Day 65
I’m so grateful for this community. Have a blessed one one y’all
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Grateful for this thread! Grateful that I have this vacation in mild weather as it is record heat back home. Grateful for seafood and coffee and coconut water. Grateful for straight hair in this humidity. My skin is grateful for the humidity.
Have a wonderful sober night, friends!! 
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Another day super grateful today
Good sleep
Healthy food
My therapist (just who I needed at this time)
Completed chores
Hearing God talk to me
My sobriety 133 days
AA meeting
Gym pool for the most excellent water walking
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Im greatful for day 801
Im so very greatful for…
My recovery
Trying a new meeting tonight
Communication with hubby
Hubby gave Boscoe the meds he doesnt like to swallow
Boscoe my lil companion
My gym membership
Im going to my annual family reunion
Love
Hope
Good communication
Fresh starts
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Good morning grateful dudes and ettes 
I’m grateful for my cat on my lap.
My gorgeous cup of coffee I already had @LAB
I’m grateful for Benson asleep on the couch across from me.
I’m grateful for Jyotishaki and Vidya singing a lovely chant on my sound bar while I enjoyed the moment.
I’m grateful I recognize the fact that I’m stressed to all fuck, but right now it’s calm. Nice and calm. I’m grateful as stressed out as I am drinking is never an option.
I’m grateful for the people who post their stories of relapse and then have the strength and courage to get back here. I’m grateful I read a couple of threads like that yesterday. I’m grateful for the reminder I can never have just 1. Never happened before. Not an option.
I’m grateful I got my car registered and California plates. I’m grateful I now know what and where to go and do for the next 2.
I’m grateful I got a separate room I can hang out in when I want to be away from my active alcoholic. I’m grateful I can invite her to come down and sit with me or tell her I’m going down there because I feel uncomfortable when you’re drinking. I’m grateful it’s not ideal. But it’s something.
I’m grateful for my lovely family here.
I’m grateful I will survive and grateful I will manage to enjoy as much of it as I can.
I’m grateful my children make the best parents in the world. I’m grateful I get to see them both together be amazing parents. I’m grateful there is only one thing missing in my life. So that’s not so bad.
Love you guys.
I’m grateful I made it over here today. This morning.
Self-pity comes from concentrating on the negative aspects of life.
Some Al-Anon reading 
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Gratitude:
My breathwork circle 
people, resources, effort.
A fabulous breathwork session today that really took me off this planet 
My little fluffy kids being the kindest hearts I know.
Potential.
Pause
Love 
Posture
My cervical pillow
English breakfast tea 
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So grateful for those feathered messengers! Had cardinals and a pretty little turkey come to visit. The little birds bounced together, three pairs. When there is food in the feeder they dine together in pairs. I always think of my mother when I see them. Then a little turkey pops up. Cute girl, just staring at me, clucking and purring. She comes by often. I talk to her! 
She answers.
Something about it. Just made my heart happy, these joyous little birds. It meant something. When you drink your heart is hardened, your ego big and self esteem low. It cuts me off from my essence and from nature. Spirit. Art. Music. It’s all different now. And you want to give and help more now that the ego is deflated. That’s our purpose. Not chasing selfish things. I struggle with the ‘everyone for themselves’ mentality. There was nothing to do but block those sounds from my ears- the narcissists banging on about their toys, their money, who they know. I blocked it out by drinking, mindlessness, keeping my head down, hoping things would change. Until I couldn’t go on. The only way I can be true to myself and not be a superficial jerk is to get sober, get out and find people with kind hearts and some depth to them. There are lots of them on this app!
I’m grateful for these epiphanies. A blurry shape, but something new is forming . I’m starting to change drastically. Come alive.
Grateful for the food I have today.
Grateful for 131 days and all of you.
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Wednesday gratitude.
Today I’m grateful for 2 days of rest. I’m grateful the heat will pass.
I’m grateful I sleep a lot. I’m grateful for the comfort in my life. ODAAT
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Today I am especially grateful for:
- a good chat with my mum on the phone
- getting back into some interesting automata work after that very long phone call
- getting everything organised
- the way our health care system works and I can pick up my meds tomorrow without any hassle
- a good bike ride
- a bit of summer rain on that ride
- meeting all the nice people in my daughter‘s arts workshop
- picking out pretty markers with my daughter
- a very lazy afternoon
- the new rice cooker, such a useful machine
- the two new plants I got from a friend today
- thinking that my plan to do a biking tour along the coast in August might actually be possible, the sense of adventure coming with it
- yin yoga
- this full day
- this full life
Sleep tight sober friends 
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Congratulations on your 7 months and a week.
