Daily Gratitude, The Air Of Recovery #3

I am so greatful for you gratidudes!! Thanks everyone for the well wishes. Im greatful for this community!

Im greatful i got thru a stressful workday
Im greatful i got a 20min meditation in at accupuncture.
Im greatful my husband and i decided to try sobriety. Im greatful he got me my favorite flowers. Im greatful we ran into our wedding dj at the restaurant! What a small world but to me thats a sign we were in the right place. Im greatful we sat with a family and well behaved kids at the hibatchi grill. Im greatful they paid for our dinner. Im greatful for my positivity. Im greatful we danced to our first song. Im greatful my hubby said we could get matching Boscoe tattoos and i will not let him forget it lol im so very greatful for AA, the 12steps, the serenity prayer, and the ODAAT mantra.

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Grateful to be alive and sober today.

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Good morning grateful friends!

Iā€™m grateful for another day sober.

Iā€™m grateful for therapy and the reminder to look at the actual evidence that Iā€™m making progress instead of listening to my negative internal voice. Iā€™m 108 days sober. Iā€™ve been walking more. I actually enjoyed some of the work retreat. Iā€™ve made plans for fun mini vacations over the next couple months.

Iā€™m also grateful we talked about my relationship and setting boundaries so I donā€™t get taken advantage of. Iā€™m too nice sometimes.

Iā€™m grateful Iā€™ve taken in new responsibilities at work and I can use my brain a little more. And so far it feels doable.

Iā€™m grateful for my cats even when they wake me up early. I saw a meme that referred to cats as fluffy house goblins. :joy:

Iā€™m grateful for the meme thread for always giving me a laugh. I love bad puns.

Love you all! ODAAFT

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Contacts on the 1 year Billy! Thats incredible :clap: :heart_eyes:

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Heartfelt congratulations n your one year. Youā€™ve been such a joy around here.

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Iā€™m happy for your 1 year soberversary Billy! Do you treat Indigo and Alobar on your happy day too? :hugs::birthday::notes::sunflower:

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Wooooooo congrats papa @Soberbilly so very proud of you. Your program of recovery is rich. I hope you enjoy your day!!

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I am grateful
108 Days Sober
There are so many things to be grateful for, but some days itā€™s just hard. Just waking up to a new day and being alive is enough.
My daily meditation is ā€œfind my own truthā€. I think I have been doing the right things for the wrong reason. I exercise every morning and eat healthy food almost every day. But, I am doing that, not because my body needs it, but because of how I look to other people, fitting into that size smaller jean. I should be doing it for ME. I am going to stop stressing over the number of steps I take every day or that donut I want but pass up. I am going stress less about that stuff and enjoy the ride. And, spend more time in meditation, mental exercise.
Sorry, went from gratitude to a rant.

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Congratulations on one year! Iā€™m grateful you are here!

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Good morning sober tribe,

Im so very greatful forā€¦

My sobriety, 359 days free from weed and alcohol
@Soberbilly one year! Huge congrats!
Others who lead the way on my sober journey
Working with my sponsor tonight on the big book
Hubby and our love
Boscoe and his cuddles. His excitement when we come home is good stuff
Hope
Joy
Positivity
Meditation
This forum is lively
Treating myself to lunch
Countdown to vacation
ODAAT mantra
Stronger mind and resolve
Progress not perfection

Love to you all on your sobriety journies

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Today Iā€™m grateful for:

  1. Morning love fest with my cat who greets me every day first thing
  2. A roof over my head and the ability to take walks outside in the fresh air
  3. Hope
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Congrats on your one year clean billy. :partying_face:

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Good morning friends! I am grateful that some reading and mindfulness exercises Iā€™ve been doing the past week or so are helping me keep myself a bit more present and aware, and remind me to breathe and breathe and breathe. Iā€™m grateful I had a lovely weekend and saw so many friends and laughed and laughed and laughed. Iā€™m grateful Buster seems to be recovering from whatever random things he managed to get down his gullet that made him throw up for an entire day. :roll_eyes: At any rate he seems a bit more upbeat and kept down the rice I gave him for breakfast. Weā€™re still probably going to skip puppy school tonight though just in case. Grateful that even though sometimes life feels a bit harder than it needs to be, itā€™s not as hard as it was when I drank and itā€™s a whole lot easier than some other folk have it. Grateful to be here, grateful for love and friendship, grateful for less dog barf in my life.

