Daily Gratitude, The Air Of Recovery #3

I am grateful to feel love
I am grateful for the yoga class today
I am grateful to go to bed now
I am grateful for relative safety
I am grateful for water, electricity and
internet connection

Love :heart:
Peace :white_flower:

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I’m grateful for 486 days of sobriety :yellow_heart:
I’m grateful I am making a home inside myself
I’m grateful I can be still and listen to my body
I’m grateful my heart is full and has no capacity
I’m grateful I feel appreciated at work
I’m grateful I beat off my cold before it hooked itself into me
I’m grateful for my routines
I’m grateful I never stop learning to let go and trust
I’m grateful fears can be overcome
I’m grateful detachment does not mean a lack of love
I’m grateful I can feel old habits finally falling away and new cycles being born
I’m grateful that hope has always had a place in my life, even in the darkest of times, I’ve never lost sight of it.
I’m grateful for life, just as it is :yellow_heart::hatched_chick:

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Things I’m grateful for today:
Adding another day sober to my counter.
My cats.
Coffee.
Quiet mornings.
A safe and cozy place to live.
Time with my boyfriend.
The people in my IOP group.
Feeling comfortable enough to share in group.
Time off work to focus on my health.

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Good morning sober fam,

Im so very greatful for…

My sobriety, 271 days of freedom
My husbands sobriety. It helps to not have him using around me.
My mom had a wonderful 70th birthday
She sent a love filled thank you via snail mail. She must have sent them the day after her party lol
A work from home day
Looking forward to a healthy lunch of baked chicken and brocolli
Its supposed to be near 40 today so Boscoe and i will take a couple walks
A productive day at work yesterday
A wonderful Ladies AA mtg last night
Boscoe didnt wake me up last night
No using dreams
Closing in on 9 months of sobriety
Those who relapse and share the message that we only have today. Long term sobriety isnt guaranteed and should be guarded
All of you!

Light and love to all on their sober journies

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I’m grateful to close out another wonderful sober trip, meeting my grandson. I’m grateful they let me hold him while they got to eat. I’m grateful I can understand their anxiety and that they don’t think I know what I’m doing. And that’s ok. I grateful I have the sober confidence to know what the fuck I’m doing with a ten day old. He’s has only been home a week.

I’m grateful my daughter laughed when I sent her and updated selfie from couch to kitchen while they were eating to show her he was breathing and his nose and mouth wasn’t blocked. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

I’m grateful when the new parents didn’t want us around I convinced my wife to stick with the facts. Even though we flew ALL the way out here, :grimacing: the fact is, wifey and I had a great mini vacation :blush: going to Santa Monica and Malibu beaches :desert_island: :ocean: instead of being butt hurt thinking made up scenarios about why they didn’t want us around and what we did wrong.

I’m grateful for my new family and they are going to be ok.

I’m grateful I got to buy Gus his first hoodie.
I’m grateful for the joy and gratitude the new Dad had on his face when we brought the hoodie home and the deep blue tie dye onesie. With matching hat. I’m grateful he’s going to be a great Dad to my grandson.

I’m grateful the visit is over and we get to go home and get the pets. I’m grateful we can space it out another month before we have to board them all again to go see Chonky Girl Norma.

I’m grateful I love being a grandpa. I was pretty scared of having children brought into this fucked up world. I still am. But I can be sober grandpa and use my tools to control the only thing I can control. Me. And how I look at things. I’m grateful I now know how to look at things and be grateful. It’s so much more fun.

See he’s breathing his nose and mouth isn’t blocked.


I’m grateful for that little shark.

:pray:t2::heart::older_man::baby:

”As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
James E. Faust

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I am grateful I can surprise myself. I do things, although maybe tiny ones which I wouldn’t have done some years ago. Calling people and clarifying things. Making my point and not giving in.
I called insurance company to tell them that I have no interest to change my diabetes stuff Provider. Maybe I was a but harsh but after calling them earlier this week and they told me the opposite of what was written in a letter I got today, I thought :thinking::face_with_symbols_over_mouth::rage:
I went to the cashier’s to ask back some money I paid for but didn’t have. I would have been too ashamed to do this given the low amount but it’s the tiny things I can grow as well.
I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful I have work.
I am grateful it’s the weekend.

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What is that? Grateful Guru Gumby :joy:
You been praying to Gumby all this time :scream:
Whatever works. I’m not judging :pray: insert Gumby emojis here.
:pray::pray::pray:

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Grateful to see Tucker again.
Give him a pet from me.
I’m grateful my daughter had Scrubs on TV in the background the last couple of days. It’s a great fun show to watch along side Greys Anatomy. Good laughs. I’ve watched every season of Grey’s since it started. Waiting to see if there’s a 20.

