Today has been abit hard for gratitude to come naturally to me. But there is one major thing im grateful for:
The time i get to spend with my son because im clean and sober. Both me and my son were on our knees making a snowman today. I love him sooo much! Sooo beyond grateful for my recovery today 
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Happy Saturday evening from Wisconsin!
This evening, like every evening, I’m grateful to be sober and to have had another one day at a time.
I’m grateful to have been included in a wedding dress shopping trip with my niece, my sister and my mother this afternoon. We had a lovely time and she got a fantastic gown for her special day.
I’m grateful to have enough clarity in my decision and several great coping strategies to avoid drinking the red wine that the ladies all had with their dinner out after the shopping. Not gonna lie, I could smell that rich red wine like a delicious invitation to trouble. I breathed calmly and with a sense of victory over my several cups of chamomile tea. I’m grateful to be home now and sober. I’m strong and I’m free.
I’m grateful to be healthy and live in a safe and loving home.
I’m grateful to be on a pretty healthy sleeping and early rising routine. I got to the pool three times this week and swam a total of 150 lengths of the pool. That is over 2 miles this week!
I’m grateful to have work that I mostly enjoy and to have learned about some new things to help me in my work.
I’m grateful to have less anxiety and more patience in my work life. I’m a bit manic this week but not nearly as anxious as I used to be in this part of the cycle when I was drinking.
I’m grateful to be another week through winter and to have seen a bit more of the sun this week. Spring is just around the corner and I’m looking forward to more pirate adventures!
I hope you are all safe and strong in your sobriety. I wish you well.
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Hi Stella,. Beautiful post Stella , very grateful for this /for u. Going to listen to the empath message tonight right after my post at the dish pit 
. Keep soaring Stella!
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Beautiful post Eric, Ty so much I needed this :. )
I’ll start checking those meditations os yours too. 
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I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful for a quiet Sunday.
I am grateful I have a home, work to go to, food in the fridge.
I am grateful I can breathe and walk. I am grateful for insulin.
I am proud I made it one whole week without caffeine.
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Morning
Congrats to @Nowenbrace, exciting!
So grateful this morning to wake up feeling refreshed and looking forward to the day.
The sun is shining and I can hear birds on my window feeder, beautiful.
I’m grateful my partner joined me in stopping drinking, his hangovers used to take him out for a couple of days. So glad all that is in the past.
Grateful to have a day ahead of me doing just what I want, might do a bit in the garden.
We’ve booked a couple of nights away in our caravan, we go on Friday afternoon, can’t wait.
Grateful to be part of this gang 
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I am grateful for a slow start into this sunday. Sitting here on my couch, with a warm morning beverage by my side and the sun falling through the windows on the dust bunnies in the corners. It makes me think of a postcard I saw on a friend’s fridge: where there is dust, there is peace 
I am grateful I understood something about myself yesterday. While I am quite good at organizing the extraordinary and draw a lot of energy from it, I don’t really know just yet how to make every day life and the routine that comes with it as fulfilling. I creates a feeling of restlessness and dissatisfaction - something covered with alcohol for too long and now it is resurfacing. I am grateful there is still so much more to learn about how to build the life I want to be living. Doing it like everything else. Step by step.
I am grateful for the ideas I get from all of your gratitudes, gratidudes . 
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Today I am grateful for forgiveness, health and peace. I am grateful for long replenishing sleep and long Sunday mornings. I am grateful to be able to search for quit lit in this forum and find a long list posted years ago. I have learned that for me having a book about recovery and healing always at my fingertips is a huge necessity for my “toolbox.” I am grateful for the sunshine today and for living amidst so many hiking trails and waterfalls to explore and work through whatever is on my mind. I’m grateful for all of your shares and posts and wish all a peaceful day.
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Good morning all,
I’m grateful for a good sleep. I’m grateful for a quiet start to the day. I’m grateful to watch the sun come up from my rocking chair. I’m grateful for the simplicity of my life now. I’m grateful for love and forgiveness.
