- Grateful for my 397 days clean and sober
- Grateful for God for just making everything go soooo smoothly today. I had errands to run today after having literally no sleep last night due to no homecare for my son and today my bus connections were good, everything was where it needed to be, no one was rude, people were helpful. My errands went very well and super quickly and im grateful for that
- Grateful for my husband treating me to lunch bcuz again i was sooo tired and didnt feel like cooking once home
- Grateful for the spring-like weather
- Grateful for the pizza im going to eat for supper
- Grateful for homecare tonight (hopefully)
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Boom! Way to gooooooo @Dakotahjae so happy for you and all those 365days! Youve grown so much and have been an awesome contributor to this forum.
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Congratulations on your year!! Im grateful to be part of your Gratitude Posse!
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[quote=āmaxwell, post:1451, topic:157997,
" I may feel better at the moment, but unless I continued 24/7 until I die, itās not the answer.ā
Stripped right down. What a powerful and poignant thought. Yes, yes, yes.
We trade a moments reprieve for complete and total hijacking of our brains and souls. Broken down like that it doesnt sound like such a good deal, huh? Brilliant, @maxwell.
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I replied and congratulated you earlier already but honestly hadnāt read your lovely post yet. Thanks for being here and sharing your journey.
May your higher power give you strength.
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Brian, thank you. Im so glad youāre here. Its been so much fun to pop on here throughout the day and see all of yalls gracious posts and congratulations. This community of gratitude (herein referred to as my gratitude posse) has added the most fabulous dimension to my recovery. A giant thanks to all of you for taking the time to train our hearts and minds. Im so grateful that this shit works! Much love and gratitude to each and every one of you fighting this fight with me. We are victorious.
*edited to spell posse correctly. Lol
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I love this! I know you enrich their lives just as they enrich yours and you enrich and are enriched by those here at TS.
Grateful for enrichment. 
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Congratulations on your 1 year clean Darcy. Youāre a beautiful miracle. I just loved your share.
Gratitude Posse 
I love this so much. Iād love to see your sponsor after you showed her your gratitude skills. Iām so dang happy for you and itās been such a pleasure following your journey on here. You have always been a boost to me on here with your shares. You always show me such strength. God bless you. And your girls and even that car of yours.
I hope you get some ice cream with that cake of yours tonight.
Treat yourself.
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Iām grateful to my higher power for guiding me through a rocky day and allowing me to remain, clean and sober. Iām grateful for All my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes. Iām grateful for the serenity prayer.
Iām grateful that I acknowledge my part in confusing and emotioanlly hurting a woman. I can do, and know better. She is 14 years older than me, what kind of expectations she had. She is smarter than me, I am a healthy enough human to admit that. She owned a business and has a University degree, I have done none of that. But I have lived and survived a hell of a life. I am not going to be a victim anymore, Iām a survivor. She is newish to my area, less than a year. Primarily the only thing she isnāt wiser than me on is recovery. She is stubborn and condescending and too smart for her own good. She is angry and in denial. I tried to help as she has been isolated a bit by the community here and I have susccessfully helped people through that before. She brought me down to her level today, all the negativity, I appoligize. Being only recently back to working a solid program. I donāt care if that sounds arrogant. I know my shit, I know my current self, I have the courage to change, whatever and whenever things become stagnant or unhealthy. Itās fucking hard though, you all know that. She should know that. Calls me a liar, untrustworthy and a predator. Fuck you. I have changed. I have been some of those thingās, not all of them, certainty not a predator. Iām a flirt yes, Iām single, charasmatic, confident, somewhat intelligent, dare I say handsome , be jealous then but donāt try to detroy my reputation, name and any credibility I have fought hard to earn back, yet again. I treat myself and otherās pretty darn good and with love and respect. Even when Iām active in my addictions and sick Iām largely that same way. I treated her that way ahhhhh
Ok back to gratitude.
Iām grateful for my sponsor. Iām grateful for music. Iām grateful I can cook. Iām grateful its Saint Patrick day, I am tired and angry yet give zero fucks or have zero thoughts towards picking up any kind of booze or drugs that shit is so yesterday itās not even funny. Iām grateful for humor and laughter. Iām grateful for what I think are two funny you tubers, Ryan George and Julie Nolke. Their stuff makes me smile and laugh often, gonna have to watch some more after this. Iām grateful I got my fathers ring back from the jewlers today I feel so fancy wearing jewelry and even saying I have a jeweler, who am I. Lmao Oh ya Iām the guy who just claimed to know himself earlier in this post 
Iām grateful for messages from my sister and mother today. Iām grateful that I attended an awesome celebration for a gentlemanās 39 year sober celebration yesterday. My current addiction counselor was the speaker. Iām grateful said gentleman are both supportive of me and consider me a friend. They are encouraging me to get back to school that I have let slip away for a while. Me choosing to go back to work and falling off the wagon for a while hasnāt helped. Dissapointed myself in hindsight that I didnāt advocate for the funding and my seat in the college program I was accepted too last fall. Progress yet again, not perfection like the aforementioned woman is stuck in. As am I at times, takes one to know one. Iām hungry too. Uh oh hungry angry lonely and tired. Better eat a bit, shower, this post and vent helped. Meditate and get some sleep soon. thanks for letting me share.