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Forgot to congratulate you on your 9 months SoberB.
Congratulations!!
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You are such a thoughtful caring addition to this great thread of gratitude.
Way to go Grandpa :older_man:
:pray:t2::heart::hugs:

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I am grateful when people take cleantime here, congrats Billy. :heart:

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Today I’m again grateful for my brain. For a productive day. For awareness of patterns that came through going through the finances. I’m grateful I recognize patterns when I see them. I’m grateful it’s not a big thing to change them in the future :pray:

I’m grateful I got derailed during my therapy appointment. We started on a topic and ended up on a completely different issue. I felt released after therapy :pray:

I’m grateful I brushed the red furball and gave the old boy a haircut on his bum :blush:

I’m grateful for delivery service and yummi Thai food. For tea in abundance. For a nap after lunch. For the meditation technique that is used in the military to fall asleep quickly, I think @Chiron posted it recently on another thread. It works for me and helped me fall asleep again at 4 a.m.

I’m grateful my co-dependent feelings are low today and I enjoy living alone with my 3 cats. I’m grateful for funny messages and memes I receive :blush:

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Thanks papa billy :wink:

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Yeah tucker is my parents dog … wish he was mine to be honest. He is such a good dog and very smart. He is about 2 years old and mostly just wants to have the zoomies outside and run around and eat anything he can find. One day I will have a dog of my own … hopefully a girl pitbull I can adopt.

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I’ll definitely give tucker a pet for you and tell him you said what’s up. Scrubs is a good show also … I forgot about that show… not sure about the future of Greys Anatomy but hopefully they keep making them. I have always loved hospital shows and I’m very interested in anything medical.

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I am grateful for my body,
as an airbnb for this time on earth.

Love :panda_face:

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Hello All and God bless.

Been missing you all. Ya you!!

I’m grateful that I have had a positive impact on people here and that many of you have done the same for me. That’s why I try to keep comimg back. I love you. Ya you!!

We are all worthy of love.

I am grateful that even though life got/gets hard beats me down and breaks my heart I know there is still light and love inside me trying to fight it’s way out. I’m grateful for the realization that during my last fiveish months of relapsing I have been acting like a childish addict instead of a recovered man. I’m grateful to God and that I said so on here daily for almost two and a half years because it proves what I already thought and discovered to be accurate, as many of you have as well, gratitude works wonders if you let it, throw in whatever higher power you want with that and boom goes the dynamite, you got a better life, how did or do I forget this stuff :thinking:
I am grateful for All my family, friends, TS
and the grati-dudes. I am grateful that I lost my job ten days ago back on the 17th, which would have been my three years clean date, that realization stung like a son if a B let me tell ya. Insead of a three year celebration I got fired :cry:. I am grateful that they told me they are marking it down as a lay off so I can apply for employment insurance. I am grateful they suggested I get my shit together and come back next harvest which is in roughly August. I am grateful that I had a few tough talks with my parents and sister lately having to tell them just before Christmas that I had been relapsing and just today I came clean about my job. I am grateful they took it as well as they did. I am grateful for music sooo much music, got my t.v. all the way up to 100 listening to the classic rock jem All right now. baby its alright alright alright its alright now . Now some AC/DC I am grateful I saw AC/DC in concet back in the 90s Excuse me while I take a dance break :joy: I am grateful for humor and laughter. I am grateful for the twelve steps. I am grateful for my beautiful apartment that I have managed to keep looking brand new since I moved in on the 27th of June. I am grateful my friends invited me to join them and their kids earlier today on the local snow tobogganing hill. Lots of fun watching the kids laughing and sliding down the snowy hill, I went down once, it was a combination of scary and fun it’s a pretty big hill. I am grateful that I have my neighbors pup sitting here with me. I am grateful some of you will remember me mentioning stella before heres a new photo of her and me right now.

Lmao thats a good one.

I am grateful to have found a way to get clean and sober before so here’s hoping to find it again, I will pray that tomorrow I can truly post that I am on day one because sadly I am still not there yet. This post helps get a few things off my chest.

God bless you all. :v: & :heart:

p.s. Don’t forget to smile and breathe, it feels good. Ya you.

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We’ll keep the light on for you @I.cant.We.can

You can do it. Yay you!

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This is fantastic and I am grateful you shared it.

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Grateful to see you Brian. Thanks for bringing Stella. Great selfie.
I hope to see you around.
:pray::heart:

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We are here for you :orange_heart: You had such a big impact on me when I was joining the gratitude thread. I’m overall grateful for you, @Dazercat @Its_me_Stella @Bootz @anon74766472 and others I don’t remember at the moment (it’s early and I’m still a bit dizzy from sleeping but the old boy miows for food and snuggles). Your posts incuraged me to come back, reading, posting, staying connected and yes: smiling and breathing. :pray:
The picture of Stella and you is :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
Do the work, sobriety is worth it. YOU are worth it. I pray for you and light a candle :candle:

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