Everyone have a wonderful day
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Good morning sober fam,
Im so very greatful for…
My sobriety 280 days
Consistent weightloss, down about 12lbs since 5 weeks ago
A wonderful, action packed saturday
2 walks yesterday
Starting my workouts today
My amazing hubby, who occasionally does the dishes
Boscoe loves walks
Got big ticket items reserved for our girls trip in april
Ability to buy groceries despite prices
Ordered a new sports bra
Motivation
Hope
Joy
Waking up hangover free
This forum
Everyone here
We can do this, one day at a time.
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Today I’m so grateful to be sober. A friend of my bf’s died, and I’m grateful to be here and sober and ready to do whatever needs to be done to help him through what I imagine will be an unpleasant morning. The past year seems like it has been littered with deaths of his friends, mostly acquaintances to me (I’m pretty friendly to everyone but super stingy with friendship), who’ve died too soon. There but for the grace of God etc. Maybe this is my new normal as I get older, and the people around me age, and since I drank so much I surrounded myself with people who have similar substance abuse issues this is to be expected? Either way it sucks and the man I love is sad, and I’m sad that his friends are dying so young, and sad that there was a lot of love and happiness that future that these people are missing out on. Wait this isn’t gratitude (shakes self like a wet dog)
I’m grateful to be sober. I’m grateful for the love, light, friendship, family, new experiences and joy in my life and still in my future. I’m grateful to have a future, and a future worth working for, thanks to my sobriety. I’m grateful to be able to take care of my loved ones, and to know that being sober makes me the best of myself. I’m grateful to wake up each morning not hungover, and able to manage my anxiety, and to give my dogs kisses and start my day with a groan and a grin.
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Today I am grateful the sun is shining. 
Grateful for Polly’s 
home shampoo and blow dry.
Grateful to watch Rita 
running around, just fitting in perfectly, like she’s was always been here with us.
Grateful for putting chicken casserole on early so it’s just there cooking itself.
Grateful to have access to nice food.
Grateful for the little bits of re organising I did this morning.
Grateful to feel the dark cloud that’s been hovering over me the past few weeks is clearing away, and I feel more positive and hopeful for the future.
Gratefull for documentarys and being able to keep learning.
Grateful for the feeling like my Guides and Angels are watching over me, standing with me, letting me know their here helping me hold my chin up to and stay strong, and to know to retreat and just stop the running around in my head… Give my head a break… it deserves it.
Grateful for my Guides and Angels telling me it’s okay to stop and retreat and I’ll come back to it all no doubt, but my head will be clearer, with clear energy flowing.
Grateful to have been able to begin that connection.
Grateful I am sober to notice and be present for all these things and many more 
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I’m grateful for the power and strength I find in gratitude to start my day.
I’m grateful for all the gratitude I think of in the morning.
—while letting out the dogs and seeing the beautiful full moon over the Carefree, Yep, they’re called the Carefree mountains. Just down the Carefree Highway. Next door, in Carefree AZ. Sounds like a good place to have a carefree gratitude convention. 
I’ll make the coffee. 
—while bringing the dogs in and seeing Mavy’s smiling face through the window at the wet bar. It’s a coffee bar now. Mavy is always wondering why I go outside with those dogs 
before feeding him.
—while getting to feed the cats as they bash into me.
—while finally getting to feed the patiently lovingly waiting puppas.
—while doing my meditations in the morning.
—while reading my recovery books.
I’m grateful when I come here I feel like I have a clean slate and get to be grateful for shit all over again. And some of its different.
I’m grateful my morning meditation inadvertently took me to the beach in Maui and I couldn’t leave. I was stuck there. Poor me. I’m grateful during the intentions and affirmations part of the meditation I was like. What’s she jibber jabbering about while I’m on this beach? I’m grateful I eventually joined in on the intentions and affirmations while on that beach.
I’m grateful the barkapoolza fest couldn’t even get me off that beach.
I’m grateful all my meditation work is paying off.
I’m grateful my mind is planning a trip to Hawaii in the future.
