Daily Gratitude, The Air Of Recovery #3

Awesome :blush: :tada: :muscle: Really cool you are celebrating life and sobriety like this! Thatā€™s the way to go! :orange_heart:

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One whole fricken year sober AFAF! OFDAAT! :boom:

Iā€™m so grateful for you and your posts and your presence here. For the light in your eyes and your words. For the momentum your sobriety brings to mine. For Boscoe, that little fucker. :smile:

Huge Congrats to you! Onward, friend. :orange_heart:

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Iā€™m grateful I can let go of the fact that Iā€™m a gazillion posts behind. Long days oā€™ too much screen time to post. I got to pop in here and there and see the posts a-piling up and it made me feel grateful for this special place.

Work got a little worky and life got life-y. What was the word, @Bootz? Overfaced? Yep, that was a lot of April. Iā€™m grateful itā€™s May. Iā€™m also grateful April happened - it showed me it ainā€™t always easy but it sure is worth it, this whole showing up to life and recovery.

Iā€™m grateful I can adapt on a whim. Not easily, but I can if I need to. Didnā€™t travel a few weeks ago as planned. My sweet Mom has covid (again) and her unit is on outbreak. Iā€™m grateful I didnā€™t agitate the situation by throwing myself and a pile of PPE into the mix. She is getting good care. And so I go back to my breathā€¦ grateful that this is sometimes all that I can actually do.

Iā€™m grateful for the drive and day in nature with the dog girl on Sunday. For the ice melting on the lake. The geese honking. The red wing black birds song, here where they pitstop on their trek from Mexico, I think. Those little dudes sure cover some ground.

Iā€™m grateful Iā€™m falling in love. Nah, probably still at the wooing stage. Have long been reading online profiles, dreaming, but found myself taking a big step forward with courage and arranging a meeting. To be clear - not with a humanā€¦ Oh, but with a delightful parcel of land! We met. Iā€™ve looked at other parcels the last 3-4 years, but then put this all on hold. But this land? Those trees and birds and game trails and mosses? This might be love. :wink: Lotsa adulty paperwork the next few weeks and if not this piece, well then we go back to the breath, donā€™t weā€¦

Iā€™m grateful for dreams.

Iā€™m grateful for another day. :orange_heart:

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Morning gratitude. Iā€™m grateful waking up well rested on time with Missi tamping and purring away on me. Iā€™m grateful itā€™s a short week allthough it doesnā€™t effect me whether there is a holiday or not, my weeks are all the same from monday to sunday. Iā€™m grateful I feel capable to live my life, meet my obligations and take care of my resposibilities most of the time. Iā€™m grateful sometimes the bare minimum is enough, life is not a flatline but ups and downs.
Iā€™m grateful for a hot shower in the morning, itā€™s my best way to start the day. Iā€™m grateful I catch up on doing laundry, me being sick causes a lot of laundry. Iā€™m grateful the cats are ā€œhelpingā€, having fun and the old boy loves to sleep on the fresh laundry waiting to be put away :blush: I feel emotional today so Iā€™ll have some soothing herbal tea now, read a bit and do a meditation. I donā€™t want my feelings go on a rollercoaster like 3 days ago. Iā€™m grateful I have tools in my toolbox and use them :pray:

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Want to like your post more :green_heart::green_heart::green_heart::green_heart::green_heart::green_heart: Iā€™m happy you and this piece of land might match together, this are the stories that make my heart skip happily (also thinking of you @RosaCanDo )

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Thank you! Iā€™m so grateful to feel understood! Should my dream come true, youā€™ll likely find me a happy, scruffy, forest-dwelling creature, living in something that looks like a woodshed, crafting sentences and conversing with birdsā€¦ bliss! :heart_eyes:

I hope your tea and meditation soothe the soul and that your day feels like a hug. Iā€™m sending one now! :people_hugging: :orange_heart:

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Super congrats on your one year CJP!!!
Your presence hear has been huge for me :+1:
So glad you get to celebrate in style :tada::tada::tada:
Keep on rockin your sober journey!!!

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Iā€™m grateful I casually found a list of audiobooks on another thread and downloaded the Tao of Pooh. Iā€™m grateful I started listening to it in my headphones on my walk to lunch and it immediately brought a smile to my face.

Iā€™m grateful Iā€™m working on myself. Trying to find balance. Listening to new ideas (new to me!), new ways of thinking. Exploring.

Iā€™m grateful I have a calm heart to do all this exploring with. I would have been anxiety-ridden right now, and completely overwhelmed with doubts, fear of uncertainty, terrified of change. Instead, Iā€™m trying to be the best version of me. For my kids, for my husband and for myself.