May our higher powers give us strength.
p.s. I am not in love with you, but I absolutely love you. Ya you!!
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Congratulations warrior. So grateful you found us so we can be apart of your amazing journey.
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Good evening.
Kiddo: āI love you.ā
Me: āI love you too. 
"
Kiddo: (still looking at me smiling)
Me: āWhat?ā
Kiddo: " I guess i am morbidly gratefulā¦ā
Me: " How so?"
Kiddo: " Im just grateful youre in bed with me watching tv, not sitting on your computer drunk, or dead. "
Me: " Thats not morbid, thats just grateful."
I am grateful for both those things too.
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Good morning all!
Iām grateful to be sober. I have 505 days!
Iām grateful for the weekend. This teacher is tired and needs some rest.
Iām grateful for my hot coffee and comfy chair this morning.
Iām grateful to have a loving marriage. Sobriety is good for us. Letās just say the hubby and I are doing well.
Iām grateful to be finally adjusted a week after the clocks changed last weekend. This change was hard on me because I have such a solid sleep routine. Itās better now, so next week I should do well again at good sleep and better exercise.
Iām grateful that winter is almost over. I live in Wisconsin where we experience a full range of climate. I like change, and ending winter leads to our most beautiful times of year here.
Iām grateful to have learned that my younger son just got a promotion at his job. My older son also recently got a promotion. Iām a proud mama that they have grown into independent and kind men.
Iām grateful to have read an adorable book last weekend that inspired me to order myself a sketch pad and some colored pencils. I know nothing about drawing and have no experience. But Iām going to end one hand written journal Iāve been keeping since March of 2020, and shift my journaling from the Pandemic experience to Seeking Peace and Joy.
My pandemic journal is not only about the pandemic, but also sees my final 18 months of struggles with drinking, then my decision to go for sobriety, and some of my experiences in the first 18 months of that work.
Iām excited to try to learn to do some sketching and shift my writing voice there to amplify the journey to peace and joy. Iām grateful to have the time and space in my life for that.
Iām grateful for this forum and for all of you. I wish you peace today and joy in the journey to freedom.
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Good morning grateful friends.
Iām grateful to be on day 70 sober.
Iām grateful to be up early and having time to myself before my bf gets up. We were really getting on each others nerves yesterday. Today is a new day.
I was reminded by my online journal that ten years ago today I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Iām incredibly grateful to have survived and remain cancer free since. I had an amazing surgeon and treatment team. The physical recovery was a lot easier than the mental one.
Im grateful my online journal has that feature to see what I wrote this day in past years. Iām reminded how awful and ashamed I felt every night when I drank too much. All the way back in 2019 I knew I had a problem. Iām so grateful that I finally admitted it and got help.
Iām grateful itās the weekend and I can mostly just rest and relax.
ODAAT
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Good morning sober fam!
Im so very greatful forā¦
My sobriety, 321 days of freedom
Extra time with the hubby last night
No FOMO
In bed at a reasonable hour
Convos with my coworkers
Its saturday!
Going to a mtg and lunch with a newbie
I love being the welcome wagonā¦give what was so freely given to me
Boscoe only woke me up once last night
My folks
My family
AA fellowship
Groceries and new recipes
Healthy eating
My hubby who i love to tears
My hubbys sobriety
@KarenKW 70 days!
@Dakotahjae whole 365!
All of you and this amazing community!
Peace and love to us all
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Hi Brian!
Iām happy to see you here. 
Me personally, Iāve cut all negative people out of my life, and left an extremely toxic marriage. I remember the name calling, the constant lies, he tried so hard to bring me down to his level, and in reality, he did, for many years wasted.
Iād rather be alone then deal with that ever again. I wish you the best my friend!
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I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful I manage to do things on my own.
I am grateful I got on my bike today for a longer ride at the same time like @Mno 
I am grateful I can now chill.
I am grateful that I have only mimimi first world problems. They seem overwhelming for me at times but this forum also gives me perspective.
I am grateful I have enough.
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Iām grateful 
Iām grateful I have 4 cats. Iām never catless. 
