My sobriety,
1y 3m 27d
27d
Woke up b4 my alarm
Got a good workout in
My gym clothes, nails, and shoes matched…made me feel like i have my shit together lol
Hubby soothed my reatless mind yesterday
My work week isnt filled with lots of meetings
Boscoe and his love
Its my birthday week
Were getting the house professionally cleaned today! Yes adult me asked for it for my bday
Basic needs met
Greatful attitude
Apps
Internet
This fantastic community!
Now there’s an idea for me to put on my Christmas list. I certainly don’t need more things but this would make me feel good for sure!
I’m grateful for a sober start this morning.
I’m grateful I’m out with my daughter and her 2 friends for them to shop in Manchester.
Grateful they are having a sleepover at ours tonight.
Grateful I’m sober so that I can facilitate these things and let her have a good time.
Grateful for all of you.
AFAF ODAAT
Today I am grateful that most of my cleaning is done just need to do the pantry and refrigerator next weekend and it will be done. Haven’t started redecorating yet but that will be the next step. I am grateful I made it through another weekend sober and I am grateful for the pumpkin spice flavor coming back for the season lol. I had my first pumpkin spice coffee of the season yesterday.
@dazercat LOL yeah totally understand that pumpkin spice isn’t for everyone. @Erntedank grateful for your 10000 hours of freedom. Loved your post and the love / positivity spewing through. Meditation in the wind sounds uplifting and freeing. @dan.h84 grateful for your double digits! Keep up the great work! @earnit Thank you for sharing “The Luckiest Club’s Nine Things” Was something I needed to read this morning.
Monday morning gratitude’s with my grateful beautiful friends
I am so grateful for another day breathing clean fresh air.
I am so grateful for the comforts of living (cozy bed, roof over my head, access to healthy foods, clean drinking water, hot and cold showers)
I am so grateful for family and friends (irl and on the internet from all over the world).
I am so grateful for hot rich delicious coffee!
I am so grateful for the pleasures of deep cleaning and minimizing. Grateful that I do have enough.
I am so grateful for my connections with my HP. Grateful that i am able to meditate and pray. Grateful that i know this practice keeps me in a positive attitude.
I am so grateful for essential oils and oil diffusers to help soothe all my senses
I am so grateful for this beautiful community! Thank you for providing me with the strength to face each day.
Wishing everyone a wonderful addiction free day - sending you much love
Many days I have come to this thread and started to write out my gratitude only to be ripped away by my very busy, very beautiful, very full life. I just end up deleting what I had typed whenever I happen back on it, so I dont really know when the last time I posted was. Lol, I am grateful for my crazy full life.
I am grateful for the seasons and how a simple chill in the morning air whispers to me, “start to slow down”. I am not sure I have ever made so much out of a summer in my life, it’s been incredible. I am grateful my body has held up pretty well with only minor exhaustion flares and a couple of pain flares.
I am grateful for all the family that took time out of their lives to travel here and stay. What a gift it has been to experience my family through clean eyes, I dont want them to leave, its making me sad. I am grateful for the noticable tug-o-war I am having between my inner child and my loving adult. One who knows about loving with dettachment and one who just cant grasp that concept and whats to hang on. I am grateful that I can show up for that sad little girl and remind her about interconnectedness, the souls journey, etc. I am grateful it calms her down and she listens.
My child will be starting Gr 12 next week, she was supposed to have used this summer to have gotten herself on a comfortable dosage of medication for her ADHD, she hasnt. I am grateful that she is turning 18 and although she has asked me to be her voice and do her medical “stuff”, I have a choice. She is very willful around medication and deflects her negativity to me whenever i approach her to take her meds. I am grateful I set a boundary with her and said I wouldnt do it anymore, nor would I come to her Drs appointments regarding her medication. I am grateful that I have choices today and that I know how to make a boundary, even with my teenaged daughter.
I am grateful for the beautiful sun that has kept me energized now for months and for the brilliant stars that put on a show each night. It was incredible to be a witness to my cousins family experiencing our starry sky for the first time. Seeing the vastness of the milky way and the trillions of stars so clearly that make it up takes my breath away everytime I see it. I am grateful that I remember the first time I noticed it too.
I’m grateful to be back.
I wasn’t gone long or maybe not at all but I sure had a lot of catching up to do.
Thanks again everyone for your support last week during some trying times. I’m grateful I have you all here. It means a lot me.
