Powerful stuff!
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Hi,
Today Iām grateful to be part of my sonās graduation in Manchester. 2 graduations in a week! (my daughterās last week) It was lovely and of course Iām very proud.
Grateful not to suggest nipping in to every pub we passed. Also grateful not to wish the day to be over to get home to drink.
Iām grateful for not drinking today or wanting to 
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Awesome work on 2 months! 
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I am grateful to be sober and well rested.
I am grateful to have food in my fridge and lots of booze free drinks on hand.
I am grateful for a noticeable decrease in last weeks anxiety. Soooo gratefulā¦
I am grateful for my family and especially my sister who is always there to listen to me when I am struggling. My Mom used to but she is too sick now, just so glad my sister and I have eachother.
I am grateful to be here with everyone. 
@Twizzlers congrats on 300! Whoop whoop 
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Great number, and great job. Read you supporting people often, thanks for that. Not everyone makes it that far. 300 days in a row. Keep moving forward. Grateful your here.
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I am greatful for the deep conversations that I have with my friends.
I am greatful to not be stressed out of my mind and be sleeping relatively better overall for the last few weeks compared to the last few years.
I am greatful to have gotten over the new and improved Covid varient and that no one in my family got really sick.
I am greatful to be spending a lot of time with my children and for getting to see them smile at me.
I am greatful for my iced coffee.
I am greatful that I am still alive today.
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Iām grateful to read milestones!
@Shaunda 60 days! 
@Twizzlers 300!
Iām grateful to read everyoneās gratitude lists. It reminds me of all the things I am grateful for. I relate!
Iām grateful that Eric has been sharing his vacation photos. It makes me grateful that he thinks of us while he is on vacation.
Iāve been in a bit of an anxiety funk! Its familiar anxiety. Anxiety, as I step forward into my new sober life. As I step into making my dreams a reality. Iām grateful to know that this too shall pass, because Iāve been through it. Its the same old fears, the same old worries Iāve been feeling since March. Feelings that I keep coming to terms with and moving past them. Iām grateful to have learned how to not let anxiety paralyze me anymore.
Iām grateful its not impending doom anxiety like I felt when I was drinking and for the first few months after I quit.
Iām grateful for a beautiful day.
Iām grateful for my health, both mental and physical.
Iām grateful I havenāt been struggling with any desires to drink.
Iām grateful to not be under a drunken skippers thumb anymore.
Iām not under anyones thumb anymore!
Especially under King alcohols thumb getting squeezed to death under the illusion that Iām trying to have āfunā!
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So many great shares!
Iām grateful @Bootz made it home safe.
Iām grateful for @Its_me_Stella quote today, Its resonated with me throughout the day.
Iām grateful for @Peace decrease in anxiety
Iām grateful for @ssteve recovery from covid and decreased stress
Iām grateful @JasonFisher has learned how to not let anxiety paralyze him. ( still working on that myself at times )
Iām grateful @Dazercat is enjoying his amazing vacation and taking us along so to speak.
Iām grateful for all of your shares, these are just the ones that came to mind right off the top of my head.
The things Iām grateful for in your shares either bring my heart joy or help me learn or ponder something about myself. The words in this group support and uplift me in a wonderful way and also make me stop and look within myself. I truly appreciate that. No doubt that was redundant 
Iām grateful my husband cooked me an amazing dinner tonight to celebrate my returning to the work force. Its not just about me going back to work though, itās about me being physically well enough to rejoin the world again. I have tears of joy just thinking about it.
Have a wonderful evening everyone and thank you for all the support 
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Thank you Shaunda.
You brought morning tears to my eyes. Iām grateful to see gratitude work, especially in newer people on this thread, and so happy to feel you are getting better.
Iām grateful Iām sober.
Iām grateful Iām up and my fiends are off on a walk.
Iām grateful I get to have my me time with out them.
If anyone knows the Berenstain Bears books, Iām reading or living the one about Too Much Friends and Family. 
. Iām grateful Iām sober and it is soooo much easier to just let people be and not be judgmental and bitch and complain. I love them no matter what. But there is a dynamic when you live with people in close quarters for a week. Itās just much nicer and easier for me when Iām sober. Even if they all drink.
Iām grateful for music and cruising on the locks through the forest.
