I just want to give a real quick gratitude. As I was scrolling through posts and comments I noticed something. Posts of brand new people asking for help. I am incredibly grateful to see folk with four, five, seven, ten days sharing their hope, strength and experience with them. Yes, it’s great to see long term recovery but sometimes people need to hear from folk in the same place with the struggles fresh in their experiences. To hear someone say, yeah, I just went through that and it does get better. I’m grateful to be a witness to people learning for themselves and passing on the message of hope so early in recovery. What a blessing this forum is. I’m grateful for all of you. 
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I’m grateful I got a lot of stuff cleared off my plate today, largely financial, final pay from the coffee shop showed up, paid rent and a deposit for college to make it even more official. I’m grateful the boss said I work Friday thru Monday at the beach (yay) maybe even tomorrow which wiil recoup every dime I spent today sweeeeet. I’m grateful my buddy Josh just walked into my pad to visit.
p.s. You are amazing. Ya You!!
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Totally right. Every climb takes steps!
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I am grateful for today. Grateful for the relief I feel to have a job that doesn’t feel like a punishment and gives me some what freedom of time. So long as my work product and responsibilities are met my boss allows me to take late lunch, take days off whenever needed for whatever purpose. Doesn’t hold any of my request against me. I have been taking late lunches and it makes my day go a lot faster. Happy I have a good work environment. I have worked in other offices where it hasn’t been as nice so I just felt very grateful today. I took a long walk on my lunch and I loved it.
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Evening gratitude hells yeah
Greatful the work day wasnt too difficult
Greatful i had a celebratory dinner with my folks
Greatful i went to an AWESOME zoom meeting, loved the energy. I wasnt even gonna go but thought why the hell not and boy am i happy i did.
Greatful for the fellowship AA brings to me giving me hope and joy and excitement about living free
Greatful for my path of recovery
Loving it!
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Oh, this work week has been a doozy! But - grateful I have a job, with a great group of people (even the ones teaching me about difficult conversations with people - difficult people!). Grateful that my time off work has been spent reconnecting with the dog girl - lotsa walks and cuddles, puttering in my tiny garden, making nice meals, and tending to recovery with meetings and readings. How I miss you all when I miss a day!
I’m grateful for all of the milestones on here, how we celebrate one another’s successes. Cake day, everyday!
I’m grateful that dates mean something to me. They always have. Today is a special day! Today, two years ago, was Day 0. Last year, it was my one year sobriety anniversary! Today would be my two years, but as you all know, I went back out somewhere around 500 days. Sure, I would go back in time and not do it all over again.
But.
I’m very, very, grateful to be where I am today. Right now. And I learned some things I’m so grateful to have learned. I’m grateful I came back when I did. I’m grateful it didn’t get worse than it did. I’m grateful I was welcomed back here. I’m grateful I feel so at home in the Recovery Dharma community. I’m grateful that even though I’m not celebrating a two year milestone, I came back strong and haven’t stopped shopping for new tools. 
Not that I’m not counting days - I am, since my reset late May. But today will always feel like my sobriety birthday, in a good way. I’m grateful for that marker. That it means something to me. I’m grateful that I have plans to live every day alcohol free, sober as fuck, one damn beautiful or hard day at a time.
I’m grateful for all of you. For this place and space.
Always grateful for another day. 
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Thank you! And yes to yin yoga.
…except that when I’m struggling with anything, yin can be such a crapshoot. Will I feel calm, or will I audibly weep? To keep this from getting moved to the derailment thread, I’m grateful for online classes where I can giggle, cry, (fart?) - all out loud! 
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I’m grateful that I have rolled over to day 20.
I’m grateful that God has faith in me to overcome anything and will make me stronger.
I’m grateful I have realized I’m still very early in my sobriety and not to give up on myself.
I’m grateful that I’m employed and have coworkers that I call friends.
I’m grateful for Max and Riley who love me as much as I love them.
I’m grateful for all of you that help, support and care about me for who I am. 
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Grateful to finally accept I am a Alcoholic and cannot drink like other people. Its not a weakness just a fact.
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Good morning ya’ll
So very thankful and greatful
For my sobriety, 60 days free from weed and alcohol
For my hubby and Boscoe
For my folks and their love and support
For my comfortable bed and restful sleep
Waking up before my alarm
Hot coffees and the time to checkin and reflect here before starting my day
The desire for self improvement and growth
Giving myself grace, progress not perfection
All of you and your contributions here
Lets go out and slay the day soberly!
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Good morning all,
I’m grateful that I slept soundly in my own bed last night! I’m grateful that my family navigated the airports and flights amazingly. I’m grateful for the memories we made on our vacation.
I’m grateful to be back home, even if it is over 100 degrees. I’m grateful i still have some time off of work.
Everyone have a wonderful day
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I’m grateful to God please help me be my best clean and sober self while performing your will just for today. I’m grateful for my recovery and yours. I’m grateful for All my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes. I’m grateful for learning to live life on lifes terms. I’m grateful to also be learning to live and let live. I’m grateful for tolerance, love and patience and need to turn that inward just a little more often. I’m grateful for music, humor and laughter.
God bless you all. 
&
p.s. You are a star shine bright, brilliantly bright. Ya you!!
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Good morning! 
Oh my I am so grateful for my God! I no longer fight against it, I get to walk with it. What an amazing feeling.
And of course rocky, as my mornings are never dull and my meditation always interrupted by his chattering and bickering out there 
silly squirrel.
