Today, it is not difficult to be grateful, most days aren't. Today gratitude abounds as my schedule is full of patients reaching out for MH and Substance Use help. I am very grateful for these people and I am grateful for their sharing struggles and triumphs. Today, I am grateful for raising very strong daughters, even though they ignore my existence, I am grateful for their strong will to not take crud off people, even me. I did that, even being sober as long as (or short, perception matters) I have been, they stand strong in their convictions all though I suffer. I am grateful for their strength nonetheless. I am very grateful today for continued sobriety and for being able to continue forward with unpacking past trauma. I am grateful, as usual, for my 2 little pups. I am grateful for their unconditional love and companionship. Today. Grateful, today.
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grateful even for the hard parts of love, raising strong women who stand in their convictions even when it costs you something, that’s a complicated kind of proud and it takes a certain kind of healed person to hold both at once, continued sobriety and continued unpacking, that’s the real work
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