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sometimes have hard time feeling good enough with others not pretty enough nice enough so work on the outside when I should work on inside to feel good on inside What fear of defect driving me I need to look reflect pray sometimes just stay still and feel then let go. I always need meetings others to listen to and God Higher power in the rooms and online. So glad we have each other to love each other and respond to . Love Heather Have a good day :169:

Grateful for the blessings received each day:

Many times over the years, I got into the I want ways of thinking and then I remember what my life was like when I was using, and I remember to be grateful.

I was one step away from the gutter physically, and was already there mentally and emotionally, so any thing that happens in today, gives me much to be grateful for.

Quote:

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”

- - Anthony Robbins - -

As I heard a long-timer say many years ago, "Any day I wake up, it is a good day." Sometimes I lose sight of that. That is why I say today that any day I don't pick up, is a good day.

Quote:

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought,
and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

So grateful that I am not on insulin for my diabetes like my two younger sister's are. I am also grateful that I am single even though the two of them enjoy being married. My space may be small but it is mine.

Have found that there is always something to be grateful for, in any given situation if I look for it. As my sponsor said many years ago, "A grateful alcoholic/addict will never have a reason to pick up."

Grateful that I have 23 years of sobriety today, although when I get honest, it was more being sober than sobriety, because I did what I could, but had the feeling I should do more. More is always a danger word, especially for me.

It isn't about more years, but one day at a time for 23 years.

I am so grateful for the people in my life be it face to face or on the internet.

So many have done my research for me and I didn't have to go back out myself to find that it isn't any better out there.

Many have taught me how to work my program and how not to work my program. For me it is more about living, picking up the tools of recovery and applying them to my life.

I am so grateful for the tools of recovery, the most important are the 12 Steps, which originated with AA and passed on to other Fellowships.

As my sponsor said many years ago, and as I have said many times on the board, "A grateful alcoholic/addict will never have a reason to pick up, lot of excuses, but no reason to go back to where you came from.

My name is JoAnne, I am an alcoholic, and I am addicted to pills, men, food, and just about any object or person that will take me out of myself and make me feel better. I didn't know it wasn't their job, and that I was responsible for my own happiness and recovery. I had to let go of the blame game and live in reality, instead of denial and self-pity, and all those old feelings that are not condusive to serenity.

Having trust and faith in the program gets me through each day. Through the program, I was able to make a conscious contact with the God of my understanding, and for that I am very grateful.

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Something I shared on another site in 2011

The pain is still there, it has never gone away, it is about learning to deal with it and work and think through it, with the help of my God and the wonderful people He has put in my path. I will be eternally grate for His Good Orderly Direction which has shown my how to deal with the pain and not have to go to the drugs I use to use and felt like I just had to have. I am sick don't you know! Poor, poor me, pour me another one.

So grateful for the program that saved my life.

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Posted in December 2011

They told me in the rooms of recovery when I came in many years ago that AA was the last house on the block. We try so many things, and finally when our score card read zero, we finally went to AA. I could stop, but I couldn't stay stopped. I am so grateful for AA that has allowed me to stop, one day at a time, for 23 years and 7 days.

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Posted in 2011.

Still grateful in 2014

How grateful I am for the gifts of recovery.

Gifts that are priceless that no amount of money can buy. The peace, serenity, the tools, the people, etc. that have been made available for me as a result of me reaching out and asking for help.

Our topic today was the Fifth Tradition. It is my favorite.

It gave me a purpose and a reason for being. I questioned my existence and why I was chosen and why I was alive. I found the answer. To carry the message to those who still suffer. Someone took the time to be there for me.

It is my responsibility to be there for others who come into recovery looking for the help that I also sought. Without you, there is no me.

It is my firm belief that there is something 'good' in everything, the same as life isn't all positive or negative. Many time, that negative is to draw my attention to a lesson that needs to be learned.

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