Iām grateful My swollen ankles arenāt swollen this morning. Maybe just a little. Iām grateful I didnāt panic about it last night. Maybe just a little.
Iām grateful for our wonderful chef and captain and crew that work so hard at taking care of us.
Iām grateful I wonāt be drinking on the wine tours of Alsace today. Iām grateful I wonāt have a whole bunch of bottles that Iāll have to figure out how to pack in my suitcase or even worse spend thousands on shipping home. And then wonder WHY did I buy all these! 
Iām grateful for the old time glass making show we got to see yesterday. They were/are quite the crafts men and women artist. It was so beautiful to watch. And HOT 
Iām grateful for learning and living the history of Alsace and Lorraine and for the old fortress wall we climbed that divided the two.
Iām grateful you all are still here.
Iām grateful Iām sober. Yes again.
I never thought I could ever do a trip like this sober.
Iām grateful Iām sitting right next to an open bar, all inclusive, at 7 am, and there is no desire to ruin this sober buzz Iāve been on for 937 days. Im grateful thereās no desire to āget my moneys worth,ā just because thereās an open bar 24 hours a day Iām grateful I know I couldnāt do that without you all. And this is where Iāll tear up again Shaunda. Because if it wasnāt for you guys this would not be possible. And Iām so grateful and thankful I found this safe place.
Gratitude Is Everything!
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60 days!
2 months!
Congratulations Shaunda.
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Good morning sober fam!
Im so very greatful forā¦
My sobriety, day 88 free from weed and alcohol
My growing spirituality and belief in my higher power
My sponsor and her guidance
My hubby and his sobriety
Boscoe and his affection
Getting through my day of hypomania
Nightly meditations thanks to the Insight Timer app
My family is safely back from the family reunion
My basic needs being met so i can focus fully on recovery
All my missteps which have brought me to this point and claiming to be a greatful recovering alcoholic
This forum and everyone sobriety.
Let us go out and slay the day soberly!
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Hello good morning friends, I decided to change, today I start earlier because I am having problems at work for being late, honestly I am very sleepy and I have a hard time getting out of bed, I usually do this list at night after my exercise routine to which I just got back on that too.
Today I am grateful to open my eyes, and to be clean, without a hangover and not wanting to die, with a little laziness, but changing that laziness for goodwill helps me grow.
Today I am grateful for giving my self-esteem time to take care of my body in a healthy way and do physical exercise, understanding that it is part of that affection that I give myself for taking care of the house that my crazy mind inhabits and not for vanity, well a little because I do not enter in the work uniform HAHAHA.
Today I am grateful for the love of my parents, because they are alive and I can tell them that I love them, without shame, without guilt, without resentment, looking into their eyes.
Today I am grateful to improve the relationship with my younger brother, teaching him how to design plans for sanitary facilities, and he can work with me, today improving our relationship is an amendment that I owe him.
Today I am grateful for realizing that I need to change more and feel encouraged to do so that there are habits and character defects that harm me, that make me neurotic, obsessive, last night in my meeting of steps I remembered that I must give up, that I must stop fight with the world with others, the surrender is with myself and that stubborn and obsessive head that refuses to let go,
Today I am grateful for feeling good about my recovery,
Today I am grateful to have a plate on the table and to have chosen something healthy to eat.
today I am grateful for having a commitment to myself and my higher power to value being alive and receive life as a gift of love, to be serene by his love and empowered to live life as it is. Today I want to be alive and I am very grateful for that,
Today I am grateful for not isolating myself from people for not believing that I am alone, for forcing me to speak what hurts me, my insecurities, my fears, my frustrations, my shortcomings and having friends who listen to me and do not judge me.
Today just for today, itās a great day I havenāt used and I donāt feel like I need to use.
thank you have a good day or a good night hugs to the heart.
PD: I apologize if the writing is not good I speak Spanish and google translator does its job like this.
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I am grateful for being on day 510. I am grateful for the positivity of this thread. What a picker-upper!! Thanks for all the shares!
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Making me tear up again 
Iām so happy and grateful for your shares and that you are sharing your vacation gratitudes with us. The struggles are there even on an amazing vacation, but you my friend are not staying stuck in them or using them as an excuse to drink and for that example I am truly grateful!
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Heck yeah!! I distance myself from fiends whenever I can!!
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Iām grateful for the fog lifting more and more each day as Iām able to look inward more and more each day.
