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FEBRUARY 22

GRATITUDE

MENTAL BALANCE

“Now that I’m in recovery I don’t fantasize about dying or dread the thought of living. I wake up each day grateful for another twenty-four hours clean and look forward toward the unfolding day with anticipation.”

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Waking up each day with gratitude does not mean that I don’t wake some mornings with some anxiety or a little stress about the day ahead. What it means to wake up with gratitude for me is that I take the time to remember what I’m glad to have in my life— recovery, family, friends, a program. How different from when I was in active addiction, before I entered recovery. Then, I would wake up and think of all the difficult things that lay ahead of me: this doctor appointment, that lab test, my pain and how I’m going to suffer through the day.

Today, I bring to mind the good things in my life, and I get to the other stuff later. First-things-first today means focusing on the gratitude in my life. That attitude carries me through my day, regardless of how I’m feeling or what kind of day is ahead of me.

Gratitude is a state of mind more than anything else. I keep gratitude in my mind and think of things that I am grateful for, whether I am feeling grateful or not; I still know I have much to be grateful for.