I’m grateful I didn’t drink last night.
Grateful to wake sober, even though five hours IS NOT ENOUGH FOR ME.
Grateful it’s Saturday.
Grateful to see my girls play later against Brighton. Chelsea 
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Good morning to all of you from another dark and dreary morning in Wisconsin during January.
I’m so grateful to be sober.
I’m grateful my family is shifting to this way of life.
I’m grateful my husband is sober and is more and more present with me in our marriage.
I’m grateful to see him working thru his grief in a sober state and that he is learning that he can do this. He’s grateful to be sober too.
I’m grateful to be mostly healthy. Except for this dumb ear infection that has been quite uncomfortable this week. All that swimming caught up to me. Argh!!!
I’m grateful for work that I enjoy. Monday marks the start of semester 2 and I’m teaching two brand new classes designed to catch up kids who are very behind in reading. I get to teach them myself with a paraprofessional. I love lead teaching and I am very excited about all the learning I have done to get ready. I got to spend all day Friday setting up a new classroom. That is hard work that is part of building the dream of literacy for all kids. I’m so excited to start this adventure. As one of my friends said to me last night, Reading is Liberation!
I’m grateful that I learned some hard things this week about the process of settling the estate of my mother in law who recently passed away. The family will be facing some hard things. I’m grateful I was able to speak at length with an attorney and learn a lot to share with the family.
I’m grateful that arrangements have been made so that when I pass away, my family will know what to do and resources will be preserved.
I’m grateful that it is Saturday morning. I will be working on lesson preparation today and tomorrow. I’m grateful there is time and space for that.
I’m grateful to be in this community and get to share the journey of my family. Not only am I gaining peace each day and pleased to see 820 days on my counter, but I get to celebrate each day of sobriety with my husband and my siblings. My brother got his 8 month chip this week and my sister is so pleased with how she feels now a few months in. My husband is taking another step now and has declared he is “Facebook sober”, kicking that time sucking experience to the curb.
I wish you all the best and hope you have a day of peace and freedom that brings you some joy with the hard parts of life.
Peace!
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I’m grateful for being sober. Grateful for getting off my arse and getting car cleaned, grateful to the guys at the car wash. My car was a right state 
grateful Rocky behaved himself when we went animal food shopping this morning and super grateful he didn’t pee in the shop!!
Grateful Samuel has gone out with his mates as he’s had a blip with his mental health the last few days!
As always, grateful for coffee and waking up with a clear head and mindset!
Grateful for my family, Rocky, my home and being present! 
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Good morning gratidudes,
Im so very greatful for…
My sobriety, without it i wouldnt have turned the trajectory of my life around
636 days free from weed and alcohol
179 days free from vaping
In home laundry
Hubby and Boscoe cuddles
Only 3 days of work left until the longest vacation of my life
I keep working out even though my $ bet is over, thankfully over the last year ive created some healthy habits
Electricity
Im a list maker which makes packing easier
Our home
Our neighbors
Our family
Chewy.com for boscoe
I dont mind doing the dishes all weekend bc hubby picked up the slack this week
My mom is still kicking and mobile at her age
Family bday party for mom sunday, i get to bring a fancy cake
Hubby helps with bills
Our love and marriage
Text buddies
AA
TS and this awesome community
My heart and soul are filled with all this gratitude and more
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I’m grateful it is not snowing and that I don’t have to shovel. Shoveling is antithetical to my desire for a lazy Saturday. 
@Cjp I hope you have a great vacation!
agreed!
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I am grateful to be 30 days AF today! I am so grateful that my daughter surprised my teenage son by taking him out to Monster Jam last night. When they were little they fought so much, I never thought this friend phase would come for them. So grateful it has. As always, grateful for this thread ODAAT 
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Yesterday evening I want to a very nice club and spend some time with a friend and nice music. I am grateful for friends, music, this great safe and welcoming space, and the wonderful evening.
I am grateful I could take as much time as I needed to get going today. Everthing felt slow and like body and mind needed to go through molasses.
I am grateful for good food, for friends, for my family, for yoga and sunshine.
I am grateful for my recovery practice. I have learned how to breath through the hard moments, into the pain and confusion. I feel I am getting deeper into this way of living every day. I am grateful to have learned these skills.
I found a book about Yoga and the 12 steps. As I am very much into yoga as a big part of my recovery practice, but usually have trouble understanding the wording of the 12 steps of AA, I find this perspective on AA as a life practice in the same vein as Yoga very enlightening. I am grateful I have found this resource.
As every day I am grateful to have made it through the day without using, and this place here.
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Grateful for you @Naomi and so many others 
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Today I’m grateful I can live at my pace. I’m grateful that I loved my exhusband and happily accomodated to what I thought was the pace of our mutual life, our relationship, our love. I’m grateful that was an illusion. So now I live at my pace only. Feels lonely today.