I was so grateful yesterday, I was up so early to walk Benson. I even had new Bombass socks and new sneakers which made me grateful for happy feet first thing in the morning. I had a long list of gratitude I couldn’t wait to post with you guys and I never did it. Not in writing anyway. I’m grateful I enjoyed puttering around our messy cluttered box filled house instead. I’m grateful it just felt right.
I was so grateful for a beautiful day and a half.
Early morning sunrise walks with The Burner.
All the bunnies that were afraid of us.
The covey of M quails running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
I’m grateful Benson wasn’t afraid of the covey this morning. He stopped and wouldn’t budge. I thought how can he be afraid of these silly little birds? I’m grateful I eventually saw he was looking at a squadron of javelinas that blended in perfectly to the desert background. I’m grateful we decided to turn around and go the other way.
I’m grateful I couldn’t think of anyone to be my grumpy, snorting, fat javelinas. Billy
You up for the title? @Soberbilly
I’m grateful to have you all on walks with me in the morning.
I’m grateful for civil conversations with my wife about difficult things. I’m grateful to get back to boundaries. Especially if I’m uncomfortable with her drinking at lunch when we go out to lunch. I don’t have to go. I’m grateful I’m not stopping her from drinking or trying to control her drinking. I’m just not going out to lunch with her if she’s going to drink.
I’m grateful we already got a contract on the Flagstaff house I’m grateful the market here/there wherever the fuck I am is a sellers market and in my favor. That almost never happens for us. I’m grateful we’ve sold a lot of houses and taken a lot of hits over the years. I’m grateful not this time.
I’m grateful I got a lot of good shit and blessings in my life. I got way more than enough. I don’t know why. Lots of times I think I don’t deserve it. But who’s to say. But I swear ya I do. I’d trade it all in for my wife not to have this disease . I’m grateful we had a pretty good 36 hours.
Anyway…… I’m grateful to get a glimpse of @JazzyS up above. The glimpse I saw was Pumpkin Spice it’s not that I don’t like it. I just OD’d on it back around 2013 and I don’t do sugar anymore and it’s just not good for me. Grateful I know that. Grateful I can enjoy it through you. But pumpkin spice Oreos are Right Out!! Nope. No way!
Hi Twinnie I see you too.
And M and the Covey just showed up for an NA drink poolside.
I’m grateful to be silly this morning.
I’m grateful it’s better than being depressed.
I’m grateful I ran out of my turmeric green tea as I get to enjoy an Açaí green tea over ice this morning instead. I’m grateful it’s pretty fucking good too.
I’m grateful for my meeting last night. I didn’t enjoy it. I didn’t actually really feel better after it either. But I’m grateful I went.
I’m grateful through all this I’m sober.
I’m grateful I’ll probably be sober tomorrow too.
“There are no words that can express my thanks for you. If words could be hugs I would send you pages.”
Unknown
It’s been very easy. I chalk it up to multiple TLC meetings per day, texting/talking with sober friends, getting off my bloody cell phone and reading instead. I think possibly my subconscious is finally attuned to my conscious mind and the cognitive dissonance has left the building.
Staying confident but vigilant.
This community.
My goofy dogs.
My handsome horse.
The very real possibility of moving into the New Mexico house prior to closing, per the builder all he needs is the certificate of occupancy and we can move in.
My 60 year old body that can still run, do yoga & sit in meditation.
Evening gratitude. Spend a day on the couch and I’m fine with it. I’m grateful I can spend a day on the couch and feel the feelings. Pretty exhausting since afternoon, lots of loneliness, missing the nice, loving times with my ex, being stuck in the heartbreak hamsterwheel for some time. I’m grateful this too shall pass, especially as the old boy demands dinner and I’m off to bed afterwards. I’m grateful for the shower I’ll take before. We are expecting heavy rain maybe thunderstorm at night, so maybe I’m a bit nervous therefore, got a mild headache in the evening. Good night sober friends
I’m grateful that I’m learning to be more grateful, seems I’m always looking at the hole instead of the donut, as my husband likes to say.
Speaking of husband I’m grateful for his support and his undying wish for me to be happy, even though after 40 plus years of marriage, we easily irritate the hell out of each other sometimes.
I’m grateful that I had another sober day yesterday, and looking forward to being free today too.
I’m grateful for my two kitties who love me no matter what and I love them to pieces.
I’m grateful for all the veggies we’re getting from our garden.
