Daily Gratitude, The Air Of Recovery #3

[Its_me_Stella]

Brian, I miss you.

[Mno]

I’m grateful to see you Brian.

[erntedank]

Morning check in. I’m grateful to see @I.cant.We.can Brian around. I missed you!
I’m grateful for NO nightmares. Only kind of weird dreams, sometimes with even funny scenes. What a difference it makes waking up with NO upset emotions
I’m grateful for some reading and thinking I did for 2,5 hours since I woke up. I’m still grateful for yesterday. I had some interesting insights going through messages and notes from the last 3 years. I’m grateful I’m preparing this way for necessary work I have to do today. I have mixed feelings about it. But first: Tea
(Today I really envy all people who can drink coffe when they want to. I will negotiate with my stomach if I can have one without painful side effects today. I literally smell coffee though I’m alone and no husband is having his morning coffee downstairs. I loved this routine. And the smell )

[Misokatsu]

Grateful for sobriety
Grateful for kids doing their own thing
Grateful for the house
Grateful for free time but no intrusive drinking thoughts
Grateful for smooth dealings with city hall
Grateful for entertainment
Grateful to have health
Grateful for Noisy

[Juli1]

Grateful for the new dryer that will be delivered today. It will make my life easier, not having the whole laundry hanging around in my bedroom most of the days

Yes it’s energy crisis but as it’s a A+++ very modern device that needs less then 100 per year if you use it for a family of 4. I am alone. So what!

Grateful that washing machine and dryer are both connectable with the app.

I am grateful…

• for coffee
• my hip being less stiff (had some problem)
• yoga skills
• knowledge
• possibilities
• summer rolls with very fresh and crispy cucumber and peanut butter dressing, I will make for lunch
• to be sober now and get back on sober horse
• family
• water, warmth, electricity, internet connection
• open pools!
• be able to feel love

Love

[Here.I.am]

Thanks! I was really involved with AA in Laos but it just hasn’t had the same flavor to me moving back to NY… RDO is working for now but I really hope to find an in person meeting to connect with … community.
Haven’t heard of H Ghosts either… living in a bubble as long as I did, AA was a big change… but here we are … here I am… walking a balance of recovery sober. Yeah, I went and read thru the older RD thread this morning… woke up at 430 and couldn’t sleep… slept too good! Yeah, I’m usually on the RDO as Kelly B say hello if you ever see me there. Anyone can.
My days of anonymity are long over LOL.

[Frazzetta]

Grateful to be able to give myself some room to pass on my morning workout routine today and instead have a bit of bonus snoozy puppy snuggles. Some kinda tension is making me feel like all the muscles in my neck head and face have shrunk by 1/2 inch, and I’m grateful to be able to give myself a little leeway this morning. Grateful the dogs are settling in and becoming friends, and grateful the puppy sleeps and snuggles through the night. Grateful for a bit of sunshine today.

[Irisees919]

Today I am grateful for a great night of sleep and a hangover free morning. I’m grateful to have passed all options for alcohol on my way home yesterday and chose a healthy dinner instead. I’m grateful for the books, mantras, inspiring stories along the way that helped me to do that. I’m grateful for my friend who I can talk to throughout the day about even the tiniest detail of life and still be shown interest and compassion - I am most grateful to do that for her as well. I am grateful for the step by step training plan that reminds me to take each day, hour, minute as a building block toward my goals, instead of trying to eat the whole elephant at once! Im gratefup for a 4 year lease that has kept my rent low throughout these crazy economic times. Woshing you all a great day.

[Cjp]

Good morning sober fam!

Im so very greatful for…

My sobriety, 268 days free
My partner, my hubby
Boscoe
Option to work from home
AA fellowship
A productive monday
Sticking to my healthy eating
Clean tap water
Looking forward to a walk with Boscoe
Quality sleep sans nightmares
My folks
My family
Progress not perfection

Peace and love

[EarnIt]

Grateful for another sober morning and a great speaker meeting.

Grateful for the zazen instruction I attended with my daughter, who immediately became a member. (How nice for her since she’s driving my car and I have no transportation!)
This too shall pass. Right now it’s important for her to get to school and all of my classes are online. We are waiting for taxes to replace hers, which dropped a piece of engine block in the middle of the road.

I am grateful for working at home and an easy pace in the beginning of this semester.

I am grateful for 15 days of making my bed every single morning.

I am grateful for online communities, as Nebraska seems to be a sobriety wasteland. I am looking forward to leaning into the meditation community at the Zen Center.