Iām grateful I dont have to hide my character defects in disgust but can acknowledge them not only to myself but to others. I dont acknowledge them proudly but I dont acknowledge them shamefully either. They are a part of me and while some of them are useful to me, they are not useful to me when I go overboard with them.
Iām grateful for understanding people in my life who offer me forgiveness when I allow one of my defects to get out of control. Im grateful that today I am able to catch myself and rein it back in and quickly own my behavior, apologize for it, surrender to my higher power yet again and continue to work on this flaw within me.
I am grateful for morning readings and time to meditate on them letting them sink into my heart.
Iām grateful for another chance this day to be a better human than I was the day before.
Have a wonderful day out there friends
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Good Morning fam-dam.
I am grateful for the CRAZY amount of syncronycities I experienced with my tattoo artist yesterday. She shares a birthday with me and a moon sign, she has a dog named Lace and there were others but I will not get into them. I felt a deep connection to her which was awesome as she drew on my body with needles. I am grateful that the 3.5 hr session didnāt throw me into a flare up, yet. This is the first time I have been tattooed since being diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I have been avoiding it because I wasnāt sure how it would be for me now. In the past I have withstood long sessions, up to 7.5 hours, quite well but now I just donāt know. I am grateful that my artist decided to break up yesterdayās session over two weeks and I will go back on the 3rd of August to get the line work for my sleeve done. I am grateful that I am not trying to control my life anymore and for that desperate feeling I was talking about the other day being gone. I have patience today and I have love and compassion for myself. I am grateful that today itās more important that my body responds well to something than I get something done in what I used to consider a timely fashion.
I am grateful that I trust myself today and that I trust the people who are in my close support group. They know me well and they want what is best for me. I was asked to be a speaker at a speaker meeting and I was feeling weird about itā¦ in my gut, not my head. I sat on it a bit and I talked to a friend who supported me in going if it was what I wanted to do. I am grateful they added ābe honest with yourselfā¦ā When I got off the phone I sat with all of that. The offer to be a speaker, the self honesty, the knee jerk reaction I have to people please and what my heart told me was that I wasnāt ready to stand infront of people in my area for 30 mins and tell my story. I am grateful that I was honest when I responded to the organizer and I am grateful that he thinks I am ready. I will keep coming back.
I am grateful that itās a long weekend this weekend and I have no plans. I was asked to go on a bike tour but I was honest, I didnāt want to!!! I am learning not to take it on when someone is excited to invite me somewhere and then doesnāt go when I say I donāt wanna go!!! I am grateful that I had a good 2 years in recovery before I got into a relationship. I am grateful that my very independent almost stand-offish at times personality is balanced by my man-friends very codependant almost suffocating at times personality. I think between us we might be able to learn healthy interdependance! Hahahah. I am grateful I openlying joke with him about how completely fucked up we both are and that I love it.
Edited to add: I opened up Facebook to thisā¦
I am grateful for the reminder of why I am the way I am and that I do not need to be this way anymore. I am grateful that learning to trust people and be vulnerable with people is coming slowly but itās coming. Thanks to everyone who is helping me to get there.
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Grateful to have made it to one week sober. I still have a lot of work to do but Iām grateful for the new found motivation I have and all the support systems Iāve begun to build.
Also very grateful for some good news I had this morning and this feeling of hopefulness I have today. Sending lots of love and good vibes to everyone on their respective journeys.
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Congratulations on one week sober!!! Thats a huge accomplishment!!!
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I am filled with gratitude. I just came back home in hypoglycemia. Anyways.
Back from my home group where we discussed a lot about the group last week. The guy announcing his ārelapseā left our WhatsApp group.
During the meeting I said that I am grateful for AA and that I made some steps like the first and second. I am grateful that I donāt have to discuss this (anymore). I feel that there is a lot of semantics around this. I am grateful to recognise myself in one of the members who tried to convince me of my wrong thinking. He cannot because I have been where he has been some years ago. I still go through these phases.
I saw today what my psychologist was telling me relentlessly. It has to be felt, it has to sink into your heart. And gratitude is part of this. When I feel it, it is completely different to something that my rationalisation and my mind is trying to convince me of.
I am grateful for all the points of views I can get here almost for free here every day if I am willing to be open for them.
I am grateful I have enough.
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