Today i am grateful for my son and the time we spent together. We baked and decorated cookies, relaxed together, and really enjoyed each others company. I loved making memories today!
Im grateful for my recovery and that i am capable of being a better version of myself for me, my family, and society as a whole.
I am grateful for the early relaxed shower i had where it was not 9 or 10pm and i wasnt rushed. It was sooo nice.
Im grateful that i continue to stay connected to TS even tho a part of me struggles to feel the want to stay connected. I have been tired alot and i am just struggling with finding the energy to help others, never mind do a basic check in. Im exhausted and i dont know why. But im grateful that im still on TS even tho a part of me wants to back off.
I do think you should get tested to see if you have any vitamin deficienciesā¦ I know my sister was low on vitamin d and went months through hell not understanding why she couldnāt maintain her normal activities.
Also would ask doctor to check your cortisol levels - the older us woman get the more chance of our cortisol levels decreasing and causing major fatigue and weight gain (go figure) ā i just read up on this today.
Do keep checking in - even if itās just to say iām here and sober! Hoping you do regain your energy levels.
Iām so grateful for this home thread! Iām not caught up, I kinda fell apart somewhere back there when the day was grabbed by the balls.
Iām grateful Iām back home.
Iām grateful for the full week last week - travel, work meetings, visits with Mom, and return travel yesterday - and that this one will be quieter.
Grateful I booked a B and B outside of town last week, returned to walks by the river in the evening and tame deer to talk to about my day.
Iām grateful the ālittle something we left in the frig for youā (beer and gin) at the b and b made me chortle. Grateful I forgot all about it until I was packing up my food on the last day. (Hopefully the next guest isnāt triggered?)
Iām grateful I donāt try to numb the hard stuff anymore. I felt a mix of relief and fear, thinking how the week would have gone were I still trying to submerge my feelings in wine. Iām grateful for tears instead of the anxiety and self-loathing of a hangover. Iām grateful Mom - whose ability to express herself is in steep decline - still remembers lots of song lyrics, and for my mad dash to the drug store for $10 CDs for her. Country road, take me home, to the place, I belongā¦ Grateful to be present and able to connect with her in whatever way shows up.
Iām so grateful for the reception I got when I showed up in person last week to the Dharma meeting I always zoom into. It was just so damn good to be there IRL. And Iām grateful for zoom because thatās how I got there, and thatās where I joined them from again last night.
Iām grateful the dog girl and my seedlings travelled well too. That we hit some small markets on the way home and I have fresh asparagus that tastes like spring.
Thank u for ur suggestions and support friend. I might have to ask for another set of blood tests to ensure everything is ok. I always chalk it up to being awake by 5 exercising lolā¦ but maybe its more than that
Maybe itās adapting how you engage here? I know my frequency of posting, my use of the forum, my interaction, etc has changed over time. I also know, though, that my sobriety and recovery need community - here and elsewhere!
Iām grateful youāre here, in whatever way works for you and your recovery.
Iām grateful to God for guiding me through another day while abstaining from my addictions. Iām grateful for my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes. Iām grateful I went to a couple meetings today and tonights NA meeting was particularly good. We read and discussed step six from the basic text. Iām grateful I visited with a new friend today to play chess, I lost both games but they were very close and he is a good player, I will have to be on my game if I am going to win one or some next time. Iām grateful when I showed up for my morning meeting the staff at my sister facility were cooking sausages, pancakes and had coffee for a holiday treat, free food I donāt have to prepare, yes please and thank you. Iām grateful I hoped on my bicycle this afternoon and put 14km on it to get to my friends to visit with him, his wife and kids, there new housemate including a couple dogs. Iām grateful my friend plotted a route home for me that was only 9km home, 20+km on the bicycle today plus running around with the kids, boy am I grateful to be laying in my bed now. Iām grateful I walked the kids down to the playpark while my best friend bbqād the ribs I brought. Iām grateful the pup blackie was very affectionate today and watched as his little humans and I played soccer and on the trampoline. Iām grateful the next time I go out there I know to take my bathing suit because they got a new outdoor hot tub. Iām grateful for my newly created spiritual play list that I enjoyed on the ride today. Iām grateful for the twelve steps and to be working them.
God bless us all. &
Morning gratitude. I had horrible nightmares involving my ex, woke up way too early and my cats, especially the old boy purred me back to sleep Only to wake up later with more nightmares and bathroom issues, a panic attack and completely shaken. Iām grateful for my well stuffed toolbox, I needed nearly everything from prayers, breathing techniques, herbal solution, tea, distraction, doing chores, preparing for garden work, meditation while doing things to now taking a rest on the couch to overcome this nightmarish horror. Iām grateful my cats are with me and they care, cuddle and purr when Iām beside me like this, the red bigfoot even came to snuggle me on the couch. Iām grateful I pulled myself together again
Iām grateful Iām prepared to take the old boy to the vet. I pray everything will turn out fine, anaestesia with 17 is no walk in the park
Iām grateful I can come here and let it out, crying with relief and feeling so much lighter. Iām grateful to be sober, hungover I would cancel everything and burry myself in self-pitty in my bed. Well, the burry in my bed part is a beloved habit from times when I was a kid on, so this counts as lifelong comfort habit
Iām grateful today is a new day. Yesterday was really rough. Therapy made me realize how bad the depression has actually gotten. And the depression lies to me and tells me Iām worthless and will never get better. Iām grateful Iām becoming aware of what is the depression talking versus what is real.