I’m grateful for a productive morning. Basic chores, grocery shopping, recycling, cooking, preparing the quickpot plate to prick out the seedlings tomorrow. I’m grateful I had a lazy afternoon with reading, knitting, TV and cats. I am fucking not sorry, it’s my time and all the “shoulds” can go to hell and enervate whomever there. No, I did not search for old pictures, make the finances for my lawyer to pluck the ex, list my belongings I want back or pay this week’s bills. And it’s ok. It. is. fucking. ok. Shut the fuck up you nagging voice in my head. I’m grateful the nagging is far less intense in quality & quantity than a year ago. Progress, not perfection.
I’m grateful for frozen fruit mush and frozen fish I digged out the freezer. It will be a delicious lunch tomorrow! To be clear, this goes to separate dishes.
I’m grateful the cats are fine. The red furball is a miowing cuddleboy these days, it’s so sweet that he comes, demands pets & scritches and goes when he had enough. The other two are on me purring the moment I hit a couch or bed.
I’m grateful for a chat with a distant friend. Her breastcancer surgery is scheduled next week, luckily she caught the knot very early. I’m a bit sad that I was tired after half an hour chatting and ended the call.
I’m grateful I reactivated the smartwatch to track my activity as I want to increase it and move my ass more.
I’m grateful for all the blessings in my life. ODAAT
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I’m grateful for another good nights sober sleep and hangover free morning.
I’m grateful to see the full moon this morning with Benson.
I’m grateful for my coffee making skills.
I’m grateful I asked my wife if she wanted to do something spontaneous. Go for a hike this morning. I’m kinda grateful she said yes 
I’m grateful, the thing is,……I was expecting her to say no. Wifey is not spontaneous!! And then I’d put on my “poor me” outfit, and try to find the balls to go alone. I’m grateful I realize I kinda did want it to end up that way. Me going alone. I’m grateful I can talk about this shit with my therapist on Monday and also grateful I’m working step 4. I’m grateful my sponsor says by working step 4 I can figure out why I am the way I am. I’m grateful between the 2 of them I can figure me out. I’m grateful it might take as long as it takes.
I’m grateful we had a wicked good time together on our hike. I’m grateful we both agreed, at my suggestion, we walk 45 minutes out or to mile marker 1 and turn around. I’m grateful a hike is a hike. I’m grateful I don’t have to do the whole hike if I don’t want to.
I’m grateful I made us some kick ass breakfast tacos at home, post hike.
I’m most grateful I stretched, post hike.
And I’m very grateful my blood work came back, and my cholesterol is high again, and I’m not freaking out. I’m grateful I’m going to listen to my doctor and make my own decision. I’m grateful I’m aware I’m easily influenced by other people, especially family, that mean well. I’m grateful I’m starting to know myself better and make the decisions I want to make. I’m grateful I’m going to get the facts from my doctor Wednesday. I’m grateful I want to live a happy sober life and if that means taking a statin then so be it. I’m grateful I realize how hard I worked to get my cholesterol down and it wasn’t all that much fun depriving myself of some things. I’m grateful I eat pretty healthy and if I want to eat a little blue cheese dressing on the side with my salad, or a frothy full fat milk cappuccino, or a small portion of The Horney Toads sensational fried chicken, and have to take a statin, then I will. I’m grateful I don’t have to decide today.
I’m grateful for afternoon gratitude with y’all. And I’m grateful I went to the AA speaker meeting last night it was good. Regardless of whether wifey was cooking me dinner or not. I’m grateful her Beefaroni turn out spectacular 
RECOVERY IS MATURITY
In the beginning, we blame others.
With some growth, we blame ourselves,
With recovery, we blame no one.
It’s a process of letting go, self-compassion, and acceptance.
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Congratulations on your 30 days AF Davina.
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Grateful to get out on a nice walk this morning with my daughter, it was quite tough, lots of ups and downs but we both enjoyed it.
Grateful for a more settled home life this week, it makes all the difference to my mood. So much nicer.
Grateful for a busy week and more grateful to be getting into bed, very tired and sober 
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I am grateful for my sobriety, for the love i have inside for myself, for the relationship I have with both my children, for the beautiful bond I still share with thier father even if we are seperated, and the relationship I have with his girlfriend. We are a big united familly with my boyfriend, and it makes my life so beautiful and easier. And grateful for my health, physcial and mental.
I really feel blessed
Good night xxx
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I am grateful for 11h of quality sleep, I needed that. I love getting up before sunrise (if well rested, of course), when the city is still asleep.
Grateful for another day without any appointments. I hope this long night has been sort of a reset, going to try to go to bed tonight around 9.30pm as I’m still not feeling my best.
I remember walking home after nights of drinking at 7 on a Sunday morning, but now walking my dog, sober 
So grateful for that change!