Iām grateful Iāve been getting some B time before sleep and before I get out of bed. Iām grateful for Daisy time and coffee. Iām grateful for Alice time and gratitude currently. And Iām grateful for Mavy time on the couch in the evening. Iām grateful I got 2 dogs comfortably sitting on the couch. Iām grateful Minnie went to bed early last night. Iām grateful my bedtime can revolve around Minnieās evening nighttime schedule. Whatever that might be. And Iām grateful for the Ol Burner. Heās not incessantly licking me right now or barking for no reason I can see. Iām grateful all is peaceful right now.
Iām grateful for our gratitude posse 
Iām grateful for my Al-Anon literature Opening Our Hearts Transforming Our Losses. Iām grateful I read that maybe Iām feeling some kind of devotion towards my sadness thatās preventing me from feeling happy. Iām grateful Iām learning I can feel my own sadness in my own way and in my own time frame. Iām grateful I know these feelings wonāt last forever. Iām grateful for now itās ok for me to embrace them.
Iām really grateful this thread has helped Darcy get to one year clean and how this thread has helped keep me sober and how it has helped so many people on here. Especially me.
Iām grateful Iām learning Iām uncomfortable letting go of the things I canāt control. Itās just that thereās so many things I canāt control. And when I think about it I get overwhelmed and maybe some sadness because I really donāt like it. Thinking I was in control of the chaos of my life and drinking it away was such a familiar way of life for so many years. Iām grateful I donāt have to do that anymore. Iām grateful Iām realizing itās very uncomfortable for me. Iām grateful I know I donāt want to go back to that. Iām grateful for all my viscous skull splitting hangovers I use to get constantly when I was drinking. Like an idiot I kept on drinking the next day. Iām grateful I can keep remembering that and that helps me not pick up.
Iām grateful I donāt know what the day will bring. But Iāll be ok. Iām grateful I might even be happy. Iām grateful itās a long ass exercising walking day. Iām grateful God will give me exactly what I need today.
Iām grateful for yāall. And I better wrap this up, itās getting way too long.
If I stuff my feelings, they never go away.
Opening Our Hearts Transforming Our Losses
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Iām grateful for this thread, knowing itās here, even when I donāt make it to posting every day or catching up on all the shares. Congrats on one amazing year @Dakotahjae! Grateful to be one of your posse!
Iām grateful for the massive amounts of spring snow earlier this week, combined with the now longer days and beautiful sunlight. When I canāt post, I say my gratitudes on the trail with the dog girl. Hard not to be grateful in those surroundings, no matter what is going on in the desk world or elsewhereā¦
Iām grateful for my work and that it challenges me and that I enjoy it. Am super grateful I trusted myself to change some things up with work almost 6 months ago.
Iām grateful the big scary presentation/lecture-y thing went well. In the before time I woulda wanted to uncork had it gone well or poorly. Grateful I could feel the wash of a job-well-done while on the sunny snowy trail with the dog girl. Grateful that is more than enough.
Grateful for the weekend ahead. That I get to prepare to lead my Recovery Dharma inquiry circle on the Third Noble Truth. Lots about letting go in there. Good thing, cause I need to practice that hard in a few areas oā life right nowā¦
Grateful I have my door open and cool spring air coming in. Grateful for the dog girlās post-walk snores, the birds chattering on outside, squawking on about spring or somethingā¦
Iām grateful for another day. 
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Iām very grateful to have done a full week of exercise, I need it physically and mentally. Iām grateful I enjoy it and grateful to get healthy.
Grateful I cooked todayās dinner yesterday.
Grateful it is time to start getting seeds ready to have my second try this year at growing my own vegetables.
Iām grateful that I am only going to plant 4 types and not as many as before, to focus on those. Tomatoes, peppers, chillies and chamomile and well my lemon Balm is already planted from last year and looking amazing.
Iām grateful I can make fresh herbal teas that I have grown myself.
Iām grateful for the cat enclosure I have brought for little Rita for the garden until I can build her an extra cool one.
Iām grateful I booked her 4 month nuetering appointment weeks ago as they are so busy.
Iām grateful for the sleep too I am managing to get.
Iām grateful to realise that I am capable of making good things happen. Iām grateful I understand that me to do this sometimes I have to do the things I donāt want to for real progress. Iām grateful once I start then I realised I actually enjoy them.
Iām grateful when I play meditation music through my phone on the loudest setting little Rita lays on it to feel the vibrations from the speaker 
this makes me happy that it makes her happy 
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Hi Sober Family!
Iām grateful Iām sober. 
Iām grateful itās Saturday, I went to Marianoās (grocery store with a nice plant section) and picked up my RX, no new plants or hot bar food. Iām continuing to work on my wants vs needs.
Im grateful to be home with Buddy 
sleeping on my right, Riley 
on my left. I can feel Buddyās occasional light snores.
Iām grateful for heat on this very cold/windy day. 
Iām grateful for all my beautiful plants Iāve acquired during my patchy sober journey. 
Iām grateful I have enough.
For today, Iām grateful Iām sober.
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