What Are You Grateful For Today?

[VioletButterfly]

More bad news today about my mom. Have been on the phone with caregivers, nurses, care manger, cemetery, funeral home.... mind spinning and emotions spiraling... Plus dealing with ongoing noise/disrespect at my apartment complex, and financial and healthcare issues which I can't seem to resolve because of having to manage my mom's issues while knowing/imagining her decline and what that entails.

At any rate.......

I'm grateful for my faith and for a loving God who is walking beside me through valleys which are full of shadows right now.

I'm thankful for James Taylor whose music I'm finding very calming this evening. Also thankful for the internet/my laptop, twinkle lights, and for the company of my stuffed kitty.

I'm grateful for all that I have learned thus far in my journey about how to cope, how to ground myself, and how to work with my mind and emotions. Thankful to have knowledge of how to stay present and live life one day/one hour at a time. To take care of myself, and to be compassionate and gentle with myself.

A lot of this I have learned from many of you, so please know how thankful I am for all that you have shared. VB

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

Grateful for my special "trauma-informed yoga for depression and anxiety" class this afternoon!!!!

Grateful to be alive

Grateful for less anxiety

Grateful for my understanding boss

Grateful for my loving wife

Grateful for the unifying energy/spirit in the universe

 

[Heather]

Grateful I didn't have to pay for parking again today
Grateful I was listened to and taken seriously
Grateful for my daughters friends help last night.
Grateful my mom is letting me borrow her car.
Grateful I'm on top of error I made...paperwork already in mail.
Grateful have another person recommending me.
Grateful I ran into my old boss...I maybe able to work at her store.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

Grateful I successfully resisted s/h urges until they subsided (many days)

Grateful for my healthcare coverage

 

[intothelight]

1. Grateful that I didn't turn out at all like my mother.
2. Grateful the freezing rain missed us last night and I hope we can dodge the worst of it today.
3. Grateful for my daughter volunteering to cover dinner for two nights as the damp and the cold is taking its toll.

 

[VioletButterfly]

I'm grateful for a loving and supportive God, who has helped me to surround my mother with wonderful caregivers and medical professionals who have gotten to know and truly care about her over the past few years. I'm also very grateful for my mother's day nurse at the facility and her care manager that I hired to look out for her since I couldn't be there with her. I can't even begin to express all that I feel about these two women.

It is a matter of days at this point. Just thankful for each day that I awaken, and am able to function and do what needs to be done.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

My body

 

[Naoru]

My little box of French chocolates. :inlove:

 

[intothelight]

1. We missed the worst part of the ice storm and only had a little sleet.
2. Making progress on some home organization projects.
3. Feeling pretty good even with the cold, damp weather.

 

[Heather]

Grateful for my daughters father...he came through for me:)
Grateful that my thinking is starting to shift
Grateful that I have become determined!

 

[Anrish]

Grateful for fresh muffins, hot tea and cuddly bed.

 

[anonymous]

Hypervigilance because it kept me from having unwelcome strangers in my home who turned up unannounced :cautious: rude, worthless gits