Iām grateful to be up and drinking my coffee. I didnāt sleep well and had some really disturbing dreams.
Iām grateful for the hot shower Iāll be taking soon.
Iām grateful work is flexible and I can go at my own pace today. I can take breaks as needed and schedule in a walk.
My sobriety, 12.74 months sober
My hubby
Laughs and chats with hubby
Boscoe my shadow
Working from home
Hope to get a walk in today
Step meeting to look forward to
Perspective
Meditation
Yoga
My mom
Grace
Hot coffee
Continued learning
Progress not perfection
All of you
Thank you for saying this. It gave me alot to think about. Maybe how i interact on TS is changing a bit. Earlier on i was almost addicted to TS (I probably could say that I actually was) and I also needed the extra support. Im also known to be a perfectionist in alot of things i do as well as having an all or nothing attitude. So if im not 100% fully hands on engaged on TS, it then tends to be the opposite where im on very little. But maybe how i am engaging now is meant to be sort of be in the middle. I have to learn to have balance. Thanks for sharing ur comment bcuz it made me think about how i want to interact on here and still have that support i need
Afternoon gratitude. The day turned out amazingly nice. I mowed the lawn in my tiny garden. Could have skipped watering the plants, there was a thunderstorm in the afternoon. My house needs repair, I never found out where the fuck the water above my front door comes from time to time. I made pictures today and will call a nearby firm if they can have a look at it. Iām grateful I feel competent to care about things like this again. For years I waited for my ex to fix it. Never happened. He was not interested and I bluntly forgot about it until the next time. Schame on me, nobody else.
My old boy is 17 today and he did NOT have his teeth done because I forgot to book a heart ultrasound in advance (he was born with a minor heart failure, nothing severe). So he got a birthday cocktail instead! Subcutaneous fluid for the vital elderly renal-weak birthday boy! That cracked me up and when we got home he had a big yummi meal and his mummy to cuddle on the couch. Teeth are scheduled for next week.
Poor Schimanski was so frightened because of the thunderstorm in the afternoon. Iām grateful I could calm him, sitting with him on the stairs where he felt safe.
Iām grateful I could speak about the nightmares in therapy today. It left me with more questions than answers but I felt save and stable afterwards. Maybe this is the core: To be save and stable whatever life brings (or takes, or whatever). A nightmare doesnāt kill me, my feelings are temporary, when I want something to happen I have to go for it, when itās out of my control I better donāt give a fuck and when life makes me smile: be happy & enjoy it. I wonder if thinking like this from time to time is the result of many many babysteps building a good life. Or at least the attempt of it.
Anyway, Iām grateful the day turned out really nice and I fight with myself if I should explore a nursery near me I never visited. Iām grateful I am safe, free, have a choice, take responsibility, allow myself to be a bit crazy and that living in presence is healing and protecting me from so much inside and outside me
I am so grateful that I can downgrade my load for today to just manageable as I am struggling with energy and my pain level is high
I am so grateful that I got to see and briefly catch up with my neighbors from my old neighborhood yesterday.
I am so grateful that I was up early enough to get my 1st and largest saliva vial filled with 30 minutes of effort (woke up with the driest of mouths) Only 3 more to go and I get to mail it out tomorrow.
I am so grateful that I have my mediation / prayer to help me stay grounded and focused.
I am so grateful for my higher power - thank goodness āheā intervened today - didnāt have money on me to make any kind of mistake so I am still here and sober / cig free
I am so grateful for my family - we may have our fights and arguments but I know we love each other (I had an fight with my mom this morning regarding being put in the middle of my parents and my brother - they are not on speaking terms at the moment and it all has to do with his stupid gf). I am breathing deep and reflecting inward because the last few days have been very tense and awkward - this too shall pass but in the mean time I have to protect my sanity and sobriety.
I am so grateful for this community and all the love I feel from everyone. Thank you truly - I wouldnāt be here if it werenāt for all of you!
Sending you much love - have a blessed sober day everyone
Iām grateful to see @Butterflymoonwoman on the gratitude thread first thing. Hi Dana I hope youāre well. Iām grateful Iām able to keep up with your avatar transitions. I hope youāre safe from the fires if theyāre still happening.