As always, grateful for the TS community and the wisdom and support I find up here every day.
Thank you so much Billy! I get so much from your posts and quotes, some are set as bookmark with reminder. It’s the ups and downs that are exhausting, after a loving laughing time follows the opposite with missing, crying, sadness. I’m grateful the intensity declined a lot and I am able to cope with it most of the time. Nevertheless I would appreciate the heartbreak feelings to fade out, to be honest I’m tired of crying about someone and something that’s simply gone. There should be a snooze button for feelings to have a break and rest/recover
I’m grateful for the day I had. I have 4 days of work and then 4 days off. I feel the energy of fall and September - this always feels like the real “new year” to me!
I’m grateful I can use the time this week to work, sure, but also to plan and get ahead on some things around home and at my desk. I’m grateful I strutted around my desk today like the Gamble Quail M that I am!
I went to a celebration of life tonight for my dear old pal that passed away last month. It was out of town but they had a zoom link. The stories! I don’t think I’ve laughed like that in a long while. Man, am I grateful for his friendship. Someone told a story tonight of how he encouraged her to be the curator of her life. I looked it up and found this
“Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy,” LEO BABAUTA
Well, didn’t my old pal just live that! He’d been sober the last four decades or so of his life. He gave generously - his time, his skills, his humour, even his wealth to those who needed it. His love. And given the crowd tonight, he has left quite the legacy.
It ain’t too late for any of us, Gratidudes. Let’s keep building our sober badass lives, OFDAAT.
I’m grateful for all of you here, your kind words and warm welcome.
I’m grateful to wake up before my 5am alarm and have time to post before going to work.
I’m grateful I’m not allergic to bees after getting stung in the shoulder. It flew into my long hair and couldn’t get out. After a vigorous head shake while it was frantically buzzing, it was finally free to sting me. Not the bees fault though. Our world’s happen to colide unexpectedly. I’m grateful I was at home and able to ice it right away. Grateful the swelling and pain have gone down overnight.
I had an extremely busy day at work yesterday but I’m grateful I get to go to work. I’m grateful I was able to stop what I was doing and come to the aid of 2 new teammates. I’m grateful they (and my boss) take advantage of the knowledge and experience I have to offer.
I’m grateful my daughter is able to keep herself busy during the day while I’m at work. I’m grateful she knows how to use the microwave and nourishes her body with yummy food we leave her. I’m grateful she’s responsible and calls me for every little thing including the annoying beep from a dead battery in the smoke detector. I’m grateful she enjoys walking the dog when we’re not home. I’m sure he’s grateful too. After their walk, she puts him on this big swing with her, in the backyard next to the lake, and they enjoy nature together. Watching the birds, turtles and fish.
Have a great day all my fellow gratidudes and gratidudettes.
Aww! You’re too sweet @M-be-free49. You gave me a big smile. Yes, I am a hugger!
I’m grateful that even though I woke up at 4 a.m. (2 hours before the alarm) I woke up welcoming sobriety day 907!! Not because I went to bed drunk and slept poorly. Actually, the dog howled in his sleep and woke me. Then I was worried about him. He’s fine.
I’m grateful @Dazercat shared an article about Anxiety and Gratitude. Goooood stuff.
I’m grateful that today I plan on turning worries into actionable items. Example - realizing some paperwork should hsve been done BEFORE I got married in July. Huge life insurance policy going 50/50 to husband’s daughters. Ummmm…no to that. It will take at least $25,000 to get this house cleared out (I married a semi-hoarder) and ready for sale. Not a very romantic notion for a newlywed. But, I’m 63 snd practical and it is causing me worry. So today i find an estate planner and set up an appointment.
Not in writing anyway. I’m grateful I enjoyed puttering around our messy cluttered box filled house instead. I’m grateful it just felt right.
Billy 
I’m grateful the market here/there wherever the fuck I am 
is a sellers market and in my favor. That almost never happens for us. I’m grateful we’ve sold a lot of houses and taken a lot of hits over the years. I’m grateful not this time.
ya I do. I’d trade it all in for my wife not to have this disease 
. I’m grateful we had a pretty good 36 hours.
it’s not that I don’t like it. I just OD’d on it back around 2013 and I don’t do sugar anymore and it’s just not good for me. Grateful I know that. Grateful I can enjoy it through you. But pumpkin spice Oreos are Right Out!! Nope. No way!
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