I m grateful for self awareness, my family, comfort, stability and so many many things. But today I am most grateful for my God.
Have a wonderful day today friends.
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Today is a bit of a big one. I’m grateful that I submitted my dissertation yesterday. 220 freaking pages!! I’ve been working on this for six years and it got me thinking… My recovery started about halfway through and I can say there is zero chance I would have finished without it. Not to mention all the other things I probably wouldn’t have: wife, house, son, job, some degree of mental health (a work in progress), faith, some hope for the future, a relationship with God, a fuller and more peaceful heart, more ability to laugh at myself and see myself honestly both positive and negative, less anger and more patience, just a million things. When I stop to think about it, these last three years have been better than the ones before in every way.
It felt good to make that list. I still struggle most every day with my negativity and depression. But if I ask, “is there anything in my life, big or small, that’s not better than it used to be?”, the answer is 100% no. It’s all better.
So thanks to God and to my wife and to all the countless people from whom I’ve learned something about how to live.
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I’m grateful for the calmness and serenity I have today. Right now. And yesterday. I’m grateful I don’t drink. I’m grateful I don’t want to drink. I’m grateful for Al-Anon. I’m grateful for Al-Anon meetings. I’m grateful I’m not afraid to go to Al-Anon meetings anymore. I’m grateful I’m going to do it for me. I’m grateful it doesn’t matter if my loved one is drinking or not.
I’m grateful for my wife.
I’m grateful for Minnie and Benson out here with me.
I’m grateful for the rain. I’m grateful we have a 
chance of ran between 7-8 this morning.
I’m grateful for all the pine needle and yard work my guy did the past couple of days. It looks fantastic!
I’m grateful for the new people popping in on this thread and seeing them helping each other out on the checkin thread and being generally active on here. I’m grateful for all their milestones. Whether it be 24 hours. 3 days. 7 days. 2 weeks. I’m grateful yesterday was another milestone for me. It was another day sober. And that’s the best milestone there is. I got another day. ODAAT.
I’m grateful for the little things I do that might help people and make me feel good.
I’m grateful for the Recovery Sow podcast and the recovery type songs they have at the end of each show. This mornings ear worm Stand In The Rain by Superchick. ………stand your ground, stand up when it’s all crashing down………I’m grateful I wake to new recovery tunes in my head.
I’m grateful for Wanda Sykes and the interview I saw 2 nights ago with her on The Late Show @maxwell 
. I’m grateful I offered to watch it again with my wife because she slept through it the first time. I’m grateful it made me feel happy to do that. Even though she fell asleep the first time. 
I know how much she also loves Wanda Sykes. I’m grateful it’s the little things.
I’m grateful for that little bit of peace and serenity I get to have each morning doing “my thing,” and sharing it with y’all.
”To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us . . . Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference."
Thomas Merton
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Congratulations SeekingPeace. That dissertation is quite an accomplishment. I’m proud of you
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Six months today! I truly can’t believe it but I also totally can.
Actually getting SOBER this time, not “dry January”, not “not drinking to lose weight”, not sick has been very different. Saying it out loud and proud “I’ve been sober for six months” is amazing. Calling myself an alcoholic and addressing the fact that someone who drinks all day everyday is in fact an alcoholic, even if they’re not drunk and belligerent, has helped immensely. I’m an alcoholic and recognizing that I have no control over it and I just need to stop it has been a powerful thing.
I’m grateful for this group, even though I haven’t been on much.
I’m grateful for my plant shop.
I’m grateful that the universe provided two new work spaces in 48 hours for my husband and I after the new owners of the building we’ve been in for 5.5 years didn’t renew our lease and gave us 30 days to quit. It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks that I never could have coped with if I had been drinking.
I could never have opened my own business and actually made it viable while still drinking. I’m so grateful for my sobriety when I think of that.
Grateful for my warm dog in my lap and my hot tea.
Grateful to be able to drive anytime I need to without wrorrying about a dui.
Grateful for my husband and his support. His drinking has stopped nearly all the way and it’s been so nice to both be on the same page.
I’m grateful for my life and my son and all of you, but the most grateful for my sobriety.
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So thankful that this time going sober feels so different! Only day 12 today BUT before when I reached this mark I was struggling. No ability or hard to say no to meeting someone and going to restaurant bar.
Now, 4th July weekend upon us…I have already turned down 3 ppl this week to meet. Sending out I can’t make it texts for the 4th on the 4th.
What’s changed this time? Mindfulness, meditation. Repeating to myself,”can’t keep doing same thing, diff results.” Most importantly, I worked hard on getting closure and processing child trauma and letting go. Learning to love myself. And realizing I deserve more out of this life
Have a blessed day
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G’morning y’all 
I’m grateful that no matter what else is going on in my life, when I wake up sober, I’m winning. I’m grateful this morning for birdsong, a gentle breeze pulling at the curtains, and the rays of sunlight moving across the room. I’m grateful for bees and butterflies and all the pollinators we have. I’m grateful for the apiary at the community garden in town. 
I’m grateful my girls and I have started planning a trip for next spring. Georgia or the Carolinas, we haven’t pinpointed a spot yet, but there’s fun in the planning. It’s exciting to look forward to a girls-only trip.
I’m grateful for my strength. I do have days when I’m wobbly, like taking my first steps again, but overall I’m grateful I push myself forward. Being sober gives me that strength. I’m grateful for learning and changing and always growing.
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Thank you!
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