Naomi
I’m so grateful you checked in.
I miss seeing your check ins. Keep doing what you’re doing; it’s working.
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Today I’m grateful that although this is just my 2nd day, I’m still sober and I’m not gonna relapse, no matter what. I’m grateful to be alive and to follow God. I’m grateful for this community. Thank you all, you all rock!
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You’re sounding good and determined. Almost to Day 3 - things will start getting much better soon. Keep going 
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Wednesday gratitude.
A good night’s sleep
Waking up feeling refreshed
A low stress day
Getting things done early
A nice downpour early made it feel cooler out
An evening with nothing planned
The ability to find gratitude in a world where most people are self centered and could careless about anyone else!
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Apples with crunchy peanut butter.
Getting soaked in a rain storm on a walk home.
Thermoses that keep my coffee hot.
Loving my job, liking being a trainer at my job.
The feeling of calm sobriety brings me. I still have great days and I still have rough days but I no longer have hyperactive manic up days and days where I want to die. I have been craving stability in my emotions all my life, sobriety is where I find it. 🩷
All of you.
If you need me to talk to someone for you @Steve14 just say the word. I will lay the smack down (a.k.a. remind them in a not too stern voice to be nicer to you). I’m not tough, I know this. 
Happy sober days all.
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Thanks I appreciate that! 
It’s not anyone in particular just the general public and dealing with them on the daily.
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YA! YA! And I will be there right behind you. Maybe 10 feet behind but I will be there🤗
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My gratitudes for Wednesday:
Grateful I got through a chaotic work day unscathed.
Grateful for this venti iced coffee 
from Starbucks (one add shot and milk) that I’ve pretty much chugged down because it’s been so hot all day!
Grateful I have the day off tomorrow to regroup and decompress a bit.
Grateful I have a measure of good health, at least for a middle-aged dude.
Grateful for my wife and kitty 
at home.
Grateful to have good, sound-running cars 
and no car payments.
Grateful to have just what we need.
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- Grateful for my family who have gone above and beyond to rescue me and save me.
- Grateful for this pause in life to reset, get some sober time under my belt and dig into the why of things.
- Grateful for the gym.
- Grateful to God for hearing my prayers and answering them.
- Grateful for my children who still love me and want a relationship with me.
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Hump day gratitude’s…
I am so very grateful for so much on this beautiful day. A few that come to mind:
- Going for my morning walk in a light mist and then getting caught in a down pour. Grateful for loving the feeling of walking in the rain. So peaceful and quiet with not a soul in sight. Grateful for adding on miles to my morning walk as i just didn’t want it to end.
- For some mom time. We haven’t had much time to spend since we stopped our morning coffee time.
- Picked up my new glasses. So in love! My friend knows how much i love purple and got me a velvet purple case with a silk purple bag for them. Also got a nice dark purple tint for the transitions.
- Taking my car in to get new shocks and struts and also have my brakes checked. Luckily the brakes are fine. Should have my car fixed and back by Friday.
- Planning to visit my sister this Saturday.
- Forcing myself out of my physical comfort zone and hopefully not over exerting myself or going backwards.
- For a sunny end to the day. Rained all day and now beautiful and sunny.
- Brother will be able to do my delivery tomorrow as I will not have my car
- Was able to help out with getting 3 king size mattresses to the curb for garbage pick up. Will be selling off my beds that have been in my parents house for storage so getting rid of the mattresses. It was a painful and did not do my shoulder any favors but grateful that its done and cleared up some major space.
- Brother making a lovely dinner.
- Its 9 pm and i’ve starting to get tired. This new bed time ritual is really starting to work for me. Grateful to be getting up early and seizing the day with fresh air, my coffee and my thoughts (not as scary as they used to be)
- My HP. So grateful for the support. Grateful to not feel alone. Grateful for a sense of security and love.
Wishing you all a wonderful addiction free day / evening – sending you all so much love
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Grateful for my cats.
Grateful that despite the rain today we were able to get in our training on the boom lift.
Grateful for my wife, who trained with me on the boom lift. It was fun having her there, and fun to learn with her.
Grateful for referrals from customers - nothing beats a referral for a good lead. Haven’t landed it yet but I will be doing the estimate on Friday.
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