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Good morning my beautiful sober friends

Its another rough day but greatful to be here and feeling all my feelings rather than trying to dull them.
Greatful for my brother who made me a delicious breakfast burrito whichvi enjoyed with a hot cup of coffee
I am greatful for my supportive family. My mom is really working hard with all the aryevedic remedies to help ease my pain (i am no longer taking any meds)
I am greatful for this thread and how it helps me stay positive and on track (not justctovwrite down my gratitudes but also by reading all of yours).
I am greatful for my friends (was able to speak with my best childhood friend last night-after months of me being silentā€¦ didnā€™t realize how much ive missed our chats)
I am greatful for my meditation and my higher power
I am greatful for the TS community and all the helpful forums
Have a blessed day my friends- sending much love :heart:

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Congratulations old man :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Iā€™m so grateful you joined our team.
1 freaken year of freedom :white_check_mark:
:pray:t2::heart::hugs:

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Congratulations! :four_leaf_clover::sunflower: Thank you for making this thread also a special one. :grinning:

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Huge congrats Billy, happy to celebrate alongside you :sparkling_heart:

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Mid day gratitudeā€¦in times of stress i find my gratitude practice to ground me and bring perspective. So here it goesā€¦

Im greatful for the sunshine
Im greatful i had a productive 2hrs with the other analyst at work before she quits this friday. Her mood can be quiet sour as of late but i stuck with the issues at hand and it went relatively better than expected.
Im greatful getting sober and living healthier has improved my mind and i feel like im mentally and emotionally able to bare more responsibily with less suffering.
Im greatful for good music
Im greatful im treating myself to lunch out of the office
Im greatful i come to this restaurant once a week and the owner smiled at me, waved, and said hi. I said i think this makes me a regular. It was a sweet interaction.
Im greatful to share this gratitude practice with all of you gratidudes.

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I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful for a nice colleague in my office.
I am grateful I got the courage to talk with my boss here. She wants me to stay longer. I said it would be fine for me. Once I am somewhere I can adjust. I am grateful I can get used to new situations rather quickly. Not without noise but I can do it.
I am grateful I donā€™t swallow everything anymore. I am grateful I donā€™t wait until I am eaten up by resentments.
I am grateful I can walk home on hiking trails.
I am grateful that atm my relationship with my mother is good. I think she needs to talk a lot as well about the stress with my grandmother. We talk actually quite calmly not the well known passive aggressiveness.
I am happy I followed my morning yoga and foot training. I have to. Like being sober. I have to set up a routine like brushing my teeth. Itā€™s soooo fucking hard.
I am grateful I have enough.

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Today Iā€™m grateful for little steps in the right direction. Iā€™m grateful my energy level made some additional clean up possible, itā€™s nice that my home slowly turns from messy into neat again. Itā€™s ridiculous how a home can clutter within 2 weeks when Iā€™m not able to do the usual chores :woman_facepalming:

Iā€™m grateful for my therapist, I needed the session today badly. Iā€™m grateful I feel less overwhelmed. Iā€™m grateful I feel calm, at peace with myself again, maybe even serene. My life feels manageable, just for today.

Iā€™m grateful a friend called me out of the blue, we hear each other every once in a while and it was really nice. Iā€™m grateful he was understanding when I ended the call because I felt tired, we normally talk for hours :grin:

Iā€™m grateful I have faith in prayers, they help me to let go. Iā€™m grateful for the light of candles, I always carry it in my heart.
Iā€™m grateful for the good life I live. Iā€™m grateful I have everything I need :pray:

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