Iām grateful I got a full year of Al-Anon meetings under my belt. Iām grateful Iām exhausted working on myself and know Iām the only one that can or will change. Iām grateful Iām no longer angry that I have to go to meetings and I am the only one that has to work on myself. Iām grateful now I look forward to it and Iām grateful for the peace and serenity I get from going to my meetings.
Iām grateful for my wife.
Iām grateful she sets her alarm every night so we can walk the dogs before itās too hot.
Iām grateful she cooked dinner last night.
Iām grateful we make a great team. Especially today when we have to give Alice her fluids.
Iām grateful she can wake up to most things going around without needing coffee.
Iām grateful for my Pixie and I can get an espresso shot almost on demand first thing in the morning.
Iām grateful Iām really struggling and keep finding different tools at different times and some day maybe it will all click and I wonāt have to over think about it.
Eureka Iām grateful I think Iām overthinking everything. I think Iām grateful Iāll figure it out. (Insert DONāT THINK MEAT gif here ) Iām grateful I can fake it till I make it. Maybe I just fake it. And fake it. And fake it. Iām grateful when I fake it I donāt have resentment. So is faking it ignoring it
Iām grateful itās a disease. You canāt ignore a disease.
Iām grateful when my moon mantra didnāt work on my walk yesterday. Iām grateful I tried my āIām Capable Of An Immediate Shift,āmeditation while walking and that didnāt work either. Iām grateful I saw a beautiful pond, surrounded by the greenest grass and rocks and clouds and trees and beautiful reflections, and I stopped right there. Iām grateful I sat down and did the āIām Capable Of An Immediate Shiftā meditation and it worked! it was a beautiful 6 minutes. Iām grateful for the sober leg selfie pic I got at that pond. Iām grateful I donāt give up.
Iām grateful Minnie keeps coming over to see me. I think she forgets she just did that.
Iām grateful Iāll take it.
Iām grateful to try my hardest at, whatever happened yesterday is gone. Or what happened 2 days ago. Or 3 days ago. Itās gone and done Iām grateful I got 2 choices. Pack those days up and carry them around with me? Or unburden myself and start a new day and see what the fuck happens. Iām grateful my back feels good. Why burden it with a sack of heavy shit I donāt need.
Iām grateful for my gratidude crew. What a fucken team we make
āIts good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.ā
Rumi
Iām grateful the sun is shining, so I could have a nice walk with the doggos.
Iām grateful it was breezy, because the wind always makes things a little more exciting.
Iām grateful for my cold press coffee-maker, so now I can finally stop spending so much money on cans of cold brew (still better than beer, but stillā¦)
Iām grateful for my hot shower and clean, comfortable clothes.
I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful that I have no idea about the calories I consume per day. Why does this make me happy? It consumed lots of my days years ago. And the results where almost killing me.
I am grateful I slept okay.
I am grateful for this community.
I am grateful I have enough.
Iām grateful today is a new day. Iām grateful I took yesterday off to rest. Iām a little worried about whatās facing me at work today, but remembering to just do what I can. Nothing I do is life or death. It can wait.
Iām grateful for Beans curled up in my lap right now. And Tessie curled up next to me while I slept last night. They are grounding and soothing.
Iām grateful for a phone interview tomorrow with a place up near where my mom lives. I havenāt made any definite decision to move, but if the right job came along, Iād seriously consider it. Although the idea of moving cross country with three cats sounds near impossible!
Iām grateful for the support of this community. I have trouble reaching out to people in person when Iām struggling because I donāt want to be a burden. Typing here is easier knowing if you donāt want to read it you donāt have to.
That we hit some small markets on the way home and I have fresh asparagus that tastes like spring.
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Only to wake up later with more nightmares and bathroom issues, a panic attack and completely shaken. Iām grateful for my well stuffed toolbox, I needed nearly everything from prayers, breathing techniques, herbal solution, tea, distraction, doing chores, preparing for garden work, meditation while doing things to now taking a rest on the couch to overcome this nightmarish horror. Iām grateful my cats are with me and they care, cuddle and purr when Iām beside me like this, the red bigfoot even came to snuggle me on the couch. Iām grateful I pulled myself together again 
I hope youāre well. Iām grateful Iām able to keep up with your avatar transitions. I hope youāre safe from the fires if theyāre still happening.
Iām grateful I think Iām overthinking everything. I think 
Iām grateful Iāll figure it out. (Insert DONāT THINK MEAT gif here 
) Iām grateful I can fake it till I make it. Maybe I just fake it. And fake it. And fake it. Iām grateful when I fake it I donāt have resentment. So is faking it ignoring it 
Iām grateful I saw a beautiful pond, surrounded by the greenest grass and rocks and clouds and trees and beautiful reflections, and I stopped right there. Iām grateful I sat down and did the āIām Capable Of An Immediate Shiftā meditation and it worked! 
Iām grateful I got 2 choices. Pack those days up and carry them around with me? Or unburden myself and start a new day and see what the fuck happens. Iām grateful my back feels good. Why burden it with a sack of heavy shit I donāt need.
