What Are You Grateful For Today?

[ms spock]

I am so very grateful that I moved through the my anxiety and had a good day.

 

[amethist]

That hubby is still sleeping after the rough night he had.

 

[ms spock]

That despite the feelings I am up ready to go.

 

[LaurieJ]

I am grateful that I listened to my therapist and didn't stop one of my medications. I'm not ready to or able to control my anxiety on my own right now.

 

[KP the nut]

I'm grateful I'm feeling better after a flashback this morning.

 

[Muzikluvr]

I found this video. In it, Dr. Brene Brown explains why I dampen joyful feelings with images of loss... and that instead, I could practice feeling gratitude in those moments in order to experience true joy. She has done a lot of research on vulnerability, and in order to feel joy, you must be vulnerable... but, because you also must be vulnerable to experience all other emotions... we try to avoid painful emotions by escaping from vulnerability which leads to numbing all of our emotions.

This is the video that really gets me excited to start practicing gratitude, I guess because it tells me what to do when I feel joy, instead of shoring up my ability to accept a loss that I feel is imminent. I'll start now, with "I am grateful for this video!"

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

My beautiful mind.

 

[ms spock]

I am beating myself up less. I can see that my sadistic family's stuff is not my stuff and not my guilt. I can see I am doing okay. I am struggling bit I am doing stuff each day.

 

[KP the nut]

Having the coming week with my Hubby, we are both on annual leave.

 

[ms spock]

Getting up to exercise.

 

[Muzikluvr]

I'm so grateful to be me today. Resilient. Creative. Open. Vulnerable. Secure.

I'm grateful for the precious laughs I shared with my son yesterday. Grateful for witnessing my children happily clearing the fence row to put in a new fence. Seeing them play together today like they did when they were younger. Hearing them make plans for more projects.

Grateful that life is easy to live despite how hard it is to accept. .. sometimes.

 

[The Albatross]

I'm grateful I pulled it together and worked a 13 plus hour day and handled myself pretty darned well. I'm way fatigued, but seem to be handling things with only mild stress or anxiety. Improvement, I'll take it.