Grateful for you all here, seeing everybody’s working on their sobriety and being there for each other
@anon68572606 Thank you, right back at you. I’d love to see you more on this thread, but you do you! Either way I’m happy to see you on TS every day 
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I need to come here for some gratitude, I woke up in a bad state after a crippling weird, emotionally devasting nightmare.
I’m grateful my subconscious spills its guts in my dreams. That’s the only plausible explanation I find for this ongoing nightmare bullshit. I’m grateful nothing of it is real allthough today was one of these days when I needed time to realize and sort myself that nothing of it happened in reality. I’m grateful Missi and Tiglat help me with their purring love.
I’m grateful I woke up in my cozy bed, in my comfy house, with my beloved cats. I’m grateful I cry away the horror and use my toolbox to digg me out of it instead of being paralyzed. I’m grateful for freedom. I’m free, not in jail, I’m free, not trapped in a weird place with the ex, I’m free to go whereever I want, not waiting for a bus that goes nowhere. I’m working on me and my genuine self, I’m not lost and anxious, ignored and dependent. I’m grateful my real life is peaceful, slow and I practice patience hard. I’m grateful I have compassion for myself as the longing to move forward and have a solid foundation of how I CAN move on in life is overwhelmingly strong. I’m grateful in 8 weeks the new expertise on the market value of the farm has too be delivered, then I will (again and hopefully finally) know if I pay him out or we sell it, depending on the value and my willingness to pay. I’m grateful I can calm myself (at least a bit) by telling me how far I’ve already come and what I CAN achieve in this 8 weeks on my personal journey. If I want. If I put the work in it. If I don’t hide in the rabbit hole of mimimi, anger and self-pity but stretch myself and dance out of the box.
I’m grateful I picked up knitting again at christmas. This is stretching. I’m grateful I sort out things and sow. That’s dancing. I’m grateful I revivided the smartwatch. That (hopefully) holds me accountable on out of the box things, primarily walk more to begin with.
I’m grateful if I’m not the fucking hero of my life nobody is.
Thank you for letting me sort my thoughts in gratitude here Feeling a lot better and focused now ODAAT
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Grateful to come here this morning. Just caught up with some of the past gratitudes and letting it resonate. I admire the beauty of honesty, vulnerability and dedication you’ve been sharing @Dazercat and @erntedank. Learning from your shares every time.
I am grateful I found a different way to deal, when confronted with feelings of helplessness and fear the other day. I needed to call the ambulance on my cousin, who wasn’t feeling well. I stayed home with her five-year old, terrified daughter, until she was released from the hospital. My cousin is fine now and I think her daughter is also doing alright, given the circumstances.
I am grateful I could help and provide the feeling of safety and calmth when both were in distress. I am grateful things turned out to be ok for them. But it sure shook up something in me, too. When I got home, I had nowhere to go with my own anxiety. The only person I really wanted to call for comfort, was my ex. But I cannot do that right now. Or maybe ever again. I went to bed instead and tried to sleep it off. As you can imagine, that was only a time out, not a solution. I could tell by the craving for some instant release the days that followed. I am grateful I realized the cravings were a result of the former events. I am grateful I realized I wanted a short cut out of difficult emotions. I am grateful I am also aware there are no short cuts. So I did the next best thing. I shared with people at work and some friends. I acknowledged that I was not in control of my cousins health or could undo the fear her daughter was going through. All I could do, was be there for them, with the little I had to give. I cannot fix what already happened. I cannot fix what others are feeling, no matter how much I want to. But I can hold a hand and I can level with where they are at. It’s a tough one to learn for me. Still at it :).
I am also grateful this has given me the opportunity to see that my own “call in emergency” for stress relief support network is not broad enough yet. I am going to do something about it in the next few weeks. Thank you for letting me share this. Grateful to be sober. Grateful to be here. Grateful for all of you 
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Good morning sober fam,
@Pandita so sorry you had to go through that stressful situation and feel a sense of responsibilty for others feelings while you have alot of anxiety as well. I loved hearing you process those thoughts above. Wishing you peace and acceptance for those things outside your control my friend
Up early as i went to bed early. Feeling a little anxiety myself as got alot on the plate today. Gratitude helps me get in the present and feel some grace. So here it goes
Im so very greatful for…
My sobriety
Hubbys sobriety
My recovery journey
The 12 step promises
Learning/practicing acceptance and letting go
Boscoe cuddles
A heatwave of 40degrees F today, may get a family walk in
Im a planner and feel like we are semi prepared for our dream vacation
Countdown to coasta rica a little more than 3days til we take off
Glad my folks will watch Boscoe and love him for us
My gym memberships
My determination
My achievements
Sunshine
Family time
Adventure
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Today I’m grateful to have made it one whole month alcohol free! 31 days today!
I’m grateful for having made it through my birthday AF
I’m grateful for making it through a city break AF
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I love this statement too. Thank you so much for sharing
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I love this, I am writing it down.
Thanks for sharing
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