I’m grateful for the very uncomfortable feeling of total surrender yesterday. It wiped me out physically and mentally.
trigger warning
I debated writing this. And I assure you I’m ok.
But yesterday was like. Suicide (that’s not an option) or Divorce or Surrender. I grateful I put this out here. Again. I assure you I’m fine. But feeling that total surrender was a good uncomfortable feeling. Very unnerving. I’m grateful I got way too fucking much to live for. I’m grateful maybe my day wasn’t wasted after all yesterday. Even though I did absolutely nothing.
I’m grateful we had so much fun at Kathleen Madigan last night. She’s so fucking funny. She even made fun of my Canuck friends 
(y’all are like Americas attic. And we got a lot of good stuff up there that we forgot we had.) And we had the best pizza ever before the show. I’m grateful I remembered the last time we had pizza there my daughter was in labor and actually gave birth to Gus 20 days ago.
I’m grateful to share with you guys.
“I am so grateful that surrender had taught me to willingly participate in life’s dance with a quiet mind and an open heart.”
Michael A. Singer
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Today I’m grateful for reading around a lot here on TS. Maybe it’s the full moon, I’ve been struggling with my emotions for the last days. Thank you @Dazercat for bringing up surrender and grief. I worked on letting go and surrender on the weekend because there is nothing more I can do than working on me. I also want to be more kind and loving with myself, I noticed this nagging voice again telling me all the mean things my ex used to call me. NO! It’s ok to rest on sunday and leave chores for monday. It’s fine to cuddle the cats for hours. It’s sad that I feel and am fat but I’m not suffering enough to take serious action about it. I don’t have the nerves for it, I’m still restoring my mental health and my energy, I’m still processing the losses of last year and I could scream fuck off at this dammed nagging voice in my head. I’m grateful this shall pass.
I’m grateful for cuddling, purring cats, for leftovers and sandwiches, for light blabla on TV, for being in bed sober, for sunshine today, for the full moon shining bright, for books, for automatic lights, for yummi juice, for being at home and don’t having to leave the house. I’m grateful I felt not too alone today allthough I’m crying at the moment. Might be overemotional, I’m already tired and miss saying good night to my mum and my ex. I sound like a cracked disk record.
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I’m grateful that when faced with something hard I choose love and surrender.
I’m grateful that even though I felt on edge today. I did my best to be kind and gentle with myself.
I’m grateful for genuine smiles.
I’m grateful for new starts and new butterflies.
I’m grateful that there’s beauty in everything, even in endings.
I’m grateful I let go at my own speed.
I’m grateful I’m learning to fill myself with love and comfort.
I’m grateful for laughter.
I’m grateful for the full moon, even if I’m feeling a bit off kilter.
Maybe that’s a good thing 
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Love you
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Im greatful i walked with a sober sister for 45min today in the sunshine. And i just completed my first workout in a very long time. Yay me. Woman of action
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Good for you taking action! Walking in the sunshine is one of my favorite things to do! I dragged my son along with me today, and he actually enjoyed it too.
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Lol i dragged a friend walking. Its more fun walking and talking sometimes. Im glad you had that time with your son
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I’m grateful for a good solid sleep. A lie in, as Pinky put it, I think! Took my coffee back to bed this morning and let my energy stores continue to replenish.
I’m grateful the lab was open on Sunday and I could get bloodwork done today. I’m grateful for the lovely gab I had with the lab tech. I’m grateful I can mostly be present now, open to these spontaneous moments of delightful human connection.
I’m grateful I’m more in tune with my needs, and that these trump others’ expectations. Some peeps might be let down, but I haven’t let them down. Grateful to know there’s a difference. Grateful I can learn to communicate my needs and decisions with compassion.
I’m grateful for the fun I had, timing young x-country skiers last week. Dang, some of them can skate ski 5km in the time it takes me to pull up my socks and put on my ski boots. Grateful for one young skier who showed me it’s less about what we do and more about how we do it. Needed that reminder, young skier. Grateful for you.
I’m grateful for another day.
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