, there were bad times, there were fucking awful times and Iām ready to move on. Iām grateful to be able to look forward to 2023, grateful to be hopeful and optimistic.
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I found it and I laughed just as hard today as I did then .
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