Bedtime Gratitude-Part 37- All are welcome!
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Grateful to be sober tonight. 90 days at midnight. 
Grateful to have a solid resentment inventory begun.
Grateful for the willingness to change.
Grateful for God's help and love.
Grateful for a movie called Kumare on Netflix streaming which was a documentary about a man portraying a guru.
The message was that we don't need a guru, but have the power to change already inside of us.
Grateful to have a solid resentment inventory begun.
Grateful for the willingness to change.
Grateful for God's help and love.
Grateful for a movie called Kumare on Netflix streaming which was a documentary about a man portraying a guru.
The message was that we don't need a guru, but have the power to change already inside of us.
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: East Coast, The States
Posts: 12,162
Grateful for a good productive day off.
Grateful for a clean handsomely groomed dog.
Grateful my accountant gave me good news!
Grateful to get a bunch of errands done, and have it not feel like a grind. I felt happy to do it. That amazes me.
Grateful for great weather.
Grateful for waffles for dinner. Love breakfast for dinner.
Grateful for a clean handsomely groomed dog.
Grateful my accountant gave me good news!
Grateful to get a bunch of errands done, and have it not feel like a grind. I felt happy to do it. That amazes me.
Grateful for great weather.
Grateful for waffles for dinner. Love breakfast for dinner.
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 8,732
Grateful for awareness that my manic symptoms may be kicking back up.
And grateful for the awareness that that doesn't mean I have to panic and/or go to the hospital. Glad to be home tonight...even if I'm a little nutty.
Love and hugs,
Eddie
And grateful for the awareness that that doesn't mean I have to panic and/or go to the hospital. Glad to be home tonight...even if I'm a little nutty.
Love and hugs,
Eddie
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Sacramento, California
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lotus-shaped tealight candle holders, cinnamon incense, relaxing music on a color-morphing iPod speaker and my glitter lamp after a long day at work,
also grateful for my job, even though I have to work on a Friday tomorrow. But I have Monday off!
also grateful for my job, even though I have to work on a Friday tomorrow. But I have Monday off!
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Michigan
Posts: 5,389
Grateful I no longer have a head full of AA with a belly full of booze. Not a very good mix. I now have a head full of AA and SR with a belly full of healthy food.
Grateful to organize the kitchen drawer and throw out expired coupons.
Grateful to organize the kitchen drawer and throw out expired coupons.
Night owl
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Orion spur of the Milky Way galaxy
Posts: 2,050
Grateful for another housesit with two fine fur friends and of course a computer so I can be on SR!
Grateful for beautiful spring weather and all the changes spring brings. Grateful to enjoy it in a new way, celebrating each ephemeral moment~like the cherry plum filled with blossoms and heavy with rainwater that later that night huge winds blew off only to make a colorful carpet of petal confetti on the bright green moss.
Grateful I had a lot to do yesterday and today and got it all done--and didn't stress as much as usual!
Grateful that my suboxone doctor has been taken over by an alien who really cares about me and seems to like me and is giving me all the assurances I have needed all these months. And will continue to work *with* me and see me safely through my taper.
Grateful that I have five months without oxy or dilaudid--my DOC's and destroyers. I've had some slips with other meds but I realized that it is still a big deal that I haven't had my hardcore addictive substances.
Grateful for a surprising and long awaited and hoped for feeling the other day--that I did not want oxy, even in my fantasy. I've been craving and white knuckling every day for months but the other day I realized that I didn't really want it. I felt good about my five months and throwing that away would not feel good...
So, grateful to realize that somewhere inside me is the growing desire to live without getting high. It's something I feared I would never feel. I know it's a long journey but this was surely a bright spot on the road.
Grateful to realize/remember that I am a being of deep and often intense emotions and that that is okay and I don't have to hide that fact or be ashamed or pretend anymore. IT may take awhile to fully accept this but I am realizing that it's not true that I am somehow "wrong" just because I have feelings, like I was taught/abused into believing. Also grateful that I feel responsible for owning my own emotions and don't "have" them all over someone else.
Grateful for the amazing amount of active, involved, intense healing work I have been doing over the past two weeks. I feel like I am in the accelerated graduate course or something.