I am grateful it reminded me to pick up Eight Step Recovery and I just may start a meeting of my own.

I am grateful for the activists that are prepping for a fight against the anti-transgender legislation that has recently been introduced. It’s such a step back and it hurts.

[Dazercat]

I’m grateful for gratitude
I’m grateful to be kinda all caught up here in a whirlwind of much gratitude, yours mine ours.
Hey Brian. Grateful I don’t have to worry about my team winning or loosing the Super Bowl. Go Bengals! With honey on top

I’m grateful I was up early listening to my wife.
Im grateful for my son and DIL. Being therapists and already had a baby they are good to talk to.
Im grateful we got over being upset that the kids don’t want to see us all day today. Or Thursday. I’m grateful we are sticking to the facts.
I’m grateful we reap what we sow.
I’m grateful my wife and I are going with compassion this morning and that all this baby stuff is so new to them. Even though we flew all the way out here to be with them, we can get a couple of half days off to ourselves, go to Malibu and go out alone for a nice dinner tonight. Take a drive on the PCH.

I’m grateful we get to exercise walk each morning and we don’t have to rush over to see them.
I’m grateful it’s all good.

I’m grateful I let my wife be all pissed off about it last night. Like I could do anything about it. I could. I listened. And we stuck to the facts.
I’m grateful for the Berenstain Bears children books. They should have one titled Berenstain Bears And Too Much Family

I’m grateful to be sharing my gratitude time with my wife’s Twitter time. Grateful I’m flexible. Im grateful she just showed me a great TikTok she came across.

I’m grateful for my recovery and gratitude will be my recovery work for the morning.

”Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky

[EarnIt]

Would you get me some fish tacos at Dukes or Malibu Seafood? Thanks.

[Dazercat]

We’re actually going to Moonshadows.
I didn’t know whether to go to Dukes or Moonshadows. Please advise.

[EarnIt]

For dinner? Moonshadows. For fish tacos: Dukes or Malibu Seafood.

Duke’s is waaaaayyyyy too laid back for a nice dinner. They generally have killer happy hour apps.

[Dazercat]

It’s lunch on Thursday.
I don’t know either one of the places. I just want to be on the water. So I don’t expect much from the food. Should I change my res to Dukes?

[EarnIt]

Duke’s is a mood and definitely Malibu tourism.

Moonshadows is beautiful. I used to brunch at Moonshadows. Solid food, solid atmosphere.

[Dazercat]

Going with Dukes now.
If you want to join us it’s at Noon Thursday.
They got a nice Mocktail list.
And the fish tacos sound great!
I’m grateful for you.

[EarnIt]

You’ll definitely save some $$$$! XXOO

[erntedank]

Today I’m again grateful for a normal day. For my snuggling furballs who turn into office cats after I started sitting at the desk. I’m grateful they want their share of the desk and cuddles. Working like this is such a grace. I’m grateful I can work at my speed. I’m grateful I got lotta paperwork done today. I’m grateful for today’s therapy. It was intense and felt so right. Like doing the right thing. I’m grateful I made healthy lunch and took the rest of the afternoon off. No need to overdo anything. I’m grateful that I’m already tired, grateful for a normal, ok, productive, insightful, lovely day allthough it’s early evening. Grateful for early sleeping.

[Its_me_Stella]

Good morning.

I am grateful that the stomach flu I was blindsided with yesterday (yes another) only lasted 24 hours. I am grateful that my daughter has her license so she could drive home from the highschool while I puked in the front seat beside her. I am grateful for times like those, and the reminder that I am powerless over my body. Pulling over to the side of the road repeatedly to vomit as I tried to get back to the school to pick up my kid was a humbling experience.

I am grateful for earl grey tea with milk and honey. I am grateful for books that stay scattered all over my california king bed. I was considering down sizing to a queen but decided it was a bad idea. I am grateful for my book lamp, for all of the notebooks I get to fill with words; poems, journalling, notes.

I am grateful for my slowcooker because it allows me to cook healthy meals for my daughter without much thought. I need that, it works well for me. At her pediatrician appointment the Dr said she was underweight and talked to her about setting an alarm to eat. Without getting into my head too much about it I have just been trying to cook more for her. Its so damn hard but the last thing I want is for this eating disorder to continue into another generation. I am grateful for my recovery and that I am not in a place where I beat myself up anymore. I know that I always try my best. A single mother who has an active eating disorder trying to feed an autistic child with unmedicated ADHD is no small feat. I will keep trying.