Work in progress. :heart:

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Today I am grateful I was awake early enough for some time for journaling and gratitude. Staying in the moment is the intention for the day, with recovery and stress management being key drivers of that focus. I am grateful for my notes from last nightā€™s meeting where I jotted down inspiring statements of others and could reread this morning and will do so throughout today when needed. I am grateful for this app and all of you doing the work amd carrying the message!

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@Bootz im sorry your al-anon meeting going experience was a bust. Glad to hear that your evening did turn around.

@M-be-free49 i love that you are in love - with a plot of land. Wishing you the best with all the adulting paperwork. I look foward to hearing about your forrest-dwelling adventures in your woodshed

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Good morning grateful friends

Iā€™m grateful I didnā€™t give into the cravings yesterday. So still sober.

Iā€™m grateful today is a new day and the sun is shining.

Iā€™m grateful to be awake after horrible nightmares all night. Iā€™m up early enough to ease into the day. Sit here with my cats and sip my coffee.

Iā€™m grateful I can come to this site as often as I need to when Iā€™m struggling.

Iā€™m grateful to remember that while my depression is currently bad, itā€™s not always like this. It will ease up eventually. I need to focus on the little things like actually showering, eating healthy, and getting outside.

ODAAFT

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Today I will do this with you :people_hugging: sending you healing hugs and energy :star:
We will get through today, know Iā€™m thinking of you as I struggle to do the same but we must keep putting one foot in front of the other. Iā€™m walking by your side in energy.

Iā€™m grateful I managed to get out of bed today.

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Baby steps. Little things like that count as progress too. Sending hugs back!

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Congratulations on a year! Thanks awesome!!

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Iā€™m grateful for:

84 days sober today
The grace and mercy of God
The love and forgiveness of my family
AA
My sponsor
This wonderful community
The sun shining this morning
Being able to work from home today
Knowing that I wonā€™t be tired for everā€¦.
My two dogs Sammy and Bella

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Good morning friends,
Iā€™m grateful for a wonderful day spent with my mom, sister, and niece. Who knew walking IKEA could be so fun! Iā€™m grateful I have them, and we are close. Iā€™m grateful for coffee and podcasts for the morning drive to work. Iā€™m grateful itā€™s the first day of a fresh week, and Iā€™m going to try to stay positive, or somewhere near there about my job. Iā€™m grateful I like my coworkers. Iā€™m grateful for milestones achieved, numbers and other kinds too. Grateful for my home threadā¤ļø

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Congratulations!!! What an awesome accomplishment, and how fun to celebrate it on the road with loved ones. Have fun and be safe out there :heart:

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Good morning my beautiful sober friends

Its a rough morning with numbness and pain ā€“ its absolutely hilarious seeing me walk (so ive crawled back in bed). This too will pass but for now im started to feel down and depressedā€¦and as im writing this i find out that my parents are heading over to meditateā€¦seriously how beautiful is that. Someone is really looking out for me and pulling me outta this rutt i was getting myself into. I am so grateful for this very momentā€¦have to run (so to speak)ā€¦will finish my gratitudes laterā€¦sending much love :heart: :heart_eyes:

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Good morning! Iā€™m grateful for what looks to be turning into a terribly busy month. Iā€™m being grateful and not letting it make me feel anxious. Iā€™m grateful to spend time with family, for jewelry classes with friends, mini weekend road trips, and Iā€™ll be grateful for any quiet time I can find in between. Iā€™m grateful for my sobriety, and for the lunch I have planned with a coworker out of the office to reconnoiter a location for our summer office party. If I wasnā€™t sober, I would be terribly anxious, and hungover to make things worse and Iā€™m so thankful Iā€™m choosing to be and feel better. Thinking back on those drunk days itā€™s sad to think how overwhelming even the smallest task could seem. Iā€™m so grateful to choose to improve the way I think, feel and do each day. I am grateful to remind myself to focus on that rather than the mistakes and bad choices Iā€™ve made, and to let myself be filled with positivity for the good choices Iā€™m making rather than dread of the bad choices Iā€™m capable of.

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Good morning sober fam,

Im so very greatful forā€¦

My sobriety, 366 days free from weed and alcohol
Getting started earlier than expected this morning
Was supposed to hit an AA mtg in town last night but turns out they havent had it there in years
They had a friends of Bill W sign posted and have a mtg tonight at my hotel!
Rolling with the changes
Trying to be flexible
My hubby
Boscoe
My mom and dad got me a beautiful card for my one year milestoneā€¦made me cry
Going for a 2hr hike today at the grand canyon
Sunshine
Water
Snacks
Elk
Our safety
All of you!!
The replies yesterday made me feel all warm and fuzzy and greatful to have all of you in my corner and my pocket :slight_smile:

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