Grateful that my intense healing is my response to a horrible, friendship destroying act by someone I had thought was a close friend. Instead of curling up in a suicidal ball I have been actively feeling my feelings, all of them, and making profound leaps of growth and healing. It is an incredible, insane, challenging, amazing experience.
Grateful I did NOT slip and use or cut myself after the shocking abuse by this person!
Grateful to *know* that even though this is/was a painful experience it is also somehow "right" too. I can't explain it but it's like the Universe knew what it was doing, that this is part of my path.
Grateful if this all makes sense!
Grateful for beautiful spring weather and all the changes spring brings. Grateful to enjoy it in a new way, celebrating each ephemeral moment~like the cherry plum filled with blossoms and heavy with rainwater that later that night huge winds blew off only to make a colorful carpet of petal confetti on the bright green moss.
Grateful I had a lot to do yesterday and today and got it all done--and didn't stress as much as usual!
Grateful that my suboxone doctor has been taken over by an alien who really cares about me and seems to like me and is giving me all the assurances I have needed all these months. And will continue to work *with* me and see me safely through my taper.
Grateful that I have five months without oxy or dilaudid--my DOC's and destroyers. I've had some slips with other meds but I realized that it is still a big deal that I haven't had my hardcore addictive substances.
Grateful for a surprising and long awaited and hoped for feeling the other day--that I did not want oxy, even in my fantasy. I've been craving and white knuckling every day for months but the other day I realized that I didn't really want it. I felt good about my five months and throwing that away would not feel good...
So, grateful to realize that somewhere inside me is the growing desire to live without getting high. It's something I feared I would never feel. I know it's a long journey but this was surely a bright spot on the road.
Grateful to realize/remember that I am a being of deep and often intense emotions and that that is okay and I don't have to hide that fact or be ashamed or pretend anymore. IT may take awhile to fully accept this but I am realizing that it's not true that I am somehow "wrong" just because I have feelings, like I was taught/abused into believing. Also grateful that I feel responsible for owning my own emotions and don't "have" them all over someone else.
Grateful for the amazing amount of active, involved, intense healing work I have been doing over the past two weeks. I feel like I am in the accelerated graduate course or something.
Grateful that my intense healing is my response to a horrible, friendship destroying act by someone I had thought was a close friend. Instead of curling up in a suicidal ball I have been actively feeling my feelings, all of them, and making profound leaps of growth and healing. It is an incredible, insane, challenging, amazing experience.
Grateful I did NOT slip and use or cut myself after the shocking abuse by this person!
Grateful to *know* that even though this is/was a painful experience it is also somehow "right" too. I can't explain it but it's like the Universe knew what it was doing, that this is part of my path.
Grateful if this all makes sense!
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Midwest
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Grateful for a cooler day today, I loved my daily walk.
Grateful my doctor is a nice person.
Grateful my Dad was able to get to the doctor by car rather than an ambulance.
Grateful it's Friday night - I hope Blue Bloods is on!
Grateful my doctor is a nice person.
Grateful my Dad was able to get to the doctor by car rather than an ambulance.
Grateful it's Friday night - I hope Blue Bloods is on!
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: East Coast, The States
Posts: 12,162
Grateful I stood up for what was right at work today while doing it as politely as possible.
Grateful I'm old enough to not be afraid, not care what others think, but pick my battles and do i t appropriately and with some political savvy. Grateful I know right from wrong.
Grateful my sweet dog is on my lap.
Grateful I'm old enough to not be afraid, not care what others think, but pick my battles and do i t appropriately and with some political savvy. Grateful I know right from wrong.
Grateful my sweet dog is on my lap.
No expectations!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 8,732
Originally Posted by Lyoness 
Grateful that my suboxone doctor has been taken over by an alien who really cares about me and seems to like me and is giving me all the assurances I have needed all these months.
Thank you, too, Pattee!!
Grateful for Abril (Spanish for April) perfume. I put some on after my shower today. Later, I kept smelling something lovely and realizing it was ME. Glad to be reminded how fragrances can cheer me up.
Also grateful for the ex helping me "build" some in-line skates I may actually be able to use. Even if they don't work out, it was a fun project. Glad I can enjoy the process more and worry about the outcome less.
Love and hugs,
Eddie
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